Actually, film and processing from Spectra should average about $5.00 per roll cheaper with neg! In addition, Spectra's other services such as telecine, etc are cheaper and better as well. Wrap it all up with better customer care and Spectra wins hands down.

To answer your question, film, processing and telecine at Pro8 has just not been very good. My last film ended up with Xray flashes on it when I shot everything locally (a result of their inferior recans being sent in from places unknown). It ruined my entire project. Not to mention the lab dirt and scratches making my footage look as though it were processed someplace in South America. Their attitude was really very unprofessional when I confronted them. It seemed to them that I was at fault for all the problems! So, I let them keep every cent of my money and vowed never to use them again.

To be fair, not all things I have done at Pro8 have had so many problems. And, I still would have continued to use them with their high price, questionable quality and poor customer service (I’m too lazy to look elsewhere I guess). It was their lack of ethics on my last project that was the final straw.

In any case, take care in your dealings with Pro8mm. I urge to consider the other alternatives on your next shoot.

Good Luck!

Yeah, I remember hearing about that. I was helping a friend shoot a student film in San Diego, and it required us to do a nude scene. Imagine our surprise when they told us that they no longer wanted our business!

So, yes, Yale did censor--and they may still do it, for all I know.

We ended up having to reshoot the scene (I think they kept the final footage) and process it somewhere else--which was not easy because it was the early 90's, and very few places actually processed B&W Super-8.

Go to www.yalefilmandvideo.com and click on "Terms and Conditions." it's spelled out in black and white--okay, bad pun.

fortunately, there are way more options for B&W S8 now than there were back then, so they won't be getting my cash for processing.