KODAK REELS 8mm & Super 8 Films Digitizer Converter with Big 5” Screen, Scanner Converts Film Frame by Frame to Digital MP4 Files for Viewing, Sharing & Saving on SD Card for 3” 4” 5” 7” and 9” Reels

KODAK REELS 8mm & Super 8 Films Digitizer Converter with Big 5” Screen, Scanner Converts Film Frame by Frame to Digital MP4 Files for Viewing, Sharing & Saving on SD Card for 3” 4” 5” 7” and 9” Reels

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KODAK REELS 8mm & Super 8 Films Digitizer Converter with Big 5” Screen, Scanner Converts Film Frame by Frame to Digital MP4 Files for Viewing, Sharing & Saving on SD Card for 3” 4” 5” 7” and 9” Reels
Price: $399.99
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Customers find the scanner functional and easy to use. They appreciate the design and transfer quality. However, opinions differ on ease of use, image quality, value for money, and speed.

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73 customers mention "Functionality"56 positive17 negative

Customers appreciate the scanner's functionality. They find it easy to use, produces clear results, and removes lint effectively.

"…It is reasonably straightforward to use and the results look pretty good to my eye…." Read more
"This is a great machine for converting your old 8mm film to digital, after a little tweaking!…" Read more
"…The results were okay, but clarity was severely reduced, plus there was a flak-storm of dust particles on the film that only appeared worse on the…" Read more
"…down, so what ever failed was just getting worse, and it was completely unusable…." Read more
28 customers mention "Design"28 positive0 negative

Customers like the scanner's design. They say it does a good job and produces high-quality results. Some find it well-thought-out and pleased with the product. However, some feel the design is too complicated. Overall, customers are satisfied with the scanner's quality and performance compared to other units in the same price range.

"…The user interface is well designed, not much learning curve there. . The quality of the MP4's it puts out is fine…." Read more
"…the higher bitrate encoding firmware modification, the final result still looks really good, as long as you set the bitrate really high in SVP as…" Read more
"…THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT: THE CLEAREST AND BEST IMAGES FOR YOUR YEARS OF MEMORIES!…" Read more
"Pretty nifty piece of equipment…." Read more
18 customers mention "Transfer quality"15 positive3 negative

Customers appreciate the product's ability to convert old movies to digital. They find it a convenient way to digitize their home movies.

"This is a very good product for transferring 8 and super 8 film. Plan to make a few practice runs to get comfortable with it…." Read more
"we bought it and so far so good on recording the old films , however we have not seen the videos yet, but will tonight" Read more
"…It is slow but the quality is great, especially for very old film. Mom and I are having fun scanning and sharing my Grandfather's home movies." Read more
"The transfers are pretty good, and I am glad i bought the unit. There are some problems…." Read more
90 customers mention "Ease of use"60 positive30 negative

Customers have different views on the scanner's ease of use. Some find it simple to set up and use for quick conversions with good quality. The recorder is easy to set up and edit, with a clear on-screen menu and buttons for selection. Others find it difficult to use, with poor instructions and difficulty threading the film under the tabs on the small table.

"…The instructions are clear enough but it is a little tricky at first. The user interface is well designed, not much learning curve there. …." Read more
"…The video quality is excellent. The machine's controls are easy to understand. Some minor nitpicks to be aware of:…" Read more
"…Super easy to use and navigate! I found it easier to get a SD card interface with my Mac instead of plugging the projector into it Highly recommend…" Read more
"…But it is a fair bit of work, probably more than you expect it to be, for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of this machine…." Read more
47 customers mention "Image quality"26 positive21 negative

Customers have different experiences with the scanner's image quality. Some find it easy to set up and use, with sharp picture and video quality. Others report poor image quality, blurry results, and reduced clarity.

