Kodak REELS 8mm & Super 8 Films Digitizer Converter - USB

Compact, fully automated scanner easily converts old 8mm and Super 8 film reels into high-definition 1080p digital MP4 files with exceptional clarity and color accuracy. Review: Recommended! - Excellent. Does the job perfectly well, easy to use. It is SLOW to scan in films, but as this scans frame by frame at about 4 frames a second, this is to be expected. Rewind is a bit of a faff, having to swap reels over and rewind speed is slow. Somewhat fiddly to thread the film through too, but not too difficult once you get the hang of it. Overall, this is a great bit of kit, exceptional value and does the job well. No problems at all with scanning quality. Recommended, and does a better job than most commercial scanning companies that do not scan frame-by-frame. Review: Kodak Reels works well - The Kodak Reels does work well. Plus points: provides as good a quality scan as you are likely to get; there are useful adjustments for colour, sharpness, exposure, zoom etc.; the controls are well thought out with nice “clicky” buttons rather than a touch screen. Annoyances: fiddly to get the film in between the “tabs” - you will need a torch to see what you are doing; scanning is slow; the rewind is slow and you need to swap the reels over to do it. Here are a few point which may be of interest. I found that it was easy to let the film pop out of the white tabs before the cover can be closed. If this happens, the scan seems to be working but it is out of focus. I found out you can't pop the SD card into a reader on your computer to extract files as the digitizer uses a non standard filing system so Windows thinks the card needs to be formatted. Therefore, you have to use the supplied USB cable. Also I found that my anti-virus (Bit Defender) thought the digitizer was a drive that needed scanning. This caused repeated crashes and I couldn't download to my PC. Other anti-viruses may behave differently and it might be possible so set Bit Defender up to avoid this problem. In my case, I solved the problem by connecting the digitizer to a Raspberry Pi computer and then transferred the files from that to my PC (over Wi-Fi). One advantage of this is that the Kodak Reels doesn't have to be lugged over to my PC to transfer files. NB. If you already have a projector and a movie camera, you might want to try using these instead before you splash (a considerable) amount of cash on the digitiser. The quality may not be too different (and it is potentially much quicker as the digitizer only runs at 2 frames per second whereas my projector runs at 18 (I think).