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Hello everyone, First - thank you all for joining TinkerDifferent and posting your results. This project has taken on a life of it's own and it's exciting to see people getting great results from digitizing their 8mm films. 🎉 I wanted to share a new tool I made that'll hopefully make it WAY...

I always assumed this was some weird sound coming out of the speaker because of sad caps or something. My PB 3400 does the same thing, but I never bothered to try taking out the hard drive. Now I'll have to do this! :)

Sadly no, due to the horrible condition of the bottom of the board, I simply assume there is some trace not connecting somewhere.

Ugh yeah, another FTP site that's either dead or is a shell of it's former self. :( Good luck with the search!

I'm very thankful that Kodak has supplied (via their website and email) a firmware update that is seemingly letting users fix the problems that were earlier experienced with screen colors and issues. It is annoying that there is seemingly a "silent", non-numbered 3rd hardware revision of these...

Wow, thanks for the link of the updated firmware they sent you! This is very exciting, I'm glad Kodak is providing updated support for these products. I'm attaching the version you got from Kodak support to this post just-in-case. :) I'll try to flash my v1.0 and v2.0 products to see if this...

In my tests the on-device playback (using the Movie Player function) does NOT play correctly with all firmware mods because the device does not expect higher bit rate / resolution video files. Thankfully if you have a US-based model you can flash it back to the original firmware. I forget what...

With reports of more recent firmware versions on international units, I wrote up a guide of how to dump the firmware on your Kodak film scanner. If you don't mind taking your unit apart and are VERY capable with a soldering iron (and very tiny wires), this may be something you'd like to do. See...

At this time the only way to reverse this would be to 1) figure out what setting changes the LCD settings on non-US models or 2) get someone to modify their non-US model and dump the firmware. This is why I placed warnings all over this guide to try and prevent such issues. Sadly, Kodak will...

Just an interesting update I'd like to share before I forget. If you have a UART serial connection to the device you can enable two undocumented modes. A photo capture mode (to capture stills that are viewable on the device or SD card) and a USB webcam mode! In this mode, a USB camera shows up...

You're welcome, glad to know you like the results. As long as you set "Sharpen" to -1.5 the compression artifacts should be fairly limited. Sadly my v2.0 unit's take up motor died. It's probably still under warranty, but maybe not the return window. These things are clearly quite cheaply made...

I have both models now. The insides are largely identical. However, the CPU chip has slightly different ID codes on it. This may mean it's similar, or the same. This may mean that software needed to be modified in order to make it work. Unfortunately, there's no way of knowing the differences...

We appreciate your dedication! 🔥

Mark mentioned that there should be a few extras for sale on their page once all the Kickstarter ones are sent out, etc.

I'm still working on playing around with my Pioneer / PM 6100 Clone, but I'll be releasing a full video about this system quite soon! I've got some neat upgrades for it! 🔥

Feel free to share the examples, that would be fun. I haven't messed with the frame rate yet, but that'll be next I imagine. Someone sent me the innards of their v2.0 project after they had some soldering issues. Other than the power input board, it seems largely identical. However the...

This weekend I digitized a Super 8 reel using the Kodak device (1920x1440, etc) and compared it to a previous capture I made using my old home-made telecine style setup I made in 2017 using a DSLR (which was limited to 720p resolution). The attached screenshots below are from the original files...

I'm so glad this thread has proven helpful for your archiving efforts! (y) I'm touched that this has helped you with archiving your precious family memories. I'm tempting to purchase a v2.0 unit, although the hardware inside looks nearly identical... but I do wonder if somehow I can push it...

Here's my tips for getting a good image: 1. Ensure the Zoom is all the way out, any zooming in is digital and doesn't help things much 2. Set the sharpness to -1.5 (this may be as close to the "off/low" setting as it goes), it seems the 0.0 setting still applies a filter and introduces...

You're welcome! I've been able to change the resolution (up to 1920x1440) and bitrate, but not the white balance. (n) There is a program on the device that is taking a photo, adjusting the balance/color, and changing things... I am not smart enough to understand how it does this or if it could...