Polyester Film
| Cellulose Acetate Film
| Cellulose Nitrate Film
| Photographic Negatives, X-Rays, and other Sheet Films
| Microfilm, Microfiche, and other Microforms
| Motion Picture Film
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.
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.
Our Bookeye A1 Book Scanner offers high resolution planetary scanning for Formats up to DIN A1.
Combined with a motorised book cradle, integrated glass plate and LED illumination; the Bookeye scanner is ideal for capturing bound documents: books, valuable scripts, folders, drawings, plans and much more.
Our book scanning department holds 5 large scanners, perfect for digitising all manner of books, from corporate to fragile delicate books that require an extremely careful approach.
Our wide format scanners offer a flexible book cradle for digitisation projects. And with a 600dpi optical resolution these are ideal for Archival TIFF outputs or high quality PDF digital files.
In September 2022 we won The Cherwell Business Awards category. The entries were extremely high and we were absolutely thrilled to be recognised as a leading company worthy of this award.
This award recognises businesses in Cherwell, Oxfordshire, so the recognition highlights our professionalism to our clients in this sector.
