red5-626 said:
The round thing that puts the image sideways looked like that box thing that you Project into. ?
Any way I was thinking of something like this only HD and 16mm
The Workprinter doesn't project into a box. There is a magnifying lens that the camera zooms through and focuses on the emulsion side of the film.
Your link shows an interesting telecine unit. Judging by the Tobin website, their newest 8mm units also use a frame-by-frame approach like the Workprinter. They are definitely more expensive... a 3CCD system is almost $6K for 8mm and $7K for 16mm... that's 2-3x the price of the workprinters. I can't see what advantage it offers other than the camera being built in (although the snipers have that too). Saying that no computer is needed isn't really an "advantage"... you'd still have to capture to something (they only provide composite and svhs outputs, of course you're going to want a video card and computer to deal with that; they suggest a DVD recorder?! I wouldn't want to edit off of that). And there's no HD option for 16mm... the 16mm units look pretty primitive by comparison with the moviestuff units. For 8mm, you have to provide an HD camcorder just like the workprinter.
The build quality looks nice and rugged, and they look easy to use. They look like they'd be handy for bulk transfering home movies straight to DVD to customers. But my initial impression is that for our purposes they are a couple of steps behind what moviestuff has to offer. Moviestuff is already offering 16mm RGB-separated Hi Def.