Magic Lantern super 8 film Scanner test =D

[Markus]

Ever since ML raw came out I'we been curious my mk III with ML coupled to a super 8 projector would perform as a filmscanner. Projector projecting the picture directly onto the camera sensor! Modded projector lens and brightness brought down with lower wattage lamp with a ND and full CTB filter in front of it. Also made a homemade iris on the modded lens to bring down the brightness further and to increase depth of field to get focus across the whole frame.
Check out first results here:

 

[Frank7D]

If you're filming a projection on a screen, won't you have difficulty syncing the camera's frame rate with the projector's?
I wonder if you could do some kind of macro setup with a slow frame rate and crank the film through a frame at a time?

[Markus]

In this setup the projector is projecting the picture directly at the sensor. For flicker free picture shutter fine tuning is required. I had trouble syncing the shutter at 24fps so i turned down the speed on the projector to 18fps and got these results.

[Markus]

Inspired by this guy:

[mixmastermike]

very very cool! great idea.

[aace]

That was so beautiful. Although there wasn't much happening, there was something very Disneyesque about it. The music, the cutaways, the pacing. Very good!

[ItsMeLenny]

I've been really badly wanting to do something similar.
I've lost the original video I found of a rig a guy made.
It steps through the film and takes a picture controlled by arduino.

[Markus]

I've been really badly wanting to do something similar.
I've lost the original video I found of a rig a guy made.
It steps through the film and takes a picture controlled by arduino.

Search youtube, a lot of videos posted of setups like that. search: Telecine. However the nice thing about recording direct to camera is that Its almost realtime at 18fps =).

[ItsMeLenny]

Search youtube, a lot of videos posted of setups like that. search: Telecine. However the nice thing about recording direct to camera is that Its almost realtime at 18fps =).

Yeah I had searched youtube multiple times traveling through about 20 pages, it was a one off video, it wasn't simply film a projector like most of them.


I like this idea of projecting onto the sensor, although ultimately that's what all lenses to.

[feureau]

That is so neat. If you can make a mount for macro lens and 35mm film, there's a huge analog film market that would LOVE to have a dslr film scanner. It is vastly superior to the flatbed/filmscanner they use.

http://petapixel.com/2012/12/23/why-you-should-digitize-your-film-using-a-camera-instead-of-a-scanner/