poita said:

It is in Korea, but these units were $400,000.00 new!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=221242125713

Shipping from Korea to US via a container company is around $800. Not a bad deal all up.

Congratulations!  That thing is huge!

Even with the high shipping costs if that thing works and is $400,000 new than you are getting the deal of a century!

Yeah, over 880lbs! If we have another quake I'm going to hunker down under it!

poita said:

Yeah, over 880lbs! If we have another quake I'm going to hunker down under it!

 

Holy goodness!  Put that thing on the ground floor!  Do you have a print to test on it?  It looks super cool. 

Yes, I have a bit of a backlog of 35mm prints sitting here.

I'm guessing from the Ground Floor that you are from Canada or far North America? 90% or more of Aussie houses are one floor only, and no basements!

The house I am renting has an attached garage with a concrete floor. That will be it's new home, next to the 16mm Steenbeck.

Georgia, not too far north america... :)

Be sure to post pics when you get it in place (or better yet video of it in action!)  Do you edit film too on that Steenbeck?

Yeah, I do a bit of 16mm film editing to try and pay the bills. Not much around now though, most people want the 16mm digitised so they can edit on a workstation.

I'm not sure how to go about that SKot, but I am definitely open to it :)

If you come to Oz, you are more than welcome to come chat all things film and Star Wars. By school I'm guessing you mean University, or you have a very young wife ;P

My partner is Canadian and she refers to her Uni work as school which always amuses the locals.

I'm on the hunt for a 2nd hand 10K upgrade, and a 16mm gate for it, but I'll get the thing here and working first! It will be an imposing addition to the man-cave, maybe I should order one of these decals for it: http://technabob.com/blog/2010/10/08/hal-9000-macbook-decal/

The Imager3000V is a different beast altogether, you are right it needed a dedicated Irix workstation, it also took a long long long time to scan a single image. Scanning a feature on one of those would take the better part of a year, they were designed for scanning short segments to add SFX to.

The 5000 series have a GigE port on the back that you can attach to disc storage and scan straight from the front panel, and take just over a second per frame. Still takes days to scan a feature, but it is feasible and the quality is brilliant.

There is also software available for OSX, Windows and Irix to control the scanner from the desktop, I'm hoping to find someone 'helpful' that works somewhere that has or had one of these units to get the software.

This is such exciting news!

35mm negative, interpositive, print. Gates are available for 16mm and Vistavision at added cost.

Not 8mm, but I already have a 2K Super8/Regular8 scanner.

Shhh.. don't ruin the surprise...

Anyone interested in my film scanner etc. can keep up over here:

http://www.amps.boards.net/

I will be posting in this thread as well, but over at amps will have more info.

And I hate asking, but if anyone would like to donate to help cover some of the freight costs, I would really appreciate it. I'm pretty much selling up everything else I own to secure this thing. Big thanks to the two people who did send me a PM and a donation, it is much appreciated!

What type of Voltage does that thing run on?

It's made in Japan which 100 volt, Korean voltage is 220 and

Australian is 240.

I hope you have a nice surge protected transformer or something as that thing looks like it will suck a lot of juice and you don't want to fry it.

10 amps, 100-240V, it is universal.

And yep, it requires a pwer conditioner, I got a surplus one at auction this week for $210 which is a pretty good price.

Well, I am a bit late with posting these, had some sad news recently that has taken up quite a bit of physical and mental time, but here as promised is the scanner 'unboxing'.

The $1000 scanner has ended up costing me nearly $5000 with delivery, import duties, taxes and a rapidly falling Aussie dollar, but all 900lbs/400+kg of it made the journey from Korea to its new home in country NSW Australia in one piece.

wow, how exciting!  I wonder what the neighbors thought it was.  A fancy refrigerator maybe? 

I'm sorry to hear you had sad news :(

Lots of neighbours were peering out their windows :)