WORK IN PROGRESS The world urgently needs a usable affordable scanner for 35mm films stored in rolls that have often been orphaned for decades. In the past there had been usable though expensive products on the market namely from Nikon that could process the entire roll of 36 or more frames in a single batch. I have worked with those and got some good results from the though the software was far from perfect. These have been discontinued as well as the Kodak Pakon range that had a good reputation too. It would seem that the commercial market is unable to support a reasonable roll scanner. Therefore the world needs an Open Source Project to Create a Good Scanner for 35mm Film This is a different task than scanning movies. Perhaps the same mechanism with different software could be repurposed for processing movies as well but that is a different task. Requirements:
Some thoughts: It would seems that the scanner should use a linear sensor to scan one row at a time and move to the next row using a stepper motor. This is better that using an area sensor (or a whole camera) because the position and size of frames is not exactly determined (as opposed to movie scanning where frames are positioned exactly in relationship to perforation). If you have any ideas that could help move this endeavor forward please let me know at  |
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