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Paul, Well I'm a little partial to the firecracker myself, it's what I do most of my work on, and since it's RGB you have more latitude with your color range. Resolution-wise I've compared images I've done side by side on the Firecracker and the Toaster, and frankly was pretty impressed with how good an image the Toaster puts out, considering it's NTSC composit. Not having shot any film off the monitors myself I'm not sure how they would compare due to scan rate and such, but suspect that color saturation would be the crucial point, in which case the firecracker *should* be the way to go. I've been looking into the film angle myself as a low cost single frame solution, so I'm curious as to how your shoot goes. Did you catch the article in AVID on shooting with a 16mm camera? Also contained schematics on an AREX controlled relay for automatically advanceing the frame. good luck, David