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Here is a full-res screenshot of what is offered for a PDF. You never know when you work will be the last extant copy of something for the historical record. If the original is a poor reproduction, then record it in the archives as a low-res original. Sometimes all the archivist has to work with is shit, so then it is not your fault. No one will hold you accountable for doing crappy work. But if you have the control over the end result...don't produce garbage with your archival work. I've surveyed tons of online archives over the years. The vast majority of them produce low-res garbage. It is really sad how most archives are run. Don't sign your name to shit for the historical record. Have some pride in your work. <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography -
CUImaging | Film Scanners $18,000 I was worried about the sound, but it looks like it does a great job extracting optical sound. The only concern is a 16mm warped film gate. I specialize in some of the shittiest films in the world when it comes to condition. The only archives that beat me are the ones where their films have liquified or nitrates have caught fire from spontaneous combustion! I can't help it. I'm a not a collector, so I have to take the film as they come. It all depends on content with me. It is not that I like shitty condition films; but a lot of the content is unique, so there are no second choices for better source material. The gate that comes with it is for flat film. It is very exciting what they have accomplished. Nice support policy. Looks like you can talk with them and not have to pay $5,000 a year for phone privileges. Lifetime Support At CUImaging, we stand behind our products with lifetime support, no matter where you are or how long you’ve owned your equipment. You can choose in-house service with the option of a loaner unit, or perform the repair yourself with our full support. U.S. customers can receive most replacement components as quickly as the next business day. Our service inventory is maintained indefinitely. For software support, we strive to respond to all requests within 72 hours, with help available by email, phone, remote access, or in person if needed. P.S... Now how in the hell can these guys make this scanner for $18,000 and Filmfabriek charges $22,000 for their little 8mm scanner???? <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography
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Ran across an old video by Perry on YT from about 12-13 years ago. Perry talks about crowdfunding his scanner along with the importance of film preservation. That's funny. I tried getting funded by multiped crowdfunding sites for a cheap $75K Lasergraphics. Was refused by all. Maybe when Perry started it was a novelty. One problem was they deemed me not to give anything back to the supporters. I told them; I sell nothing, I pay to do it and I give it all away for free to the historical record. What else do you want me to give? I told them OK, I will give various size portfolios of my photographs to certain level doners. But it was still no. Another issue was I was not an American Indian or the popular color, gender or misgender of the day. I'm just some old white guy in the Rustbelt. Perry did a nice job on his large format scanner, but we will have to see the output. A Chinese fortune cookie once told me...surface appearance is not reliable! You can see it on YT. As a sidenote... If you see a video on YT and you don't need to watch it; you can speed it up .25% or .50% and listen to it as a podcast. Saves lots of time. <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography
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I am wondering if anyone here has any knowledge of where I could send some 35mm photographic stills if I wanted to get them scanned as cinefilm. I shoot both a lot of photographic film as well as a lot of motion picture film, and have wanted to have my photos scanned in the DPX, HDR, Cineon format for some time now to be able to color grade them in the same workflow and with the same latitude as my motion picture work—particularly my Ektachrome positives. Obviously large scanners such as the LaserGraphics and ARRISCANNER are built to handle hundreds of feet of film, and not many studios or labs will accept bundles of 36 exposure photo reels for big machine scanning. Let me know if there is anyone in the U.S. that offer a cinefilm like scan for photo film, specifically with the DPX, 16-bit, HDR, cinefilm output format in mind. -
Here is an example of my film archive database. It is based off of my main archive database. I use it because it is simple, requires no extra software and it works for me. A master folder is made for the database collection. Subfolders are made for each film. Within the subfolder there can be text files, stills, sub subfolders or film samplers. Ideally a sampler of the film is made by speeding up the film at 1250% or one if made from stills extracted when the film is scanned. Stills from the scan are used every 10 to 14 frames and flashed about .2 seconds each. But all that is variable. It does not contain scans of the actual film other than samplers or stills. The scans are put on HDD and archived on M-Disc DVD, M-Disc Blu-ray and archival Blu-ray in an optical disc library. ...and when it comes to the need for overcomplication. Either this system does not offer you the tools you need. Or you are a deep thinker and need more complications in your life to keep your deep thinking mind occupied. <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography
