Digitizing your old 8mm films with a PI

Until the late 80's consumers used film like super 8 to record their own films, but not a lot of equipment survived to play them back or people don't want to setup a projector and screen for a few minutes of movie. There are a lot of companies that can scan your movie and put it on a hard disk or DVD. But how hard can it be to do it yourself?

After this talk you will know what it takes to digitize your own films code-wise and how to build a rig to facilitate this.

Some topics that will be touched upon: using a scanner with a PI, image processing (on a PI), resource management, lessons learned.

About Jago

Jago is a software engineer at Quintor. As a software engineer he has seen a broad spectrum of projects and has been working on multiple large-scale educational software and banking projects over the past few years. His work is not exclusive to Java and Scala development — he also does front-end development and the integration between these. He is passionate about his work and likes to share his knowledge, having spoken at conferences worldwide.