Hi Ben, As Jeff wrote, do not use a viewer/editor. The much better cheap way is to project the film and shoot it off the wall/screen with a video camera.
Jeff's idea of shooting frame-by-frame with a still camera will produce better results, much more slowly. Be warned however if you are using a DSLR with a mecahnical shutter you will use up a minimum of 43,200 (number of frames in 600' of S8) actuations on the DSLR. So you may end up wearing out an expensive camera saving money on scanning - most Canon DSLRs are rated at 100,000 to 300,000 actuations. -Good luck! ---Buck Bito - Movette Lawrence "Buck" Bito Movette Film Transfer 1407 Valencia St. San Francisco, CA 94110 (Valencia at 25th St.) 415-558-8815 Open Tuesday - Saturday Tue+Thu: 8-6, Wed+Fri: 9-6, Sat: 10-4 www.movettefilm.com On Wed, July 23, 2014 12:07 pm, ben.weinst...@mindspring.com wrote: > Hey I was thinkin about buying a super 8 viewer and using a DSLR to take a > photo of each frame. Any suggestions on viewers with the sharpest and > brightest image quality? Has anyone done this before? thanks > _______________________________________________ > 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
