Darren Nemeth
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Mar 3, 2007, 4:09 PM
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Questions regarding turning a HD camera into a 35mm telecine
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Hello, all,
I am a film collector and have many reels of original 1910s - 1920 silent era film. Film preservationists have assured me that I could do very well releasing a few DVDs because most are one-of -a-kind.
Over the past two years, I had put a couple thousand dollars into this 3k HD telecine project and have all the equipment I need except for the camera to digitize the frames.
I was going to use a Nikon digital SLR camera that would have been perfect but after waiting for the price to go down for 8 months I just found out last week it is rated at 50,000 exposures, meaning, it's expected to die out after capturing 35+ minutes of film. 
I need advise on several things. In order to transfer my films to digital I will be converting 35mm and 16mm motion picture film frames to individual digital photo files. A program will take these files and compile them into MPEG for HD video.
Here is a frame closeup using my current digital still camera, barrel disortion and all. From the film SHADOWS (1921) starring Lon Chaney.
My spending range will be $700 and less. I am looking at several consumer near HD camcorders right now. The Sony DCR-DVD405 looks like it will do 3k photos and zooms in nicely on a 35mm and 16mm frame. Panasonic VDR-D300 may do the job, too but is not HD. Am I right or wrong?
One problem with the Sony DCR-DVD405 is that there is built in image sharpening and it produces "stepping" on curved lines, as seen in this review.
http://www.camcorderinfo.com/...w/Still-Features.htm
Is there a way to disable this? Or can this be smoothed out in video editing software?
I also need this camcorder to to plug into my PC so I can get the frame grabs. Will this Sony plug in like a "webcam" and provide my PC images in the same exact resolution that it would record within the camera or be downsampled?
There seems to be no barrell disortion with the macro lens, which is essential. Color shifts are okay but I can't have any lens disortions.
I am very stuck here. Any advise on this or perhaps better camera models would be wonderful.
Or should I be looking for another digital still camera?
Darren Nemeth
Owner of "Giant Squid Audio Lab"
(This post was edited by Darren Nemeth on Mar 3, 2007, 4:18 PM)
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