Sony STARVIS IMX462 ultra lowlight USB 3 camera with superior Near Infrared performance

If you get the film completely steady in the gate sure. But that’s not how the Kinograph is designed and not how most DIY scanners work. The Sasquatch is a special case, I’d say it’s atypical of DIY machines. If it’s steady in the gate in a DIY machine that means either very slow scanning, or you’re using a projector which holds the film steady. A projector-based scanner will still need a global shutter really since the film isn’t completely steady, at least not without some serious engineering to make it so. The steadiness in the commercial scanners is a result partly of the film being tensioned perfectly, in a projector gate there’s little tension so the film can move a little bit freely.

Engineering around the limitations of the sensor is what the old machines did and why they cost so much. Now you can buy a sensor that does what you want and is actually suitable for film scanning as it is.

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