Scanning SUPER 8 at Home with The WOLVERINE MOVIEMAKER-PRO | REVIEW

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[@ClintJohnsonWriter]

I find it frustrating because it would take only a moderate effort by the manufacturer to hugely increase the quality. The components are well over 10 years out of date and no effort has been made to do something as simple as swap out the 15 year old 4MP camera for a cheap 5 year old 12MP camera, put on rollers rather than guides, and lower the compression ratio while giving the option of storing individual uncompressed pngs or low loss jpgs on larger SD cards. Those simple swap outs and reprogramming would move this scanner from frustrating with a ton of post processing required, to a worthwhile option for serious home scanning.

[@werdlederdle]

“Sharpness to digitally enhance the scan to make things look worse”. Nothing beats honest.

[@ColinGrimshaw]

I've been using the German "Reflecta" version of this for some while, with reasonable success. A few tips that might also apply here are: If you are in the position to be able to edit or do some post-production, then DO NOT use the zoom option. The zoom is not optical but rather electronic zooming and framing of the image scan. This is far better achieved in post-production software. This is why zooming in to 'frame it' correctly and then using sharpen only enhances the 'jpeg-ness' of the image encode. Do zooming, to frame and sharpen, externally. Also, I too had problems with the 'auto' for both exposure and colour. Zooming out all the way overcomes the problem of exposure (to an extent). When zoomed out you'll get both the sprocket holes in view and a white bar on the other side. These areas of white seem to fix and hold the exposure and colour balance during scanning. When zoomed into a frame the unit only exposes for that area, my option fools the device to see a constant area of white to set itself by. After scanning a film, tweak everything in an edit programme!

[@CS-uc2oh]

Um the Wolverine scan looks way better than the lab scan in the side by side comparison section you have with Wolverine on the left and the lab scan on the right. Maybe you need new glasses... That lab scan looks awful.

[@cjpenning]

If a transfer service does not mention what equipment they are using then assume they are using THIS.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

I've been following the various incarnations of these chinese OEM Hardware Scanners and still wonder why on earth no hacker has given these things a custom firmware that actually makes these things somewhat usable. Like being able to at least save single frames as stills, adding LOG curves, higher bitrates, more stable film transport and so on...it also sucks that these aren't able to transfer the magnetic audio of super 8 but i wonder if you can transfer the optical sound of some Single 8 reels when you use the overscan function? Oh and a higher resolution would also be great. Personally i would not use anything below 4K scans anymore in this day and age.

[@allys537]

I'm glad you enjoy the film! For those harvesting the Fuji 800 from disposables, remember... you HAVE to block the lens, (waterproof housing removed if applicable) or use a dark bag and "take" pictures with the lens blocked to wind the film back into the canister before unloading the camera. On disposables the film lives out of the cassette and when you take pictures it winds it back into the cassette as you go. (it's why you don't have to "rewind" a disposable when sending it to the processer). Just remember to stop at the very end before the counter gets to 0 so you leave a leader out, otherwise you'd have to retrieve the leader...

[@spencerjoplin2885]

The bitrate is the bottleneck to quality here, not the camera. An uncompressed scan that resolves all the film grains in a 50-foot roll of 8 mm should be around 30 GB = 3M px * 3 byte/px * 16 f/s * 210 s. Instead, this scanner saves a roll to about 260 MB, which is effectively a 100:1 compression ratio.

[@lannieschafroth6814]

I saw a video showing to NOT zoom with the Wolverine and do the crop later in post editing. This makes a huge difference. The video with the digital zoom of the converter is riddled with compression artifacts. The video with no zoom is virtually artifact free.

[@Rivenworld]

Yeah, paid 400GBP for one of these, ended up selling it at a loss, quality and colour balance was rubbish. Great review.

[@spencerjoplin2885]

My thoughts after scanning a box of old Kodachrome with the Wolverine Pro.

[@kerc]

Good point on using this to get a preview. I got a Wolverine F2D for $8 in excellent condition and I use it to scan my home-developed 35mm film as a quick way to have a "contact sheet" of sorts, and from there I can pick what I will be scanning with Silverfast and my Epson.

[@jackphoton]

Thanks for this assessment. I've recently come into several thousand feet of reels. With 3", 5" and 7" titles such as "Key West 1953", Miami 1961, Amsterdam 1980 and others, there is likely some historical gold in there to be found. Whether Wolverine or magnasonic or the kodak option, 1080p will/should yield an excellent inventory-grade digital repository for indexing. As you suggest, once any gems are found, bring those to a lab for pro quality.

[@jeffreyfinegold2463]

I wasn’t expecting much judging from your comments but I was very impressed. Watching on a 65 inch LG 4K OLED I couldn’t see a huge difference in picture quality on the side by side or the full screen scans. Granted the stability wasn’t great but one is used to that on 8mm projectors anyway. I must ask has anyone pointed out that your intro music comes from the station ident for the sadly missed Uk regional channel “Harlech” serving Wales?

[@DaveFlys]

Great video. I’ve been hoping to find a solution to digitizing old movie film. This video had me excited at first, but left me feeling the weight of truth: you get what you pay for. Thanks for the honest review!

[@wingitprod]

Tanx for this video. I just learned of this product and your review is indispensable.

[@JonsCopyright]

Great review. I thought of buying this product for Super 8 scans for future use but I don’t have any old home movies get this scanner and wasn’t too sold on the resolution. Although the resolution looks passable enough but a higher quality film lab scan does wonders in terms of color grading.

[@SinaFarhat]

Interesting!

[@mattsan70]

HTV Wales Ident tune was nostalgic

[@aitkenproduction]

Ha, ha ha