I just did a transfer of 8mm for a client...and I did it the 'ol cheap way
 by playing the film on the best projector I could find on a piece of white
 tag board. I made the projected image as small as possible while staying 
in focus to make the sharpest image I could. Then I shot it with my XL1 at
 the slowest shutter speed I could get...1/60. The result was a surprisingly 
good image with just a little flicker. If you have a cam with even slower 
shutter speeds you could elimenate the flicker all together. I found that 
the image I got with my XL1 in this fashion was as good and at times 
better that the original because, let's face it, old 8MM film looks like crap 
most of the time anyway.


Chad Koel
Koel Communications