A Scan of a 35mm Print is Not "Ground Truth"

A photo of a print of a movie. I'd love to talk in much greater detail about this topic, because it's a wonderful and complicated and nuanced issue. In the meantime, here's a Bluesky post I made: Posting an image of a 35mm print from a film as “ground truth” for color and tone is almost always ridiculous. Even brand new release prints vary from print to print, and prints deteriorate over time in…