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Originally Posted by Scott Douglas
Interesting, Glen.
I wonder how doing it your way would compare to say this.
Set up a projector and good screen and show the movies while recording with a good digital camera in say 4k?
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That frame of film on 8mm or even Super 8 is tiny. No magic improvement from projecting it and using a 4K camera. That frame of film only has so much data captured.
This scanner stops the frame of film, and essentially has a built in digital camera that takes a full res picture of each frame, then advanced to the next frame and does it again. That is how Hollywood does it with old movies. Of course they have a bit more money invested in the scanner.
At my last job we had a $70,000 fancy scanner to scan our aerial camera film. A 21 micron scan was all the film had to offer. We could scan it at 8 microns, and all it did was make the file bigger and did not bring any extra detail or resolution. We were "busting the grain" of the film. The 12 micron scan was a gigabyte per frame.
This is a scan I did of a 35mm slide. The film edges are not some fancy Photoshop filter, that is the real deal film edges. Notice no blooming of the frame sprockets from the light blasting through unimpeded. The full resolution scan is 120MB, and I have a large print of it on my office wall, without the frame edges. A projector with a perfect flat screen and a high res camera would be a joke compared to the scan from all the extra light in the room.