... finding a LED with the right spectral output, and bright enough could be less easy Been thinking about that. If the image is going straight to the sensor, instead of to a screen, you won't need nearly as much light as the original lamp gave out. And spectrum-wise, the sensor won't care if it's ...

I've been working on an 8mm film digitiser on and off (mostly off ;) ) for a few years... my last effort was an attempt to convert my old Eumig Mark 501. It sort of worked – but ultimately the aging mechanism of the claw mechanism had a habit of skipping frames and damaging sprocket holes in the fil...