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Originally Posted by Dave A
About 8 years ago, someone was selling 35mm Peacock optical sound leaders on film cores (the little yellow things) at our favorite site. I bought one and it was almost devoid of green dye. Blue was just behind.
I think I gave it to a friend of mine from NBC who had won a national Emmy for camera coverage as part of a gag gift.
If anyone has a telecine and good correction software, I can get it back and submit it for trial. And maybe someone else bought one. She had a bunch for sale. I tried to buy a second one but got burned and she vanished.
Dave A
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I bought one, and the color was as you said. I believe it is truly unrecoverable. I tried various scanner software, some of which does an unbelievably good job of restoring faded pink film, but it would not work on this. Also tried a bunch of manual manipulation in Photoshop, with matrix calculations and the works. The problem is not only the fading, but the fact that the film is an Nth generation copy that originally had all the color errors you see, making the red and orange the same, the yellow orangish, the green dark and cyanish, etc. So, the restoration tends to restore those badly copied colors if it does anything.