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Author Topic: Bad Lab Work on Mao's Last Dancer Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-09-2010 08:17 PM                        Has anyone else run Mao's Last Dancer? Reel 4 of our print (#00142) looks like it was pushed 2 stops in the lab, giving it the appearance of an overexposed video tape. The other reels are fine. Just wondering if this is a one off or if other people have this problem.  |  IP: Logged Ron Curran Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 504 From: Springwood NSW Australia Registered: Feb 2006 posted 10-10-2010 08:13 PM                        Martin, apparently no one els in your region is screening the film. All I can offer is that the print we screened was very soft and could not be focussed to get a really clear image. But that was the whole print.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-10-2010 08:14 PM                        Hmm, ours is actually very sharp.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-10-2010 09:09 PM                     That's odd. I blamed the lack of focus and increased grain on Bruce B. trying to emulate the prints in the date it was set.  |  IP: Logged Victor Liorentas Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: london ontario canada Registered: May 2009 posted 10-10-2010 09:40 PM                     I ran this for a few weeks and found it to be very soft focus with some sharper segments.It had a milky or vaseline on the lenses look to it quite a bit and i believe a certain look was the goal but 2k DI with bad high speed printing took my print beyond any goal they should want! I wonder if the film makers know how bad it will look outside of show print premieres? The print i had was Deluxe bouncy!  |  IP: Logged Cameron Glendinning Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 845 From: West Ryde, Sydney, NSW Australia Registered: Dec 2005 posted 10-13-2010 10:45 PM                     My print looked just how John described, looked like it was trying to be an 1980's look, well before kodak spent billions to improve it. Would you like me to send you the blu ray?  |  IP: Logged

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