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Posted by Daniel D. Teoli Jr. (Member # 6043) on August 28, 2017, 04:42 PM:

I decided to see what sort of BW could be made from a faded color movie. I downloaded a sample of a faded movie I found online of a 16mm film that was projected on a wall. Seems that a faded color movie can be turned into a decent BW film.

https://danieldteolijrarchivalcollection.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/turning-faded-color-movies-into-glorious-black-and-white/

Posted by Bryan Chernick (Member # 1998) on August 31, 2017, 02:16 PM:

So the next step is to figure out how to chemically alter the actual film to make it black and white.

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on August 31, 2017, 02:59 PM:

I don't quite get your article Daniel. As far as I know all movie maker software can turn any type of color to B/W and later we render it to make it a full B/W film.

So what is the surprise here?

Cheers,

Posted by Brian Fretwell (Member # 4302) on September 01, 2017, 02:05 AM:

I would think the surprise is how good the B&W image is, compared with the tonal range of the faded colour one.

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