16mm

[darthshawn]

Do any of you know what equipment you need to digitize 16mm film stalk?

I think it is probably more complex than just doing it from a camcorder into a capture card.

[Jon Taylor]

If you want quality then, the 16mm print or negative needs to be telecined at the laboratory (using something like a Spirit Datacine 4:2:2, Ursa Gold, or Rank Cinitel 4:2:2) onto the tape format of your choice, ie Beta SP, digi-beta, etc, then digitise through a deck controlled by your edit platform.

If quality is not an issue, then with your camcorder, film the projected image off your mum's best white bed sheets hung on a darkened bedroom wall, then firewire straight to your PC.

The second option will probably look so bad, you would have wished you hadn't bothered shooting it on 16mm film in the first place.

[eddie]

I guess it depends on what you want to do with it. I got some pretty good results projecting onto a wall and filming with a camcorder and then capturing into a PC, but it was black and white, and already pretty scratched.
If you want to do a pre-edit on Video then this method is fine.
Can you blag a favour from a film department or an AV department at a University or something? Somewhere under-used, that have good equipment (camera's)?