If you're looking for a cheap way to make acceptable-grade copies of films, consider one of the Elmo film chain units. It's a camera built inside a projector with the proper shutter and some alignment hardware. No need to worry about seeing the grain of a ground glass or defects on a screen.
The image quality isn't in the same league as you get with a flying spot scanner (or even as good as Broadsky and Treadway get with their film chain rig), but it's perfectly good for noncritical sorts of work like that and it's better than you'll get with a camera on a screen, even with the sync set up right. That said, there are some folks out there doing very high quality film transfers for very very cheap today. With the coming of HD, the guys with old SD gear have been dropping their rates aggressively. --scott _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
