OT: Is there a rentable Super 8 gate for Spirit?

[Robert Houllahan]

As far as I know there is no rental S8 gate for the Spirit. Shops with S8 gates include LightPress, Cinelicious, Spectra and Technicolor had one. You could ask but I bet they would want to sell the service and not rent the gate.

Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.com

2X Resolve With Titans, Wave and Element Panels. Telecine and 4K Film Data Scans 8mm,16mm,35mm film lab.

[Joakim Ziegler]

Jef, I don’t know where you are, and what quantity of material you want to process, but we have a LaserGraphics ScanStation with a Super 8 gate, which can do actual 2k scans (the camera zooms optically) of S8 material. Send me a message if that’s something that could be interesting to you.

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Joakim Ziegler – Postproduction Supervisor

[Marc Wielage]

[Robert Houllahan] “As far as I know there is no rental S8 gate for the Spirit. Shops with S8 gates include LightPress, Cinelicious, Spectra and Technicolor had one. You could ask but I bet they would want to sell the service and not rent the gate.”
Technicolor NY had the S8 Spirit gate, but Hollywood never had the gate. We got it in only on very, very rare occasions.

There are all kinds of scanners that can handle S8/reg8 to HD now, but not necessarily Spirits.

[Jef Huey]

Thanks for the info all.

I am working on a personal project. We have a Spirit I can use on off hours. Just need a gate.

Any more ideas, let me know.

Thanks,

Jef

[Jef Huey]

Hi Marc,

Any idea if Technicolor NY still has that Spirit S8 gate? And any ideas as to who I might contact there to see if it would be rented?

Thanks,

Jef

[Joseph Owens]

What is the wager that the rental price for the gate would be about the same as a DminDmax scan?

jPo

“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.

[Joakim Ziegler]

Is that a company? Because if it is, boy, did they ever pick a bad name to Google.

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Joakim Ziegler – Postproduction Supervisor

[Marc Wielage]

[Jef Huey] “Any idea if Technicolor NY still has that Spirit S8 gate? And any ideas as to who I might contact there to see if it would be rented?”
No, I think it was only available for internal use for Technicolor divisions. My memory is that the gate had a value of something like $150,000 — at least, I think that was its insured cost some years back. Not cheap.

I sincerely think you’re better off just paying to have it done by another company. You could contact DFT and ask if there’s somebody who will rent a Super 8 Spirit gate, but I dunno… they may not have an answer.

Digital Film Technology LLC
3211 Cahuenga Blvd West – Suite 103
Los Angeles, CA 90068
(877) 363-8367
https://www.dft-film.com/

[Jef Huey]

Thanks for the input. In totally get what you are saying.

Jef