I got a Wolverine for my filmmaking class in Korea where we shoot and hand-develop our films. There is one guy making telecines in Seoul by pointing an HD camera into the gate of a projector, but he would give us interlaced AVI files. The Wolverine is better. However, the video quality is not great, SD with lots of artefacts and macroblocks. The bright parts of the image turn yellow. And it only makes 30 fps files, so I downloaded a free app called Lossless Frame Rate Converter to change them to 24 or 18. I wonder what is the next best machine that makes higher quality at not more than twice the price?

But I am excited about using the Wolverine in our class with a modified Nizo camera that will shoot exactly 24 frames per second for sound sync. Our technician in Paris has made a tiny crystal sync circuit that will fit in the camera behind the speed dial that will keep the speed accurate to three decimal points. Then the students can shoot super-8 and record digital sound and make super-8 sound films!

Pip Chodorov




At 20:16 -0600 10/02/18, Dan Anderson wrote:
This is an old threat, but wanted to mention that in the past year or so I've actually used the Wolverine film scanner quite a bit.. So felt bad for panning it so bad a year ago.. It's not perfect, but cheap and probably better results than the old "off the wall" scheme..
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