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sepiareverb
10-23-2008, 13:54
I'm wondering how much interest there might be in a service that would provide a film based archive of digital files, on Kodachrome, an E6 slide film or a B&W film, developed to positive or negative. An opportunity has been presented to me for the machinery to do this- in 35mm or 4x5, and I'm curious how many folks might use such a service.
mabelsound
10-23-2008, 17:28
Really? That is very interesting. I don't know that I'd do it for archival purposes, but I sure like the idea of having K64 "versions" of my favorite digital photographs.
Eryximachos
10-23-2008, 17:35
I haven't tried it yet, but have bookmarked the service advertised at http://www.gammatech.com. The web site says, "we specialize in converting digital images to film, and film to digital images with the highest quality standards."
usagisakana
10-23-2008, 17:41
I've heard of it being done before, but never really had an interest in it. I think there are a lot of people out there who would try it.
Pablito
10-23-2008, 17:44
well it's pretty common in schools/ universities that still use slide projectors but want to shoot new images (for the future) in digital. Slide library has a film recorder....
retnull
10-23-2008, 18:02
I've used Gammatech and was very pleased with the image quality and their service. I needed to project slides of digitally rendered images in a gallery show.
FrankS
10-23-2008, 19:22
This turns "digital archiving" on it's head.

I've always thought of digital archiving as an oxymoron.
sepiareverb
10-24-2008, 03:41
Yes, this is a film recorder, or two of them actually, one for 45 and one for 35mm. Years ago I had a girlfriend who ran one of these (pre-powerpoint days) for graphics slides, and have wondered why they weren't used more for transferring digital images to a more permanent medium. I'll check out Gammatech- thanks for the link. Just curious how much interest there would be if I find the space...
mabelsound
10-24-2008, 04:18
OK Sepia, I'll bite...you can count on me for a small order, if I can get back uncut Velvia! I would really like to give this a try.
sepiareverb
10-24-2008, 12:00
OK Sepia, I'll bite...you can count on me for a small order, if I can get back uncut Velvia! I would really like to give this a try.

Oh! I'm nowhere near this close- was simply putting out some feelers to see if I should find the space for these machines. :o

Based on the numbers above I'm not going to bother.