8MM Digitization For Anyone
There’s a pleasing retro analogue experience to shooting Super 8 film, giving as it does the feel of a 1970s home movie to your work. But once you’ve had the …read more Continue reading 8MM Digitization For Anyone
Category Archives: 8mm
Re-Inventing The Single 8 Home Movie Format
[Jenny List] has been reverse-engineering and redesigning the Single8 home movie film cartridge for the modern age, to breathe life into abandoned cine cameras. One of the frustrating things about …read more Continue reading Re-Inventing The Single 8 Home Movie Format
Improving a Kodak Film Digitizer
Despite the near-complete collapse of its ecosystem in the face of portable videocassette camcorders in the 1980s, somehow the 8 mm format, smallest of the movie films, has survived the …read more Continue reading Improving a Kodak Film Digitizer
Squeeze Over a Minute Of Movie Filming Onto a 35mm Still Cartridge
There’s an allure to shooting film in the digital age which isn’t quite satisfied by digital filters for your smartphone camera. Aside from the technical challenge of working with a …read more Continue reading Squeeze Over a Minute Of Movie Filming Onto a 35mm Still Cartridge
Hackaday Prize 2022: A Spring-Driven Digital Movie Camera
These days, most of us are carrying capable smartphones with high-quality cameras. It makes shooting video so easy as to take all the fun out of it. [AIRPOCKET] decided to …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: A Spring-Driven Digital Movie Camera
The Seductive Pull Of An Obsolete Home Movie Format
It’s dangerous for a hardware hacker to go into a second-hand store. I was looking for a bed frame for my new apartment, but of course I spent an age …read more Continue reading The Seductive Pull Of An Obsolete Home Movie Format
8mm Film Scanner Grows Into a Masterpiece
Digitizing film is a tedious process that becomes a lot more fun if you spend more of your time building a digitizer and less time actually working working with old film. [Heikki Hietala] has been at it for years and his Kotokino Mark IV film scanner is a masterpiece of …read more
High-Quality Film Transfers with this Raspberry Pi Frame Grabber
Untold miles of film were shot by amateur filmmakers in the days before YouTube, iPhones, and even the lowly VHS camcorder. A lot of that footage remains to be discovered in attics and on the top shelves of closets, and when you find that trove of precious family memories, you’ll be glad to have this Raspberry Pi enabled frame-by-frame film digitizer at your disposal.
With a spare Super 8mm projector and a Raspberry Pi sitting around, [Joe Herman] figured he had the makings of a good way to preserve his grandfather’s old films. The secret of high-quality film transfers is …read more
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Vintage 8mm Camera Now Powered By Raspberry Pi
If you are a lover of the aesthetic of vintage photography and Instagram’s filters don’t quite cut it for you, then there are plenty of opportunities even in this post-film age to sample the real thing. Plastic lens cameras from the former Soviet Bloc countries or the Pacific rim are still in production, and you can still buy 35mm and 120 roll film to put in them.
You can even still buy 8mm film for your vintage movie camera, but it’s rather pricey. [Claire Wright] is a young film maker who had an old 8mm camera and really wanted that …read more
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