Hi all,

Just a quick note to tell you that I am setting up a community of
practice - a focus area for photo editors and people who work with film
and video footage, focussing on colourisation and restoration.

The site, (http://colourisation.net) is an editable wiki and I invite
you as professionals and hobbyists with a passion for photo
manipulation to add your knowledge to this resource pool.

The intention is for agreed technical standards to be met which will
move forward research into colourising photos, VT and film. The
resulting technical standards will be managed by an independent body -
"the Institute for Colourisation" who will market the 'de facto'
standard.

I am looking not specifically at the moral issues surrounding
colourising vintage material but rather the processes of editing,
restoring, digitising, outputting and colourising footage.

Part of this research was inspired by the work of the Restoration Team
- a group of UK professionals working in the area of telecine on
resotring damaged and missing material (e.g. where the colour videotape
was in a poor standard when it has then been remastered) and 'cleaned'.
An example of this is he
http://www.purpleville.pwp.blueyonde...e/colouris.htm

I hope to hear from you - please add your contributions to the wiki.
Please register to obtain the password. The site can be found at:

http://www.colourisation.net/

Best regards,

Matthew Bennett
(site moderator + editor - colourisation.net)