[HN Gopher] Film Restoration Today: The Elusive Perfect Viewing ...
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       Film Restoration Today: The Elusive Perfect Viewing Experience
        
       Author : Arnt
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2021-04-30 09:14 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | rodgerd wrote:
       | A nice wrap-up of the kinds of considerations that people are
       | working with. Thanks for submitting it.
        
       | crazygringo wrote:
       | I'm curious why this article uses the term "color timing" instead
       | of the industry-standard "color grading".
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       | I had to look it up, and it appears "color timing" was the analog
       | practice of adjusting the time film took to develop, in order to
       | over- or under-develop it, which seems to be primarily about
       | exposure (brightness/darkness).
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       | Whereas color grading is essentially about 1) ensuring an
       | accurate white balance and then 2) adjusting further for whatever
       | artistic warm, cool, undersaturated, etc. look is desired.
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       | But this article seems to use the term "color timing" as a
       | synonym for "color grading". Is this standard practice somewhere?
        
         | toast0 wrote:
         | I've seen color timing in credits, but I don't think I've seen
         | color grading.
        
           | dylan604 wrote:
           | The term in credits is colorist referring to the one that
           | does the color grading.
        
         | dylan604 wrote:
         | Color timing is an older term from the film days based on
         | amount of light used to expose film prints. Color grading has
         | become the more modern term since it's not actually dependant
         | on time exposing film.
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         | "The earlier photochemical film process, referred to as color
         | timing, was performed at a film lab during printing by varying
         | the intensity and color of light used to expose the
         | rephotographed image. Since, with this process alone, the user
         | was unable to immediately view the outcome of their changes,
         | the use of a Hazeltine color analyzer was common for viewing
         | these modifications in real time."
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         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_grading
        
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