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Question Does anyone have a Grundig Super 8 film scanner?

Video Recorders, CED, LaserVision, DVD & DTV

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irob2345

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I've heard about these - they use a flying spot technique - but I've never seen one.

Posted : 08/09/2022 5:09 am

Synchrodyne

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NordMende also did a flying spot Super 8 film scanner, the “Colorvision CCS”. I thought that it was alone in doing this, but evidently Grundig also joined the party. Was the Grundig machine perhaps a clone of the NordMende?

I have attached some pertinent items, including the first page of the brochure. (If I can find the original, I can scan the whole.)

Electronics Australia 1976 June ran a descriptive article, which I can post if it is of interest.

The CCS handled Super 8 with both optical and magnetic (not stereo) sound tracks.

Film speeds were non-standard, 16? and 25 fps. But then for many years running 24 fps movies at 25 fps was the norm for telecine broadcast purposes with 50 Hz field frequency TV systems.

Nonetheless, I have a vague notion that some Super 8 camera makers (maybe Eumig, but not Beaulieu) did offer models with the 25 fps speed option.

Cheers,

Steve

Posted : 08/09/2022 10:42 pm

absinthe_dude

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16fps would be the usual speed for standard 8mm film, with super 8 amateur footage most commonly running at 18fps. Better cameras also offered 24fps. A few high end super 8 cameras have 25fps, I used to have one of the very top Chinon models with a 12X zoom, 200 foot capacity and 18/24/25/36 fps options.

In the mid 80s, Elmo offered a telecine device based on one of their projectors but with a CCD head where the lens barrel would usually be and a might dimmer, more diffuse light source.

Posted : 23/10/2023 10:57 am