Archive & Restoration
Millions of meters of film are stored in film archives worldwide. Some material is in very good condition, but as film ages it can show signs of becoming damaged, shrunken and brittle. It is especially for this kind of material that the ARRISCAN has the option to be operated in various extra gentle film transport modes.
Mechanical pin registration can be deactivated and the transport speed slowed down to cope with certain types of damage. The LEDs inside the ARRISCAN are known as a cold light source so there is no thermal stress on the film, which is a crucial requirement when dealing with nitrate film for example.
The current features at a glance:
- Extra safe film loading procedure
- Transport speed can be decreased for brittle material
- Controllable film tension
- Mechanical pins can be retracted for shrunken film
Restoration application using ARRISCAN data in up to 4K resolution.
For color filmstock:
- corrected image by Kodak Digital ICE + IR information
- severe artefacts are not corrected but indicated in the defect matte