Here, in Ukraine, the best way to transfer your films or tape is to DIY or to bring your VCR to someone with a TV Tuner / capture card. I wish we had something like you've doing. Keep up the good work!
@@EmeraldCoastDigitizingI wish I've known that you offer these services, because I've invested too much money and effort to digitise everything myself. I had to get an old PC, a firewire add-on and TV tuner card (4 of them actually, because they're too old to work even on Windows 7 x64), a good array of hard drives and a few VHS and miniDV cameras. Unfortunately, it's hard to get something reliable here, so I would rather pay for international shipping than DIY. But hey, at least I can offer some services here in my country. Not that I want to do this AGAIN, he he:)
Just got a Reels, after trying another machine that had trouble and often jammed. Reels handles films great, but... I have trouble getting a stable picture. Sometimes it flutters, sometimes it doesn't. Can't figure out a rhyme or reason -- sometimes with the same film! (If there's a problem, I try more than once.) Any hints to fix this? I'm following instructions. What am I doing wrong?
I've been using the Kodak Reels for the past year and it's been working great except for one thing. I've noticed that when putting a larger spliced 7" reel kind of causes a stutter at the end of my files. Frames that are repeated or stretched. Have you noticed this? I guess the machine isn't powerful enough to be pulling that much film? Seems to run fine with the standard 3 min reels.
I have already scanned hundreds of films, I have two Kodak Reels, no problems with stuttering, 9 inch reels are no problem. Maybe the machine has a problem?
Interesting. Could be that the camera it recorded on had some issues, but I don't notice it on the small standard reel captures, only the larger ones. And as far as I know the large reels could not be used in any cameras, they were all spliced together later on. Maybe the scanner motor is dying/weak? It certainly has had it's use over the last year.
I just bought a Kodak Reels... have you noticed how the automatic white balance changes colors when it's not supposed to? Like the white balance goes from white to yellowish and back again in the same scene? The inconsistency likely will have me returning it.
For the price I’d say worth every penny if you have a lot of film. The image quality is great but some color issues from time to time. You can stick a grey card in front of the sensor while transfering and trick it sometimes!
Great detailed explanations. I'm deciding between buying a Wolverine and Reelz. Tried Wolverine at the library, not bad, not great. Some RU-vids seem to show Kodak Reelz has higher clarity, while Wolverine has warmer color. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LhQ7qT5CSAE.html --Thanks for posting this view of the process, many good tips.
