Check out this whole new way of telecine.
It uses a digital camera and shoots frame by frame, using the camera's own
lens and not using any projector lens. It shoots right off the film, and
give you individual image files, up to 6 frames per second depending on how
fast your computer is, there is a whole site about it and so check it out, i
am considering buying one, I know someone else who bought it and is real
happy.
I have scanned 16mm & 8mm before at 4000dpi, and find a digital camera is
ten times better than the scans.
Tom robinson
>
> Topic: Which ("inexpensive") film scanners have an API/SDK?
> ======================================================
> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:30:47 -0500
> From: "Karasev, Alexander" <alexander.karasev@gs.com>
> ----------------------------------------
> I would like to scan [more than] a few reels of Super8 Kodachrome movie
> film.
>
> I realize that there are telecine transfer services that could do that, but
> the quality varies, and I am unwilling to pay $50/reel (slightly over 2 min
> of 24fps footage) for the truly high end service, which, by the way, still
> does not give the quality that matches what I had scanned by hand on my
> Epson 3200 Photo scanner.
>
> What I look for is an affordable (under $400 new; ideally under $300) 2800
> dpi 35mm or 35mm/APS film scanner that I would mechanically modify to scan
> the whole reel of Super8 film. Software changes would need to be made, as I
> would like to do separate the frames and save them, and "frame-by-frame
> preview and scan model" good for 35mm strips, does not lend itself to 50ft
> of Super8 footage.
>
> Which of the film scanner manufacturers make API's / SDK's available for
> their scanners that would allow at least the software aspect of this to be
> taken care of? (Minolta does not do this, apparently).
>
> Thank you!
>
> Alex
>
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