Photo Basilisk / Digitising
Digitising · video archive · reproduction
From the archive
into the now.
Photos, negatives, slides, glass plates, Super 8 and video cassettes: we digitise your memories in our own lab in Basel. Bring them in or send them by post from all over Switzerland, handled with care, originals returned.
What we digitise
In our own lab in Basel, with personal advice.
Negatives and slides scanned on the Fujifilm Frontier · reprints on real Fujifilm photo paper
Photos & documents
Prints, albums, drawings, paintings and documents: scanned or photographed, reprinted on request.
Negatives & slides
35 mm, medium format, 110 and slides: on the Fuji Frontier scanner, as JPG or TIFF, with scratch removal.
Large format & glass plates
Sheet film and historic glass plates, handled with care for delicate, one-of-a-kind originals.
Video & cine film
Super 8, Normal 8, VHS, VHS-C, Hi8, Mini DV: digitised in real time, as MP4 on USB or by download.
Bring in or send
Bring your originals to Clarastrasse 36 or send them well packed by post, with a note: name, phone, e-mail and what you would like. If anything is unclear, we'll call you.
Digitising
Scanned on the Fuji Frontier or reproduced in the studio; videos and cine films transferred in real time.
Get it back
Files on a USB stick or via download link, reprinted if you like. You can pick up your originals or have them returned by post. Return shipping: Postage by weight according to the Swiss Post tariff (A-Post or PostPac Priority) plus 3.– for packaging and handling per letter or 5.– per parcel. For example: photos or negatives in an envelope 5.50, thick envelope 7.50, parcel up to 2 kg 15.50, up to 10 kg 18.50. Collection in the shop is free.
Prices
Large quantities and archives: ask for a quote.
Negatives & slides
| Negative 110/135 · per image | 2.50 |
| Negative 135 · strip of up to 6 | 8.– |
| Negative 120 · per image | 4.50 |
| Whole film 110/120/135 | 15.– |
| Mounted slide · per image | 2.50 |
| Scratch removal · per image | 2.– |
Photos, documents & reproduction
| Photo scan up to A4 (print optional) | 10.– |
| Reproduction up to 30×45 | 39.– |
| Reproduction up to 50×70 | 89.– |
| Reproduction up to 200×300 | 180.– |
| Reproduction: half price from the 2nd shot, quarter price from the 3rd. | |
Video & cine film
| Normal 8 / Super 8 · per minute | 5.50 |
| Data transfer · per film | 25.– |
| Hi8 / VHS / VHS-C / Mini DV / CD · per cassette | 60.– |
| From 10 cassettes · each | 40.– |
| Delivered as MP4 on USB or via download link. | |
Companies, clubs, archives
Entire collections (company archives, club chronicles, estates) on quotation. We know archives: the Hoffmann archive (over 400,000 images, created since 1891 at Clarastrasse 36) went to the Basel-Stadt State Archives in 2014.
Send by post
From all over Switzerland: originals well packed, ideally by registered mail, to Photo Basilisk AG, Clarastrasse 36, 4058 Basel. Ideally with the cover sheet. For larger quantities, please ask briefly beforehand. We'll send you a quote.
Care with originals
We handle delicate items such as glass plates or brittle films by hand. You get your originals back.
Developing analogue films
Found an undeveloped film? We develop it and digitise it at the same time: film developing.
Reprinted
We print digitised images on real photo paper, or you can order them online.