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Neat stuff! I have a ton of 8mm and some 16mm film to archive, perhaps this is a good first step towards an open-source film scanner.

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8mm film scanners are so common they're available at Walmart. There are lots of DIY film scanners described on Youtube. They don't have to run fast and they don't need a pull-down mechanism, so they're simple devices.

And they typically suck. It's a different story if you want to properly scan 8mm from edge to edge and get TIFFs (or similar) for each frame.

Oh, do they ever suck. I did some Super-8 transfers to a Digital8 camcorder in the early 2000's. I tried one of those Kodak-branded 8mm digitizers in my public library last year. The 20 y/o SD Digital8 transfers done with an optical transfer box look better.

Yeah. I was always pissed that none of the dedicated still-photo film scanners offered a movie-film adapter. I had a Nikon LS-2000 (which sucked, BTW) and it had a film-feed mechanism... but only for 35mm still film.

Then again, those scanners didn't have sufficient resolution for 8mm. I think the LS-2000 was something like 2700 DPI... which would only yield 800 or so pixels across. So it would have also needed an additional lens.

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