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I can't see Lady and the Tramp??

I'll attempt a last second bid on SB & Cinders. If anyone would like to help out I would *really* appreciate it. It will mean selling my 16mm telecine setup to fund it.

But is there a HR PuffnStuff forum?

The original youtube footage seems to be here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5Zg-UBTr1U

It looks like the youtube link in the first post is a ripoff of this one.

Fantastic. Can't wait to see this. Where did it come from originally?

All blogs tend to go offline from time to time. I'm taking Vader's advice and not worrying about it.

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 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, 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.

Hope it's nothing too serious Harmy old chap.

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

Yes please!

Thanks Thai Panther, but I am already very skinny!

Yes I bought an X0 (which broke!) and then an X9 to preserve the LDs and now this. This is a very expensive forum!

Silverwook, unfortunately I can't write any off to tax, I actually earn so little each year I pay around $1000 tax per annum, and this doesn't qualify unfortunately.

Even if it isn't working, I should have the expertise to get it going.

The shipping is a bit high, but $500 of that is import duty and Australian Tax, and it has to be crated up. It weighs 400kg. I live 4 hours from the nearest city as well, so it all adds up.

I just though with 35mm prints starting to come out of the woodwork, it would be too much of a shame not to have a way of preserving them when the opportunity comes up. This was too good to pass up. I am selling pretty much everything to scrape the money together to pay the logistics company, so fingers crossed it all works and arrives in one piece!

Looks like it will cost me another 2.5K to get it here by the time taxes and insurance and duty etc. is factored in.

Anyone want a kidney?

I have the floorspace, just not going to eat for 6 months. I figure there has to be a way to get it here, I've brought big iron in from japan before.

I did. Trying to find a shipping company now, any help appreciated!

Similar actually, (except it weighs 400kg, nearly half a ton) however this ebay unit is upgradeable to 10K, now can anyone out there help me find a logistics company that could get it from Korea to Sydney Australia for an affordable price?

We probably should start a tape thread.

If anyone would ever like to help me offset costs, feel free to send a PM!

I think it will be the movie itself, he had a bunch of other titles, Close Encounters, Thunderball etc. as well, so it seems likely that it will be the Star Wars movie rather than the Holiday Special.

That's what I was hoping to find out. There are plenty of logistics companies that can pickup and deliver such a beast across the oceans.

It is in Korea, but these units were $400,000.00 new!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=221242125713

Shipping from Korea to US via a container company is around $800. Not a bad deal all up.

*edit* turned out costing me around $3K in freight to get it to Oz.

Yeah, I am a sucker.