Finally got going on creating my Telecine machine.
For those who have not googled "Telecine" by now, it's essentially digitizing an old 8mm (and Super 8mm) film.
My idea: Low cost, fully automated, frame by frame capture machine. (To capture some old 8mm films)
How am I going to do this:
1. By using a RaspberryPi as my control / capture / processing machine.
2. Use the RaspberryPi camera module (Capable of a 5M pixel grab - although - only about 1/4 is usable after some testing - which leave you with about a 1200x1200 shot - not too bad - close to full HD)
3. Stepper motor(s) (driven by the Pi - to control the feed over the 'scanning part'
4. Will be using some custom scripts to crop the film segments.
5. Virtual Dub to process the individual segments, with a plug-in to clean, sharpen, color correct, etc, the individual frames.
So far my testing is going well.
I have managed to adjust the camera to take macro shots - results are good.
More to follow over the coming months.
