1 hour ago
Hello Community,
Performing citizenship duties as new member.
had some previous experience as a film and video technician for an east coast film university (past life and SMPTE member), but currently do electrical engineering which is unrelated to film.
I would be very interested to find out more about progresses made in scanning. my previous experience was mostly transfers to video tape for 16mm documentaries we had in our library.
Questions:
1. is there a consensus on type of equipment members scan on?
- modified aerial optical printers with slr cameras
- "Hacked" commercial still camera strip scanners
- liquidated cine-film scanners from transfer houses?
(note, my previous experience included some antiquated approaches, like video taping from a 5-blade projector to avoid scan lines.... "film chain")
2. is exposure and focus racking performed in these scans?
- one discovery made on my past projects was that the film strips had "depth of focus" (as opposed to depth-of-field when the picture is taken)... as the film had layer depth to the emulsion. I used to do multiple recordings while racking the focus live to get the "suitable" subject matter in focus. wondering because I have been to recent film screenings where the projectionists seem to neglect this issue and I see a bunch of background items in focus instead of the main character.
look forward to discovering more, thanks
Performing citizenship duties as new member.
had some previous experience as a film and video technician for an east coast film university (past life and SMPTE member), but currently do electrical engineering which is unrelated to film.
I would be very interested to find out more about progresses made in scanning. my previous experience was mostly transfers to video tape for 16mm documentaries we had in our library.
Questions:
1. is there a consensus on type of equipment members scan on?
- modified aerial optical printers with slr cameras
- "Hacked" commercial still camera strip scanners
- liquidated cine-film scanners from transfer houses?
(note, my previous experience included some antiquated approaches, like video taping from a 5-blade projector to avoid scan lines.... "film chain")
2. is exposure and focus racking performed in these scans?
- one discovery made on my past projects was that the film strips had "depth of focus" (as opposed to depth-of-field when the picture is taken)... as the film had layer depth to the emulsion. I used to do multiple recordings while racking the focus live to get the "suitable" subject matter in focus. wondering because I have been to recent film screenings where the projectionists seem to neglect this issue and I see a bunch of background items in focus instead of the main character.
look forward to discovering more, thanks
