Colour recovery Colour recovery Colour recovery (or colour restoration) is a process which can restore lost colour, specifically to television programmes which were originally transmitted from colour video tape, but for which only black & white copies remain archived. Not to be confused with colourisation, colour recovery is a newer process and is fundamentally different from colourisation for several reasons. Firstly, colour recovery can only be performed if the originally transmitted colour signal can be reconstructed or recovered from some source, whereas this is not usually the case for traditional colourisation. Secondly, colourisation can be used to colourise films and programmes that
Colour cast Colour cast A colour cast is a tint of a particular colour, usually unwanted, which affects the whole, or portion, of a photographic image evenly. Certain types of light can cause film and digital cameras to have a colour cast. Illuminating a subject with light sources of different colour temperatures will usually cause colour cast problems in the shadows. In general, the human eye does not notice the unnatural colour, because our eyes and brains adjust and compensate for different types of light in ways that cameras cannot. In film, colour casts can also be caused by problems in development.