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    Hacking the Kodak Reels 8mm Film Digitizer (New Thread)

    i'm sorry i didn't take pictures of the whole process, i hope i can make it a bit clearer: you have to completely unscrew the scanning unit from the case. there are like 8 screws that are screwed into the plastic. first, carefully disconnect the ribbon cables. you have to unlock the...
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    Hacking the Kodak Reels 8mm Film Digitizer (New Thread)

    those nylon washers definitely are a nice solution and surely are pretty easy to aquire anywhere 👍
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    Hacking the Kodak Reels 8mm Film Digitizer (New Thread)

    I totally agree, who could be a real tinkerer without loving overkill? :D I was able to get a broken super8 editor on ebay. nobody wanted to have it, so I only paid 1€ plus 7 € shipping ;) It is really chunky and the screen is not very pleasant to look at. I anyways planned to salvage only...
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    Hacking the Kodak Reels 8mm Film Digitizer (New Thread)

    I am still in utter admiration for the energy and dedication you all are putting into fabricating a firmware that helps us getting a decent picture quality out of a seemingly unsatisfying consumer product! 🤩 Thank you for that! I am currently into the hardware side of things and I tried an el...
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    Hacking the Kodak Reels 8mm Film Digitizer (New Thread)

    ah, I nearly forgot one little bug with the firmware. I have a 32 GB and a 64 GB sd card for capturing, both are from Kodak. whenever I use the 64GB sd card, editing of the parameters while scanning is not possible. it's the same view in the lower right corner of the screen as in the preview...
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    Hacking the Kodak Reels 8mm Film Digitizer (New Thread)

    hi everyone, after flashing the overwhelmingly awesome modded firmware, I came up with a hardware-modification on my european Reels (B), I felt might be worth sharing with you. It helped me get rid of the jittery captures I had on some movies. The pickup-reel moved too fast in my opinion...
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