12K resolution scans at CINELAB London -- processing Motion Picture Film

Film is on of the most beautiful inventions ever. Looks far more beatiful than digital. Scanning Film is totally okey, it preserves the look

That 8 mm film is indeed impressive. Is this more a result of the new film or the good scan? (Yes, I know it is both, but would a good scan also bring out almost the same quality from an 8 mm film made in the 50s or 70s?)

Been a while since I been down to Cinelab but have had all sorts of footage developed by them Super 8, 16mm, Super 16mm and 2-Perf 35 and it always looks phenominal and they are great guys and love showing you around. Got to see someone doing some archive stuff and digitising as well as the lab was really cool. Used to be where they make the for GT40s as well which is kinda cool on its own.

On my opinion, a fascinating lessons I learned looking your video is that technician telling us that super 8, 40 years old cameras, are filming with improved stocks and films being scanned at 4K resolution, then i only can think we are living in the golden age of super 8. Lets forget the word "resurgence of super 8". the 80's were the auge or chilhood of super 8 because cameras became popular, but now is the adulthood, lest talk about the prime of super 8, or ripeness of super 8. Thabks for that putting together that video mate!

Really interesting video!

Awesome video nice👌good job

Great inside!

Fascinating process, pity film got so expensive :(

Super feature!

When he said that 2.5 seconds was a very slow scan, I laughed. My semi-pro scanner takes 5 minutes to scan a 6x7 frame. What I would have given for that to be even 30s.

Wow….

Oh, wow. Amazing, mate. Thanks for sharing. Really great.

Thank you Ribsy for this wonderful video. Greetings from Poland

You have to consider, with all the talent on a film set, the intrinsic value of a spool of film is more than $50,000/minute, and a spool may contain 10 min.
Any re-shoot, due to technical issue could be 10X that cost. Of course, the greatest part of this value is paid to the people with the least amount of talent, but they are the faces that will create the box-office draw that will recover all that investment. So the slightest "incident" at the lab would be devastating, not only financially, but also for the lab's reputation.

For some reason the world is always a nicer, kinder place on Super 8.

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Is it just me or is the quality of this video ass?

Hi do you do any street photography sessions in London?

Wow, 12K scanning. Meanwhile on home "video" we can't even get 4K resolution.

I have a color negative slide, size 10 * 15 cm. my parents did a photo shoot in a photo salon in 1992, the camera was old (made of wood). The photographer shot them on a color film of such a large size. Now, in 2018, I digitized this slide with a scanner, I saw a very unusual effect of this slide. In the frame, the father is out of focus (he was standing behind) and the mother is in focus, but after I turned the slide over and scanned it again, and got the opposite result, already the mother was out of focus and the father in focus. I came to the conclusion that large slides retain a lot of information about the depth of field that can be selected. I did a Photoshop gluing of the frame scanned from both sides and got both parents in focus!)))

I feel like I missed something here. I get that old movies get remastered here but who the hell is still shooting movies in film?? :D nice insight into the lab, would really like to know more.

Fucking epic. Thank you very much for this!!!

One of the most entertaining and interesting videos I've seen. Thank you for that. Great job!

Excellent a video about 35mm to 12K

True film makers use real film I said it.

While this is all 'lovingly nostalgic'... I hope NEW major feature Presentations aren't done this way any longer. It is a Mechanical NIGHTMARE to work with! Optical Film processing with a mechanical workflow is a Dead art (not to mention the ghastly cost). Same as with analog-vinyl products.

old school seems just so straight forward..

Really cool! I grew up shooting on film but abandoned it like most of humanity. But it never really left me. I can tell an analog vs a digital image, and I am happy that companies like Cinelab are around to continue the great tradition of film. This is a fine documentary, well-made and informative.

Great video!

Wouldn't a 4k scan of 8mm be WAY beyond the grain size? I'd like to see a side by side 1080p vs 4k comparison.

I was very surprised you would convert an already digital footage to film.

is a miracle of capturing and projecting, however there is something natural and real about the days and films that displayed warmth and grain…kind of like vinyl vs cds….honestly I prefer the warmth with a tiny but of grain…the hyper real video stuff today doesn’t seem real to me, but rather artificial

The gate float is perhaps the worst artefact of the super 8 format. Well, that and the corners that never seem to make a perfectly square corner.

1 sec of video on 65mm 12k is 12gb
1 minute is 720gb
1 hour is 43 terabytes
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Yo Ribsy… very cool video of CineLab. If you are ever in the LA/Burbank California area, please look me up. I’ve been working for the FotoKem film lab for over 30 years and would love to give you a tour! Keeping film alive! Currently working on Nolan’s new movie and some new innovative things never done on film before.

Thank you folk at Cinelab, that was fascinating.

That would take 326tb for a 190 minute film!!!!?

I'm surprised matey understood that east London accent and the bloke from up north.

This was absolutely fascinating.. Thank you

Every second that machine isn’t running it must be costing a lot of money.

Can you imagine processing dailies for Hollywood back in the 30s and 40s? Those big movies sets, all the work, someone opens the door or you do something stupid. A lot of pressure. I think it’s that pressure that makes people embrace digital. It’s idiot proof.

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As an ex photo lab worker and amateur 8mm movie maker, I found this awesome.... Great job of showing the background people involved in the movie making process..

This has to be one of the best suggestions from the algorithm. Who knew developing film could be so interesting!

This was great!