Former software engineer with a degree in mechanical and aeronautical engineering. Currently a furloughed airline pilot spending the quarantine time building a homemade telecine with around 90 Super8/8mm home movies.

Current rig uses a Canon 5D MkII, the Canon SDK for computer control, an arduino and Nema 23 stepper to step the frame forward frame by frame, a custom built LED projector light, and all custom software.

Current design is very slow, captures rate of about .5 fps, but I’m capturing at a resolution of 4k+, and I can also grab HDRs of each frame with different exposure times if I so choose.

As of September 2020 I’m working on building a prototype stand alone drop in replacement LED projector bulb. The idea is to use the on board power to allow you to play old movies as they were meant to be viewed!