Quality Control and Handling Equipment

Cine-Film Processing requires a fine anti-scratch supervision!

If during the film processing a film scratching accident occur, in the standard commonly adopted procedure, only a following checkup will enhance and reveal the defects and any subsequent countermeasure already costs a lot in terms of lost raw stock material. With the Scratch Finder it is possible to reveal and optionally even to acoustically alarm the presence of a scratch on the film surface so to draw the operator attention on the problem so to activate the necessary proper countermeasures. This check can be done directly on the film running just after the drying cabinet. Its installation can be done on virtually any model of processor on the market.

• The SF Optical Unit (Cat. PH116-C) enhances with infrared vision onto the monitor screen any surface fault like scratches, dust, etc…
• The SF SOS Automatic Scratch Detector (Cat. PH116-B) identifies the scratch and shows it clear and enlarged onto the monitor screen emitting an acoustic alarm.
• The SF SOS Automatic Scratch Detector (Cat PH116-B) can be easily set to detect any scratch-type, even of few microns.
• The operator can immediately evaluate the entity of the scratch from the monitor screen and intervene to remove its cause.
• Easy to assemble on any type of cine-film processor, is perfectly suitable for B/W and colour, positive and negative film-processing.

 Worldwide used profitably by many top cine-processing laboratories (front end as well as release print labs).
Scratch Finder ensures a high standard quality of processing reducing waste materials.

DIMENSIONS:

• Length 350mm
• Width 360mm
• Height 70mm
• 5mt Standard Cable
• (between Optical and SOS units)

SPECIFICATIONS:

• Feeding power supply 220/110 Volt
• Maximum power consumption 10/20 Watt
• Environmental operating conditions :
• Temperature +/- 40°
• Humidity 90% without condense

The D-Observer FSC 70mm version is a special recently introduced version especially developed for the 70mm 15perf IMAX format prints and negative control.

It comes equipped with a full HD Kodak CCD digital sensor that, with all the colour matching tools of the DObserver digitally evolved version, shows through a PC Windows based video buffering system the film perfectly steady up to 30 fps on a large 42” lcd monitor.

Thanks to the IR system that equips (standard on the D-Observer 70mm IMAX version), it is easy to quality control the film surface while the film is running.

SF SOS Automatic Scratch Detector (Cat. PH116-B) connected to FSC FilmStroboChecker emits an acoustic signal for any identified scratch, showing it clearly on monitor screen during processing.

Its logic it is based on the video analisys of the signal coming from the Optical Scratch Finder unit. Through a fields comparison of the video signal, it is possible to detect all linear scratches so to generate a sound alarm useful in alerting the operator for the problem in progress.

The logic sensitivity can be freely adjusted according to the laboratory necessities and film running speed.