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Post by George D on Mar 12, 2024 19:47:18 GMT
Maybe you could ask we would like to see hq scans on the 60, before bidding to see if they are an improvement?
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Post by markperry on Mar 12, 2024 23:44:38 GMT
Maybe the lucky bidder will just chuck em in a vault for eternity.
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Post by Mark Berry on Mar 13, 2024 5:48:50 GMT
Sorry, Richard, but this is simply not true. As a photographer, with many years of experience in black & white printing, I can assure you that a contact sheet (the smaller Cura images) will provide noticeably less clarity than an actual print (even if those prints are only 2.5" x 2" enlargements). It's the physics of printing.
Hopefully, someone will step-in, or the buyer will allow for high-resolution scans to be made. Would be useful to have better-quality images for the eventual Season 4 Blu-ray set.
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Post by Richard Bignell on Mar 13, 2024 11:16:10 GMT
Sorry, Richard, but this is simply not true. As a photographer, with many years of experience in black & white printing, I can assure you that a contact sheet (the smaller Cura images) will provide noticeably less clarity than an actual print (even if those prints are only 2.5" x 2" enlargements). It's the physics of printing. Hopefully, someone will step-in, or the buyer will allow for high-resolution scans to be made. Would be useful to have better-quality images for the eventual Season 4 Blu-ray set. I've done my fair share of photography and B&W printing as well and I do understand how these things work. It's why I said any difference in quality is negligible, which for the telesnaps, it is. You also have the issue that all of the small enlargements are cropped, losing picture image on all four sides.  |
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Post by John Wall on Mar 13, 2024 20:08:04 GMT
It's funny while I was copying seasons 2s blu ray pdfs last night and noticed they have nearly all the sets and blow ups for nearly all the stories. There are, unfortunately, some important omissions. Marco Polo only has six surviving sets and there are none for Space Pirates. |
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Post by George D on Mar 14, 2024 2:47:38 GMT
Sorry, Richard, but this is simply not true. As a photographer, with many years of experience in black & white printing, I can assure you that a contact sheet (the smaller Cura images) will provide noticeably less clarity than an actual print (even if those prints are only 2.5" x 2" enlargements). It's the physics of printing. Hopefully, someone will step-in, or the buyer will allow for high-resolution scans to be made. Would be useful to have better-quality images for the eventual Season 4 Blu-ray set. I've done my fair share of photography and B&W printing as well and I do understand how these things work. It's why I said any difference in quality is negligible, which for the telesnaps, it is. You also have the issue that all of the small enlargements are cropped, losing picture image on all four sides. The enlargement seems better to me. I get that it's trimmed but , just as audios can be superimposed, perhaps there is a way to have a High quality picture with a lower quality border. Regardless it would be great if both could be preserved to give future options |
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Post by markperry on Mar 14, 2024 8:26:10 GMT
It's funny while I was copying seasons 2s blu ray pdfs last night and noticed they have nearly all the sets and blow ups for nearly all the stories. There are, unfortunately, some important omissions. Marco Polo only has six surviving sets and there are none for Space Pirates. Hopefully the next season boxsets or even the upcoming standalone stories iinclude those as well. |
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Post by Mark Berry on Mar 14, 2024 8:51:13 GMT
The enlargement seems better to me. I get that it's trimmed but , just as audios can be superimposed, perhaps there is a way to have a High quality picture with a lower quality border. Regardless it would be great if both could be preserved to give future options Yes – I absolutely agree. Even in this cherry-picked example from The Crusades to prove the contrary, the enlargement is noticeably sharper (5-10% more perhaps) and there is extra detail in the shadow areas. While the cropped border is a shame, and a bit of a pain-in-ass to fix in Photoshop, it's a totally doable task to blend the two scans together to create an optimal image. It just requires a little patience and skill. When we are dealing with missing episodes of Doctor Who, and telesnaps/audio is all that remains of our beloved series, surely the desire for the best quality sources for reconstructions is a no-brainer? |
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Post by John Wall on Mar 14, 2024 8:57:28 GMT
There are, unfortunately, some important omissions. Marco Polo only has six surviving sets and there are none for Space Pirates. Hopefully the next season boxsets or even the upcoming standalone stories iinclude those as well. Er, you can’t do telesnap reconstructions if there aren’t any telesnaps. |
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Post by tom rogers on Mar 14, 2024 10:14:28 GMT
Sold for £1658 ($2125.00)!
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Post by Richard Bignell on Mar 14, 2024 10:14:37 GMT
Yes – I absolutely agree. Even in this cherry-picked example from The Crusades to prove the contrary, the enlargement is noticeably sharper (5-10% more perhaps) and there is extra detail in the shadow areas. It's not "cherry-picked" at all, Mark. It's the first example of both an original telesnap and and enlargement that I had to hand. And yes, there is some variation and that's only to be expected 1) Given that the creation of the enlargements would have been a separate job to making the contacts, there's going to be some minor differences in exposure time, focus etc. 2) The scans above were done at different times and on different machines. Given that, yes, there going to be some minute differences between the two in the online images. If they're available to us, then yes. But the differences are tiny and certainly not paying over the odds for. Were you concerned enough about this to go online pay out the $2210 (£1724) that the telesnaps went for yesterday? |
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Post by markperry on Mar 14, 2024 10:19:51 GMT
John I referred to like the pdfs in season 2s box AND IF they exist it would make a nice inclusion to any upcoming releases.
Did I really have to make it that clearer.
Gawd.
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Post by George D on Mar 14, 2024 11:55:01 GMT
Were you concerned enough about this to go online pay out the $2210 (£1724) that the telesnaps went for yesterday? If I was the copywriter holder, or if I was part of the restoration team or involved in these reconstructions I would. I guess we can judge priorities by what is shared. Unfortunately it's a missed opportunity. |
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Post by Richard Bignell on Mar 14, 2024 11:56:44 GMT
Were you concerned enough about this to go online pay out the $2210 (£1724) that the telesnaps went for yesterday? If I was the copywriter holder, or if I was part of the restoration team or involved in these reconstructions I would. I guess we can judge priorities by what is shared. Unfortunately it's a missed opportunity. Why didn't you buy them and share them then? |
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