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an excellent project! The golden standard for film scanning is still this badboy: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/282841082109 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/282841082109 It was designed to be the very best. the marble slab comes from the same mine as Michelangelo's David (or so I was told). Its so thick to provide both heat and inertial damping, so that when the linear scanner moves, it doesn't cause wobble. The film gate is designed to be repeatable, supposedly you can rescan film and any VFX that you have overlaid will still line up. I never tested that. the one thing I can't see with the kinograph is how the registration of the film gate is done. it looks like its friction only, rather than pressure plate. A good pressure plate make sure that the film is as flat as its going to be, making the optical scan much clearer. This means that in theory you can lower the light needed and have a lower f-number