[Frameworks] film scanner

[Pip Chodorov]

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..