Film Conversion Equipment
Film Scanning and Film Transfer Equipment Types
The type of film scanning machine used for your 8mm, Super 8 or 16mm film conversion will have as much of an impact on the quality you receive as the resolution of the scan itself will. For example, if you wanted to digitize a photograph and tried doing it two different ways. You first put the photograph down on a table and took a picture of it using your smart phone or camera. Then you took the picture and scanned it using a flatbed scanner. If you compare the two side by side on your computer it will become really obvious that the flatbed scanner produced a digital image as good as the photograph. However, the picture you took with your phone or camera does not look close to the quality of the original photograph.
The same goes for scanning your 8mm, Super 8 or 16mm film. The real-time and frame by frame machines below are using a camcorder to take a picture of your film. The motion picture film scanner and Datacine machine are scanning the film. The results will be significantly different.
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Real Time
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Frame by Frame
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Professional Film Scanners
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Equally important as resolution is the type of film transfer. There are a few basic types of film transfer processes. More than 80% of the companies out there today use a real-time transfer. Any type of real-time film transfer will result in video that is 40-50% worse than the films current condition.
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