 Hi, I'm Sergio Angelos, Executive Director for Llama Public Media. Actually, we just got a new piece of gear. It's the Kodak Reels Film Digitizer for 8mm and Super 8mm film. We're going to do a little unboxing, and our friend and also member, Bob Brzezinski, will join us. That's me! Oh, here he is! Come back! Help me, Bob! All right. Well, I got to frame the shaft for the two of us. Thanks for joining us, Bob. Oh, thank you, Sergio. And that's a very light box. It is. It is raised by small and light. Does it say how much it weighs? Oh, I don't know. Probably not. Does it have nutritional content? It does not. Oh, sure. Well, you want to start taking a... Yeah, sure. All right. So just for those watching, the reason why we bought one of these was we were starting to get a lot of interest from members and the public to digitize some 8mm and Super 8 film. So we looked online, and we saw that Kodak just has this new film digitizer. aptly named the Kodak Reels Film Digitizer. We decided to go for it. So if any of you have Super 8 or 8mm film want to come digitize it, come on by. We'd love to train you on how to use it and go from there. So what do we have so far? Well, we got a wall wart. I think that looks pretty nice. That's a decent... Yeah. Oh, we've got a... It's not a big power supply. No, microfiber cloth. Oh, this is one of those expensive ones from Apple? No. Oh, what have we got here? Oh, these go into certain reels. They're adapters. Okay. Yeah. So you can put that little collar in there. Yeah. Okay. All right. Okay. This thing is... You got it? How heavy do you think this is? Like a pound, two pounds? Yeah, no more than a can of beans. Depends on how heavy your beans are. All right, you want to go for it? Yeah. We got a piece cut on the... You know, maybe a better way. Oh, here we go. It would be to just be... Oh, just rub it? Yeah. Oh, wow. This is one heck of a sexy-looking machine. Wow. Nice industrial design. Now, my guess is a Kodak out of Rochester licensed its logo and name to whomever manufactured this. Huh. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Okay. So these come out. So is this where the film goes? So how did you get that? You just pulled it up? Yeah, I just pulled it up. And then now the feeder probably goes there and the take-up probably goes here. And then you got an LED display. Should we plug her in and put a reel in? Sure. Okay. It does look like on the back it's got a USB and SD card. Oh yeah, cool. So you can record directly on SD. And this is a 1080 machine, correct? Correct. Yeah, only up to 1080p. And I think it records directly onto the SD card. And there's an LED display here too so it'll probably allow you to see your frame. Oh, interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cool. Yeah. And some USB cable. Yep. Now apparently this thing records two frames a second. I think so. I think you're right. Yeah. It's pretty slow. You get 18 frames per second on 8mm Super 8 film. So take about four and a half seconds to digitize a second. Well, that's not a bad ratio. So there is no other reel here? No, that's for the movie. I just happened to have... We do have some. 8mm. All right, I'm going to go grab a power strip. All right. My collection of 8mm movies from the 50s... Wow. Wait, 50... No, mid 50s, 60s, up to about 1971. Shit. Oh, you gotta bleep that out. So these are my parents' honeymoon films and they go on and on and on. I can tell you we put a lot of friends asleep with that. And then, I don't know, this is from 1963. My little sister's one-year-old birthday. So maybe we'll look at that. Look at that. Isn't that something? It's like spaghetti. You could just... Well, let's... What do you say about plugging that? Fire ringer up. Sure. So you got the power connected and you're going to plug in. Just takes 12 volts. Yeah. And... Okay, that's... You got to put an SD card in there. Just turn the sucker on. Okay. Oh, we got to thread it. So maybe we'll go off camera and thread this. So it looks like on the... Take a look at the menu. Okay. So it has capture menu and settings. Okay. It does feel like... It's like cheap plastic. Oh, yeah. Yeah, no, this is not... It's not sturdy. No, this is not what do they call it? Polycarbon? Yeah. Polycarbon? I don't know. No, you wouldn't want to drop this. I don't think. But that's pretty good advice for any optical. That's true. Yeah. All right. So it stores recordings on here. Ah, then you can dump it. Okay. And let's see what other settings they have. Language, USB upload. All right. Erase SD card. Factory reset. And about. And that's it. Okay, simple. Nope, not connected. And... All right. All right. Well... This could take a minute or two. Yeah. Should we shut off camera and thread this? Sure. Okay. Yeah. We'll be back. In a flash. That's a joke, a photography joke. So look it. There you go. Well, it seems to be doing its job. Yeah. So... It's cool. It's quiet. Yeah, it's really not that loud. We had a little bit of trouble. We figured out how to properly put in the film. And then, yeah, you put your beginning spool. Is that how you would call it? Over here. And then you tie it up over here. And then you let it go and you can position... I guess that's settings to change the frame. So that way it's centered. Yeah. So you can adjust the framing and focus. The color adjustment seemed to be kind of basic. Yeah. Maybe not even basic. But it's pretty neat. It seems to be doing about two frames a second. So probably what does that mean? 18 frames. So it's about, I don't know, you can do maybe nine frames. In... I don't know. We'll do the math later. We'll do the math later. I should know this. Well, I think the ratio is about, well, two to one to nine. So... Oh, gotcha. Yeah. Yeah. You would take nine seconds. Four. One second. A video? Yeah. I think. So... Yeah, and the cool thing is, I guess we could show it. You want to show it? Do you mind if we stop it? Not at all. No. We'll just stop it here. But once you do it, you can view the playback. So we'll do it. We'll go ahead and do that now. And then you can actually see it come to life. Oops, wrong way. Oh, there we are. That's my little sister. 1963? Wow. I guess. So that was, yeah, 13 seconds of video. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. And it saves it all here, which is on the SD card. Yeah. So... Pretty cool little package. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Well, thanks for watching the unboxing.