Anne T, one of my Moms friends asked about converting some 8mm movies she has in a box in her basement. I haven't converted any 8mm movies yet, because the tapes I converted were from VHS to digital (magnetic media), so they were already converted from 8mm movies.
I did read up a little about how to convert these movies to DVD and vendors usually charge by the foot and each 8mm movie has either 50, 100 or 200 foot reels.
Once they are in a digital format, you can do pretty much anything with them; put them on DVD, post them on the web, keep them on your computer, etc.
Google "8mm", "16mm", "movie conversion", "movie conversion to digital" and see what you get. moviehomedepot.com seems to have a good site and fair pricing.
The great thing about converting this stuff to digital is that you have effectively frozen the degradation process which is oxidizing the film. By converting the film to digital, you do two things; you put it in a format that is much more friendly and usable and you have stopped the process of the film degrading any further.
Good luck.
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