[Frameworks] Full Coat Mag Reader?

[Jeff Kreines]

On Mar 2, 2012, at 11:52 PM, info wrote:

> We recently acquired a collection of approximately 50 hours of 16mm neg
> films with matching full coat mag elements.
> We can transfer the film elements in house but need a full coat reader we
> can record from and later synch up the sound with picture.

Stephen:

Just curious as to what you are using to transfer 16mm negative in-house.  I was gobsmacked when someone on another list was running negative on an Elmo, which would render those negatives pretty unusable.  Obviously you aren't doing that.

You can often find 16mm dubbers on eBay, but remember you will need something that can be locked to either your scanner/telecine, or to video black.  Later stepper-drive Magnatechs (model numbers have 4 digits except for the 636A and B) are an affordable choice, but you will need an external box to reference them to video black, or a shaft encoder to slave them to your transfer device if you are going to a video format (vs. files from a scanner).  Otherwise you will have sync drift.

Best,

Jeff Kreines