Seth -
Jeff Guess in Paris has made the best stills from films for us in
Paris (for Light Cone, Re:Voir, Pompidou...).
He uses a slide duplicator like this:
http://cresimaging.com/2550.html but maybe a different brand.
He used to make us 35mm slides, which we would get drum scanned
professionally, but now he uses a digital camera and gives us high
resolution digital stills.
The stills show two frames of 35mm, three frames of 16mm or eight
frames of super-8. He cut his own cardboard mounts to fit the strips
in the slide area. He put rewinds around the machine so no need to
cut strips to make stills.
The light table at the base of the machine flashes at the moment of
camera exposure so the light, color and contrast are perfect.
Here are some examples of stills he made for me. (I can send you more
photo-realist examples if you want).
http://www.re-voir.com/pip/piltzer1.jpg
http://www.re-voir.com/pip/piltzer3.jpg
http://www.re-voir.com/pip/pip1.jpg
http://www.re-voir.com/pip/pip4.jpg
Now that films can be easily scanned in 2K, any video still will work
as a frame enlargement, so maybe also ask the filmmakers if they have
done that.
Good luck!
Pip Chodorov
At 19:29 -0700 31/08/17, Seth Mitter wrote:
Dear Frameworks,
I'm working on a project with Canyon Cinema to create a frame
enlargement setup in-house to create high resolution digital images
from 16mm prints (both single frames and frame sequences). I'm
hoping to hear from anyone who has experience or expertise in
creating a setup that produced excellent digital images for large
format printing. Capability to focus and resolve grain in 16mm
prints is critical, as well as producing files equivalent to 4K
pixel dimensions (or higher).
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