This video is a photo/video documentary of the conversion of a Bell&Howell 471A projector into a super 8/8mm film converter/telecine.
I have approximately 2,700 ft of super 8 and 8mm family film dating back to 1939. I didn't want to entrust a stranger with this film, so I looked online for a film converter but wasn't happy with what I found. I would not want to put my film through any of the units I found, so I decided to make my own.
Unlike most other DIY film converters which seem to use a Raspberry Pi and step motors, I decided that a USB camera with a triggering system to tell the PC when to capture a photo would do for me. In the end, it was probably more work than a Raspberry Pi system but well worth the effort. Funny thing is, I ended up using the new Raspberry Pi HQ camera, and I don't have a Raspberry Pi. The video explains this.
The final system scans at 2592x1944, combines 3 different exposures of each frame using a form of exposure blending; see: wiki.panotools.... It is simpler than HDR and more suited to batch processing of many images. A small 3", 50 ft reel can produce 15,000 images which are blended down to 5,000 frames. I resize the 2592x1944 frames down to 1440x1080 for the final HD video.
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