Kodak - REELS Film Scanner and Converter for 8mm and Super 8 Film - Black
Model: RODREELS
SKU: 6529138
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Customers appreciate the REELS Film Scanner and Converter for 8mm and Super 8 Film for its user-friendliness. In particular, customers find the scanner very easy to use.
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Got his to digitize our parents 8mm and our Super 8 movies. It does an excellent job in capturing our films to an SD card. If you're at all handy it isn't too hard to set up and use. Most fidgety is getting the film under the four tabs in the capture area. And take the time to check out all the options in the operating display. You use it to choose the capture function and center the film in the window. There is even some level of brightness, contrast and sharpness adjustments. Single roll films only take 10 mins or so. Bigger reels can take much longer. I have two SD cards (128G) so I can record to one while I transfer to PC with the other, I use the free OpenShot Video Editor to add titles and otherwise improve the saved files. The only thing I don't like about the Kodak is that every time you change the SD card, you have to restart the machine. Based on what I've seen online, this Kodak is all-around better than the Asian knockoffs. Glad we got this so now we can save our movies before they degrade further and now we can share with our kids and family.
Posted by Susie
The scanner is very easy to use, and I'm overall satisfied. It's relatively inexpensive and I think most consumers would be happy. However, for prosumer or professional use, the final output just has too much digital noise. Not film grain, but digital noise from compression. For those curious, the captured file is an MP4 at 1728x1296, 20 FPS, and a bitrate of 8.7 Mbps.
Posted by nickderrico82
Make sure you load it correctly (ie film goes under the 4 tabs). A good value if you have several reels to transfer. It does take time (about 4.5 hrs for a 400 ft reel). Quality is pretty good, but it is MP4. A 400 ft reel ends up being a little under 2gigs.
Posted by RobertA