Star Wars 1977 releases on 35mm — Page 2

Yeah, over 880lbs! If we have another quake I'm going to hunker down under it!

Yes, I have a bit of a backlog of 35mm prints sitting here.

I'm guessing from the Ground Floor that you are from Canada or far North America? 90% or more of Aussie houses are one floor only, and no basements!

The house I am renting has an attached garage with a concrete floor. That will be it's new home, next to the 16mm Steenbeck.

Yeah, I do a bit of 16mm film editing to try and pay the bills. Not much around now though, most people want the 16mm digitised so they can edit on a workstation.

I don't think it would be unreasonable to set up a method of accepting donations to help offset the cost of your investment, poita.  Considering the potential return for the community, I'd certainly consider helping out a little if possible.

Are you planning to do the 10K upgrade on that thing?  That's additional cost to consider, of course, so I imagine it would be down the road a bit...but donations could help there as well.

I may wind up moving to Australia in the not-too-distant future (Melbourne, actually - my wife's already there for school).  If I ever find myself in your area, it would be neat to see that scanner in action.

--SKot

I'm not sure how to go about that SKot, but I am definitely open to it :)

If you come to Oz, you are more than welcome to come chat all things film and Star Wars. By school I'm guessing you mean University, or you have a very young wife ;P

My partner is Canadian and she refers to her Uni work as school which always amuses the locals.

I'm on the hunt for a 2nd hand 10K upgrade, and a 16mm gate for it, but I'll get the thing here and working first! It will be an imposing addition to the man-cave, maybe I should order one of these decals for it: http://technabob.com/blog/2010/10/08/hal-9000-macbook-decal/

poita said:

I'm not sure how to go about that SKot, but I am definitely open to it :)

If you come to Oz, you are more than welcome to come chat all things film and Star Wars. By school I'm guessing you mean University, or you have a very young wife ;P

My partner is Canadian and she refers to her Uni work as school which always amuses the locals.

I'm on the hunt for a 2nd hand 10K upgrade, and a 16mm gate for it, but I'll get the thing here and working first! It will be an imposing addition to the man-cave, maybe I should order one of these decals for it: http://technabob.com/blog/2010/10/08/hal-9000-macbook-decal/

Yeah, my wife is younger than me...but not THAT young.  ;)

Not that I know the first thing about these scanners, but looking at some documents for the Imagica Imager3000V (which I think is a similar system) seems to indicate you also need an SGI workstation to go with it, I assume to render out the images.  Will you have to purchase something like that as well?  I see they're available on eBay for around $200, which is not bad in the grand scheme of things...but it's yet another expense.

--SKot

The Imager3000V is a different beast altogether, you are right it needed a dedicated Irix workstation, it also took a long long long time to scan a single image. Scanning a feature on one of those would take the better part of a year, they were designed for scanning short segments to add SFX to.

The 5000 series have a GigE port on the back that you can attach to disc storage and scan straight from the front panel, and take just over a second per frame. Still takes days to scan a feature, but it is feasible and the quality is brilliant.

There is also software available for OSX, Windows and Irix to control the scanner from the desktop, I'm hoping to find someone 'helpful' that works somewhere that has or had one of these units to get the software.

I'm jizzing in my pants. This forum's wildest dreams are coming true. Just a quick question: what formats can you scan with this machine?

35mm negative, interpositive, print. Gates are available for 16mm and Vistavision at added cost.

poita said:

35mm negative, interpositive, print. Gates are available for 16mm and Vistavision at added cost.

But not 8mm, I assume? :)

--SKot

Not 8mm, but I already have a 2K Super8/Regular8 scanner.

Shhh.. don't ruin the surprise...

Anyone interested in my film scanner etc. can keep up over here:

http://www.amps.boards.net/

I will be posting in this thread as well, but over at amps will have more info.

And I hate asking, but if anyone would like to donate to help cover some of the freight costs, I would really appreciate it. I'm pretty much selling up everything else I own to secure this thing. Big thanks to the two people who did send me a PM and a donation, it is much appreciated!

10 amps, 100-240V, it is universal.

And yep, it requires a pwer conditioner, I got a surplus one at auction this week for $210 which is a pretty good price.

Well, I am a bit late with posting these, had some sad news recently that has taken up quite a bit of physical and mental time, but here as promised is the scanner 'unboxing'.

The $1000 scanner has ended up costing me nearly $5000 with delivery, import duties, taxes and a rapidly falling Aussie dollar, but all 900lbs/400+kg of it made the journey from Korea to its new home in country NSW Australia in one piece.

Lots of neighbours were peering out their windows :)

That is unequivocally exciting!!

Can't wait to see what happens next.

--SKot

This actually arrived a while ago, I just hadn't been back to post the pictures. It is installed and running.