Many of us have these old 8mm family videos lying around and many of us have lamented at the perspective cost to get them converted to digital. *[Paul] came up with a pretty slick way of digitizing them himself. He cracked open an 8mm projector and replaced the drive motor with one he could run at a much slower speed, allowing him to be able to capture each frame individually with his digital camera. He’s rigged his remote shutter control to the shutter of the projector so that it would be perfectly*synchronized. There’s a video of it in action on the flickr page, and a video of the full 16,000 frame clip after digitization here.
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