Kinetta Desktop Home Movie Scanner?

[Tscan]

Anyone know about this? I know they made a big one for the Library of Congress that sells for 150K, but they are supposedly working on a desktop version for home movies. The only info I can find is a youtube video showing a older prototype... the clip boasts that a newer better verion is on the way. Their website is blank on my end. Could it be the low cost desktop HD film scanner we've all been wating for, or just hype?

[Andreas Wideroe]

Hi!

Jeff Kreines, the man behind the Kinetta scanners has shipped several of the Kinetta Archival Scanners. They can scan any format in 3.3K resolution. Great machines I think and perfect for difficult films. Price is about $250K I think.

I don't know about any home movie scanner except the one above. I have seen stills and I will most likely get some 8mm and 16mm films transferred at As'Image in Paris later this year to check out the quality myself.

Best,
Andreas

[jpolzfuss]

Hi,

the webspace is less blank when using the IE (or when having disabled all ad-blockers, ...). However even in this "less blank" version, you're stuck with an empty products-list. This part of the webpage (found via google) still looks okay:
http://www.kinetta.com/download/files/
However the newest file is from 2008, so the company most likely went bankrupt in 2009?! Maybe you should try their eMail-address info@kinetta.com (just in case they're only having problems with their webpage)?

Jörg

[Tscan]

Here's all I can find of any significance but it's pretty damn cool... It's the kind of scanner i'd always hoped would come along, being about that size, runs with your PC and has live color control. The video link claims that there is a newer and better version in the works. check it out
http://youtu.be/TsWAqlWeFuc

[aj]

Shape design good a great deal of attention

In essence it smoothly transports film along a gate which has a RGB LED flashing lamp. Software recognizes the frame borders when they stay within limits.

A bit that colors are mixed using RGB sliders while for this kind of work the photographic system would be more appropiate. I.e. use YMC and color disc.