Originally posted by: ronlaw
Karyudo: some of the equipment on that site is 700 line broadcast cameras. Thats a lot better than SD, no?
Yes, I was referring to the Sniper/SniperPro, at $3000. It's hardly prohibitive. Nearly anybody could raise that kind of cash if they were enthusiastic enough.
I'm sure it would be difficult and relatively expensive, but why all the negativity? I think we are being pretty realistic here. It just needs someone (or a group of someones) to organise it.
Only the legal part is really scary, and to be honest I don't think that Lucasfilm will go after an anamorphic SD scan if they don't bother with all the transfers already done.
Karyudo: some of the equipment on that site is 700 line broadcast cameras. Thats a lot better than SD, no?
Yes, I was referring to the Sniper/SniperPro, at $3000. It's hardly prohibitive. Nearly anybody could raise that kind of cash if they were enthusiastic enough.
I'm sure it would be difficult and relatively expensive, but why all the negativity? I think we are being pretty realistic here. It just needs someone (or a group of someones) to organise it.
Only the legal part is really scary, and to be honest I don't think that Lucasfilm will go after an anamorphic SD scan if they don't bother with all the transfers already done.
Well the Sniper Pro is $5995 and is still SD, you would need to add another $2-4K for a HDV camera and about another $500 or so for a suitable lens to have a hope of getting something better than what we already have. I would think you would be lucky to get away under $9000 (assuming you already had a print) and then a *lot* of post production work. As there is no way you could legally sell or distribute the final product it is a lot of money to pony up.
Even then the snipers don't have infrared capability so you are going to have a very scratchy dirty looking transfer that will need a lot of cleanup even with a really good print.
So kind of like Karyudo said, possible but difficult and expensive with no guarantee of a great result.