DIY real-time 8mm/S8mm telecine system sample footage

[Terry Weaver]

[Robin Haggett]

The post from Onnie prompted me to try the Sankyo projector and the Panasonic HDC-HS9 camcorder.
Parts:
Sankyo1000
Panasonic HDC-HS9 camcorder
Light
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098W63FJ5...roduct_details
50mm FL lens
https://www.seeedstudio.com/8MP-50mm...ra-p-4624.html
New belt (made my own)
2 day of work to get the setup running.
Here is the result:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i-V...usp=share_link
Actually quite decent for a simple setup like this. Nice colors and almost 0 flicker.
The projector speed adjustment has a nice range and very easy to get close to 0 flicker.
Here is the comparison Hawkeye
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yPM...usp=share_link
Obviously Hawkeye is quite a bit more money and more work to setup and much longer scan time...

I have my coverted projector and I'm ready to go but the optics have always let me down untill hopefully now. I guess I'm a little behind on things here. I bought a 41MP 100X USB Industrial Microscope Camera and the results were a disaster And a waste of money. I have tried the Raynox DCR 250 macro lense. I have followed the threads on here for years with particular interest to optics. The Raynox lens is good but I couldn't zoom in just qiite enough with my sony 3ccd DCR HC 1000e 10x lens. My question is, does this raspberry pi 50mm lense crop in well with the 10x zoom panasonic camcorders that many seem to be using on here? Also do you realy have to strip the lens down, if so what is the diameter of it on the projector side?
My converted project is the super 8mm Bell & Howell 1462 / 1481.

[Alwyn Adkins]

Here you go, Robin. I like the RPI lens because the inner black part slides in and out nicely (with the outer blue barrel section firmly gripped by the projector, making tight focussing easy). I've set the focus on my camcorders (HS9 and GS300) to full "in", and adjusted the zoom. The L/R/up/down/skew tolerances are pretty tight with alignment but it can be done easily. I made up a camcorder mounting table, similar to Stan's shown earlier, which helped a lot in fine-adjusting the optics.

Lens as shipped (Stan's pic):


My lens, stripped:


The black front part (right end in this pic) slides in and out.

Focussing video attached.

A couple of my cine conversions using the RPI lens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vCHJTb1z8I

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzoLB1tYRJs