Colour Luftwaffe Guncamera Footage

[ChrisMAg2]

Originally Posted by Etienne

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Christian, on what grounds do you say this footage is colorised?.........I cannot belive that someone would go to all that trouble to colorise archive footage!
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Etienne,
if you carefully look at the movies, you will notice there are actually only two "colors" visible, plus a gray variety. A real color footage would show a very broader range of colors, even if downgraded to web-quality.

I.e. the fuselage of the Ju 88 (should be two-tone green) is actualy plain two-tone grey. The undersurface is not light blue (like the sky) but just light grey or white. The pilot is just sepia-yellow in different shades.

I didn't want to say the images are bad, on the contrary. But to somebody who specialises in color (me!), i would want to put emphasis on this "distinction". I am also always interessted to see real color footage, but feel disappointed, if they turn out to be "just colorised". That's why I made that comment.
I hope I didn't offend anybody with my comments and would want to apologize if I did so.