> Scanning movie films used to be ridiculously expensive (and it shouldn't). It was expensive because it was pushing the boundaries of what was possible. the

> Scanning movie films used to be ridiculously expensive (and it shouldn't). It was expensive because it was pushing the boundaries of what was possible. the northlight (https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/products/northlight/overview_nl.php https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/products/northlight/overview_nl...) which I had the pleasure of working with the prototype of is a spectacular machine. Firstly it has really good registration, which means that in theory you should be able to scan the same film twice and it'll look exactly the same. Not only that its gentle, so you can scan really fragile stuff. Add to that it over scans the living snot out of the film, plus an IR pass to get rid of the dust. Also its not a square CCD, its a linear CCD that is scanned across the plate.