Hey Pete, I can't speak to 16mm film transfer but www.digmypics.com did a fine job for me on a huge assortment of print photos and VHS tapes.
=] -- Anders Nelson +1 (517) 775-6129 www.erogear.com On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 3:16 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 24 Feb 2018, Pete Lancashire via cctalk wrote: > >> I have a small, 5-20 stack of 16 mm's of movies dealing with computers >> The one in front of me is >> "Once Upon a Punched Card" >> I am looking for a place in the USA with a reasonable price to have them >> digitized and I will place them on both my Google drive and a Youtube >> So far I have only been able to find places I can not afford. >> Suggestions, Ideas, etc ? >> > > Digital telecine > > If you don't need high quality, how much does Costco charge for their > "home movies" conversions? > > 'Course, if you want the best, you'd have to pay the prices for Monaco > Labs and Leo Diner Films. https://www.cinesite.com/ ? > > If you want to make your own digital Telecine hardware, . . . In college, > instead of the usual aiming a camera at the screen (kinescope), I put > extension tubes behind the lens on a C-mount video camera (an added > extension equal to the focal length of the lens will move the focus from > infinity to twice the focal length at 1:1) and shoved it into the > projector, in place of the projection lens. In those days, the difference > in frame-rate was the biggest problem (16(silent),18(super 8),24(sound) > V 30/60,35/50); bizarre frame-skipping, frame doubling algorithms were > developed that don't need to be necessary for MP4. > You would probably want to go into the projector to add a switch to give > continuity on a wire timed to the film-gate, to single shot the camera for > digitizing, . . . > > This guy was working on doing it with flat-bed scanner?? > http://www.truetex.com/telecine.htm >