"…This one is definitely worth the extra cost. The larger screen is much easier to see. I don't have to adjust the film at all…." Read more
"…After a couple more films scanned the picture started getting blown out and full of digital artifacts even with the brightness all the way down, so…" Read more
"…The video quality is excellent. The machine's controls are easy to understand. Some minor nitpicks to be aware of:…" Read more
"…Decent image quality, but quite grainy! – Instructions are poor…." Read more
39 customers mention "Quality"24 positive15 negative

Customers have mixed reviews about the scanner's quality. Some find it easy to use and without heat damaging vintage films. The machine is in good condition, and the film and sprocket holes are in excellent condition. However, others report poor quality, with a weak motor that could damage the film if stronger. There are no options to increase quality with lower compression or increased file size, and the scan image was terrible.

"…I have digitized about 20 reels so far and the machine is holding up well…." Read more
"…The weak motor is by design as if it were stronger it would damage the film if something gets stuck…." Read more
"…also post process the video on my computer, and recompress it without too much loss of quality…." Read more
"…But if you want the best quality, get this Kodak! That’s all you need if you are just showing movies of grandma when you were a baby…." Read more
39 customers mention "Value for money"25 positive14 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the scanner's value for money. Some find it worthwhile to save history from old media and preserve memories. Others feel it's not a low-cost unit, and it's essentially an expensive plastic paperweight at this point.

"…The bottom line is that this is a relatively cost-effective way to bring your old home movies into the digital age, assuming you have a substantial…" Read more
"…old memories, but, it ain't easy. It's certainly MUCH cheaper if you have a LOT of…" Read more
"…This one is definitely worth the extra cost. The larger screen is much easier to see. I don't have to adjust the film at all…." Read more
"…service and you have more than a handful of 7 inch reels, it's worth the investment…." Read more
29 customers mention "Speed"13 positive16 negative

Customers have different views on the scanner's speed. Some find it impressively fast, loading the film fairly easy, and doing about 2-3 frames per second. Others mention it's a little slow and the reels run at one speed, so the process doesn't always feed the film smoothly.

"…Rewind speed is quite slow (but much faster than scanning speed)…." Read more
"…This machine always saves video at 20 frames per second. However, 8mm film is usually shot at 16fps, and super 8 at 18fps…." Read more
"…It is a rather slow process as it ticks by two frames per second…." Read more
"…Loading the film is fairly easy if you find a video online. The instructions do a poor job of explaining for new users…." Read more





Better, but nowhere near where it should be for the money. It will do the job, but just barely.

4 out of 5 stars

Better, but nowhere near where it should be for the money. It will do the job, but just barely.
These work OK, better for me than the Wolverine Pro, but not by much. I did not have film feed problems like the Wolverine Pro, nor did I have to shove paper in the film track like Wolverine suggests to "get it to work". That being said, aside from being made as cheaply as possible to maximize profits, the biggest problem with all of these is they ignore established film industry standards from lessons learned a century ago: use 3 (THREE) pawls on the tractor to move the film! A single pawl (see photo – the little metal tip in the dark rectangular hole on the right) will make the film stop moving when it hits a damaged sprocket hole – DUH! That is why movie projectors standardized using 3 sprockets to move the film, not to mention it takes the stress off of a single hole, so you do not make so many damaged sprocket holes to begin with. For the price they charge for these, there is no excuse for that. Wolverine Pro is the same. Combined with their film jamming problems, I sent that back.All things considered, you are only going to use this for a few days and be done with it. If you have a lot of film to do, it works out cheaper to buy it, but plan to babysit the thing (all makes) to get the job done.Unless I find some more old films in the closets, I am done with this thing. I should try to rent it out or sell it to recover some of my money and make the price more reasonable.All in all, these things do a good job. I am happy with the results. They take individual photos of each frame, so they are slow, but they do work well. If you have a lot of films to do, this can be cost effective to use. If you only have a few films, you should take them in and get them done. Although expensive, for a few films, the overall cost would be less per roll than buying something like this.
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  • Charles Stokes

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Works well, good value if you have a lot of film.

    Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2024

    Color: BlackVerified Purchase

    Despite what some owners have said about the Reels at sites other than Amazon, my experience is overwhelmingly positive. My dad took movies every year from 1948 to 1975. He edited all of them and spliced together some 65 7 inch reels, ranging from about 3/4 full to completely full. The cost of paying by the foot is prohibitive, not to mention the risk of loss in shipping. I have digitized about 20 reels so far and the machine is holding up well. Some negative experiences on the part of others may be due to the need to follow the directions carefully when installing the film on the machine. The instructions are clear enough but it is a little tricky at first. The user interface is well designed, not much learning curve there. . The quality of the MP4's it puts out is fine. I saw most of these projected onto a real movie screen with a good projector long ago and I think the digitized ones look fine, especially on a computer. I have done both regular 8 and super 8.

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  • team W

    4.0 out of 5 stars

    A Good DIY Alternative To Professional Scanning Services

    Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2024

    Color: BlackVerified Purchase

    I've now run about 25 Super 8 films through this machine so I have a pretty good idea of what you can expect here. The bottom line is that this is a relatively cost-effective way to bring your old home movies into the digital age, assuming you have a substantial pile of them. But it is a fair bit of work, probably more than you expect it to be, for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of this machine.

    I have basically no complaints with the machine itself. It is reasonably straightforward to use and the results look pretty good to my eye. The image sensor seems to be good enough that you likely won't have to do this ever again in search of better results down the line, assuming you are dealing with home movies that were originally shot on a relatively simple and cheap machine in the first place. I wish it was a little bit easier to get the film seated into the scanner bed, but you eventually get the hang of it.

    Feeding the film into those guides around the scanning bed is really my only complaint with the design and operation of this machine. The interface is relatively simple and straightforward and it does everything you need it to do.

    However, when people talk about how great the good old days were, they probably were not talking about 8mm home movies. This stuff was revolutionary for its time, but it wasn't all that easy to work with even back then. Now that those rolls have been sitting in your closet for 50 years or so, they haven't gotten any easier to handle. They are now even more fragile, so they can break, they slip off the reel, they get stuck, and if you have any splices in them the splicing tape will likely not survive a trip through this or any other projector now.

    None of this is, in any way, the fault of this machine. Indeed, it seems to be calibrated to move slowly so to put as little strain on your now ancient, fragile film stock as possible. But it means that running a large library of home movies through it is going to be a somewhat lengthy and occasionally fussy process. You'll be getting out the scotch tape to do some half-baked repair to get your film through the machine or end up with a tangled mess if you don't carefully babysit it as it slowly grinds through each of the reels in your library.

    I never timed it to see how long it took to process a roll of film, but I'd guess it runs at about 1/10th speed. So figure roughly 30 minutes of processing time for 3 minutes of film. You don't have to watch it constantly the entire time it is running, but you do need to be in the room and keep an eye on it as it works, in case there is a splice that fails, it gets stuck, etc.

    If you are looking at this machine it is probably because you looked at the prices of those scanning services you can ship your film off to and were shocked by how much they charged. I suspect a lot of that cost is the inherent hand labor of what is required to handle this old film stock. So this DIY choice will save you some cash, but you are going to be providing all of that same labor yourself.

    I bought this as a Christmas present to surprise my now elderly parents with a chance to see these movies from their youth that have been gathering dust in a closet for decades now. If you are planning something similar, all I can recommend is that you give yourself a considerable amount of lead time to get the scanning work done, because the number of hours you will invest in scanning that box of old home movies, getting it edited into a presentable format, etc. is probably a lot more than you expect it will take going in.

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  • S. Mader

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    So easy to use!

    Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2025

    Color: BlackVerified Purchase

    This was the second 8mm digitizer that I purchased. The other was a bit cheaper but was more difficult to use and quit working after the first roll of film. This one is definitely worth the extra cost. The larger screen is much easier to see. I don't have to adjust the film at all. All in all, I love this product!
    Oh, but be sure to buy an SD card. It does not come with one.

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  • Paul Nelson

    1.0 out of 5 stars

    Defective unit

    Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2024

    Color: BlackVerified Purchase

    I had high hopes for this item. We recently found a box of Super 8 films from when we were children. I got this to digitize and preserve them. The first couple of films scanned fine (a bit grainy, but that was to be expected). Part way through the 5th film something is the scanner must have failed. The image was blown out and full of digital artiifacts. The 2 pictures I uploaded were just seconds apart.

