Stephen Abbott Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 (edited) Hi there, First post on this forum, nice to meet you. I'm looking to get some reels of 9.5mm archive film transferred. I've looked around on the internet (before finding this forum), and am now chatting to Images4Life in the UK. They seem to offer a great balance of options and price. I'm looking for a reference. Can anyone recommend their services? It looks like they're using a flashscan Choice. I'd be getting the scanning done at the full resolution, transcoded to ProRes 444. I see lots of discussion about quality on this thread. Does anyone have anything to add? Thanks! Stephen *Edit: full res would be their 2.3K Edited February 5, 2014 by Stephen Abbott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberto Pirodda Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Try for free (up to 50 ft max), try to believe . All gates 8-S8/max8-9.5 (Pathè baby)-16/S16/U16. output uncompressed to hard disk. SD up to 2K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Abbott Posted February 6, 2014 Author Share Posted February 6, 2014 Well ... I'm in South Africa, far away from scanning options, so the decision is harder to test... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Abbott Posted May 9, 2014 Author Share Posted May 9, 2014 Hi again, Well, I got all the 9.5mm scanned, and am very happy with the results. Images4Life were awesome. Their advice was that good quality 9.5mm film does deserve a higher-than-HD res. scan, so I got it at 2336 x 1752, the max resolution of their Flashscan Choice. They don't charge anything for the extra resolution beyond 1080p, which is very friendly. To be (excessively) thorough, I asked for ProRes 444(4) instead of the standard 422, which was charged a little extra. Not all the source footage warrants the 2.3k scan, but it's from 1936! When it is all in good condition the detail is impressive. I'll be getting a whole lot of 8mm and Super-8 scanned through Images4Life. Stephen http://stealthdonkey.com/temp/film/hi/1.jpg http://stealthdonkey.com/temp/film/hi/2.jpg http://stealthdonkey.com/temp/film/hi/3.jpg http://stealthdonkey.com/temp/film/hi/4.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Matthew W. Phillips Posted May 9, 2014 Premium Member Share Posted May 9, 2014 looks awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Abbott Posted December 11, 2014 Author Share Posted December 11, 2014 A quick follow-up: I had ~6000 feet of 8mm and Super-8 scanned by Images4Life, and they did a great job. All the film came back to me safely, and the scans look great. Highly recommended. Stephen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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