Contest of film transfer (frame by frame technique)

[winbert]

There are a lot of film transfer machines now using frame by frame scan.

I found:

MovieStuff

Tobin

Flashscan8 (MWA)

FilmFabriek

and perhaps some other that I don't know, plus those home made machine by the enthusiasts.

Every time each machine giving the sample it is always taken from home movies which give a lot of shaking, soft focus, scratch, dirts, fades, etc. So I cannot judge which one is the best.

In a schmalfilm magazine, Juergen Lossau has once contested the labs in processing the same stock, so we can find which one is giving the best.

Now, has Juergen or other made a contest for the transfer machine? I would really hope there is a such contest so we know which one is the best. But surely the machine has to transfer the same film shoot processed by the the same lab (fresh/brand new). Plus the film must be taken professionally so we can justify the focus and the color balance.

What do you think?

[MIKI-814]

Best machine might be the one at www.ochoypico.com

This is Super8 Vision 50D:

https://vimeo.com/groups/super8/videos/83774924

[winbert]

Woooow that is amazing transfer.

Is ochoypico a machine or a transfer house using one of the above machines?

O yeah, I forgot to mention that the contest I propose has also to include those digital technique to increase the quality such as denoise, sharpening, re-color etc something the so called "digital art".

[MIKI-814]

Woooow that is amazing transfer.

Is ochoypico a machine or a transfer house using one of the above machines?

O yeah, I forgot to mention that the contest I propose has also to include those digital technique to increase the quality such as denoise, sharpening, re-color etc something the so called "digital art".

It's a transfer house with it's own website. As far as I know, ochoypico uses a self made machine. On the other hand, the video shown received just a very light denoising with Neat Video which the author explained recently at cinematography.com He uses Super8 for proffessional purposes.