New 8/16 Film Scanner is coming

[Thomas Dafnides]

Unfortunately, no price point yet. https://www.filmictech.com/

[Gary Sayers]

Looks fantastic. To reserve one, it's $100 deposit but as you say, no price stated.

If it comes in at under $1000, they could be on to a winner that will really shake up the film transfer market.

[Gregory Oliver]

here's hoping this isn't Vaporware!

[David Brown]

It's $100 to reserve your Filmic EZ. Rentals are already offered, so I'm going to guess $5,000 to $10,000 to buy it.

Nothing ground breaking, looks much the same as the Moviestuff and others. Obviously the sensor is 24mp because it's newer.

Software sounds improved if they are also measuring the sprocket size and spacing. I don't know how that's useful when saving individual frames?

Still, it's interesting!

[Nantawat Kittiwarakul]

From their product page.



“Full” crop

This is the camera’s full field of view including two adjacent film frames.

I think I can kinda guess the principle of their scanner now.

The film would run in front of the camera at relatively low speed compared to the camera's frame rate (50-60 fps I guess). The camera also capture at least 2 film frames at a time. That means each and every film frames will be always being captured no matter what. The capture software will do the magic of extracting each exact film frame out of that, thus eliminating complicated film transport/trigger system.

No matter why the whole thing look much like a simple 3D printed thing, because it's really 3D printed! You only need a crude form of film transport and a camera mounting to get the raw, unprocessed video stream. And the software will do the rest for you.

[Stan Jelavic]

That is actually similar to the homemade pinch roller based scanner that I worked on with David. You overscan the film and then use the perforation based deshaker to remove the film drift. We are still having some issues with it. The tuning takes some time and the film stretching can be an issue. But it is an interesting approach.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/qZ9drvZn4rBksgWb8

[Stan Jelavic]

Here is the machine:
https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1Q...2Hsw6y5rGJGdXR
The clip shown above is using an earlier version of the deshaker and and it drifts.
The new version is much better.
Here is the 16mm clip with the new deshaker.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12Yb...ew?usp=sharing

[Max Lama]

Just inquired, they replied basic model starts at 30k USD

[Nantawat Kittiwarakul]

Just inquired, they replied basic model starts at 30k USD

Oh crap. So that's for entirely another market segment than us.

[Stan Jelavic]

Wonder if anything ever happened with this thing. Their web site never changed much.
https://www.filmictech.com/
Looks like they be in the NAB show in Vegas this month.
Just curious.