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We are clearing out my grandmother's house as she has moved into a nursing home, and I have acquired all my late grandfather's 8mm film reels. He was an avid filming pioneer - there must be 30 reels in all. There is a lovely vintage Kodak projector which I have made work, but it doesn't wind the reels reliably - I had been planning to record the projection with my digital camera to digitise it.
Has anyone tried [url= https://www.amazon.co.uk/Winait-Super8-Digital-Video-Scanner/dp/B07142WSCS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1500581640&sr=8-2&keywords=8mm+film ]THIS SORT OF THING?[/url]
Not done it myself but this company in cheltenham can do it to Dvd/blu-ray disc, had our wedding video done and very happy with the results.
http://www.afx-av.co.uk/
This looks like the same scanner sold under a different brand name, with more reviews:
https://www.amazon.com/Wolverine-Super8-Digitizer-Film2Digital-MovieMaker/dp/B01KA32HH0
Seems like it is not the greatest quality of build, but a number of people claim to have got good results
I don't have a scanner, but have done DIY conversion of cine films by directly videoing a projection. It is not straightforward, and if you can get a good quality professional conversion, that will be a lot easier (and quite possibly cheaper if you factor in your time). I decided to go DIY because I have quite a few reels to convert, and I had a very bad experience when I tried a commercial conversion service, who did a very poor job. All I'll say is [b]steer well clear[/b] of these guys:
http://www.cine-to-dvd-transfer.co.uk/
www.Video-to-DVD.co.uk
If you are going to do your own conversion, there are lots of good tutorials on the web and free software available. I won't go into the details, but you need play around with projection rates and/or software to deal with the flicker interference caused by the difference between the 8mm projection shutter and the video frame rate.
I'm happy with the results I got, but it was a steep learning curve and quite hard work, so like I said at the start, a reputable professional conversion will be a lot less painful!
We gave a tea chest full of film to someone who puts film on video for the BBC[we had this done in the 80's]. We got back one video, that seems to have the worst bit's of film, back and the original film was thrown away!
Make sure you get the original film back.