Hi Kevin, I work at a transfer service and we used the DVX100 in film chains for years before upgrading to our MWA FlashscanHD. The image quality from the DVX from 8mm/Super-8 can be quite good! The difficult part will be how to get the image from the projector gate to the camera sensor... We used Buhl Multiplexers and Biplexers: http://www.integratedphoto.com/info.php/buhl-multiplexer (Not our website, just a good google result) We also used projectors with higher quality glass than the Eumigs I have worked with. For R8 we used Bolex M-8 with a pristine HiFi 25mm 1.3 and a GS-1200 with a really nice 1.2 / 25-50mm. We occasionally setup a Eumig dual-gauge for R8 CoMag Sound and went through a number of Eumig lenses and were never happy with any of them compared to the Bolex HiFi. That said, with good glass and a good aerial imaging device (Buhl), the image quality was very good in 85% of the frame with a little fall-off of both illumination and focus at the edges. The bigger problem for us with the film-chain approach was the loose (non-existent) sync between the projector and the capture camera. We did not have problems with sync-roll or flicker (using the DVX synchro-scan to dial those out) but we did get blended frames where two film frames hit the same video frame and that really pushed us to find a scanning system with real sync between the film frame and capture sensor. Moviestuff has a method to overcome the sync issue in a traditional film-chain, but I think they exclusively work with GAF projectors: http://www.moviestuff.tv/8mm_telecine.html
-Google around, there are lots of forum threads on DIY options and tricks and good luck on your project! ---Buck Bito - vtc-sf.com On Tue, November 1, 2011 6:39 am, Kevin Timmins wrote: > > Hi all > I purchased a eumig 610D duel film projector ages ago in the hope of > making my own telecine machine. I have a Panasonic DVX100B camcorder for > SD and a Canon 550D for HD I could could capture to. I've been meaning to > start faffing about with this project for over a year now but haven't got > around to it. Any ideas on the quality of images I could produce with the > devices I have available? How could I get this to work... etc..? > Kind RegardsKevin > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