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Get a bright flashlight and shine it on the flatbed scanner glass at an angle. (Works on lenses too for internal inspection of dirt / dust.) As I mentioned earlier, you can also scan the glass with the lid open in a dark room to see the condition of the scanner glass. But a flashlight is faster and can be done on the spot intermittently while scanning. <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography
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Put the dongle on a USB extension and it can move around with you. <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography
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I get lots of dirty archival material to work with on the copy stand, sheet fed scanner, cine' and slide scanning, etc. I use compressed air to help clean things, along with other cleaning methods. The compressed air was a gigantic breakthrough once I started to use it years ago. Before that it was a rocket hand blower. I don't have a permanent place to work; it is all temporary setups. A wood clamp gives me a place to park the air gun...temporarily. I still use the rocket blower for delicate jobs like lens cleaning. I don't want to blow dust inside the lens. But for 95% of the work, it is the air gun. Don't forget to drain the compressor once in a while. I do it weekly. In the humid Rustbelt we got lots of moisture in the air. That was a benefit from living in L.A., we had dry air. <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography
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This file will have 3144 scans in it. Along with backups on drives, every 550 scans or so I make a DVD to physically back it up. I use a color marker page to distinguish the set from future scans. Seeing a color marker helps when dealing with thousands of files like this. Once scans are complete the whole collection goes on M-Disc Blu-ray and an archival Blu-ray. I just like 2 different discs to diversify things. M-Disc DVD is pretty $$ or I'd make the smaller backups on them as well. But I use AZO DVD. If kept in the dark AZO DVD is good for 15 - 30 years. If kept in the sun, AZO DVD's are dead in a few weeks. And all Blu-ray are not archival. Some are pretty crappy. Verbatim makes the best archival Blu-ray discs. Preferably the Japanese made discs. The budget brands of Blu-ray I only use for temp work. Not archival at all if the sun hits them. Just a tidbit of info for you about optical discs. If you want to start using color marker pages, here is a collection of them. Colored, White, Gray And Black Page Collection D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography
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When cutting up a book to scan there are a number of battles to deal with. One is copyright. The other one is defacing a book. Only you only can decide which way to proceed...for the greater good or the greater right. Bound book was +/- 3.75" thick. Cover was cut loose by cutting through the end sheets. Individual sewn book signatures were cut loose and further disassembled from there. Edge photo of cut binding shows the crooked cut this guillotine cutter produces. Old school guillotine cutters produced square cuts. From my limited experience, modern imports in this price range do not. This type of guillotine cutter is only useful if the gutter of the book is wide. I've tried 3 different cutters of this style, and none of them produced square cuts. If the book has a narrow gutter, this cutter may cut into the text or illustrations of the book when disassembling the book due to the crooked cut it produces. Books with narrow gutters have to be disassembled by hand. The guillotine cutter photo is from the internet and used under the auspices of fair use. Photo of a rotary paper cutter used to disassemble pamphlets, magazines and booklets. The rotary paper cutter is also useful to standardized paper width to run through a sheetfed scanner. Example scans from disassembled book, which is the bible of all things hand tools and hardware from 1923 - The Shapleigh Wholesale Hardware Catalog. The book was hand scanned at 300dpi (BW) to 600 dpi (Color). A 300-dpi scan can be made in 10 seconds on my flatbed scanner. A 600-dpi scan takes 23 seconds. Time difference is not normally a big deal. But multiply the time savings x 3144 scans and it adds up. Working 7 days a week part-time, this project will take 3.5 to 4 weeks to complete. And that is for raw scans. For 600-dpi scans it is 7.5 to 9 weeks for scanning this project part-time. Post cleanup work will add a lot more time to the project. A sheetfed scanner was not useful for this project. The catalog's paper is thin which produces wrinkled paper issues on the scans. Also, the ink used in the book is matte black which transfers to the black ink to the scanner rollers. This will leave marks on the pages that run down the full length of the page like black tire tracks. Lastly the book is old and dirty. Dirty originals lead to lines on your scan when using a sheetfed scanner. A speck of dirt on a flatbed scanner, is a speck of dirt. A speck of dirt on a sheetfed scanner is a white or black line that runs down the entire page. For more info on scanning techniques see: NSFW SHOOTOUT…Flatbed Scanner vs. Sheetfed Scanner vs. Copy Stand Photography – Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection – II <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography
