super16mm motion picture film scanner?

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colfaxrev

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Is there a cheap one on the market? A DIY route?

I've heard of ppl rigging up photo slides in a shoebox with light through white paper to diffuse light evenly, and put a DSLR on the other end

but i haven't heard of this with motion picture film stock.

shooting super16 isn't expensive UNTIL the scanning begins. if i could cheaply get rid of that part of the cost then i'd shoot a lot more film

thanks in advance!
 
I had my own telecine along with processing in house, but sold it all years back because of the cost of working with film.
 
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arniepix said:
These are probably the lowest cost that you can buy new: http://www.moviestuff.tv/16mm_telecine.html

Otherwise, you could try to find a used telecine projector like Elmo used to make.
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I believe that those scanners only handle Academy Aperture (1.33:1) regular 16mm film. Scanning Super 16mm film would probably take modification of the projector gate and realignment of the projector lens. I also think that they are primarily set up for scanning print films. Running negative through them would be a very precarious undertaking.
 
Assuming you had a digital camera that shoots raw there are simple(ish) ways of doing this.

set ups like this http://vimeo.com/19227042 could work well, either you advance the frame 1 at a time and take a still raw picture or shoot h.264 video. If you had one of the newer canons with ML you could possibly shoot it in raw video as well but getting the frame rates to match perfectly would be a challenge.

here is another set up using a canon 5d
http://vimeo.com/20950590


Whats the budget you have for this telecine and what gear do you already have for a DIY system?
 
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