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Hi, I need help finding EU-based (or the UK) film restoration companies that can handle 16mm films. Preferably they should be able to do digital restoration (and if possible make new prints of) 16mm film. Film Condition: Their condition is overall very good; very little color fade and not too much in terms of scratches and dirt. The sound tracks on the films all seem to be in quite good condition too. If this is possible I would like to do it one film at a time to be in line with my budget. Type of Restoration Desired: If I decide to go through with doing the restoration with you I would be looking at digital restoration; that is scanning (frame-by-frame), color correction & color grading, removal of scratches & dirt and if necessary clean-up of the transferred audio. Video Resolution & Aspect Ratio: The frame-by-frame scanning would be at a resolution which would respect the (approximate) 4:3 aspect ratio which the cartoons were intended to be displayed at and not show frame or film edges. For this I desire that no black bars ("letter-boxing") be used. A suitable resolution might be 2048 pixels wide by 1536 pixels high or some other higher resolution matching a 4:3 ratio depending on a future price quote. Formats, Codecs & Color Spaces: - Container format: .mov - Video codec: Apple ProRes 422 HQ and Apple ProRes 4444 which means two files per film. - Audio codec: whatever is deemed suitable on a per film basis. Since the sound is monaural when played on stereo headphones (or speakers) the audio stream should be duplicated equally to the left and right channels to avoid only one channel being utilized. - Color spaces: the file using Apple ProRes 422 HQ should be color graded and corrected in Rec.709 for SDR and the file using Apple ProRes 4444 should be color graded and corrected in Rec.2100 for true HDR. Companies I Have Contacted: Analogue Image T/A On8mil: https://www.on8mil.com/product/16mm-film-archive-scan/ (A little on the simple side) Cinelab: https://www.cinelab.co.uk/archive-restoration-services (provided a good (?) initial quote per film of about 362 GBP at 2K (2048x1536) with the above file specs) Fixafilm: https://www.fixafilm.pl/en/services/ (Can do it for 600 to 700 EUR per film, film recording costs extra) Haghefilm Digitaal: https://haghefilm.nl/restoration/ (Have contacted them but gotten no response in ~2 months) Is this something anyone can recommend a good company for? And if the company in question also handles 8mm that would be a bonus as my family has tasked me with finding a company that can do similar things for 8mm what they do for 16mm.

Hello there ! I am wondering about the scan part of the production for upcoming tests on an eclair gv16. Am i suppose to ask to the lab to make the Scan or TC at regular 25fps recommendation or am i missing something ? I understand that it is good to match the frame rate to the scan/TC 'rate' for 25 fps and under, but for the rest, i don't have an idea. thanks in advance Jordan

Hi all, this is my first post here. Over winter break I got bored and decided to try learning some CAD to make a new lomo like spiral tank for 16mm (or in my case double 8), because the results from a Morse G3 just aren't cutting it. Its by no means refined, but in theory it should hold 100' of 16mm film. I was going to do a test 3D print at a local makerspace, but then the pandemic moved in and that plan kinda fell apart. I looked online at a few places that do prototype printing, and the cheapest I found was about $110 including shipping, which is a bit much for me at the moment, but is still cheaper than a lomo on ebay! The picture is of the bottom piece. The film would fit into a slit in the center (you can't quite see it in the pic), then you'd put the top on, use a plain old nut and bolt to hold the two together, and then begin spinning the reel assembly clockwise to wind your film on. I wanted to make it fit inside a 5 gallon bucket, but its a bit too wide, 30 cm in diameter to be exact, so some kind of container would need to be found. If anyone has access to a 3D printer and wants to give this a go, I'd love to see how it turns out. I'll put the STL files up in another post because they're too big to attach here. Let me know what you think!

Hello, sometimes you can find some Cine-Kowa Lenses for 16mm, for example the 1,1 / 25mm in Arri mount. I think, this are lenses made for the Arri SR cameras. (I think CP sold them as cinema-product-lenses too) What do you know about them ? Some people say, they were "a kind of copy" of the Zeiss HS lenses. Is that right ? Michael