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[*] posted on 3-6-2010 at 11:13 AM
Telecine


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Originally posted by tripledigitken
I understand the editing software aspect of all this. What HARDWARE is used to record the 8 mm film to a digital format?

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There is no home solution to converting motion picture film to video. It's a complex process requiring frame rate and exposure compensations. It's changing apples to oranges and takes specialized equipment in a telecine chain. This is TWs area of technical expertise, maybe he'll jump in. ;D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine

The big drawback to the photo/slide transfer devices posted above is no exposure control. Your subject will be either overexposed or underexposed to the point of no visible detail depending on the contrast variation with the background. If your photos/slides are perfectly exposed with a very limited contrast ratio of one or two stops, these would potentially work great. But most of us live in the real world and don't take our pictures in a photo studio with perfect 3-point lighting. Read the product reviews and you'll get an idea how well these work.

Here's another Costco model advertised in their latest flyer
http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11486976&search=Image%[Edited on 3-6-2010 by El Camote]

[Edited on 3-6-2010 by El Camote]




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