DFT Digital Film Technology offers cost-effective 4K and 2K film scanning with new SCANITY

Weiterstadt, Germany – DFT Digital Film Technology unveiled SCANITY, a new film scanner offers speed, versatility, stability and safe film handling for 2K and 4K resolution.

The SCANITY is a 4K scanner that utilises TDI (Time Delay Integration) line sensor technology, which ensures extremely fast and sensitive film scans. The resulting image has over 4,300 horizontal pixels and automatically matches to the film frame aspect ratio (including full aperture, wide-screen, Cinemascope, VistaVision) simply by scanning as many lines as required. On 35mm 4-perf film, SCANITY offers 4K scanning at up to 15 fps, 2K at up to 25 fps, and 1K up to 44 fps, 0.5K up to 69 fps, and 0.25K up to 96 fps (depending on workstation file systems, and SAN).

“Our new SCANITY offers a multitude of unique and first-to-market features that provide users with cutting edge technology that address the challenges that many facilities are facing,” said Stefan Kramper, Digital Film Technology managing director.

“With its speed, versatility, stability and safe film handling, users can improve their ROI, enhance productivity, and serve their markets with a solution that reproduces the pristine quality of film and image quality they require.”

The SCANITY serves a variety of scanning applications, including dailies, feature film mastering, archive and restoration, short-form, commercials, as well as digital intermediate scanning.

SCANITY is one of the most affordable and multi-tasking film scanners on the market today.