Wolverine 8mm & Super 8 Film Reel Converter Scanner - Frame by Frame to Digital 720P Videos

Arrived in 5 days and total cost was £250 after import tax (UK). This cine converter works with standard 8 and super 8 cine film (max 5'' spools) but does not transfer sound. Several options for capture are available in the step through menu, but I found the default settings to be very satisfactory. The transfer is to SD card in mp4 720p video format. Most editing software can resize, slowdown and stabilize the resulting video, so if you want to improve on the original it is possible. The unit can play back the saved files via composite TV out, so a computer is not necessary if you do not want to edit them after capture. The true value for money of the Wolverine will be evident if it lasts a few years, the build is a bit flimsy, but it is not for industrial use and should be handled with care, we are talking 'old cine film' here, so 'heavy-handed' people probably shouldn't be attempting this anyway!

An excellent machine does all it says on the box; I would pay a lot more for the machine; delivery was quick; at a very good price;the picture qualityis as good as having them done professionly ;I love using my little Digitizer;I can not understand why there i s a lot of negative reviews on the web forums;It is not a commercial product to process thousands of films nonstop ;if treated with respect will give lots of film transfer service;I have just completed 22cans of film from 200ft to 400ft reels;the only down side is that it will only take 200ft reels but with some easy jig adaption you can over come the issue; or if you have a viewer and some spare reels you can cut and join with a tape splicer; I recommend this product

Does what it says on the tin, from taking it out of the box to finishing my first 25 meter super 8mm was less than an hour, about 35 minutes to copy the film the rest formating the memory card and getting to grips with threading the film through the gate, Piece of cake.

Delivered from USA to UK within 2 weeks and worked out of the box with no special setting up. Scanned hours of Super 8 films with high quality results, also some 8mm film scanned. Very easy to use and takes about 30 mins to convert a small reel with approx 4 minute Super 8 clip . Scanning is frame by frame onto a standard SDHC memory card which plugs in the back. I used a 32GB card and all of my films fitted on easily. The resulting video runs at 30fps so needs slowing down to the Super 8 18fps using a video editor. I used Adobe Premiere Elements which has all the editing features I need. Excellent product.

Keep saying card error has never worked. Have tried 32GB Sandisk Ultra and Extreme Pro. Have tried different formatting nothing has worked.

Arrived well before time very fast service from America. One point I was surprised it came in it’s own box no other packing not normal service from Amazon. But it was safe and worked fine. This is a very good price from Amazon and with taxes. Other units from China and Europe are much more expensive. The dollar rates makes this a good buy. Wolverine is very good to work with does a good job.Must take the same care as you would doing it with a projecter and you will get good results. Very pleased with my wolverine. Wolverine has a two pin plug American flat pin. British 13amp Razor plug adaptor will work fine, other adaptors are about which will also help. thank you.

I've done a few reels on my Wolverine now, but I was a bit disappointed in the results: I know the compression artifacts are bad, but it also seemed to be out of focus compared with viewing on an old hand-cranked Yashica fresnel viewer. Even with old, uncleaned film, there didn't seem to be any of the small dust specks or film scratches showing; they were simply blurred out of existence..I got this second-hand off Ebay (they are not imported into the UK, and I bought this off an American who had brought it over) so with no warranty to lose, I thought I'd have a look under the hood.The main back comes off easily (though the screws are tight), but you need to get the grey plastic trim cover off the front to get access to the lens/camera.This is held on with a number of small screws on the reverse of the main steel mounting plate, BUT before it will come off you need to pop off the small touch-panel (with the on off button) on the front; this simply unclips (get your thumb nail under the front corner and gently prise up and along). Trust me, the main grey cover will not come off before you remove the control panel: I spent ages trying!Once removed, you have direct access to the camera lens, which has a screw adjustable lens. Sure enough, after a quick play around, it was clear that the lens could be focused much better than the factory set-up. Great, but I now need to re-scan a few hundred feet of film..I am now scanning without the grey cover, so that I can keep a check on the focus.A few other findings: I had a troublesome Super8 reel which just wouldn't catch on the 'claw' to advance the film. On close inspection, the holes seemed to be set further inboard than other Super8 films that worked fine; just a fraction, but enough to cause a problem. I was envisioning how I was going to trim the edge of the entire reel to get it to work, but the answer was rather easier; by easing the 'standard 8- super8' setting switch slightly over towards standard setting, it moved the claw just enough to be able to scan the film fine.I have rigged up separate reel holders, like many users, to be able to scan larger reels, with a rubber drive belt onto a pulley directly onto the take-up spindle. This works fine; however, the inertia of a full 7", 400 foot supply reel can cause jarring as it pulls taught. Some users report this as causing juddering and mis-scanning. The trick is to get the film to curve up and down (which effectively acts like a spring, pretty much like at the take-up side where the film goes round a few pegs) before aligning to the scanning inlet. I do this very simply with a lint free soft cloth, which I wrap very loosely around the film as it comes off the supply reel, supported to guide the film in the correct orientation.I use 'Film Guard' cleaner/lubricant before hand on all of the reels, using my old Yashica viewer (which has a fast geared hand-wind) to quickly wizz through the film. I also use the Yashica to rewind all the films in general, as this will far extend the life of the machine, which, let's face it, is no heavyweight. On rewind mode, the poor old stepper motor is really going quite frantic! Not good.This could be a good bit of kit. Better access for basic adjustment, and more control over compression and image processing would make it so much better. How many are out there with poorly focused lenses from the factory??But at the moment, there really isn't much else to compete with it at this price.