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...I am still after this one. I won it on ebay before but it was destroyed in a parcel warehouse fire In Germany! I was fully compensated! Thanks Larry, once again for your posts on this thread!
Funny, Texas Chainsaw Massacre has weathered better than Flash Gordon which is a later Derann print. Storage or high temperatures in Australia? The Star Wars print is the same. Either that are awful screen shots.
Mcjeanandjohns screenshots are kind of hit or miss, but he does his best and a lot is due to the camera or lighting, but he's a good, honest seller. I have bought from him before. It looks like Texas's color varies from reel to reel. Flash Gordon's color should be LPP.
Thanks Osi - Mcjeandandjohn is ICuper8's ebay handle, as a lot of you know from buying from us, so those listing are ours. As you say the 2 of us do our best. We test run everything before we list, but screenshots can vary depending on changes in background light at different times of day, the distance of our projectors from our 2 screens, and also how the autofocus on our cameras reacts to the colours (eg if a frame has a face then the camera auto focuses on the face and can affect the focus of the surround. Also in certain light the camera enhances red tones for some reason. As an example the Texas pictures started with late afternoon background daylight in the room, but by the time the film came to an end 80 mins later daylight had gone so it was just low level room lighting
We dont photoshop our pictures or cherry pick the best - they are the ones we take.
Any tips on how to improve these factors would be welcome (simple though please - camera tech is a mystery to me and we run 100s of films a month).
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