    I found that if I turned the brightness control all the way down I could still scan films and they weren't too bad as long as there wasn''t anything in the picture that was white. Anything that was white would sometimes flash purple or red. A film of us playing in the snow was completely unwatchable. After a couple more films scanned the picture started getting blown out and full of digital artifacts even with the brightness all the way down, so what ever failed was just getting worse, and it was completely unusable. I returned it, and now I'm sending all the films to a digital scanning service to scan them for me.

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    Paul Nelson

    1.0 out of 5 stars

    Defective unit

    Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2024


    I had high hopes for this item. We recently found a box of Super 8 films from when we were children. I got this to digitize and preserve them. The first couple of films scanned fine (a bit grainy, but that was to be expected). Part way through the 5th film something is the scanner must have failed. The image was blown out and full of digital artiifacts. The 2 pictures I uploaded were just seconds apart.

    I found that if I turned the brightness control all the way down I could still scan films and they weren't too bad as long as there wasn''t anything in the picture that was white. Anything that was white would sometimes flash purple or red. A film of us playing in the snow was completely unwatchable. After a couple more films scanned the picture started getting blown out and full of digital artifacts even with the brightness all the way down, so what ever failed was just getting worse, and it was completely unusable. I returned it, and now I'm sending all the films to a digital scanning service to scan them for me.

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  • JTG
    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Excelente tecnología!

    Reviewed in Mexico on December 21, 2023

    Color: BlackVerified Purchase

    Una vez que le encuentras el modo, todo se vuelve más fácil. Conviene practicar con un rollo chico.
    En YouTube hay videos con instrucciones que son muy útiles.
    En mi caso escogí la preferencia de cero pixceles que me resultó muy de mi gusto.
    Hay que darse cuenta de que hay cuatro muescas en la que el filme debe quedar insertado y así evitar imágenes fuera de foco.
    Es aconsejable, no indispensable, hacerse de alguna pegadora de película por lo de las roturas posibles.
    La edición y corrección de color se puede hacer en la computadora con un programa para este propósito. El resultado será mejor.
    Por lo demás, toda la familia está encantada con el rescate en alta definición de los recuerdos familiares y sobretodo por el gran ahorro de dinero si se hiciera en una empresa que se dedique a esto.



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  • doug.numbers
    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Read the directions

    Reviewed in Canada on November 28, 2023

    Color: BlackVerified Purchase

    Instead of old home movies living in my basement, all family members now have a digital copy that they can watch anytime they want on the convenience of their computer screen. Lots of great memories available at a click from anywhere. This is a good product.

    Things would have gone smoother if I would have done a better job of reading the directions. All my fault.



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  • Hop P.
    3.0 out of 5 stars

    Bien mais S.A.V inexistant

    Reviewed in France on December 30, 2024

    Color: BlackVerified Purchase

    C'est mon 2ème scanner Kodak, sans doute le plus performant dans ce type de gamme. Seulement, ne comptez pas sur le S.A.V Kodak en cas de problème. Aucune réponse. Juste le silence méprisant qui contraste méchamment avec le bruit assourdissant du bras d'entrainement de la bande signalé en août 2024.



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  • BingBo
    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Ein tolles Gerät, das macht was es soll

    Reviewed in Germany on November 13, 2024

    Color: BlackVerified Purchase

    Alles wurde einwandfrei geliefert und funktionierte auf Anhieb.
    Man muss sich natürlich erstmal in die Bedienung des Geräts hineinfinden – aber das ist ja bei allen technischen Geräten so.
    Die Auflösung / Brillianz ist sehr hoch, daher kann es zu einem etwas granularen Bild kommen. Ich habe die Helligkeit und die Bildschärfe etwas reduziert und habe wunderbare Ergebnisse erzielt.
    Man muss auch darauf achten, den Film korrekt einzulegen, damit das Bild oben/unten sowie links/ rechts nicht 'flattert'. Dazu kann man aber auch den Zoom verwenden und die unscharfen Ränder der Aufnahme etwas aus blenden.
    Alles in Allem bin ich sehr zufrieden und kann das Gerät nur empfehlen.



