DIY 8mm Film Scanner – A Brief Guide

Over the summer of 2020 I made a DIY film scanner for 8mm film and thought I'd share. Feel free to ask questions in the comments if you have any

Resources:

An excellent guide that includes Photoshop scripts for processing the image files: https://keneckert.com/kenfilms/teleci...

Guide for building a shutter release cable: https://www.instructables.com/How-to-...

Another very impressive and well-documented system: https://github.com/etiennecollomb/Sup...

Custom 3d printed GT2 timing pulley: https://twitter.com/adskfusion360/sta...

The STL files for my timing pulley: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...


0:00 Introduction
1:53 Overview
2:43 Feeding the Film
5:04 Capturing Images
6:40 Maintaining Tension
8:27 Conclusion