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Are you scanners working on any interesting jobs? I bought a 'pig in a poke' film lot a while back. Supposedly a 16mm short of Betty Brosmer in it. But I have not looked through it to verify. It was a total speculation that I bought from a swap meet picker. I'm a sucker for those things. It was not cheap either. He said he paid $5 for the film lot or some such thing. It does not matter to me, I'm not in it for the $, I am in it for the history. It may be a total waste, or it could be a treasure. Not much film footage on Betty out there. I'm in the process of reorganizing film collection and things are a mess. Here is Betty in her prime! DDTJRAC Also have an 8mm lot I picked up of circus films. I hate 8mm, but it was a nice collection from a circus promoter and performer. His personal collection, so picked it up. What are you scanning that is interesting and noteworthy? <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography
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When scanning gloss stock that is warped it is hard to get a good contact with the scanner glass. In this example the warped gloss stock produced a rainbow type of defect while scanning. Weighting the scanner lid can help get good contact with the original. Foam backer board must be used under the scanner lid as the flatbed scanner lid provides poor contact. 18 pounds of weight was used here. If you go above 22 - 24 pounds on the scanner lid, an Epson V600 scanner may break. Every scanner is different; you check its weight limits out for yourself. Unweighted scan of RPPC Crop of unweighted scan defect area. Crop of weighted scan defect area. Full report: Scan With Rainbow Defects Weighted / Unweighted Comparisons D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography
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I have got a pretty dense film print that I am looking to have digitized, and I wanted to take advantage of the LaserGraphics Director "3-flash HDR" feature to extract as much visual fidelity from print as I possibly can. I don’t believe I have seen many labs or post-production studios which offer will-call or consumer scanning services. Anybody here know of a place which scans with the Director that is currently accepting non-studio requests for scanning services? Thank you.
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Sheetfed scanners are prone to moiré patterns when scanning halftones at lower res. A flatbed scanner does better if you are using lower res and have halftone material. Click to view properly. Epson FastFoto 300dpi scan Epson FastFoto 600 dpi scan If I had kept the original, I'd go the distance and send in flatbed scans. But I didn't know I'd be doing this post or test. I just happened upon the scans and the 300dpi was supposed to be trashed. I don't keep many things nowadays after they are scanned. Either that are resold on eBay if valuable or trashed, which happens to most of the material. In 2022 I downsized the storage lockers and decided to go all digital. At least that is my goal. I always liked to keep everything, but rent is just too high nowadays. If you are going to dispose of material, always get whatever you need from it as you can't go back! <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography
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Children playing 1900 L.O.C. Screen shots of crops JPEG TIFF 16 bit TIFF 8 bit JPEG vs TIFF / 8 bit vs 16 bit Tests D.D. Teoli Jr. A.C. : D.D. Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography
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I routinely weigh down the scanner lid with an extra hard foam backer to flatten out warped archival material tight on the scanner glass. In the old days we had vacuum frames to flatten things out...perfectly! I've had no trouble with using 16 - 18 pounds on the glass for years. Today I tried 22 pounds on an Epson V600 and it started to break. When I get a chance, I will write up a proper report, but too busy right now scanning! Be careful how much weight you put on your flatbed scanner...they will break! <><><><> RPPC - Raw Scan Oil wells Pacific Coast Highway Huntington Beach DDTJRAC
