Hacking the Kodak Reels 8mm Film Digitizer (New Thread)

Hi, new forum user here, joined specifically for this Kodak Reels discussion. I just received my Reels digitizer, s/n H2324148BK01819. Since I have quite a few films to do that are important to me and I'm now aware of the limitations of the stock machine, I would like to try the modified firmware, and likely change the lens too. There seems to be still quite a bit of change going on by you absolutely amazing rockstar hackers in this regard (I'm deeply impressed with your creativity, generosity, and persistence). As such, at this point do ye think I should wait a bit until 'the way' has been stabilized a bit more?

@WowIndescribable H2324148BKxxxxx is a type C, so you have no need to wait. While the firmware hacks are is still changing, but the quality improvements are slowing. If you can swap the lens, with any recent firmware, you will be good.

Version 7.7 for Type A, B and C (and stock FW recovery for D users.) So nothing for Type D yet, at least now unit can be recovered if the wrong firmware is installed.

New to v7.7
- stats and controllable field are written off the video image (bottom right corner.)

- there is now an ISO Max control, supporting 100,200 & 400 ISO settings. Defaults to 100.

The code has had a lot of clean up, to it is get easier for other to start contributing. github: https://github.com/0dan0/4reels

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