On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:13:21 +0100, Invisible wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
>> Even more impressively, they've been able to colour films that were
>> originally shot in B&W.
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_colorization
> 
> Yeah, but only with human intervention. You don't just press a button
> and out pops an image with colours that correctly match the original.

As the original is B&W, that doesn't make sense...

But colourization technology has advanced somewhat since the earliest 
films (and in all honesty, the earliest colourized films that I saw were 
pretty crap anyways).

But even with colour correction in cameras, the best results usually 
involve human intervention.

Jim

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