Someone from NCS productions took still shots directly into a 16mm projector one frame at a time with a Canon A70.
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16mm Telecine with powershot camera
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Re: 16mm Telecine with powershot camera
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I did that last summer. Swapped in a single-frame motor in the projector (Eiki) and had it single-frame while the camera was triggered by an intervalometer program running on my computer.
There's some focus-hunting, because I couldn't disable the auto-focus, but for a quickie test, it turned out as good as could be expected. There's really no flicker. What looks like flicker is the focus-hunting.
The nice thing about using a digital camera is the high resolution. Even the sub-$200 A70 is over 3K x 2K. The down-side is that it takes about 4 seconds per frame to transfer it into the computer. At 4 seconds per frame, that's almost 4.5 hours to transfer 100 feet.
A little bit faster at 640x480 of course.
I did that last summer. Swapped in a single-frame motor in the projector (Eiki) and had it single-frame while the camera was triggered by an intervalometer program running on my computer.
There's some focus-hunting, because I couldn't disable the auto-focus, but for a quickie test, it turned out as good as could be expected. There's really no flicker. What looks like flicker is the focus-hunting.
The nice thing about using a digital camera is the high resolution. Even the sub-$200 A70 is over 3K x 2K. The down-side is that it takes about 4 seconds per frame to transfer it into the computer. At 4 seconds per frame, that's almost 4.5 hours to transfer 100 feet.
A little bit faster at 640x480 of course.