New 8mm Film Gate for Cintel Scanner

Very interested to hear more about the 8mm gate.

Straight 8 , Super 8 or both?

Can the optional sound head read audio from Super 8?

What about resolution? I've seen arguments that an 8mm gate would yield unacceptably low resolution with the same old 4K sensor. What's the math? Could Ai assisted up-rez solve this or does the Cintel Scanner need a hardware refresh to a higher resolution sensor chip, maybe 6K or 8K?

Thanks in advance . . .

Unless they are making a new scanner that does 8mm/16mm only, with the 8mm at 2K and the 16mm at 4K, then the resolution of. the 8mm frame is going to be less than 1080P.

The reason is you can't move the camera and lens separately on the Cintel scanner, so you are stuck with the same 'fixed magnification' level no matter what films stock is in there. So if 35mm if 4K then 16mm is around 2K and 8mm will be half that resolution again.

I really wish they would update the Cintel with a newer, less noisy camera module, maybe an 8K one that would let you scan 16mm at 4K and 8mm at 2K, even if it used pixel binning and restricted you to 4K for 35mm as well, it would make the thing so much more useful. The sensor has gotten much noisier over time in ours as well.