We are clearing out my grandmother’s house as she has moved into a nursing home, and I have acquired all my late grandfather’s 8mm film reels. He was an avid filming pioneer – there must be 30 reels in all. There is a lovely vintage Kodak projector which I have made work, but it doesn’t wind the reels reliably – I had been planning to record the projection with my digital camera to digitise it.

Has anyone tried THIS SORT OF THING?

Not done it myself but this company in cheltenham can do it to Dvd/blu-ray disc, had our wedding video done and very happy with the results.
http://www.afx-av.co.uk/

This looks like the same scanner sold under a different brand name, with more reviews:
https://www.amazon.com/Wolverine-Super8-Digitizer-Film2Digital-MovieMaker/dp/B01KA32HH0
Seems like it is not the greatest quality of build, but a number of people claim to have got good results

I don’t have a scanner, but have done DIY conversion of cine films by directly videoing a projection. It is not straightforward, and if you can get a good quality professional conversion, that will be a lot easier (and quite possibly cheaper if you factor in your time). I decided to go DIY because I have quite a few reels to convert, and I had a very bad experience when I tried a commercial conversion service, who did a very poor job. All I’ll say is steer well clear of these guys:
http://www.cine-to-dvd-transfer.co.uk/
http://www.Video-to-DVD.co.uk

If you are going to do your own conversion, there are lots of good tutorials on the web and free software available. I won’t go into the details, but you need play around with projection rates and/or software to deal with the flicker interference caused by the difference between the 8mm projection shutter and the video frame rate.

I’m happy with the results I got, but it was a steep learning curve and quite hard work, so like I said at the start, a reputable professional conversion will be a lot less painful!

We gave a tea chest full of film to someone who puts film on video for the BBC[we had this done in the 80’s]. We got back one video, that seems to have the worst bit’s of film, back and the original film was thrown away!
Make sure you get the original film back.