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  • Carlos Peral
    3.0 out of 5 stars

    Tengo problema con el color

    Reviewed in Mexico on May 29, 2024

    Color: BlackVerified Purchase

    La calidad de imagen es buena, es muy sencillo de manejar y no se requiere ser un experto en esto pero en lo único que tengo problema es en el tono de color, solo hay para subirle el color o bajarle pero no para modificarle, el problema es que me da puros azules y no puedo darle a rojos o a verdes, se ven los demás colores pero el azul predomina así que tengo que bajarle casi al blanco y negro para que no se vea azul y después arreglarlo en premier dándole el balance de blancos y la corrección de color, pensé que solo le ponías mas luz o menos y ya con eso te quedaría tu película pero veo que todavía hay que arreglarlo, digamos que no es como cuando proyectas tus películas con un proyector y te da los colores tal cual los filmaste, aquí en este aparato te da tonos distintos a los colores originales y ya tu le subes o le bajas el tono pero siempre los da muy azules y tengo que corregirlos en Adobe premier y por eso le doy un 3 estrellas.

    Esto que estoy escribiendo fue posterior a la opinión de arriba digamos que lo escribí varios meses después y es que chequé bien y mis películas eran las que ya habían perdido el color, me encontré con otros rollos que tenia mejor guardados y los colores estaban muy bien se veían como la primera vez que los proyectaba, así que una disculpa si dije que no pasaban bien los colores



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5" / 13 cm
FROM ANTIQUATED TO STATE OF THE ART | Bring Your Old 8mm & Super 8mm Films Into the 21st Century! | The KODAK REELS Digitizer Converts Motion Picture Film Strips Into Digital MP4 Files for Easy Lifetime Viewing | Simply Load Your 3”, 5”, 7”, 8” or 9” Films Onto the Universal Supply Reel & Follow the Easy On-Screen Prompts to Send Footage Directly to SD Card [Not Included]—No Computers or Software Needed
FRAME-BY-FRAME DIGITIZING PROCESS | Fully Automated Scanner with 8.08-Megapixel Sensor Captures Images with Exceptional Clarity, Contrast, Detail & Color Accuracy, Resulting in the Best High-Definition 1080p Digital Video Files Possible [No Sound] | Use the Provided Micro USB Cable to Transfer Scans to Computer, Laptop, Smart Television or Other Device for Instant Big-Screen Viewing
SUPERSIZED SCREEN WITH TOUCH BUTTONS | Record, Convert & Playback Live Films, Watch Saved SD Card Recordings, Change Settings & Navigate a Variety of Scanning & Editing Options Via the Large 5” Onboard LCD Interface | Oversized Easy-Read Buttons Allow You to Quickly Zoom, Align Frame, Choose Film Type & Adjust Exposure, Sharpness & Tint Without the Need for External Editing Equipment
ULTRA COMPACT FOR TRAVEL & STORAGE | Share Vintage Memories Everywhere You Go! | Our Lightweight, Portable 12.4” x 8.4” Film Viewer is Specially Designed for Ease of Transport & Includes All the Accessories You Need to Feed, Record & Save Film with One Convenient Device | Complete Set Includes 7” Empty Film Reel, Gray & Red Reel Adapters, AC/DC Power Cord, Micro USB Cable & Dusting Cloth
NOSTALGIC GIFT FOR HOME MOVIE LOVERS | Breathe Fresh Life Into Your Family & Friends’ Dust-Collecting Films with a Thoughtful Present They Won’t Soon Forget! | This Easy-to-Use 8mm/Super 8 Film Converter Makes a Great Gift for Any Occasion Such as Grandparents or Filmmakers Birthday, Milestone Wedding Anniversary, Christmas & Other Holidays, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Retirement & Beyond

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