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All-in-One Super 8/8mm Film Scanner - Main

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83 % of 100

Super 8/8mm Film Scanner

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20%

Product Review (submitted on September 16, 2020):

I started out thinking this device was pretty nice, with a sleek design and simple controls. Initially, I liked that it auto aligns on the frame, but that was the end of that. The advancing mechanism was glichy from the start. The very first Super 8 that I scanned had to be scanned in 4 segments because although it started ok, after between 10 and 40 seconds the advancing mechanism started missing the sprocket holes, so I had to stop, move it 1/4 inch and restart, several times. There was nothing wrong with the film. The second Super 8 scanned all the way through without any issues. 'YEA, I exclaimed' thinking that maybe the first tape was bad and I was on a roll now. No such luck. After scanning the second Super 8 film, I tried a 3rd, and a 4th, and a 5th Super 8. No go at all.'OK, well, what if I try to switch over to scan an 8MM. Maybe that will work.' I got through it, but it took 8 segments to get through it. Now, I thought, 'The Super 8 won't work at all, so I'll try another 8MM.' 'HAHA,' the machine laughed at me and said, 'I'm not going to work on 8MM now either.'After spending 8 hours trying to get this thing to work and only getting through three 3 minute films, and having to run the segments through a video app to combine them, it's going back.

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