# Capture software made just for film scanning **URL:** \ **Category:** Software\ **Created:** [January 2, 2022, 9:30am UTC](https://forums.kinograph.cc/t/capture-software-made-just-for-film-scanning/2270 "2022-01-02T09:30:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 37
**Author:** ![filmkeeper](https://forums.kinograph.cc/user_avatar/forums.kinograph.cc/filmkeeper/32/4495_2.png) [@filmkeeper](https://forums.kinograph.cc/u/filmkeeper)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 10:01am UTC](https://forums.kinograph.cc/t/capture-software-made-just-for-film-scanning/2270/37 "2022-05-06T10:01:07Z")
> [@didacus](#): > > Why do you think DPX won’t work with this camera? It seems to output that format natively when connected through Thunderbolt to a software like Dragonframe, producing very nice 4k UHD files. I believe it’s an uncompressed signal, but I might be wrong. DNG is the native format, lossless compression in raw Bayer whereas DPX is debayered already and more than 3x the size. The other reason you don’t want DPX is that it’s 16bit or 8bit, but the camera captures the information in 12bits (whether it gets all the dynamic range it can of course is doubtful) so to go to DPX you either have to pad the data to 16-bit or loose dynamic range to 8bit which is not what you want. > [@didacus](#): > > I will check out the camera that you recommend! Thank you so much for your help! 😄 You can look at a less expensive lower-resolution option as well, you don’t have to go with the full 4K camera. The [3K one](https://www.flir.com/products/blackfly-s-usb3/?model=BFS-U3-70S7C-C) is also a good one. > [@Introduce yourself](https://forums.kinograph.cc/t/introduce-yourself/1593/115): > > Although we’re all UCL students, the society isn’t directly funded by UCL (we’re part of the Students Union UCL, as we’re a student-run society) and sadly we don’t have the budget to get what seems like a 30k+ GBP machine, haha. But thanks for the suggestion anyway! Yeah I thought you might say something like that, but it will help if you set a goal. Haha. 😉 Using a projector as the transport is fine for a dailies scanner, but doing the old archival film you’re talking about will likely require multiple attempts to scan per reel very often, and that’s where the benefit will come in with using something that’s actually designed to scan film (if you can secure funding). --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.kinograph.cc/t/capture-software-made-just-for-film-scanning/2270)._