[Frameworks] film scanner

[Dominic Angerame]

David, did not realize u meant 10 grand. That is an awful lot of money for
doing S8mm and 8mm, there used to be very cheap ways of doing transfers by
using a projector. I am sure that David (above) knows more about this than
I.It is just a lot of money.


On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 9:36 PM, Dave Tetzlaff <djtet53 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I wonder if there is any alternative to it at a decent price (under 10
> K?)
>
> Did you really mean “under $10,000”?
>
> Well, there’s the MovieStuff Retro, $4.500: http://moviestuff.tv/
> moviestuff_home.html
>
> Mr. MovieStuff, Roger Evans, used to make film scanners based on projector
> mechanisms, probably similar in function to the Reflecta. Some (i’m not
> sure if all) of these carried the name “Workprinter”. He kept refining the
> design, moving away from the projector working like a projector to a more
> controlled scanning method. I’ve never seen one in person, but the guy has
> been in business a long time now, so I can’t imagine the stuff is bogus.
> There are probably used models of that older ‘Workprinter’ type out there
> somewhere.
>
> > I know there are filmmakers who have cheaply rigged up an Arduino setup
> for it..
>
> I think that may refer to this: http://kinograph.cc/
>
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