Some of your wedding, shot on real film
35mm and medium format stills, and Super 8 movie film, running alongside your digital coverage. Grainier, warmer, slower, and completely unlike anything else you will be sent. An add-on to any SuperGibo package.
Add film to your dayReal film adds an analogue layer to a SuperGibo wedding booking — film photography and Super 8 movie film shot alongside your digital coverage, then developed and scanned professionally. Frames are limited by the nature of film, and it is an add-on rather than a standalone service.
Digital is perfect.
That is the problem.
A modern camera will give you a technically flawless picture of your wedding every single time. That is exactly what you want for the bulk of the day, and it is what your package already delivers.
Film does something else. Colour rolls off differently. Skin sits differently. Highlights bloom instead of clipping. And because a roll holds a fixed number of frames, every one of them is chosen rather than sprayed — which changes how the pictures feel as much as how they look.
Super 8 goes further again. Eight millimetres of sprocketed film running through a camera your grandparents might have owned, producing a minute or two of soft, flickering, unmistakably old footage of the two of you. It is the closest thing to a memory that a camera can produce.
What you can add
Take one or both. How many rolls or cartridges we shoot is agreed with you beforehand, because film is finite in a way digital never is.
35mm film
- Shot alongside the digital coverage, not instead of it
- 36 frames to a roll — every one deliberate
- Colour and black-and-white stocks available
- Best for portraits, details and the quiet moments
- Lab developed and high-resolution scanned
Medium format
- Larger negative, noticeably finer detail
- Around 10–16 frames to a roll, so fewer and slower
- The format wedding portraiture was built on
- Best for the two of you, and family groups
- Lab developed and high-resolution scanned
Super 8
- Roughly two to three minutes of footage per cartridge
- Silent by nature — we score it, or leave it raw
- Ceremony, portraits, first dance, confetti
- Delivered as a short film and as the raw scan
- Lab developed and scanned to digital
From roll to gallery
Decide the coverage
We agree how many rolls or cartridges, and which parts of the day they are for. Film is finite, so this is a real decision rather than a formality.
We shoot it on the day
Film runs alongside the digital coverage. Your gallery is never at risk — the digital cameras are always working.
The lab develops it
Everything goes to a professional lab to be developed and scanned. This takes weeks, not days, and cannot be rushed.
It joins your gallery
Scans are colour-corrected with a light hand and delivered alongside the rest of your wedding, clearly marked so you know which is which.
The honest caveats
Film is not guaranteed. Rolls occasionally fail at the lab. Cameras occasionally misfire. It is rare, and it is why film never replaces your digital coverage — only ever adds to it.
It takes weeks. Developing and scanning is a physical process at an outside lab. Your film images will arrive after your digital gallery, not with it.
You get fewer pictures. That is the point. A roll is 36 frames, or 10 to 16 on medium format. Nobody shoots film for volume.
Low light is genuinely harder. Film has real limits after dark. We plan film coverage around the light rather than pretending it behaves like a digital sensor.
Who books this
Couples who already know what they are looking at. If you have saved film photographs to a mood board, or grown up watching home movies of your parents’ wedding, you already understand why this exists.
It suits weddings where the look matters as much as the coverage — vineyard and coastal days, anything with good natural light, and elopements, where a small number of beautiful frames is exactly right.
Super 8 in particular is the single most-loved thing we deliver. Nobody expects it, and everybody sends it to their family.
Before you ask
What does it cost?
It depends how many rolls or cartridges you want and which formats. Film has real per-roll costs — stock, lab, scanning — so we price it against your actual coverage rather than off a list. Tell us your date and what you have booked and we will come back with a number.
Can I book film on its own, without digital?
No. Film is an add-on, always. Nobody should be covering an entire wedding on film alone, and any photographer offering to is taking a risk with your day that we are not willing to take with ours.
How long until I see it?
Weeks after your digital gallery. Developing and scanning happens at an outside lab on their timeline, not ours. We will give you a realistic window when you book.
How much Super 8 footage do I actually get?
Roughly two to three minutes per cartridge, depending on the frame rate we shoot at. Most couples take two or three. It is short by design — that is what makes it feel like a memory rather than a video.
Does the Super 8 have sound?
The film itself is silent. We either score it with licensed music, or hand it to you raw and silent, which some couples prefer. Your wedding film is where the real audio lives.
What if a roll fails?
You still have your complete digital gallery, because film never replaces it. If a roll is lost at the lab we tell you immediately and refund that portion of the add-on.
Can you shoot black and white?
Yes. Black-and-white film is a genuinely different look from a digital image converted afterwards, and it is worth a roll if you like it.
Will film work at an evening reception?
Within limits. We plan film for the parts of the day with light in them and let the digital cameras carry the night. Pushing film into a dark reception rarely gives you something you will want to keep.
The rest of the day
Add film to your wedding
Tell us your date, what you have booked, and whether you want stills, Super 8, or both.
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