Thank you very much!! The projector film transfer method is definitely more challenging! I used an app on my phone to set the frame-rate to match, but as you can see there was still a flicker with that method. I also think the scanner's film tray with the light diffuser helps reduce film scratches. I only wish the scanner had a higher bit rate on the capture. I think that would make it the perfect product.

Super happy to hear this!! Thank you for kind feedback! Happy Anniversary, mom and dad! 💚

@@EricCosner I’ll tell them 😁

@mariametz592 best of luck! If you run into any issues, let us know. There's a wealth of info in the comments but sometimes it's a lot to filter though. Enjoy!

How did it go? Are you happy witht the results?

That's, incredible that you, have it in good condition , keep up the good work!!

My friend also send couple of his films to I think it was Walgreens AMD quality was not that good plus he will end up paying almost as much as buying this proyector since he has lot of films to convert just like me. How much Costco charged you?

Projected image is super better than the scanned image, but the problem is the projector lamp. They have a life measured in hours - less than 20 - and are either unavailable or super expensive. Whatever video transfer service he used did a HORRIBLE job.

great to hear! I was always afraid to send the reels away since they are irreplaceable, and I like that I can do it myself. Thanks for the comment!

​@@EricCosner: Can I hear any audio​

Thank you very much, TeePeeB!!

When you post such an opinion, it would be much more valuable for others if you give a detailed explanation. For example: "I liked the even lighting." or "The colors seemed more realistic."

Thank you 😊

Super8 resolution on the film is somewhere in the 800 to 1000 lines range, slower film is better, ie Kodachrome 25 is slightly higher resolution than Kodachrome 64. Scanning above 1080 is not really useful.

Awesome! Glad the video was helpful! Thank you for the positive feedback!

I bought the same one as on this review, and the same thing happened. It began to skip and wouldn’t advance the film smoothly. This seems to be a weak point with these items.

we have 12 months warranty here in Australia . Thats bad 30 days only

One thing about the video transfer system is it is very fast compared to scanning frame by frame. I think my projectors bulb was a little harsh and that's why it showed so many scratches. The frame-by-frame scanner does okay, but the video codec sometimes produces artifacts, especially if there's a lot of film grain.

@@EricCosner projector bulbs are hard to find and expensive. I think that overall quality is much better using digital scanner.

Where are they available?

Hi @silectric Any chance of telling where they are on offer please, I see someone else had already asked with no reply thanks

Wow that’s a really good deal! Thank you for feedback. Very much appreciated!

Thanks bro! Very much appreciate the feedback! It took me over a week to make this video. I wanted to cover as much as possible. Believe it or not you can even zoom out and film the sprocket holes which I learned later. Thanks again!!

@@EricCosner WHAT!?? That is wicked cool, for added vintage effect!

@@anubiscomplex showing the sprocket holes is useful for eliminating the vertical movement the scanner's very basic film transport produces. You can use (professional and expensive) video editing software to use the sprocket holes as a reference for eliminating that shakiness, then output a very steady video with just the image frames. It's possible to reference image elements too, and eliminate most of the camera shake that's normal with the small handheld home movie cameras used.

John, thank you! It does seem like there's a lot of very similar film scanners out there! I have found a manual or two online but they aren't very detailed. It almost seems like the folks who wrote the manual didn't ever use the device, so I think first hand experience probably works better. Thanks very much for the feedback! Have a good one!

Eric Cosner update: Mine came in and I am pretty happy with it. I have some family reels that have been sitting around and a few flea market finds that I have wanted to check out. I honestly just wanted to get eyes on this stuff and figured that these would be decent quality. It has gone far past my expectation. Not sure if it’s broadcast quality but these are enough for anyone to work with. If a lot of extra post became necessary - I’d probably send out for better scans at a later date but this is a great little tool for anyone who just wants to get their old films digital. I’ve scanned around 25 reels so far. That would have easily cost me between $350 and $700. Depending on the process- projection costs less but a professional scanning system might cost upwards of $30 for a 50’ roll. Right now I am in for around $250 and I have at least 25 more reels in storage. Thanks again!

Hammacher Schlemmer is basically another version of Sharper Image. They don't make anything, just slap their brand name on it and jack up the price. Also like Trump steaks or Trump wine. It's a con job. Hammacher Schlemmer also sold a high quality Reflecta scanner for about $1800, which they couldn't sell at the price. They dropped it to $1600, to $1200, to $900. It's still too much for a hobbyist which is why they sell so few of them. Greed is the enemy of industry. They fail to understand that selling in higher volumes increases profit better than raising the price and selling fewer units.

