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8mm/Super 8 Custom Telecine Device
Hello all!
Long time reader, first time poster. After recieving about 100 Super 8, and Regular 8 reels from my grandparents I did the first thing any amateur datahoarder/archivist does and looked for the cheapest way to digitise them in decent quality and thought the Wolverine was my best bet. However after purchasing one second hand for about £200, and starting to scan the reels in I realized every flaw that crummy system has and began looking for solutions, finally stumbling upon this forum and realizing that there actually isnt a cost effective way to make that machine worthwile. So I resigned myself to using it in more of a logging capacity and started to inventory the reels so when I came up with a better solution I could priotirize the better reels.
I have finally finished that system and hope to get some feedback from everyone before starting the scanning process again to make sure I dont have to redo anything another time. Its mostly the same build as seen by the youtube channels Scott Schiller and Fresh Ground Pictures but with my own little twists.
Here it is:
A 'spares and repairs' canon s400 (£60) with motor gutted and replaced with a NEMA17 motor.
That motor is controlled by a cheap SMC02 Driver Controller which lets me adjust the speed and direction of the motor.
Sony A7mIV camera with Laowa laowa 25mm f/2.8 2.5-5x ultra macro lens (with metabones adapter in between)
Custom made trigger cable with 3d printed mounting arm and 'bulge' attached to the shaft to trigger the camera once per frame.
Joby Beamo Video LED Light with 3d printed diffusion layer.
Neewer 4way macro slider.
An 8mm thick steel sheet to mount on as a very stable platform.
My costs were:
Canon s400 - £60
Nema17 - £10.50 (already owned from 3d printer repairs)
SMC02 Driver - £13.98
Sony A7mIV - £1650 (already owned as my B-CAM)
Laowa and Metabones adaptor - £241.55
Trigger cable - £15 in materials
Joby Beamo - £55 (already owned as a video light)
Neewer Slider - £53.82
Steel Sheets -£40 (for two sheets incase I buggered up the hole placement on the first)
Total: £404.35 or £469.85 if you have a camera already but nothing else (or £2139.85 if you own literally nothing ahah)
Long time reader, first time poster. After recieving about 100 Super 8, and Regular 8 reels from my grandparents I did the first thing any amateur datahoarder/archivist does and looked for the cheapest way to digitise them in decent quality and thought the Wolverine was my best bet. However after purchasing one second hand for about £200, and starting to scan the reels in I realized every flaw that crummy system has and began looking for solutions, finally stumbling upon this forum and realizing that there actually isnt a cost effective way to make that machine worthwile. So I resigned myself to using it in more of a logging capacity and started to inventory the reels so when I came up with a better solution I could priotirize the better reels.
I have finally finished that system and hope to get some feedback from everyone before starting the scanning process again to make sure I dont have to redo anything another time. Its mostly the same build as seen by the youtube channels Scott Schiller and Fresh Ground Pictures but with my own little twists.
Here it is:
A 'spares and repairs' canon s400 (£60) with motor gutted and replaced with a NEMA17 motor.
That motor is controlled by a cheap SMC02 Driver Controller which lets me adjust the speed and direction of the motor.
Sony A7mIV camera with Laowa laowa 25mm f/2.8 2.5-5x ultra macro lens (with metabones adapter in between)
Custom made trigger cable with 3d printed mounting arm and 'bulge' attached to the shaft to trigger the camera once per frame.
Joby Beamo Video LED Light with 3d printed diffusion layer.
Neewer 4way macro slider.
An 8mm thick steel sheet to mount on as a very stable platform.
My costs were:
Canon s400 - £60
Nema17 - £10.50 (already owned from 3d printer repairs)
SMC02 Driver - £13.98
Sony A7mIV - £1650 (already owned as my B-CAM)
Laowa and Metabones adaptor - £241.55
Trigger cable - £15 in materials
Joby Beamo - £55 (already owned as a video light)
Neewer Slider - £53.82
Steel Sheets -£40 (for two sheets incase I buggered up the hole placement on the first)
Total: £404.35 or £469.85 if you have a camera already but nothing else (or £2139.85 if you own literally nothing ahah)
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