Using high quality machinery and National Archive Standard software to digitise high resolution film types which captures all resolution and output formats in TIFF and JPEG (JPEG2000) formats. Perfect for viewing, printing and archival purposes.
Our professional photographic film department is award winning and support clients within the corporate, consumer and heritage sectors. With experienced film digitisation technicians have a wealth of experience with scanning all types of film types, from low grain negative spindles to high quality medium and transparency formats that require archival conversion.
WHAT IS A JPEG? JPEGs use smart compression to make file sizes smaller. This compression is heavier in color than clarity, making it perfect for consumer and general viewing.
WHAT IS A TIFF? TIFFs are lossless compression files . Resulting in high quality large file images. When a TIFF image is edited and saved, no loss of data occurs, making this format perfect for publication and archives.
WHAT IS RAW? RAW files are uncompressed and unprocessed image data. The scanned images contain all the information from the analogue originals that our scanners were able to capture. This includes the data of your scanner's infrared channel.
All formats of film types deteriorate due to either age or fluctuating temperatures; which include leaving film in garages, lofts or basements. Once the deterioration process starts, you will notice stipling and curling on the film types, blemishes which look like dirt spots or spider veins.
WATER, FIRE DAMAGED, BENT, WARPED OR SCRATCHED EMULSION DAMAGED, DIRTY, MOLDY, FADED, DARK, POOR COLOUR, EXPOSURE OR OLD SLIDES.
For consumer and publication film types, we use a combination of techniques to remove surface defects (iSRD) before reconstructing the colour (ACR). The final process is grain equilisation management. The software removes surface defects and restores colour to faded slides. Each machine adheres to The National Archives Standards, ensuring focus, colour management and lighting are automatically calibrated.
We run each image through Silverfast Archive iSRD. The ACR Adaptive Color Restoration, refreshes faded colors and normalises oversaturated colours The programe removes most of the dust and film scratches, correct for the effects of film grain, and restore faded color and correct shading in shadow areas of the image.
Archival photographic film types are prepared TIFF RAW for heritage preservation. Additional asset JPEG files can be prepared with the above restoration processes.
Working with clients all over the UK, we digitise corporate, consumer and heritage document, book and map archives into suitable digital files for online use.
Our Bookeye A1 Book Scanner offers high resolution planetary scanning for fragile delicate books and rare maps, parchment or materials up to DIN A1+.
Our archive department is equipped with the leading photographic film and photograph machinery, ensuring consistent and high quality digitistion of all film type formats from 110mm to glass plate negatives.
Adhering to The National Archives Specifications, our services are both leading and award winning, ensuring complete confidence.
Working with the leading AWS and Blackmagic conversion processors, our services incorporate every audio, video, vinyl and reel format in both open spool and closed tape formats.
Digital file formats can support clients with Pro-ResHQ, 10-bit AVI, MPEG4, AIFF, WAV, MP3, with most other options available upon request.
The Cherwell Small Business Awards 2024 Winner. The entries were very high and we were absolutely thrilled to be recognised as a leading company worthy of this award.
The Cherwell Micro Business Awards 2022 Winner. The Cherwell Small Business Awards 2023 Finalist.
