Digitize Video?

How About this?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/FILM-TRANSFER-Telecine-8mm-S8-MOVIES-to-VIDEO-DVD-Digital-Assembled-in-USA-/261045135823?pt=US_Movie_Slide_Projectors&hash=item3cc780a9cf

Years ago Recoton made a similar device, we sold a few and they did work with the early generation cameras.

You are paying for a box with mirrors and back-projection screen, plus extra sound mixing kit. That's the mediocre way to preserve your precious movies/ slides. If you want high quality then the professionals use real 'telecine' machines which scan the film and allow colour grading ('timing') of the material. This will cost, unless you know a mate who works for production house.

If you do the home transfer box method you need a close focusing video camera and probably a shutter speed adjustment to avoid flicker. If you resort to projector - screen - camera, try to make to picture as small and bright as you can, to get to brightest, cleanest image.

Like IdeaSmith said. I did it with my slides and it worked great. Set the slide projector on timer, projected onto the screen, focused the digital camera on a tripod sitting just over the projector to cover the area and using max resolution kept shooting until the tray was empty. Using 5 to 8 seconds was more than enough time per slide. Got it down to 5 as I rolled along. Transferred them to my computer and finally burned a DVD with years of slides and made copies and gave to the kids and wife. I figure on doing the same with my 8mm films after I locate a new bulb for the projector.