As anyone who has dabbled in 8mm film will tell you, there is a lot in the quality of a film digitizer, and it’s often worth paying for a professional job from someone aimed at the film-making ...

Each film frame is captured individually and some advanced math goes into converting the frame rate to video, if necessary. They're extremely complex and very expensive machines.

An 8mm and Super 8 film to digital converter can be borrowed from Elgin’s Gail Borden Public Library’s “Library of Things.” ...