@@scottbaker4534 Thanks. Yes. This machine was just fine for my purposes. I was originally going to just scan my stuff and pass it along but I decided to hold onto it just incase I come across another box or if I can offer the service to friends. We are all in our late 40's now and everyone seems to be finding these in their families attics.

Thank you! I worried that when sending them away they could get lost. The machine allowed me to get all mine backed up, and in many ways, even though the quality might not be perfect, I think the quality is good enough for most 8mm. Some of my films were really faded, so paying for those to be professionally done didn't make sense. Thanks again!

Sounds like a great experience! Did you experience any freezing with the reel on the scanner? Mine keeps freezing up and I keep trying to troubleshoot what I'm doing wrong.

Andrew, I think in theory it could work. The scanner's white balance and exposure drifts a bit so I'm not sure what that might do with negatives. I wish I had a piece of negative to test out and see!

Thank you!

I have always wondered if the wolverine was similar or maybe slightly better. Thank you!

Did your Wolverine claim to produce 1080p output? Was it any better than the horrible quality of this unit?

@@scottbaker4534 My Wolverine outputs 720p. They also sell a Pro unit that outputs 1080p. What specifically is "horrible" about the film scanner featured in this vid?

@@ThriftyAV Easily answered. The Wolverine's main problem lies in the mp4 encoding process, which seems to lean heavily on "removing scratches" but leaves behind so many digital artifacts (tiny rectangular shapes that obscure details) that it leaves a resulting image which resembles, as one comment I read says, "Frosted glass." I was going to say "shower door glass" but not all shower doors have obscured glass. Perhaps your screen is not HD, or your vision has deteriorated due to some health condition. I certainly don't mean to insult you, in either case, I assure you, the quality is rather poor, even if you don't see it. One of my fondest memories of my late grandfather was when we stayed up late into the night talking and he suggested we watch one of his favorite late night shows, The Howard Stern Show. In this particular episode, Howard's guest was an exotic dancer. At one point, she performed for the audience, wearing rather large "pasties" over two particularly large identical regions of her upper anatomy. My grandfather laughed gleefully, looked over at me and said, "Isn't that terrific!? They can show a beautiful nude woman on TV now!" My grandfather, I should stress, had respect for women. He merely believed the human body is beautiful and is nothing to be ashamed of. What I realized is that my grandfather's poor eyesight meant that he didn't see the pasties. They blurred in his vision so that the woman's body appeared to have no covering anywhere. I didn't have the heart to clarify for him that he was not seeing what he thought he saw. My eyes, thank goodness, are still quite sharp. What I can praise about Wolverine is the evenness of the light, which potentially makes for not merely crisp, fine details, but eliminates a great amount of both overexposed "bleaching" and underexposed "blackout" regions that would otherwise not just obscure details, but eliminate them altogether. But in what I would bet money was their hamfisted attempts both to reduce scratches and reduce file size, the makers of the probably re-branded Wolverine transfer unit have made an unforced fatal error, easily corrected with better software. I'd recommend the makers of the unit talk to the makers of HandBrake and some computer science grads looking to make a name for themselves who can improve the quality of the output without much, if any, file size increase.

Thanks for all the great info! I, too, am a software developer. KZfaq and film are more or less my side hustle! Most of my film is 16 fps, so inferring the footage at 16fps in premiere works for a lot and I can export at 15 fps which is close but if I'm embedding at another frame rate, I'll have to see about optical flow or frame blending and how those look. I really appreciate you adding to the discussion! When I posted this there wasn't a lot of detail out there and have been really happy with how this video has performed. For some reason my scanner has issues with the white balance if I over expose. Whites appear yellow. Thanks again!

Wow this is awesome thank you I will look to you for any advice I made I appreciate everything to comment is great because I'm a newbie to this I collect 8 mm super 8 and 16 mm films I also have projectors for all.. but since I couldn't afford the crazy money they want for one of these when I seen it online here in the US on the East Coast I had to have it.. I will look forward to your help I'll be able to email you I hope I'm also on Facebook thank you sir thank you I look forward to any help you can give me doing this with what you have described when transferring films thank you

@@EricCosner that's awesome Eric and preserving films I've top notch whether they be 8 mm super 8 regulator or 16 mm they all need to be preserved these are history I have a lot of home movies and a lot of feature films they need to be preserved and this is my forte I'm doing this preserving

Good advice from a fellow digitizer--thanks!