Originally posted by: THX
This kind of thing has the potential to blow all the LD rips out of the water.
This kind of thing has the potential to blow all the LD rips out of the water.
"Potential" is a dangerous word. Of course this has "potential" to blow LD rips out of the water. But I can tell you from bitter experience that there is an awful, AWFUL long way between "potential" and "better than LD rips" when you're talking about 16mm film. Film like this has been around a while (at least 1987), yet I'll bet you've never seen a transfer from film. Why not? Because it is extremely hard to manage. No professional places will touch copyrighted film, and there is no viable solution for making your own transfer that doesn't look like you made your own transfer.
It is an amazing, tantalizing proposition, but if you were sane, you'd avoid too many thoughts of improving on the LD caps with 16mm film. The potential is great; the execution is almost impossible.