[Tig] optical printer as scanner

[Lawrence Towers]

Moviestuff makes a more primitive version of this using a standard video camera. Essentially just triggers a mouse click and using software, capturemate, captures into a quicktime file. Adopting the same principal to the optical printer, if you can find a megapixel industrial camera with quicktime driver you'd be set. Alternatively you insist on using a DSLR use Boinx software instead of capturemate. http://istopmotion.com/

---Larry



>
>  I had posted this over at CML before realizing that this group is
> likely going to give me a better, or at least more informed and
> interesting response!
>
> 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.
>
>  But they don't respond to emails, and when I tracked them down today,
> I gathered he's not making them anymore. He hinted that he might
> eventually if enough orders build up, but he didn't seem too enthused
> by
> that idea.
>