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.
> 

IIRC, many B&W films aren't actually B&W the way digital media is, but 
rather *appear* to be B&W.  It's as if the hue values get compressed 
into an extremely narrow range.  With a good scanner and some good 
software, automatic colorization should be perfectly feasible these days.

...Chambers

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