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Re: Scanner for 8mm film frames - is there such an 'animal'?

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James Roth <[log in to unmask]>

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Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:41:34 +0000

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Thanks for all your advice, everyone.
I'll need to read it a few times.

I pray for the day when a film editing machine can attach to a computer and we can see the image on the monitor, then take a snap shot.
If anyone knows of such an animal, please let me know.

Regards,
Ben


-----Original Message-----
From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tom Fine
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 2:25 PM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Scanner for 8mm film frames - is there such an 'animal'?

I agree with Richard about minimal quality. However, like Ben, I found images of long-dead relatives that only existed on 8mm films. I had good luck working from a DVD transfer my brother had done. I simply played the DVD on my computer and paused and frame-by-frame advanced until I had my favorite image from the sequence. Then I did a screen shot (control-print screen) and pasted that into Photoshop. I ended up with a 72DPI of a full-screen with the player running at 2x magnification. 
This then ended up with about a 4x6 print at 144dpi. Non-ideal but good enough to clearly see the person (it was a closeup of her face). If it were a few people standing together, I doubt you'd be able to make out exactly who they are from the 4x6. The color wasn't very good on the 1950's vintage 8mm, but I was able to correct it somewhat in Photoshop. I decided the image looked better as a grayscale.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard L. Hess" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Scanner for 8mm film frames - is there such an 'animal'?


> Hello, Ben,
>
> Don offers an excellent suggestion, but I'd like to suggest that the image quality from 8 mm will 
> be marginal at best. The area of 8 mm is about 1/4 of 16 mm. The 16mm film frame was scanned at 
> 9600 dpi on the Epson V700. The resultant TIF is 3930 x 2511 pixels ((9.9 MP). I did confirm that 
> the focus was soft with a loupe. 4800 dpi clearly showed jaggies before the optical resolution 
> fell off. My son Robert and I sat there looking at different scanning resolutions starting at 2400 
> dpi. We both felt that 9600 was the first one that was really good. He was surprised I didn't take 
> the next step, but that involves interpolation, I think, so we left it at close to 10 MP for the 
> image. He did a great job of cropping each frame (they were different effective heights. This 
> appears to have been a commercial film strip, not part of a movie. I never knew there were 16 mm 
> film strips!
>
> Remember, with the macro approach you will be way above 1:1 which is why normal "macro" or "micro" 
> lenses which go to 1:1 will not provide the required magnification which is why all the fuss that 
> Don described is necessary.
>
> Wikipedia indicates that the frame size of regular 8 mm film is 4.8 x 3.5 mm, so it is a bit 
> larger than 1/8 of an inch (3.175 mm)--every millimetre counts!
>
> The aspect ratio of 8 mm is about 1.37 while both full-frame and APS-sized digital SLR sensors 
> have an aspect ratio of about 1.5.
>
> That means that height will control the magnification (if you don't want to crop top and bottom).
>
> With full-frame 35 mm image sensors (36 x 24 mm) you will need magnification approximately 6.8 X. 
> With an APS-sized sensor (Nikon DX) size of 24 x 16 mm, you will need about 4.5 X magnification. 
> This is achievable with a macro setup. When I went digital, I sold my bellows and slide copier 
> attachment and then ended up buying another fixed slide copy attachment (no bellows) later, which 
> I have not used except for proof-of-concept (or more correctly determining the 
> annoyance-of-concept for my scale of project).
>
> If you just went 1:1, you would end up with about 0.5 MP (about 875 x 583 pixels) in a 24 MP 
> full-frame DSLR and 0.76 MP (about 1072 x 715 pixels) in a 16 MP DX-sized (APS) DSLR. These may be 
> barely adequate, but I think I'd want more, so I'm afraid you're stuck with bellows or at least 
> extension tubes. You will be in the manual everything domain, so make certain you can use your 
> DSLR and lens in fully manual mode. You will want to stop down, but not too far or diffraction 
> losses will reduce your sharpness. Reversing a lens, especially a wide-angle lens--will get you 
> closer to what you need.
>
> On the other hand, a good flatbed with transparent material adapter as Jerry suggested and I did 
> with the 16 mm is easier to use and faster to set up. At 9600 dpi your frame would work out to 
> about 1814 x 1322 pixels or 2.4 MP which might be satisfactory. The Epson actually was 
> interpolating at 9600 dpi (in one direction) which is possibly part of the softness. It's native 
> resolution on the glass is 4800 x 9600 dpi while the V-500 is 6400 x 9600 dpi. So, for your 
> application, the V-500 or V-600 which are priced at under $200 here in Canada are less than the 
> cost of a bellows alone, let alone all to other pieces you need to make macro work, so you might 
> want to give it a try. I don't want to tell you all the Nikon rings and things I have for fooling 
> around with macro.
>
> The individual frames will be less pleasing than looking at the projected movie because, in the 
> movie, the grain is random and tends to average out from frame to frame whereas that does not 
> happen when you grab an individual frame. Also, with an individual frame, you will probably end up 
> looking at it for longer and at greater magnification than the moving-image version...and people 
> will expect more resolution from a still than from a movie.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
> On 2012-09-20 9:00 AM, James Roth wrote:
>> Greetings, all!
>>
>> First, thank you all for advising me on the baking of the 1/4-inch audiotape which had become 
>> sticky over the years.
>> The tapes now play perfectly.
>>
>> I have many feet of regular, old 8mm film and I'd love to be able to scan certain individual 
>> frames of it, but they are so small (about 1/8-inch square).
>> Does anyone know of a scanner that could handle such a minute picture?
>> Perhaps  there's a film editor that can snap a frame with the push of a button.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ben Roth
>> FAU/RSA
>
> -- 
> Richard L. Hess                   email: [log in to unmask]
> Aurora, Ontario, Canada           (905) 713 6733     1-877-TAPE-FIX
> http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm
> Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.
> 

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