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It is unusual that films come with a scan, but this film did. It was a MP4 file, about 300 mb. You buy a film for $10...you get a scan for free. It was a decent scan for online use; the only problem was the film was faded pink and had no color left to recover. You know the type, if you have been around old film... eBay photo ~ Fair Use I have a ton of these pink films in the archive. What I do it to turn them into B&W. That is what I did here. 'The Lumberman' (1965) Encyclopedia Britannica 'The Lumberman' (1965) D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive No idea how many red films I have. I will have an idea if and when I ever get them all inventoried. I'm maybe 55% done with the inventory. I haven't done any work in that area for a few years. I still need to organize the shelves in ABC order. This area will be for 'M to R' films. There is a duplicate set of shelves behind this set for 'S to Z.' 'H' section has its own shelf unit, is the biggest section. Tons of H-ome movies there. Small gauge film is the largest area of archival preservation I work in...yet it is the least utilized material in the archive, as I have no decent scanner. Film preservation is a fascinating area to work in. It is like Christmas every day when you are working with 'pig in a poke' films. No idea what you will find! Can't go by the reels or cans. Much of it never matches the film or films have no labeling at all. <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography
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Now...it just depends on the material. There is plenty of vintage photography on the market that is dirt cheap. These are usually cabinet cards or CDV's of people...the plain Janes or Joes. But anything notable in vintage photography is usually pricey. And one of the most highly prized and $$ areas to collect is occupational photography, especially daguerreotypes. I was lucky when I acquired this occupational tintype. It was somewhat affordable because it was in such poor condition and the image had to be extracted from it in post. It is a large size tintype measuring 6-3/8" x 8", so that was a bonus. Larger images offer more detail to extract. Post processed scan Raw scan, no post processing. No telling about the age. Tintypes were popular mainly from the 1860s - 1870s. Although they continued to do tintypes for little portraits much later. This tintype is almost prehistoric compared to most of the other tintypes I've seen. If you have $$, you can collect top end material for vintage photography...although these are overpriced. Early on when I first came across the Getty Museum's Open Content Collection, I saved a lot of the vintage photography I found there. Back then (the early 2010s) they offered digital JPEG files that were 45 mb+ for some of their material. And they were very nice digital copies. Nothing like the subpar 200mb TIFF files the L.O.C. offers that are just digitized low quality film copies of the item. And the Smithsonian and National Archives are no better. Sadly, the Getty Museum cut way back in their generosity. The same 45 mb JPEG may be 6mb now. I modelled my Archive after the Getty of old. Although people have to write me if they want anything super hi res. The I.A. limits uploads to 10 mb. There is a practical limit to res and file size unless you are rich. I scanned this tintype 48 bit 2400 dpi TIFF and the file was 1.8GB. Crazy! Here are the extensive bit depth tests for you to peruse. https://archive.org/search?query=bit+depth+teoli <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography
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Are there any labs that can scan s16 at 8K, particularly in the US? The majority of our project is s16 at 4K via a ScanStation, but there is a particular small section of the movie where we need higher resolution. Don’t need info/a lecture on 16mm’s resolving power—I understand that it’s very (very) unlikely that 8K scans would resolve any more image detail than the 4K scans. But we need the extra grain resolution for post. Do any labs do it (I’m under the impression that the LG Director 10K could do it)? Totally understand if it’s not something any labs do since it’s incredibly niche. It’s hard to know different labs’ capabilities since most are not public online about the scanners they’re using. Any suggestions on who to contact?
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Handling paper for flatbed scanning in the Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection. Photo: D.D.Teoli Jr. I handle lots of paper in the Archive. Many hundreds of thousands of scans. When looking at scan jobs, I don't figure jobs by the number of scans, I figure them by how many feet of paper there is. A small job may be a foot or two. A big job may be 15 feet or more. Anyway, if you handle lots of paper as I do; work smart and wear exam gloves. They provide a multitude of benefits when handling paper. Wearing exam gloves gives you the following benefits: They keep finger and grease smudges off the scanner glass. They stop your skin from dropping flakes of dead skin and debris on the scanner glass. They give you a great grip on the paper both for placing and removing the paper from the scanner glass. They keep the paper clean as well as your hands clean. If not using gloves, your hands can get dirty handling matte black ink or gritty paper. White cotton gloves do keep originals clean. But they don't give you the tactile sensitivity and purchase of the paper as the exam gloves do. In the winter if your hands suffer from cracking and dry skin, the exam gloves help alleviate that problem. You can cream your hands up and put on your gloves to work. <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography
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I see they have separate gates for sound and silent. They are pretty pricey. Did you find them worthwhile for the price?
