wolverine film scanner from B&H

[mr8mm]

B&H in NYC is pushing a Wolverine S8 / 8mm film scanner for $299.00. Anyone have experience with this scanner? Spec's look good.

[BAC]

That's the same one that was discussed in this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=27004&hilit=china+scanner&start=30

If you look at the examples of film scanned in that thread it looks very jumpy. Not a very high quality scanner.

[RyanH]

I can't find them now, but I ran across some test video and reviews of this a while ago. The two biggest issues seems to be that its only output is heavily compressed mp4 files and that it blends everything into a 30fps video stream. So no individual frames and lots of compression artifacts.

You could probably do better with an old ELMO telecine, which is a sad thing to say.

[camera8mm]

I bought another issue of this scanner, not the wolverine from B&H and it seemed to be less jumpy than the initial release.