[Noisebridge-discuss] request for info re super-8 conversion hack

[Casey Callendrello]

I fully support creating such a hack. However, there is a company based 
in India that will do scanning for very reasonable prices - $.20 per foot.

--Casey

On 12/20/11 1:45 PM, jim wrote:
>      a friend of mine has a friend who's got some
> super-8 format film that he'd like to capture into
> some kind of digital format.
>      the content is family stuff, personal interest,
> no commercial value. he's not in a rush and doesn't
> want to pay the high fees for a commercial shop to
> do a conversion. the 20-year old film is in great
> shape, given the limitations of super-8 format.
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>      i suppose one way of conversion might be to
> play the super-8 onto a screen and record the output
> with a digital video camera.
>      my pal thinks this is good fodder for a hack: rig
> up some kind of ccd device to a mechanical super-8
> film feeder and use sprocket edge detection to
> determine when to capture the current frame to the
> ccd device.
>      anybody got ideas or opinions?
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