3 x ORWO UN 54 16mm Neg Bundle
• Package includes 3 x ORWO UN 54 16mm film (100 foot lengths on daylight spools), including discounted processing and 2.6K scanning
• If you'd like to buy more than one package at a time, add multiple packages to your basket
• Processing and scanning is valid for 18 months after purchase
£245.00 Excl VAT
3 x ORWO N 74 16mm Neg Bundle
• Package includes 3 x ORWO N 74 16mm film (100 foot lengths on daylight spools), including discounted processing and 2.6K scanning
• If you'd like to buy more than one package at a time, add multiple packages to your basket
• Processing and scanning is valid for 18 months after purchase
£265.83 Excl VAT
Shoot DS8! Rental Package
This is an all inclusive rental bundle including:
• 1 x Canon DS8 (double super 8) camera
• 1 x 100 foot of Kahl colour negative DS8 film (yielding the equivalent of 4 super 8 films, once processed and slit)
• Processing, slitting plus 3K HD scan
• Bundled costs: Camera rental @ £35 + VAT per day /...
£225.00 Excl VAT
Kahl NC 15 S8 Colour Neg Bundle
• This exclusive package includes 3 x Super 8 universal colour films, incl process & scanning
• Package includes 3 x Kahl NC 15 super 8 films, ALL including processing and 3K scanning
• If you'd like to buy more than one package at a time, add multiple packages to your basket
• This is limited time offer...
£187.50 Excl VAT
3 x Super 8 Tri-X Bundle
• Package includes 3 x Kodak Tri X monochrome super 8 films + discounted processing + 2.6K HD scans
• If you’d like to buy more than one package at a time, add multiple packages to your basket
• Processing and scanning is valid for 18 months after purchase • Click here to view our standard processing times£225.00 Excl VAT
Shoot VHS! Rental Package
Daily rental package includes:
• 1 x VHS camera rental (Panasonic DP200 pro-sumer model)
• 1 x 3 hour VHS tape
• 1 x tape transfer to full HD Apple Pro Res .mov (we keep the tape after transfer)
• Upscale to full HD 1920 x 1080 using broadcast quality hardware
• Daily rental @ £39 + VAT per day
• Weekend rental...
£39.00 Excl VAT
4 x 16mm Colour Neg Bundle
• Package includes 4 x Kodak Vision 3 16mm film (100 foot lengths), including discounted processing and 2.6K scanning
• Select the emulsion speed you're after for each of your 4 films and 'add to basket'
• If you'd like to buy more than one package at a time, add multiple packages to your basket
• Processing and...
£338.00 Excl VAT
3 x Super 8 Colour Neg Bundle
• Package includes 3 x Kodak Vision 3 super 8 films + discounted processing + 2.6K HD scans
• Simply select the emulsion speed you're after for each of your 3 films and 'add to basket'
• If you'd like to buy more than one package at a time, add multiple packages to your basket
• Processing and...
£225.00 Excl VAT
Kahl NC 15 (Super 8)
Ships worldwide except to Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg
• Negative / daylight colour super 8 film
• Shoot in plenty of light, don't shoot in low light conditions
• This film is not designed for projection. Designed for digital transfer (telecine) only
• 15m / 50ft
• ISO 25 / 15°
• Purchase price includes processing with optional...
£29.00 Excl VAT
Buy, Process and Scan. 8mm, Super 8 and 16mm Film
We are a dedicated team of filmmakers and technicians supplying a much-needed resource for 8mm and 16mm film making, based in London, UK.
Our core services are Super 8 and 16mm film sales, with additional processing and HD scanning, priced very competitively.
Our 8mm and 16mm film transfers are done at a minimum resolution of 1.5K (1504 x 1080 px), and far as 4K (4096 x 3000 px) using genuine frame by frame scanning to an output format of your choice, including Apple Pro Res HQ, 4444, uncompressed 24 bit image sequences or DPX output. Our most popular scan is the 2.6K best light over-scan at a resolution of 2640 x 2048 px.
We are official resellers of Kahl Films and a service provider for Frame 24, who are the official resellers of Kodak motion picture films in the UK.
Motion Picture Film Lab London UK
Our lab can process the following films gauges:
> Super 8 film > 16mm film > Standard 8 film > Double Super 8 film > Vintage 8mm film
We process colour negative, black and white negative, black and white reversal and colour reversal.
All new film stocks are machine processed by skilled technicians with incredible attention to detail. Vintage film stocks are hand processed by a specialist lab. For this reason, vintage film processing is more expensive than new film emulsion processing and often has unpredictable results.
We process on a weekly basis. Films are sent to the lab every Friday at 10 am, processed the following Wednesday / Thursday and back with us on the Friday. Scanning of films takes place thereafter. For customers paying for our 3 – 6 working day rush service we will scan your films as soon as they are back from the lab and aim to deliver all rush films over the course of the Thursday and Friday of the week. Non-rush customers are generally scanned within 5 business days of receiving the films back from the lab, with delivery via MyAirBridge thereafter. However, please note that timings may vary according to how busy we are. If you need to find out our current capacity, please get in touch.
