Product Updates

Equipped with the new Archive-Kit, the ALTRA handles warped and shrunk archive stock even better: minimal lateral travel, the entire image in perfect focus and super-gentle film handling!

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The Soundhouse for your Spirit HD/2k/4k: Modular addition of Cyan track reader, Dolby Digial pick-up device and DTS time code reader.

News October 2011

In these times of insecurity the Swiss Franc proves stable, trustworthy and relieable. sondor – and other Swiss quality products – are quite like it: reliable, high quality products providing excellent value, performance and service to their customers.

That must be why people and companies the world over continue to put their trust in us.

Welcome to these new sondor customers!

·      Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne: ALTRA mk2 16/35mm with light OCEAN 2K workstation.

- National Radio Archive NARA, Washington DC: ALTRA mk2 16/35mm HD Telecine.

·      Televisa Protele, Mexico City– Archival Transfer: OMA E “Chace” Sound Follower.

·      Cinemateca Brasileira, Sao Paulo Brasil – Archival Transfer: OMA E “Chace” Sound Follower.

·      Cineteca di Milano, Italy – Archival Transfer 16mm: ALTRA Mk2 16mm Datacine, with WAVE Controller.

·      Variofilm SA, Switzerland – Archival Transfer: ALTRA Mk2 16/35mm Datacine with Marquise OCEAN Controller Suite.

·      Cinelab Moscow, Russia – Dubbing Suite and Archival Transfer: ALTRA mk2 35mm Datacine.

·      Gosfilmofond, Russia – Archival Transfer: five (!) more OMA E “Chace” Sound Followers.

sondor. swiss made.

professional film transfer machines.

Upcoming shows:

NAB 2012, Las Vegas
Booth SL9108,
April 16 - 19, 2012

IBC 2012, Amsterdam
September

Vinegar Syndrome !

Tri-acetate based film soundtracks degrade rapidly, endangering our cinematographic heritage.
sondor has developped a wide range of products to reproduce damaged magnetic and optical tracks. Scanning negatives and eliminate the image-spread distortion is now possible on variable area tracks !

Mag Alignment Films

We manufacture a wide range of 16mm and 35mm multi-frequency, single tone and pinknoise calibration films on Pyral T12 and T14 stock.

About us

sondor was founded in 1952 by Willy Hungerbuehler. Early customers were the Swiss and German TV stations. sondor soon established its name as innovative manufacturer of 16mm and 35mm magnetic film equipment and invented world-wide standards such as the bi-phase interlocking signal. Today, the company manufactures film transports and a wide range of accessories used in post studios and preview theatres, many of them built to order.