Film Preservation or Restoration – Any Difference?

Posted by on Oct 2, 2011 in Resource Articles | 8 comments Preserving and Restoring at risk films is a big deal. Yes, there is a significant difference between these two concepts in terms of corrective processes and methods. In a nutshell, film preservation has to do with the recovery of the physical film body itself, if possible.  Film frames that are very much degraded or heavily damaged are in the realm of those dedicated in attempting to get back...
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Film Restoration Software Vendor Overview

Posted by on Jun 7, 2011 in Resource Articles | 31 comments RHMG – Bill Werba The industrial grade film restoration application space is not an overly occupied one.  You can count the number of these software vendors on your fingers.  Some are well known and well entrenched in the industry, yet others are relative new comers attempting to take a piece of the market pie in this narrow niche.  Did I say the tools are expensive?  The least expensive...
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True Film Restoration services in the B2C Market

Posted by on Jun 5, 2011 in Resource Articles | 5 comments RHMG – Bill Werba As a B2C business owner in the home movie transfer business, I’m always looking for ways to improve and add to my services for my customers.  Where are things trending?   What’s next for the industry to stay relevant? From my point of view, the next stage in services evolution is Film Restoration, which has long been available at the B2B industrial level but is considered...
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Competitive Comparison of an HD Film Transfer

Posted by on May 26, 2011 in Resource Articles | 23 comments   HomeDVD has gone ahead again to check out the competition on the quality of an HD film transfer for small gauge movie film, with some surprisingly good results. A standard 3″ reel of  color 8mm film was assembled that exhibited a range of  transfer system challenges.  The film was old and was quite grainy making image sharpness tough to discern on some scenes.  The test film reel...
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Certain Truths About Amateur Film

Posted by on May 22, 2011 in Commentary and Opinion | 0 comments How poor is small gauge film –Really!! The fact is that that old 8mm and Super 8 mm film (and yes even some 16mm) is not all that it is cracked up to be in terms of its supposedly inherent super properties.  There is lots of talk in the forums, other discussion groups and blogs about how 8mm film has great resolution and high dynamic range. I say phooey!! Yes there is film stock like...
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