Always scan at the highest resolution possible — especially with small-format film.
This old test (made when 3K was our highest res vs. our current 6.5K) shows why. Page 9, especially. https://www.dropbox.com/s/stkxngoftc656vq/Memoriav%20Dossier%20--%20a%20response%20-%202012.pdf?dl=0 As far as capturing the entire dynamic range of even contrasty film, Barbara Fluekiger’s Timeline of Historic Color Processes group tested high-end scanners. The Kinetta was superior in scanning the most difficult material — Technicolor IB prints. The report is pretty dry, and doesn’t mention the fact that after testing all of these machines, they bought a Kinetta. https://www.dropbox.com/s/zr48xz1nnrjfuiu/Diastor%202018c%20%20flueckigeretal_investigationfilmmaterialscannerinteraction_2018_v_1-1c.pdf?dl=0 In the US you can get Kinetta scans at Colorlab, the Chicago Film Archive, Movette Film Transfer, the USC Hefner Film Archive, among others. Jeff Kreines Kinetta [email protected] kinetta.com Sent from iPhone. > On Apr 6, 2021, at 10:18 AM, Rick Prelinger <[email protected]> wrote: > > While it is certainly oversampling, we have found that the Scanstation makes > much better scans from 8 and S8 in 4K as opposed to 2K. If you are talking > about a small collection it will fit on a single drive. We keep three copies > in different locations. And I echo the thought that scanning is not a > one-time affair; there will always be reasons why one wants to go back and > rescan in the future, especially as sensors become able to capture elements > of the image that contain visual or other information. > > Rick > > Rick Prelinger / @footage > Prelinger Archives, San Francisco http://www.prelinger.com (recently > updated) > [email protected] > > Chair and Professor, Film & Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz > Kenneth R. Corday Family Presidential Chair in Writing for Television & Film > [email protected] > > Prelinger Library, San Francisco (http://www.prelingerlibrary.org), a member > of the Intersection Incubator, a program of Intersection for the Arts > providing fiscal sponsorship, incubation and consulting to artists > (http://www.theintersection.org). > > > > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org
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