8mm Film Transfer?

Eric^2 asks: "My family has over 50 spools of 8mm (real non-magnetic no-audio developed) reel-to-reel film that I would like to get converted over to a digital format before it deteriorates any more. The majority of the solutions I've seen involve an expensive (frame-rate-adjustable) projector and a miniDV camcorder. Even the services I've looked into (while quite expensive) use this scheme. The film speeds are not 30 fps (i.e. NTSC), so there are some synchronization issues that must be overcome."

"The more expensive equipment does some of this, but it's not perfect. I would rather get the best quality out of the transfer, so I looked into a film scanner. Firstly, all the film scanners sold today are primarily designed for 35mm, with attachments to do other film sizes, but none of them seem to be designed to handle movie film - they're all single frame scanners. Scanning a frame at a time with a high-quality scanner seems like the best way to retain as much detail as possible, but I'm not going to sit in front of a computer for days manually advancing each frame of film. Has anyone had success transferring reel-to-reel 8mm film to a digital format and if so, how was it accomplished? Do I need to build my own capture device that moves the frames through a scanner, or should I just do the common projector-camcorder method?"