[Poita (Peter)]

As some of you know, I have an 1977 16mm theatrical print of Star Wars in cinemascope, and am looking to archive it digitally to preserve it.

I'm building a home-made telecine rig to capture the movie one frame at a time, probably via an imaging-source firewire camera as they can be triggered for easy operation.

Now a lot of you AP gurus spend a lot of time messing with image processing and I'm after some brainstorming ideas.

I am building a LED light source to replace the lamp in the 16mm projector, and I can control them to get a perfect mix of RGB.
I will have a camera focus directly on the film in the gate of the projector, and basically pulse the light, grab the image, advance the frame, rinse and repeat.

I'm wondering though if I would be better off doing a 3 pass system, pulsing the RED, capturing the image, The Blue, then capture again, the Green then capture again, and then process them into a colour image, much the way that DSO imaging happens.
Do you reckon a mono camera would do a better job than a one-shot colour?

I'm trying to capture the full dynamic range of the film, or at least as much as possible, so I'm open to any wacky or wonderful ideas on this.

Thanks

-Peter