Kodak Reels 8 mm and Super 8 Films Digitizer Converter with Big 5 Inches Screen, Scanner Converts Film Frame by Frame to Digital MP4 Files for Viewing, Sharing and Saving on SD Card

Absolutly fantastic more expensive than the one I sent back but well worth it

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).

I had aprehensions as to whether this machine would produce compatable video clips across laptop and email, but it did. Basically you need to scan your film in one go, but for a large film then pause every so often at convenient intervals so that it is easier to select a clip. Then when you connect the memory card rather download everything the system allows you to select clips through Clipchamp (Windows), these can be saved in various formats. Focus aand quality good but what we need now is a Kodak 8mm fim cleaner, where the films can travel through a cleaning solution, dry and emerge as new, just hoping?

Works very well and easy to use. I’ve done over a dozen cine films so far with no issues at all.

The unit went faulty after a couple of reels had been digitised. The screen wouldn't illuminate. Quick refund from Amazon though so no problems there. I managed to digitise 2 reels and the quality was acceptable considering the age and condition of the film I used.As many people have found, its fiddly to thread the film over the scanning head but once. to get the knack, it relatively straightforward.

I’m sorry to say that it didn’t not meet up to my expectations. The machine takes a single shot of every from, therefore it takes a very long time to do a 20minute film, also you have to watch it continuously as it can jam when it hits a join, then you have to pull it through quickly as it photographs the same frame continuously until you pull it through. I had very high hopes. Also stupidly I thought it would also do the sound, but alas not. I have 60 plus films to do, but not at 1 frame a second !! I will resort to using a digital video camera.

I had some 45 to 50 year old 8mm super 8 film that my Grandad had filmed of the family in the 1970s and early 80s that I wanted to convert to digital before it was lost forever.I read quite few reviews and the Kodak seemed best despite being about £100 more that the others. I had also heard of Kodak. I started the film capturing and in most cases the output was beyond expectations. There was a few occasions where I had to reseat the film as the output was too shaky, but I started to just spin the film back and recapture, so the output was smooth.I have now shared with the family who are very pleased with the quality of the output