facilities

We provide a room at Kysten cultural center in Tromsø that we use as an office and space for editing and scanning. We also have access to a kitchen nextdoor and a dark room on the basement floor.

DIY-made Film scanner/Telecine for 16mm

We transfer Normal 8mm, Super 8mm, Single 8mm, 9.5mm “Pathé Baby”, 16mm, Super 16mm, and 35mm* films into digital using our telecine film transfer “frame by frame”, which is the most advanced and modern tool to get the best images possible from your films, meeting any quality requirements. The resolutions available from May 2018 are 4K (4096 x 2160 px) – 4K or Ultra HD (3840 x 2160 px) – 2K (2048 x 1080) – HD (1920 x 1080 px).

Steenbeck editing table for 16mm
  • up to 4k-resolution
  • PC for scanning running Linux
  • custom built by Antonio Castles Goméz
16mm projector; Eiki

Eiki was founded in 1953 in Osaka, Japan by four founders (M. Matsuura, S. Yagi, K. Sekino and Y. Minagawa).[1] Initially the focus of the company was producing technology for classroom instruction but later on the company focused more on producing 16 mm movie projectors for other fields. The name Eiki comes from the Japanese term Eishaki meaning projector.

Eiki 16 mm projectors included only half of the moving parts of popular projectors, thus making them less costly and easier to maintain. They were the largest manufacturer of such projectors.[1]

In 1974, Eiki opened Eiki International, Inc., their USA division in Laguna Niguel, California to distribute its products in the United States. In 1986, the company acquired the business unit of the Bell & Howell company that had originated the audio visual industry some 50 years earlier. In 1988, Eiki Canada was created as a subsidiary of Eiki International, Inc. In 1995, Eiki Deutschland, GmbH became the company's first wholly owned office in Europe. And, in 1997 Eiki Czech was founded to establish a network of dealers across central and eastern Europe.

16mm cameras; Bolex and Krasnogorsk K3