I thought by now someone would had figured how to scan direct from the op head using a regular (cheqap) ccd scanner, frame by frame. Or something like that. Seems not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanography 2015-10-27 9:15 GMT-04:00 Chris G <spy...@gmail.com>: > Francisco, > > The flatbed scanner process I am most familiar with is Wolfgang Kurz's > software CineToVidPro http://wkurz.com/ His software seems to do a decent > job at composing the frames. In spit of being a java-based program I > believe this only works on Windows-based machines and seems like a very > laborious process. As far as I know you still have to compile the stills in > the same way the JK process calls for. Also, you can only scan as many > frames that fit into a flatbed scanner at a time. So you would have to sit > there and scan 60 frames or so at a time, wait for the program to process > them and then scan some more! For a 100' of 16mm you'd have to sit there > and make 70+ individual scans, and put more effort into cleaning the > film/scanner between each strip/risk scratching. Also, flatbed scanners > that scan transparent materials are typically more $$. > > Though I would really be interested in seeing someone hack a Nikon 35mm > scanner (32-bit system only without VueScan or a few other scanning > programs) that has the feed-thru function to take 16mm film. It would also > be slow, but if you can get the driver support for the 32-bit system to > operate on Kurz's software it'd be pretty effing awesome. Unfortunately > those scanners are very expensive now and Nikon doesn't want to make more > in spite of the demand, so it's probably not worth it to rip one apart. > > With the JK/camera option I can more or less "set it and forget it". I > just count the number of frames with the film on rewinds/a sync block, > input that number into the program and walk away for a few hours. I believe > the method I described should yield fairly high quality results, though I'm > skeptical about archival/broadcast given the number of variables and > presence of a lens. > > As of late I rent a film scanner and go through a bunch of film in one > sitting. I'm more inclined to buy a camera because it serves more than one > purpose, plus if the results are any decent it's paid for itself after 200' > of film. I generally need an OK camera more than I need a really nice film > scanner. > > I know people/organizations that post here have done what I'm talking > about so I'm hoping someone might chime in. > > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > >
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