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Originally Posted by mstaton
Here's a shot of my CTC-16 of the same scene. 70th anniversary DVD. The color on this set is outstanding. The picture does not do it justice.
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I agree with your assessment of the accuracy of the image on your CTC16, based on the following.
Walter Burridge, scenic artist who painted sets for 'The Wizard of Oz', continued the yellow brick road into the valley behind Dorothy and nearly over the horizon and into those white clouds. Dorothy is I believe just a few feet from the beginning of that photographically inserted image when she turned around to wave.
There are also some blue fields far into the painting through which the yellow brick road meanders. The CTC16 image does suggest those patches of blue. Reproducing that rendering with NTSC chrom modulation/demodulation has gotta be one tough job IMO.
For the record, my 'reference' image is from the 70th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Disc played on a PS3 with component interface to an RCA f38310 (38-in. 9X16 CRT 1999 set which, as I learned at a recent ETF Convention from a former member of the team who designed it, was not considered a true hi-def TV because it didn't qualify pixelwise). Also, my Canon overexposes screen shots for some reason, so for a reference image it appears somewhat unsaturated, which in this case does not compromise sharpness.
It is a 3.37-meg jpeg that may not be allowed by VC. If not, I'll send it if you'll email me.
And. The Oz artist Burridge painted a curtain in a theater here in MI that's still used today. (my daughter plays Cello there sometimes; the connection to the movie was a treat)
Pete