For more details on our turn-around times and rush services available, please visit this page.
HD and UHD Scanning of Super 8, Standard 8, 16mm and 9.5mm Film
Our most popular scanning service is our 2.6k 8mm film transfer, scanning at 2640 x 2048 resolution, delivering an overscan in Apple Pro Res HQ format (or uncompressed 24 bit tiff sequence). We’ve broken down our scanning services into categories, which we feel offer a comprehensive offering to both individuals and production companies alike. Please see the costs section above for more details.
Analogue film is beautiful and truly unique. Film is a truly evocative way to record our lives and entertainment, and much like the vinyl record, its fragility and temperamental nature is an apt metaphor for our lives. Why do we engage with these analogue formats and why do we try so hard to emulate them in the digital realm, rather than settle for the raw perfection of digital formats?
We believe that by definition, 8mm and 16mm film presents a true analogue of the memories and emotions that make us human. There is an immediate emotive response to the colours, grain, saturation and clarity captured in film that digital struggles to emulate.
Video Tape Transfers to Full HD
Video Tape Capture to Digital File. Standard Definition to Full HD. Tape Remastering and Restoration Upon Special Request
Vintage video tape recordings have a unique and highly evocative aesthetic, being as they are the bedrock of most home movies and lower budget films and music videos made throughout the 80s, 90s and early noughties. There were a wide variety of cameras, formats and standards, including the ubiquitous VHS and VHSC (invented by JVC in the mid 1970s). A VHS VCR (video cassette recorder) was pretty much what most TV watching households had, prior to the advent of DVD.
VHS however was not the most portable or even the highest quality format. From the early 70s through to the early noughties Sony released a bewildering array of formats and standards, many of which were both more portable and higher quality than VHS . These included Betamax, Betacam SP, Digi Beta, U-matic, Video 8, Hi 8 and Digital 8. Add to this a few later generation digital video formats developed from the mid 90s onwards, including DVCAM and Mini DV and we’re dealing with a smorgasbord of formats for both professional and domestic markets.
At On8mil we’ve invested in a completely bespoke video transfer rig, handling all of the major video formats, utilising broadcast quality timebase correction (TBC), video noise reduction, sharpening and outline smoothing to deliver the highest possible quality tape transfer. Standard definition analogue and digital video tapes are captured using broadcast quality equipment with optional upscaling to full HD. Noise reduction and enhancement on poor / degraded recordings are deployed at no extra cost.
Multiple tape formats and standards supported, including:
At On8mil our passion is for analogue (analog) movie film. Especially the 8mm and 16mm varieties, although 9.5mm is also quite a hoot too.
So, we started this company, Analogue Image Ltd, (trading as On8mil), built some movie film scanners and got to work. Our first scanners were developed in late 2014 and scan 8mm, 9.5mm and 16mm film at up to 4K resolution. 4K is, of course, amazing but takes extra time (not to mention extra budget).
2.6K 8mm Film Scan = Bags of Resolution in 1080p
By far our most popular service is the 8mm film scan (super 8 and standard 8) at 2.6K resolution. What’s nice about this transfer is, that as many editors are working very comfortably in 1080p (1920 x 1080), the 2.6K scan (coming in at 2640 x 2048) sits in the 1080p edit with bags of ‘pan and scan’ space to play with. In fact to view the full 4:3 super 8 image you’ll need to scale it down by around 65%.
So unlike your typical 1080p 8mm film scan, where the film sits pillar box in the middle of the screen with two black blocks either side, our 2.6K scan fills the whole 1080p screen… and then some.
Frame by Frame capture of 8mm, 9.5mm and 16mm film.
In commissioning the design and build of our films scanners (from MMT telecine), we needed units that could capture each and every frame of the film, uncompressed.
MMT have a very simple but elegant telecine design, that runs the film between 1 – 20 frames per second. Attached to the transport is a machine vision camera, mounted on an XYZ platform. As each frame passes the film gate an electrical trigger is sent to the camera, which then takes a photo of the film frame and either stacks it as massive uncompressed image sequence or builds and uncompressed video file, from which we build our movie timelines.
Simple innit? Well, sort of a bit complex to get right actually.
Our cameras of choice are manufactured by Point Grey. On8mil currently uses two cameras for it’s 8mm, 9.5m and 16mm movie film scans – the ‘Grasshopper 3’ and the ‘Flea 3’. The Grasshopper captures in up to 2.5 K (2448 x 2048) resolution, (as it was essential for us that we could scan at higher resolution than 1080p). The ‘Flea’ captures in full uncompressed 4K! The results continue to amaze us. It’s a tad slow, but entirely worth the extra effort.
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