Home 35mm scanner "Knokke" opens for pre-order at £799 — the three-shot RGB capture has me curious
Film scanning is something I'm always struggling with, so I couldn't help reacting to this news. Britain's Soke Engineering is reportedly preparing to launch "Knokke," a 35mm film scanner for home use. It can apparently scan a 36-exposure roll in under three minutes at about 22 megapixels per frame, with a planned UK price of £799. Pre-orders are being taken with a £200 deposit, and shipping is planned to roll out from early December.
There's no holder: the unit advances the film itself, finds the gaps between frames, and automatically crops each frame one by one. As long as the height is 24mm, the aspect ratio doesn't matter, so it's nice that half-frame, panoramic, and the wide XPan format can all be handled as they are.
What caught my attention most is the "trichrome" method, which lights each frame in turn with red, green, and blue LEDs and captures it three times. Since it doesn't rely on Bayer interpolation, it can reportedly read the dye layers of color negatives cleanly and separately. Infrared dust and scratch removal is also said to be usable with almost no increase in scan time.
The bundled software, "Korova," offers D/C/M/Y correction controls modeled on the Fujifilm Frontier, aiming to recreate the feel of a lab right at your desk. However, some have pointed out that the open-sourcing promised at the original announcement hasn't happened yet, and that the terms of use prohibit modifications and the like. I'm hoping that changes down the line.
Source: FilmFocus
There's no holder: the unit advances the film itself, finds the gaps between frames, and automatically crops each frame one by one. As long as the height is 24mm, the aspect ratio doesn't matter, so it's nice that half-frame, panoramic, and the wide XPan format can all be handled as they are.
What caught my attention most is the "trichrome" method, which lights each frame in turn with red, green, and blue LEDs and captures it three times. Since it doesn't rely on Bayer interpolation, it can reportedly read the dye layers of color negatives cleanly and separately. Infrared dust and scratch removal is also said to be usable with almost no increase in scan time.
The bundled software, "Korova," offers D/C/M/Y correction controls modeled on the Fujifilm Frontier, aiming to recreate the feel of a lab right at your desk. However, some have pointed out that the open-sourcing promised at the original announcement hasn't happened yet, and that the terms of use prohibit modifications and the like. I'm hoping that changes down the line.
Source: FilmFocus
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