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Andre Pinto
Junior
Posts: 2
From: Lisbon, Portugal
Registered: Nov 2017

posted November 10, 2017 05:28 AM

Hello!

I'm currently working in a place (Videoteca - Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa) that has the RetroScan Universal Scanner, to make digitalization of 8mm and super 8mm.

However, during the time that we had spent on digitalization, we saw a "problem" on the movies. When the machine is on digitalization mode, in the screen preview we can see a small blur.

The problem is that when we turn the knob to change the focus manually the image is still not full focused, usually ONLY ONE of the sides is fine.

What will be the solution? I'm doing something wrong?
Maybe, is because the camera's lens is fish eye?

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Janice Glesser
Film Goddess

Posts: 3468
From: Sunnyvale, CA USA
Registered: Sep 2011

posted November 10, 2017 04:58 PM

Hi Andre and Welcome...

Moviestuff is probably a better resource to answer your question. There are a few members here that have these machines...but the real expertise is with the manufacturer.

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Janice

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Andre Pinto
Junior
Posts: 2
From: Lisbon, Portugal
Registered: Nov 2017

posted November 13, 2017 04:51 AM

Thanks for the quick answer Janice!

I also email this text to moviestuff but, until now I got no answer!

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Gregory Oliver
Junior
Posts: 28
From: Mansfield, TX, USA
Registered: Feb 2017

posted February 03, 2018 11:29 AM

One possibility is that you need to move the vertical adjustment up or down to the next film frame. With 8mm I can chose one of 4 different frames in the viewing window and usually I center on the one in the middle.
Good luck!

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