Idea for Homemade Telecine

[VideoFred]

Would this SenTech STC 630CS II camera work for a DIY telecine?

It should work fine, you can try it with a very simple temporal setup and a piece of film. You just need a suitable lens and extention tubes. You can make a temporal tube with cardboard. 1 Lux is very light sensitive, but my ToUcam has the same.

Fred.

[monobath]

Does the 1 Lux sensitivity cause problems?

I've got to get a project box and a lens, and solder the video and other connectors onto the wires before I can test it. As of right now, this is a bare surface mount PC board camera in a little white box. Not quite at the usable stage.

[VideoFred]

A few observations, I've been experimenting with a micro switch mechnism being actuated by the claw, i.e. when the claw pulls the frame down it then continues its cycle upwards to pull down the next frame. At this point the film is stationary, this is when the computer needs to be told to grab a frame. The switch is mounted to be actuated on the return portion of the cycle.

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About the switch: it is better to put the trigger on the main axle, if possible. If you make this trigger movable around the axle, you can fine tune the exact swith moment, as I did. You need this, because there is some delay between the triggering and the framegrabbing. This delay depends on the used camera, speed of your computer etc....

Fred. (inventor,creator and user of a :lol: DIY :lol: system)

[VideoFred]

Does the 1 Lux sensitivity cause problems?

No, but you need a dimmer on the backlight, and a good diffuser for the light: white glass and maybe some filtering also (greyfilter).

Fred.

[onsuper8]

No worries Fred, glad we're putting traffic your way and helping spread the DIY-telecine gospel!

Here's an interesting thought what should we call Super 8 DIY-telecine, shall I start a poll..... joking of course!