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Reservations:
Appointments are for 2.5 hours, although you may not need that much time for what you bring. If you bring more than what can be done in 2.5 hours, you must make another appointment to finish your work.
The Memory Lab currently supports two or three patrons in each time slot. The equipment is provided to each patron as outlined in the table below. By reviewing the information about the Memory Lab, you will determine what equipment you wish to reserve. The chart below describes the equipment that will be available for each session.
NOTE: We cannot digitize, Betamax, Video 8, or DV cassettes without patron provided player equipment.
To book an appointment for our Memory Lab,
Session: Option 1
Equipment: Wolverine MovieMaker
8mm and Super 8 Film (silent only) converted to .mp4 files.
3" Reels require about 30 minutes. 5" Reels require about 2 hours.
Equipment: Epson V600 Scanner
35mm and medium-format slides, film, and prints into high-resolution files.
Negative sizes: 35mm, 120 and 620. Documents or prints: 8.5” x 11.7” maximum size
Equipment: Wolverine Titan F2D Scanner
35mm, 110 and 120 slides or negatives.
8mm or Super 8mm film can be scanned by the frame.
Items scanned on this device are suitable for screen images, not paper printing. The default resolution is about 72 dpi.
Session: Option 2
Equipment: Epson FastFoto
Scan multiple photos in an automatic feeder in a short period of time.
Feed tray capacity: up to 36 photos.
Photo sizes: 3 x 5” • 4 x 6” • 5 x 7” • 8 x 10” • Polaroid photos. Document Size: 8 x 10”
It will also do panoramic photos up to 36" long.
Document Size: 8.5" by up to 36" long.
Equipment: Epson V39 Scanner
The following items will be scanned on the V39 flatbed scanner (not the FastFoto scanner):
Fragile photos or documents, Photos that are curled, Photos thicker than .011 inch, and Photos with
tears.
Session: Option 3
Equipment: ClearClick 3.0
Supports multiple video and audio devices.
The lab has a VCR that will play VHS and VHS-C video cassettes and DVDs.
Other video players (provided by user) may be connected to the ClearClick. Examples being
Video 8, Betamax and DV. Patrons should bring their device and necessary AV cables to connect to the ClearClick.
Audio files may also be digitized. The lab has an audio cassette player.
Miscellaneous Notes and Equipment:
- The Canon copier/scanner can be used with any appointment. It will scan up to an 11 x 17” photo or document.
The patron should bring a USB drive for storing scanned items.
- The lab uses two Windows 11 HP laptops to run scanner programs or to transfer files from SD cards to patron-provided USB drives.
- A CD/DVD external player may be attached to either of the HP laptops to move media to a parton-provided USB drive. One such example would be patrons who have CDs of early digitized pictures but no longer have a CD player.
- A 3.5-inch floppy drive reader is also available for the laptops. Some patrons have files on this type of media but need a means to transfer them to a USB drive.
- A slide viewer device is available to view individual 35mm slides.
Here is some information on our equipment and what it can do.
