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Getting your Super 8 images from unexposed film into a digital format isn't as hard as you'd think. All films require some form of processing after use, then exposed film images will need transferring into a digital format for later editing.

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Laboratories

All Super 8 films have to be processed by specialist laboratories including any remaining pre-paid Kodak Kodachrome. See our .pdf (below) for full laboratory details.

Alpha Cine
Andec Filmtechnik
Augustos Color
B & W Film factory
Cine Dia
Cinelab
Color City
Color Lab
Dwayne's Photo
Exclusive Film and Video
Film Rescue International
Film Plus
Fotocinema
Gama SAI
Graficolor
Megacolor
Movie and Sound
Nano Lab
Niagara Custom Lab
Northwest Imaging
Pac Lab
Pro 8mm
Retro Enterprises
Rocky Mountain Film
Soho Film Lab
Spectra Film & Video
Super 8 Reversal Lab
Yale Film & Video
Zenit

Hand Processing

With some know how, the right chemicals and a little perseverance, it is possible to process your own Super 8 films.

An Itch To Scratch
Cine Tank Guide
Developing Super 8
Drain Pipe Processing
Handmade Film Institute
Hand Processing Notes
Ken Paul Rosenthal
Movie Processing Page
Ralph Dickinson's pages
Super 8 Camera
Tiny Picture Club

Optical/Blow Up

Super 8 and small gauge films can be optically printed, altered or blown up to 16mm and 35mm formats (at a price), here's a list of organisations who are specialists in such options.

AGF Laboratórios
Andec Filmtechnik
BB Optics
B & W Film factory
Cineric
Color Lab
DuArt
Movie and Sound
n.o.where lab
Studio Gamma
Super 8 Reversal Lab
Super8.to.it

Sound Striping

Whilst Super 8 sound film is long out of production, a few specialists can still stripe a processed film for a sound track to be added later.

AGF Laboratórios
Filmbesprung

Digital to Super 8

It is now possible to get your digital footage, computer graphics and animations transferred onto Super 8 film. Combine digital versatility with the proven archive qualities of film. Amazing!

B & W Film factory

telecine

Professional

Professional telecine is the first choice for getting Super 8 film images into a digital format. There are various options ranging from industry standard professional flying spot type broadcast solutions through to frame by frame scans (such as Flashscan) and film chain (projector and camera). With all, the results can be dramatic and show Super 8 off to full effect. Some now offer straight to hard drive and high definition (HD) outputs.

»flying spot etc.
AGF Laboratórios
Agressive Media
Andec Filmtechnik
AVP Video Transfer
Bono Film
Brodsky & Treadway
Buscando Hormigas
Cinelab
Cinelicious
Cinepost
Color Lab
Debenham Media Group
DuArt
E. Anglian Film Archive
Estudios Mega
Fipra
Ikueisha
Kahl Film
Lightpress FSFT
Movie and Sound
Norsk Smalfilm
Online Video
Pac Lab
Park Road Post
Post House
Pro 8mm
Rushes
Soho Film Lab
Spectra Film & Video
Transfer Station
Video-8
Wagner die Filmfabrik
Yale Film & Video

»flying spot to hard drive
Bonolabs
Cinelicious
Debenham Media Group
Flying Spot Film Trans.

»frame by frame film scan
Avid Tech Transfers
B & W Film factory
BlueCineTech
Bolex Digital
Color City
Die Filmwerkstatt
Digital Transfer Systems
DVD Infinity
Ever Media
Exclusive Film and Video
The Film Whisperer
Fipra
Forever on DVD
Frame Discreet
Kahl Film
Media Capture
Movie Stuff
Movie Transfer
Norsk Smalfilm
The Old Film Company
Photoplays
Screenshot
Studio Kopiowania
Super 8 Reversal Lab
Supersens
Tout Sur DVD
Uppsala Bildteknik
Vintage Media
Wagner die Filmfabrik
Widescreen Centre

»film chain
AV Geeks
Buscando Hormigas
Cine vis 8 & 16
Echo Park Film Center
Film and Video Services
Go Agressive
Garage 5
Hippies Films
Home Movie Depot
Java Photo
Moving Images
Norsk Smalfilm
Plato Video
Screenshot
Supersens
Super 8 Transfers
Tornij

»high definition
Bobolabs
Cinelicious
Color Lab
Debenham Media Group
Lightpress FSFT
Media Capture
Online Video
Pro 8mm

»buy your own machine!
Then you need never have any telecine woes again!

Movie Stuff
MWA Nova flashSCAN8
Tobin Cinema Systems

DIY Do It Yourself!

You could always just video your Super 8 footage off a white wall or (for the technically adventurous) it's possible to build you own telecine device using a projector or film scanner as the basis of a truly bespoke system. Learn more...

»information/articles
Computer Arts
Digitising 8mm Film
PC Mag

»diy, components
Glasscreen
TeleCine Components
Video Optik Braehler

»diy, step by step
8mm2avi
Fälker's Telecine
Flatbed Telecine
Fred's Smalfilm
FSDT Project
Legacy Project
Super 8 to DV for free
Telecine Machine