I’ve decided to finally digitize my late Father’s Standard 8mm movies. I know the Wolverine unit seems to be the most common machine for this task. Any thoughts or recommendations? Thanks everyone.

The Wolverine is a simple machine but mostly get the job done. I have one, although sold under the name Reflecta (but it is the same machine). I digitized my parents' home movies. All but two went through. The two that didn't was slightly wider than it should have been being a Normal 6 that was recorded on 16mm where the film was turned half way through and split and joined at the lab. I guess the lab was slightly off the middle for those two.

The result is OK. The speed of the end result was not correct, so I had to correct that with a video editor. I can't remember which fps it saves the video as, but it is not 18fps.

So for the price it does a decent job, but it is not a professional machine for sure.

This is dangerous territory as "home" machines lack quality. Family films should really be "scanned once" for archival purposes. As I have had my motion picture project scanned on different equipment, I suggest having them professionally scanned.