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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted December 28, 2009 08:57 AM
Hey Folks!
Got a project for ya!
I'm wondering if my monitor may be losing it's color fidelity. I was recently looking at one of Dan Lails auctions, for the feature, "Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror" (great film, buy it! There's my plug for Dan!), and I looked at that first screenshot and to me, it looked sepia tone, not black and white. That intrigued me, as sepia tone prints are more rare.
Upon looking at the auction, all the pictures were pretty much sepia tone, except for the spinning Universal logo, which was an almost perfect black and white.
Could other members of the forum look at it and see if they see that same sepia (brwonish) tone color to the screenshots? If you don't see any browning, please post on this topic, as it would most certianly mean that I need to get a new monitor.
Please note that this is no diatribe against Dan's auctions, which I know to be honest, but it would explain why I would see a certian color on the auction and nopt the same on the film when it arrives. It could just be that my monitors on the frack!
Please note: Dan's auctions and a link to them are nin the films for sale section. Check out his other stuff too!
Thanks guys!
OSI
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted December 28, 2009 02:20 PM
OK, my eyes and monitor aren't bonkers.
Please note everybody, this is no attack on Dan's acutions. His auctions are just fine.
I wonder if something in the ebay system (for posting screenshots on the auction) can cause dis-coloration to the posting of screenshots? If so, it puts sellers at a dis-advantage.
So why bother with this? (as Joe's "rolled eyes" image would potentially suggest) ...
Any serious collector, who wants to update they're collections, will closely scrutinize a screen capture from the potential addition to they're collection. If, (perhaps in this case), the print of they're dreams appears to have a better color than they're present print, they'll buy on the merit of that screen capture.
If there is something wrong with ebay's placing of screenshots, giving a false impression of a print, (which the buyer has no intention of doing, by the way), then it is ham-stringing the seller, as the buyer could come back against the seller, claiming that they mis-represented the print, when they did nothing of the kind.
That's all.
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Chris Smith
Film Handler
Posts: 67
From: Aston, Pa. USA
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted December 28, 2009 02:59 PM
Having sold nearly a 1000 prints on eBay over the years, I can say there is a real knack to getting a decent screen snap to display in an auction. It's often a white balance issue with the camera. I was screening a beautiful LPP color travel film, and the snaps were coming out PURPLE. It took a couple restarts of the camera to finally synch the white balance with the screen colors. I have photographed black and white films and wound up with purplish images, brown toned images and perfect black and white. More important, check out the written description in any auction where the seller SHOULD accurately reflect color quality--if the color has shifted to the red spectrum, the seller should state that. Likewise, as I have often explained in my auctions, the color may be BETTER than the screen grabs, etc. By the way, Osi, any sign of those Popeye cartoons?
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