Re: [Frameworks] film scanner

2018-02-11 Thread Jean-Louis Seguin
Could you please tell me more about your technician and the crystal sync circuit that he has devised. Thanks, Jean-Louis Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 11, 2018, at 5:45 AM, Pip Chodorov wrote: > > . Our technician in Paris has made a tiny crystal sync circuit that will fit > in the camera beh

Re: [Frameworks] film scanner

2018-02-11 Thread Pip Chodorov
I got a Wolverine for my filmmaking class in Korea where we shoot and hand-develop our films. There is one guy making telecines in Seoul by pointing an HD camera into the gate of a projector, but he would give us interlaced AVI files. The Wolverine is better. However, the video quality is not g

Re: [Frameworks] film scanner

2018-02-10 Thread Dan Anderson
This is an old threat, but wanted to mention that in the past year or so I've actually used the Wolverine film scanner quite a bit.. So felt bad for panning it so bad a year ago.. It's not perfect, but cheap and probably better results than the old "off the wall" scheme.. Here's a short "commercia

Re: [Frameworks] film scanner

2016-12-02 Thread Pip Chodorov
At L'Abominable in Paris, Nicolas made a film scanner from a projector. He made a 16mm version and later a super-8 version. Here is a link to the description: http://www.filmlabs.org/index.php/technical-tips/telecinema/ ___ FrameWorks mailing list Fram

Re: [Frameworks] film scanner

2016-12-02 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I found the instructions for older models on the MovieStuff site. Roger Evans had produced three different lines based on Eiki projector mechanism before going exclusively to the “made totally from scratch” ‘Retro' units. The earliest and simplest of these ran at standard projector speed, with

Re: [Frameworks] film scanner (Scott Dorsey)

2016-12-02 Thread Zach Poff
I made a DIY scanner for Cooper Union art School. We use it every day and it looks great (1080p24 ProRes outputs, enough flexibility to do color neg without difficulty). It involved a lot of tinkering but the basic tech is nothing exotic: modified projector, diffused RGB LED backlight, mirrorless s

Re: [Frameworks] film scanner

2016-12-02 Thread Pedro J. Vidal IV
I used moviestuff's older projector based line for 8, Super8, & 16 at the digital transfer lab I used to work at and they worked well except when having to transfer older, more brittle reels. Lately Ive just been setting the shutter speed on my camera as low as it can go, still a bit of flicke

Re: [Frameworks] film scanner

2016-12-01 Thread Scott Dorsey
There are a lot of old film-to-video devices out there that produce pretty rotten looking 480i video with 3:2 pulldown. Some of them are still selling for good money. We do not live in the 480i world any longer. There are a number of actually very good looking film-to-video systems that use modi

Re: [Frameworks] film scanner

2016-12-01 Thread Francisco Torres
There are 16mm versions of the retro scanners Still think 5-10 k is a good price if the thing works as promised... a big IF 2016-12-01 19:06 GMT-04:00 Dominic Angerame : > David, did not realize u meant 10 grand. That is an awful lot of money for > doing S8mm and 8mm, there used to be very ch

Re: [Frameworks] film scanner

2016-12-01 Thread Dominic Angerame
David, did not realize u meant 10 grand. That is an awful lot of money for doing S8mm and 8mm, there used to be very cheap ways of doing transfers by using a projector. I am sure that David (above) knows more about this than I.It is just a lot of money. On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 9:36 PM, Dave Tetzl

Re: [Frameworks] film scanner

2016-11-30 Thread Francisco Torres
A while ago I asked here about the Movie Stuff products and did not get any feedback 2016-11-30 20:35 GMT-04:00 Francisco Torres : > Yes 10 K US... I was used to rent Ranks for 4-5 K A day! That was mostly > for commercials so they had money to burn. So 10 k to own anything seems > very inexp

Re: [Frameworks] film scanner

2016-11-30 Thread Francisco Torres
Yes 10 K US... I was used to rent Ranks for 4-5 K A day! That was mostly for commercials so they had money to burn. So 10 k to own anything seems very inexpensive! Especially if it is for a collective . 2016-11-30 1:36 GMT-04:00 Dave Tetzlaff : > > I wonder if there is any alternative to it at a

Re: [Frameworks] film scanner

2016-11-29 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> I wonder if there is any alternative to it at a decent price (under 10 K?) Did you really mean “under $10,000”? Well, there’s the MovieStuff Retro, $4.500: http://moviestuff.tv/moviestuff_home.html Mr. MovieStuff, Roger Evans, used to make film scanners based on projector mechanisms, probabl

Re: [Frameworks] film scanner

2016-11-29 Thread Dan Anderson
I know there are filmmakers who have cheaply rigged up an Arduino setup for it.. Also there are good reviews on the Reflecta super 8 scanner.. $1300 from B&H On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Francisco Torres wrote: > I wonder if there is any alternative to it at a decent price (under 10 K?) > >

Re: [Frameworks] film scanner

2016-11-29 Thread Francisco Torres
I wonder if there is any alternative to it at a decent price (under 10 K?) 2016-11-29 18:08 GMT-04:00 Dan Anderson : > I bought a Wolverine.. It's easy to use and very handy, but the image > quality is quite poor. I went in with low expectations based on the reviews > and was still disappointed.

Re: [Frameworks] film scanner

2016-11-29 Thread Dan Anderson
I bought a Wolverine.. It's easy to use and very handy, but the image quality is quite poor. I went in with low expectations based on the reviews and was still disappointed. Lots of digital artifacts. The one saving grace is that it captures "frame-by-frame" so you don't get a digital blur between

Re: [Frameworks] film scanner

2016-11-29 Thread Greg Schmitz
Here's a review from YouTube: "Wolverine 8mm and Super 8mm Film 2 Digital MovieMaker - REVIEW and test footage" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WN44a0l5g8 --greg On 11/29/16 11:04 AM, George, Sherman wrote: I received an ad for a Wolverine Data regular8/super 8 digital film scanner. Has an

[Frameworks] film scanner

2016-11-29 Thread George, Sherman
I received an ad for a Wolverine Data regular8/super 8 digital film scanner. Has anyone used/tested this device and, if so, what was the quality of the transfer. At $ 300 it seem like a deal. Any evaluation would be welcome. Thanks Sherman George sgeo...@ucsd.edu 858-229-4368