negative1 said:

Brooks said:

Millions of dollars?? What scanners are those, I'd like to read about them. That's obviously not practical, but this project will provide us with great results that will sustain us for years, and by the time house sized tv's are common maybe scanners will have advanced too and gotten cheaper. When I worked at a camera store in 2000 a one megapixel digital camera cost hundreds of dollars. You could have gotten a nikon f100 for not much more (which was much much better).

The only improvement I would suggest to their current setup is to use a slr, if only because they shoot faster and have larger apertures (and arguably better focus). And you can get 18mp slrs now for $800 or so. I got my 8mp rebel xt for $200 used and that was years ago.

the machines that pro's use are these:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_DataCine

later
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Lucasfilm could do it.