# DIY 16/35mm scanner by Matteo Ricchetti

**URL:** <https://forums.kinograph.cc/t/diy-16-35mm-scanner-by-matteo-ricchetti/1613>\
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**Created:** [December 10, 2019, 12:51pm UTC](https://forums.kinograph.cc/t/diy-16-35mm-scanner-by-matteo-ricchetti/1613 "2019-12-10T12:51:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![matthewepler](https://forums.kinograph.cc/user_avatar/forums.kinograph.cc/matthewepler/32/919_2.png) [@matthewepler](https://forums.kinograph.cc/u/matthewepler)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 12:51pm UTC](https://forums.kinograph.cc/t/diy-16-35mm-scanner-by-matteo-ricchetti/1613/1 "2019-12-10T12:51:45Z")

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The builder of this machine reached out over Facebook to share some ideas. He said it would be okay if I posted pics of his scanner here. He asked also to link his Vimeo account where you can see his scans: [https://vimeo.com/user2133694](https://vimeo.com/user2133694).

In case you want to download the pics and zoom in, [here’s a zip](https://www.dropbox.com/s/s9pqos7nz6ve5hd/matteo_ricchetti_scanner.zip?dl=0) on my Dropbox.

Below is also a transcript of our exchange.

> Hi Matteo,
> 
> Thanks for giving me your email and sharing your build with me. I was very impressed with your scanner. Great build!
> 
> 1 - Are you using a Blackmagic camera? What is the setup for that? Did you have to buy a special lens?
> 
> 2 - It looks like an Arduino setup, am I right? So you are sensing the holes in the film and then triggering the camera manually to take 1 picture for every film frame?
> 
> 3 - What happens if there is a missing or damaged hole? What happens if the sensor does not detect a hole correctly?
> 
> Thank you very much! I think the people on the Kinograph forums would love to see pictures of your build. Would you like to post it there? If you’d rather, I could post it for you…but only if you are okay with it. I’ve attached the pictures I got from your Facebook in case that helps.
> 
> Matthew

> Hi Matthew  
> I try to answer your qestion
> 
> 1. Yes I am useing Blackmagic camera, I don’ undertand what you mean about setup, My scanner is realtime the camera is Master and the motor (Trough Arduino and a PID program I wrote follow the camera, I extract the vertical synch from the HDMI video signal)
> 
> 2. the LED is flashed, and all is made in Hardware, software enve with an’ARM is too slow and it will ccreate jitter, I strobe the light source wit a pulse of 10 microsec and i must be very very ready to the holo to not have unsteadyness
> 
> 3. by now I don’t care aboute damaged holes, they can be recoverde with a pll on the strobed light, but this is not a priority for me now.
> 
> yes you can upload the imagese, and thanks for having collect by yourself, I’ll be happy if you link my Vimeo pages as well where there are a lot of scans  
> [https://vimeo.com/user2133694](https://vimeo.com/user2133694)  
> thanks, and feel free to aks if you need
> 
> bye, Matteo

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