Studio Ghibli Library DVDs

First created 29 Aug 2001.
Updated 24 Dec 2001: changed links.
Expiry date 24 Feb 2001.
May 2009: removed explicit size from img tags.

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The 3 Kiki DVDs

The disc, the front, the back.

The disc. See below for the packaging.

The disc. The cover was not available for the shot.

Archives of Studio Ghibli DVDs

The front, the back, half opened,

opened, opened without discs.

The panels close up: 1, 2, 3.

I am very impressed with the packaging. In fact, I did a small survey and no one believed this was bootleg. The pirates have come a long way. In time, it will be even harder to distinguish between them and the originals.

Photo-nut section

The film used is Fuji Superia ISO 400. No flash is used, unless otherwise stated. Usually, I don't crop my photos, but this time is an exception. Otherwise, there is too much empty space which detract from the presentation. 2-sec MLU (mirror lockup) is used.

Note that I differ from my usual practice by not putting a Copyright message in the images. However, these images should still not be used for non-private purposes.

The negatives are scanned in on a Nikon LS-30 using VueScan at 1350 dpi. The following processing is done for all images:

Cropped to various sizes.
Level is adjusted to 0.75 to boost saturation.
Resized to 675 dpi.
Sharpening is applied; amount 75%, radius 1.5 pixels, threshold 5.
Converted to jpeg; baseline optimised; quality 7.
Created thumbnail by resizing to 150 dpi. Saved as jpeg; baseline optimised; quality 5.

As a guide, as few manipulation is done as possible.

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