Originally posted by: ronlaw
And here's a guy selling hand-built 16mm telecine equipment, for a few thousand dollars.

http://moviestuff.tv/16mm_telecine.html

No, it's clearly impossible. Can't be done.

You will note I never said anything about "impossible," or "can't be done."

I perused this site a couple of years back. Nothing has changed since then. Problems still include:

1. Only SD
2. Only 8-bit colour depth (per channel)
3. Doesn't capture full dynamic range of film
4. Only decent ones are the Sniper and SniperPro, so in addition to the $1300 you'd have to scrape together to buy film, you need at least another $3200

So I stand by my original rant: getting the film is the easy part. Digitizing it is hard.