Scanning 8mm Movie To A Cd/dvd

[coalminer]

Hi folks,

About 24 years ago, I hired a local photographer to make a photo album of my daughters baptism.

The photographer made about 50 photo's and bundled them in an illustrated photo album.

At the same time. he made an 8mm movie with sound of the happening.

24 years later, I ordered a scan of the photo's at the local photo dealer in Thailand, and got a DVD with the photo's in high-density and low-density (800x600 pixels) for 250 Baht.

But I wasn't able to find anywhere a photoshop or an IT-shop who could scan the 8mm movie.

I see lots of shops advertising that they can scan ("convert") lots of media such as video tapes and the tapes in modern movie cameras to CD/DVD, but none of them was able to do the same with an 8mm movie.

As I understood the process, they need to project the movie onto a projector screen and record the movie on a digital camera. But 8mm projectors seems harder to find than a living dinosaurus in Thailand.

Does anyone has his old 8mm video projector and is willing to put this movie on Digital media (CD/DVD).

The price for doing this can be discussed.

Coalminer

[aurelius]

Its an old post, but I have the same question - have 8mm film that I need to get converted onto DVD; and also, I have a roll of undeveloped 8mm film. Any suggestions??

[IanForbes]

It can be done but it's a long, slow and expensive process if you live in North America. The problem is that the old super 8 movie film was recorded at 16 frames per second. Digital film is recorded at 32 frames per second. So, you can't just film the movie off the screen without it being very jerky. I've done it but the results are poor. I've got many hours of the old 8 mm tape film but getting it all recorded digitally will be very expensive. They have to copy it one photo at a time using specialized equipment. I haven't been able to find anyone in Thailand that does it... even though I know it can be done. As anyone knows, the old film is just a series of single pictures in sequence. My old projectors still work, but the film is pretty brittle now and will break easily if miss handled.

[aurelius]

Thanks for that comment, I'm in Thailand. I guess I could send the film anywhere although I'd prefer not to lose sight of it. I only have 3 reels - its Kodachrome II from early 1960's.

Any ideas on where to go for the undeveloped roll? Of course it may have deteriorated to such a state that there's nothing there...but I'd hate to leave it un-tried.