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The late cinematographer Robby Müller was a big advocate of testing. I remember watching an interview of him talking about doing extensive tests of various filters for an upcoming BW film. From what I recall, he said he ran film tests for a couple of weeks with filters. And in the end, he decided filters were not up to the job for his film. Müller was an advocate of letting the camera stay in the background and not having camera work be the main thing. Internet Photo: Fair Use Robby Müller, Inventive Cinematographer, Is Dead at 78 - The New York Times (nytimes.com) Bringing it home to our own forum, I read countless questions here that can't be solved by words, they have to be solved by tests. In the digital age you can't get things any easier to test than digital. And with film, testing is even more important. So, I can't understand why people have such a block to testing things. Can you tell me why? Recently I joined a forum that deals with various still scanning methods and post work. As specialized forum for scanning, I thought it would be a given that members would have test results comparing a flatbed scanner against a camera scanning setup, as they had sections for both of them. My interest in camera scanning is my archival work. Some archival work, especially some cine' film, is not conducive to flatbed scanning. So, I would like to know how methods compare before throwing some money at it. As well as knowing what direction to throw the money in. You would have thought I was from outer space asking the forum that question. I got nothing useful from the forum except a lot of replies criticizing me and my request. Not looking for pen pals, nor having time to waste, I left the forum. I will have to throw some money at it and do my own testing. I was just trying to economize on testing to find direction. Sometimes it is nice if you can build and refine on the testing that has gone before you. But to really get at the truth, you need to test things yourself sometimes. Breastfeeding won't yield much if the tit is dry. <><><><> Example of Newton rings from scanning film directly on glass - DDTJRAC
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Hey guys! I just finished a 16mm shoot and am on the process of sending the negatives do be processed by CineLab London. They offer tons of scanning solutions and I'm kind of confused with some of them. Would love if you guys could help me with some questions :) 1.They state that all of the scans are deliveres as .dpx "full frame" files - Full Frame is only the image? Or will I see the borders, sprockets and etc? 2. What does it mean to have the negatives "overscanned"? They offer this option only on the Scanity scans - does it means that I'll see the sprockets, borders, etc? 3. What are the image quality difference between Spirit and Scanity scans? Is it significant? Thanks for the attention! -
Hi, I just want to share link to Paul-Anthony Mille´s posthouse: http://kafardfilms.fr/film-stocks-processing/ He is doing so far, the cheapest work in Europe. 16mm - 400ft = 200 € 35mm - 400ft = 150 € (Prices are for developming, cleaning and 2K/4K scanning) Development is done by Hiventy lab, Paris and Paul is doing scans at his posthouse. I have not met Paul in person yet, I just want to share this cheap and great quality alternative on market ? Many people already know Paul, but for those who not, this is the solution to keep you shooting film
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I'm a student who is about to shoot a 5min 35mm short. The final look we are going for is one with very minimal grain and no noise. This 5207 test video shot by Kodak is a good example of what we are looking for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCxr7YeD0C4 The key thing here is minimal grain and noise. I've been looking into various post houses and the equipment they have and came up with this list: Fotokem - Spirit Metro Post - Director Gamma Ray Digital - ScanStation Cinelab - Xena Nolo Digital - Arriscan FilmVideoSolutions - Spirit I'm not too sure where to go from here. Whats the typical workflow in order to achieve a noise free and (almost) grain free result? Will data scanning instead of telecine help? Is there any post house that is recommended for this sort of thing? And do any of these post houses offer grain management/reduction that can help us achieve the look of that kodak test video? The scans I've seen from Fotokem seem quite nice in terms of grain and noise but I haven't seen too many examples from others. https://vimeo.com/174719862 I plan on overexposing by at least a stop to tighten grain but is there any 3rd party software that can help with grain and noise management/reduction after scanning? Any help is appreciated!
