[Tig] Using an optical printer as a scanner?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 3 May 2007, Steven Bradford wrote:
>
> I had been intending to buy a J-K Digital Printer
> http://www.jkcamera.com/digital_printer.htm this month as a way for my
> visual fx students to make hi resolution scans of Super16 so they'd
> have very large file size image sequences to get experience working
> with,  and the problems entailed etc. This is a slow printer that uses a
> digital SLR in place of the bolex in the the basic JK optical setup
> that's been around for a long time. I liked it because it was under 10k
> dollars but was a ready to go all in one solution that results in
> large full res files, depending on the DSLR used.

A couple of years ago, I ran across a web site for someone who had 
successfully converted an old Moviola film editing machine into a film 
scanner using a digital SLR camera.  Maybe you should pick up some of 
this old equipment and build your own.

Here are some links regarding the Moviola:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moviola
http://www.city-net.com/~fodder/edit/moviola.html

Note that Moviolas of more recent vintage may be purchased from places 
like ebay since they are still useful tools.

Disclaimer: Moviola sends me checks.

Bob
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