| KahnBB6 |
12-26-17 11:36 AM |
They also shot this on a warmer stock of 35mm film likely with "wheat" glass filters or some variation of that hue. Probably adjusted the color ever so slightly in post production also. Both add subtly to how the gold color looks on the TV. I don't think it's spot-on accurate to the actual gold paints on Lexus vehicles of that era. Close... but embellished slightly for advertising purposes. Also, since this was released in 1995 and we're now seeing it captured from a VHS tape it's locked into the old NTSC color standard for televisions of that era which has fuzzier separation of some color hues. And the VHS does a poorer job of reproducing those colors as they showed up from the studio master tape it was broadcast from at the time.
I think the gold color paints are still a very nice but definitely the trends today are all white or shades of silver. Kind of like how black interiors were bold in the early 90's but the norm at that time was various shades of beige. And before that a lot of companies used bluish, reddish or tan(ish) or brown interiors on their luxury models.
Something really cool to see was the optional light blue interior on the new LC500's. That immediately make me think of some 1986-1992 Supra MKIII and MK1 MR2 interior color choice lineage and harkened back to the middle 80's to very early 90's.
Exterior colors though... there is definitely not so much emphasis on gold these days. And what about the optional fake gold emblems that used to be so prestigious? Gold emblems on a slightly "gold" hued Lexus.
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