The Big Idea

Since working on Coraline I've had the idea of mating an old school optical printer with high end DSLR to create a inexpensive way of making 2k input for preserving films. Yesterday, I found out it's already been done and done better then I could have done it. It's not cheap, but instead of a DSLR, they went with scanner/back that can handle 3fps. Ugh. Good idea, but too little too late I guess?