Hey, how about Kodak or somebody besides Reflecta come out with a high-quality Super 8 to 1080p home scanner with image manipulation software, rather than us filmmakers having to part with thousands of dollars for professional scanning services? After the film is shot and developed, it needs to be scanned to digital so we can see it! None of us own projectors or viewers anymore, and no one wants to run a negative through a projector or viewer anyway, lest it gets scratched.
I've read that the Reflecta overall does a good job but it has a lever that puts a scratch right through the center of the film frame, the picture area, as the film passes and rubs against it. This is horrible. What nimrod engineer thought of this?
I've got a ton of movies that I shot on Super 8mm film back in the '70s and '80s that I'd love to transfer myself using a home scanner, to maintain absolute shot-by-shot control over brightness and color, without damaging or destroying the film in the process! The scanner doesn't even have to be real-time; even one frame every 5 seconds would be great, or allow me to hand-feed the film through the scanner frame by frame, to control frame alignment! I'm into quality more than speed.