Price: $399.99
(as of Dec 21, 2024 08:30:09 UTC - Details)

Product Description

Turn old films into forever memories.

Watching 8mm and Super 8 films is more of a chore than a trip down memory lane. But now, you can turn your dusty relics into beautiful ready-to-view MP4 files with a single gadget! The KODAK REELS Film Digitizer provides automated ease, simple navigation, quick adaptability, and an extra-large viewing screen for incredible all-in-one convenience. Not tech savvy? Don’t worry. Just load your old film into the universal reel supply, follow the onscreen prompts, and save decades-old movies on any SD/SDHC card in a matter of minutes. You can even plug directly into your big-screen TV to playback footage and reminisce with a crowd. It’s about time you tell your story to the next generation.

Preserve the Past

Lost and forgotten no more. Scan and save your regular 8mm and Super 8 films as digital files for viewing on a PC, smartphone, television, or similar device.

Portable Styling

Although it accepts reels ranging from 3” to 7”, the unit is relatively lightweight, compact, and convenient to carry and store. Great for family trips and reunions.

Onboard Editing

Ensure optimal results regardless of film condition. Capture mode allows you to zoom, adjust the frame, and fine-tune sharpness, tint, and image exposure.

Automated Ease

An 8.08-megapixel sensor automatically reads film at 2 frames per second, creating a digital MP4 video without any manual computing required.

Keep It Real with Any Reel

Don’t feel limited to one size only. This versatile, adaptable scanner accepts a wide range of reel sizes from 3” – 9”.

SD Card Slot

Manage and view saved videos right on the screen. Other menu options include rewind, fast-forward, USB upload, select film type, and more.

From outdated to outstanding

Capture years gone by in breathtaking detail with the REELS Film Digitizer. This automated film converter transforms timeworn 8mm tape into MP4 file format for viewing on all of today’s popular electronics. Whether you’re a professional archivist, nostalgic family man, or storytelling Grandma, there’s no better way to preserve old memories for all time.

KODAK’S groundbreaking interface is not only fast and simple to use—but also great

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
Reviewer: Indy W.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Easy to use.
Review: This unit is easy to use. It's lightweight and of simple design. Loading film is simple. Run time is slow at 2 frames per second, so 34 minutes to do a 3 inch reel, but that's to be expected for any unit. Picture adjustment is easy for color and frame settings. Picture quality is 1080p but it looks slightly grainy with the sharpness setting at default for low lighted scenes. I turn it down then adjust later when post editing of the clip. The white balance setting is auto and can cause some weird color changes on certain scenes as the camera makes it's own adjustments. I wish I could just manually set it.The recorded session is saved on an SD card you plug into the unit, and converted as an mp4 file. Unfortunately you cannot set a time of file creation so that's always as January 1st. Now and then, my machine will make a loud crunching sound, then quits, but I am not sure if its the film pulling hard or the unit itself internally.I use the usb connection to import the files to my PC to then later to edit color and to add titles and such. However, for simple and quick conversions, this unit does a pretty fair job to yield a finished mp4 video file that can be played back on any mobile or PC device.I watched YOUtube videos on this Kodak unit and other brands, and this model was give the better of the reviews. All in all, this is a much better way to convert 8mm film than trying to use a cellphone or camera setup. It's also much cheaper then sending off your films, and quality, as I have read about, is much the same you would get if paid for services, and you have control of your films and video editing at your desire.

Reviewer: AstronomerO8
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A decent, convenient device with a few shortcomings to work around
Review: Pretty nifty piece of equipment. I'll share a brief list of the pros and cons at the end of my review for those who don't have a lot of time.How it works:This digitizer works in an interesting way. It does not play back the film in real time. Instead, it takes a single picture of each frame of the film automatically at a rate of 2 frames per second. It then turns those pictures into an MP4 video file at a frame rate of 20 FPS. This means the time it takes to digitize your film is 10x as long as the film itself. A 3 minute 8mm film takes 30 minutes to digitize.It is fairly quiet. I am quite impressed with its ability to automatically line up the film in the center of the frame as well as its consistency in keeping the video stable! I also appreciate the versatile camera controls. You can adjust the video up, down, left, and right and zoom in or zoom out to get your film pretty darn close to perfectly aligned. The picture quality is decent, but quite grainyLoading the film is fairly easy if you find a video online. The instructions do a poor job of explaining for new users. I did find that I had to babysit the digitizer during the process. At the end of my tapes the film would not always come off the reel. The digitizer would attempt to keep moving. I don't know what the risk to the internal mechanics or to the film are, but to be safe it is best to keep an eye on it when it is close to done and press it a second or 2 early as there is a delay to stop it.There are a few things that I would like to have seen done better with this. The biggest problem is that this works well as long as your film is in very good condition. I have had several films that were spliced or repaired at multiple points, and the digitizer snapped the film at those points almost every time, leaving me to have to stop the digitization, repair, and continue where I left off.Addionally, there is not an easy way to clean the backlight without stopping the digitizing process. I had a couple films drop debris onto the scanner which causes a black spot in the video. I then had to stop the process, open the film tray, and be very very careful while taking the film out. It is not designed to allow you to pull film out unless you are at the beginning or the end of a reel.Pros:- Excellent camera controls. Includes adjusting the frame up, down, left, right, zoom. It also allows you to adjust exposure, sharpness, and tint.- Once your recording has finished, it tells you very clearly what the file has been named. For example "Your recording has been saved as "movie 0001"."- Your film is automatically centered in the frame and is very consistent at keeping the image stable.- Decently quiet, almost satisfying to listen to.- It allows for rewinding when finished by taking the reels off and switching sides. No need to keep the film wrapped around all the tension knobs while doing this!Cons:- It does not digitize in real time. It takes pictures of each frame automatically at a rate of 2 pictures per second. The videos are exported as an mp4 video file at a frame rate of 20 FPS. This means the time it takes to digitize your film is 10x as long as the film itself. A 3 minute 8mm film takes 30 minutes to digitize.- There is no easy way to clean the rear projection light mid-digization- There is not an easy way to remove the film mid digitization. You risk damaging the film. It is safest to remove the film at the beginning or the end of the reel- If your film has been spliced or repaired previouslt, it is quite likely to rip the film, requiring more repairs. However! Any time my film snapped, it happened after it was already scanned, which was nice. This works best with prestine quality film.- I would strongly recommend babysitting the digitizer during the process in order to stop it if it snaps film and when the film reel is done, as my film did not always fall off the reel when finished. The motors still attempted to keep pulling the stuck film- Decent image quality, but quite grainy!- Instructions are poor. I recommend looking at some videos of others using it before loading your reels

