Film recorder
A unit used to records digital images onto transparency or negative film.
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A unit used to record digital images onto transparency or negative film.
film recorder:
A device used to record a digital image onto photosensitive film.
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film recorder
A device that records digital image data on film. Typically this device is used to produce photographic color transparencies and negatives, but the term also applies to image setters which produce films for printing.
Film recorder
A device used to output digital files onto film materials. CRT film recorders use a cathode ray tube and RGB filters to create the film image.
For traditional enlargement negatives, work with a service bureau that offers LVT film recorder services (a laser exposes film). They will be able to provide you with any available film type.
Calibration - The act of adjusting the color of one device relative to another, such as a monitor to a printer, or a scanner to a film recorder. Or, it may be the process of adjusting the color of one device to some established standard.
LightJet: A LightJet printer uses Red, Green, & Blue Lasers to write a continuous tone image onto photographic printing paper in a similar manner to a film recorder. LightJets can produce high quality prints 48in. wide by however long.
To use one you may want to have digital images made into slides. To do this you need access to a film recorder. These units are very expensive, so you are probably better off looking for a place to do the work for you.
Yes, some major motion pictures today, like "Panic Room," were scanned from film, color corrected, edited and color timed in a computer, and written back out to film on the Arri Laser film recorder for duplication and release.
An example where nonstandardization may present a problem is when comparing images from an analog camera to the products from a digital camera or the image output from an electronic printer or a film recorder.
 See also: Digital, Image, Film, Photograph, Print
  
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