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From: skinner@saturn.ucsc.edu (Robert Skinner)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Creating Color (Ansel Adams) Images
Message-ID: <807@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: Mon, 14-Sep-87 23:07:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: saturn.807
Posted: Mon Sep 14 23:07:27 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 17-Sep-87 01:19:48 EDT
References: <115@uvabme.bme.virginia.edu> <3040003@hpcehfe.HP.COM> <2651@ames.arpa>
Organization: U.C. Santa Cruz, CIS/CE.
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Summary: colorization

In article <2651@ames.arpa>, eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene Miya N.) writes:
> In article <20412@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes:
> >One of our local commedians came out on stage and said he had a part time
> >job colorizing Ansel Adams prints.
> 
> The irony is that Ansel
> probably would not have objected to people experimenting with his
> prints.  I don't know about B&W films.
> 

I just thought I would add this:

In a class taught by Alain Fournier last year he pointed out some interesting
things about colorization.  The colorizing is done on the low band-width
signals of video which carry the color signal.   The high bandwidth B&W 
information is untouched.  So if you don't like watching the colorized versions,
simply turn down the color on your TV and you get the original image.
This also means that the original 35mm prints are not touched.  This is
only done on video, where the relatively small bandwidth of the color signal
makes it economical to do this sort of thing.  (I'm discounting the rare and
very expensive cases of people 'painting' original 35mm prints.  It doesn't 
happen very often.)

I think that its humorous that no one has pointed this out before (or 
disgusting that people don't listen to reason).  I personally
don't like the colorized versions, but I think that without colorization a
lot of classic films would never make it to video because the estimated
market is too small.   Maybe we should really thank Ted Turner, et. al. 
for makeing these movies accessable to all of us, colorization fan or not.

Robert Skinner
skinner%saturn.ucsc.edu@ucscc.ucsc.edu