I've had this scanner a little over a month now and so far it is working well. I like the large screen, easy to use interface and that the scanner captures more of the frame area than another brand's scanner. The scanner's gate also seems to handle splices better than the competing scanner. I also like that the scanner uses a higher density sensor to capture the scans. I can see slightly finer detail in the picture from the Kodak scanner than the competing scanner. My only complaint is that compression artifacts are visible in the scanned image. These can mostly be removed through a free app known as Handbrake (Mac/PC). I also found, for threading purposes, that sliding the film through the gate works better than arching the film and sliding it under the tabs. Also, under-exposing by a half stop (or one - step) yields a more pleasing and more accurate picture than using the 0 default setting which can blow out high contrast images. Since the scanner's rewind function is painfully slow, I recommend (and use) a separate pair of film rewinds to rewind the film. The build quality of the Kodak REELS scanner seems good but we'll see how well it holds up after I've scanned two dozen 400' reels of film, if I get that far.

The automatic Exposure and White Balance control is a pain. The exposure cannot handle white skies and tends to oszillate. The White Balance produces unnecessary color changes within one clip. A kind of "freeze" function for exposure and white balance could save a lot of time correcting these effects with a video software.

Unit worked well until after about 3 hours the bulb went out and the menu screen froze up and functions do not work. Tried to reboot by turning it on and off but still no light on the film.
Called customer service and they referred me to their email customer help. I'm waiting for their reply and hope they have a replacement bulb. If not we just wasted $400.

Great machine, very user friendly, good quality of the scans and great stability and colors, but the way that we can't chose de quality (size, compression), maybe in a future update? those point isn't a good point, slow rewind too, but one of the best super 8 scanner i ever try.

Hi,
I received the 8mm Kodak Reels Digitizer, easy to operate and works fine! Now a 16mm version!
and a sound version! So Kodak it is up to you.
Thanks