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.

Future Proofing your Corporate, Heritage and Consumer Archives
We provide high quality digital imaging of heritage, archive and research collections, helping preserve originals through sharing material through digital access

Our capabilities include: High resolution digital files of audio-visual, photographic film and paper/heritage based media.  Preservation capture methods for larger collections.  Capabilities for digitising a variety of formats.  Optical Character Recognition (OCR).  Experienced team providing solutions for your collection.