[Lili Chin]

Dear All,
I don’t know if this thread will continue, but I have some images here –

8981_sonofmancomparison.png.zip

please see attached. I am wondering how I can read the scopes on my Da Vinci resolve to see if the telecine colorist who transfered my b+w 16mm negative did something wrong. The first transfer on the left you see a flat scan – he didn’t set the black and white levels and that’s why it looks so grey. Then he took that scan and set the blacks and whites ‘properly’ but all of a sudden it has a lot of black particles that look like dancing noise when I play it – the transfer is from 16mm to 2K. This project will eventually go back to film and is also a remastering to have a high resolution video transfer from my 16mm film. I actually think the flat scan looks better than his color timing. Can you let me know how I can look at the scopes on da vinci and see if he accidentally pressed a button to put noise in the picture? When I look at the 16mm print, the film doesn’t have those dancing particles. I know it was shot on film that was fogged and a little over exposed but his color corrected transfer looks pretty bad to me. Can anyone help with an opinion?