Best 8mm price/performance scanning option for archive & experimentation?

[Fernando de Peña]

Hello. I'm in this weird new project where I'm trying to build an artist based 8mm lab here in Puerto Rico. My idea is to head for experimentation and probably a liable and strong scanner could help me a lot. Probably a scanner that could endure film experimentation (scratching, etc) and work also as an archive scanner, so also a scanner that could work fine with mistreated or faulty material. Any recomendations? Should I try to go better for a telecine than scanner? What are the options I have? Which are the least expensive ones? I know that wolverines and other plastic stuff won't work for the project I want to build... which other not so expensive options are there?

Thanx.