Filmshooting

Update
After speaking with the family friend we came up with an arrangement that would increase my budget and since the time it would take to build such a machine would be more than a few weeks and an uncertainty in its cost/quality we decided to go with the Retro 8 since it appears to be a more ...

Thanks for your responses everyone all the feedback has been very useful for looking into this project. Just so everyone is clear I have yet to commit to buying anything as of yet and am so far at the stage of serious researching and exploring the possibilities of building my own Telecine machine ...

@ vmilesandjules Thanks for your feedback. I have already looked at the Retro 8 and unfortunately the biggest problems with it is it's $2000 price tag and it's standard definition specs. My limited $1000 maximum budget requires me to get very creative and get everything mostly right or passable the ...

So far my efforts are focused on purchasing a Machine Vision Camera. Currently I'm looking at spending up 1/2 of my budget ($500) on a camera. I am specifically looking for one that has a Global Shutter (Is this a mistake or is there a cheaper solution?), however I'm not sure if a CMOS will work too ...

As the title says, I'm looking at building a Dual 8 Telecine HD Digitizer for under $1000.

Back Story (not really relevant)
About a month ago a family friend was having a family reunion and the topic came up that they had about 210 50FT reels of Super 8 and Regular 8 film that needed to be ...