Reviewer: DondaB
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Far better than I ever expected
Review: I had originally purchased the "other" brand, trying to save a few $ and was left wanting. Of course, I waited to long and cannot return it now but decided to give Kodak a try. Who doesn't know Kodak, right? They know their stuff. Like the other system, I thought this one didn't have any adjustments... just record and worry about editing later. Was I ever in for a pleasant surprise. No, it doesn't make the video perfect, but the quality if so much better and so much easier to edit. Is it slow, boy howdy is it... but it's good. For this quality, I'm happy to be patient for this kind of outcome. Absolutely recommend this for anyone trying to convert old home 8mm or Super Eight film to digital. It's so easy, it's kind of crazy but I really do love it! For ME, this unit was a hand down winner!

Reviewer: AreYouRichYet
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Rating is for sending me a defective and obviously returned item
Review: The digitizer is great - I ordered a 2nd and it's chunking along right now. Easy to use, just load the film, align, press record.Seller gets one star for first sending me a unit that was clearly a return - the tape holding the lid shut was regular packing tape, messily applied, unlike the "perfect circle of tape" as it comes from the factory. There were other signs of "not exactly factory packaging." The display was dead. and as such it was unusable. he 2nd one I ordered had that circle of tape and works great.

Reviewer: paul
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Don't waste precious time or money on anything else. I bought an Eyesen (same price range), which apparently is made by Wolverine (Eyesen is on the chassis, but it said "Wolverine" on the screen every time I fired it up) - it was absolute garbage. Returned it and got this one. Night and day. Better picture, less wow and flutter, nicer screen, fewer resulting files to work with since it glitched less on things like splices. Much nicer, more stable machine. Fun to use, as opposed to frustrating like the other one. Only negative thing to say is that the rewind motor is kind of week so it rewinds too loosely and sometimes film falls off the end of a fuller reel - but this is not a big deal. Have now redone all the films I did with the first machine. Happy with the results now, just sorry I had to do it twice. Take my advice and do it right the first time!

Reviewer: JTG
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: 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.

Reviewer: DirkF
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Bevor ich etwas zu den positiven Eigenschaften schreiben, ein negativer Aspekt bei meinem Gerät: manchmal friert das Betriebssystem beim Start ein (hängt sich auf) und man muss manchmal mehrfach neu starten. Kann sein dass es nur bei mir so ist.Zum Positiven: ich hätte nicht gedacht mit einem Heimgerät so gute Ergebnisse erzielen zu können. Besser gehts höchstens professionell (Versand, Aufarbeitung, Reinigung etc. - alles teuer)Aber man muss einige Dinge beachten:1. Film richtig einlegen! Sonst werden die Aufnahmen unscharf (und man wundert sich)2. Film sauber in die Klammern auf der Projektionsplatte einlegen ist etwas tricky!3. Klebestellen führen manchmal dazu dass der Film hängt. An den Stellen muss man evtl. manuell etwas weiter transportieren4. Schlechter Erhaltungszustand eines Films (hab ich bei einigen) erlaubt natürlich keine guten Ergebnisse - es findet keine digitale Aufbereitung statt5. Nicht schön ist das Hantieren mit den Buchsen für die Aufnahme der Rollen, die Buchsen sehen so aus als ob sie schnell kaputt gehen6. Für das Rückspulen müssen die Spulen umgedreht werden!7. Dreck auf dem Film wird nicht beseitigt - hier wäre es schön gewesen wenn vor der Einfädelung eine Halterung für ein Reinigungstuch o.ä. vorgesehen wäreAlles in Allem sollte man nach relativ kurzer Zeit sehr gute Ergebnisse erzielen können. Sehr gut gefällt mir z.B. die Möglichkeit den Ausschnitt (Rahmen) festzulegen.

Reviewer: Carlos Peral
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: 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

Reviewer: MATTHEW YETHON
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I researched having my 8mm film converted online by a service. It was very expensive and I finally decided to purchase the Kodak Reels converter to tackle the job myself. It was extremely easy to setup and use. I was converted film within an hour after opening the package. The quality is acceptable for what it is. You can probably do better from an online service that is using better equipment. However, the price I would have paid to do the amount of film that I had to convert with a service would have been at least 3 times the price of the machine. So, the strategy that I have adopted now is to convert everything first with the Kodak Reels, and if it is good enough, then I'm done. If I think it might be worth paying for a higher quality, then I will send those particular reels off for a more professional conversion. There was a lot of footage shot on the film that I had to convert that really wasn't that good, so I'm glad I didn't pay a premium to convert it. Like I said, this gave me the flexibility to get a good enough copy, and to identify what I wanted to go to the next step with.