One thing to be concerned with when scanning reversal originals and prints is to be sure that you can fully capture the entire dynamic range on the film, without sacrificing shadows or highlights. Most telecines can not do this.
On Jul 23, 2014, at 7:26 PM, Dave Tetzlaff <djte...@gmail.com> wrote: > Movette in SF specializes in high-quality transfers of old home movies that > might be suffering from shrinkage, fading, bad splices, etc. AFAIK, they're > the only commercial service in North America with a Kinetta, though it's not > mentioned on their website, which doesn't seem to have been updated in > awhile. ***Maybe it's a secret? :-) Since Buck and Jeff are longtime > Frameworkers, maybe "Pip Chodorov sent me" gets you entrance to otherwise > locked doors?*** One of these days, I'll be digging my old films out of the > closet and taking them to Buck. (Looking forward to meeting you…) David: There are several Kinettas in the US, and more in Europe et al. One of the US owners is a university archive that doesn’t do outside work. Another is a facility that mostly does large scanning projects for university libraries, and isn’t really set up to deal with small orders from individuals. Another is an art college, but they don’t do outside work either. But that leaves three. Buck and Jennifer, at Movette, are small-format specialists, and do excellent work. I will let Buck tell the list more, because I don’t want to put any words in his mouth. They are quite busy, and sometimes knowing the secret password helps. AV Geeks is Skip Elsheimer, in Raleigh, NC. He does a lot of archival work, in all formats, and is the most recent US Kinetta owner. He also does excellent work. He also has a large archive, mostly of educational and ephemeral films. There’s also Kinetta Archival in NYC, which is, no surprise, owned by Kinetta. It’s closed thus summer while I build a new scanner for them, to replace the one that went to AV Geeks. Kinetta Archival specializes in restoration work on independent and experimental films of the 50s-60s-70s, and cinema-verite films by select filmmakers of that same era. They also do scans for theatrical documentaries (like Our Nixon). But prices, while reasonable, are nowhere near the Costco level. There are new Kinettas headed to Switzerland (reto.ch) and the UK (Huntley Film Archive) in the next couple of weeks. And I’d better get back to work finishing them! Jeff Kreines Kinetta j...@kinetta.com kinetta.com
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