Originally
custom designed and built for an archive with a large,
fragile collection of 35mm nitrate, we were so pleased
with the result that we decided to offer it as a
regular product. This unit is air cooled for safe
handling of flammable nitrate film and requires little
to no previous skills to operate. Film is captured
frame-by-frame and is instantly playable in the
Universal software immediately after capture. If a
sample strip of film is sent to us, custom pins can be
made that screw into the adjustable blocks.
Registration pins can be made for virtually any format
and can be changed from one format to the next in
minutes. Obviously, using this scanner is not a fast
process but, for archives working on a limited budget
that occasionally get the odd roll or lone strip of
shrunken large format film and no way to handle it,
this unit can be a very practical way to address
safely accessing that imagery without having to send
it out for scanning or, worse, threading it through a
projector.