sepiareverb
genius and moron
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.
squirrel$$$bandit
Veteran
Really? That is very interesting. I don't know that I'd do it for archival purposes, but I sure like the idea of having K64 "versions" of my favorite digital photographs.
Eryximachos
Registered User
I haven't tried it yet, but have bookmarked the service advertised at http://www.gammatech.com. The web site says, "we specialize in converting digital images to film, and film to digital images with the highest quality standards."
usagisakana
Established
I've heard of it being done before, but never really had an interest in it. I think there are a lot of people out there who would try it.
Pablito
coco frío
well it's pretty common in schools/ universities that still use slide projectors but want to shoot new images (for the future) in digital. Slide library has a film recorder....
retnull
Well-known
I've used Gammatech and was very pleased with the image quality and their service. I needed to project slides of digitally rendered images in a gallery show.
FrankS
Registered User
This turns "digital archiving" on it's head.
I've always thought of digital archiving as an oxymoron.
I've always thought of digital archiving as an oxymoron.
sepiareverb
genius and moron
Yes, this is a film recorder, or two of them actually, one for 45 and one for 35mm. Years ago I had a girlfriend who ran one of these (pre-powerpoint days) for graphics slides, and have wondered why they weren't used more for transferring digital images to a more permanent medium. I'll check out Gammatech- thanks for the link. Just curious how much interest there would be if I find the space...
squirrel$$$bandit
Veteran
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
genius and moron
Oh! I'm nowhere near this close- was simply putting out some feelers to see if I should find the space for these machines.
Based on the numbers above I'm not going to bother.
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