Various sources list the Canon 1000D shutter life expectancy at between 25,000 and 100,000 activations. If the 8mm film is 16 frames per second, then this setup should be able to capture between 26 to 104 minutes of film before consuming the expected lifespan of the camera shutter.

Edit: Changed math from 24 frames per second to 16 fps to reflect the 8mm film fps standard playback speed of 16 fps.

I built a Gugusse Roller a few years ago for scanning 8/super8/16 reels, and it's been an absolute workhorse. So Denis's site isn't hugged to death, here's a link to his YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKRNF9QvmIiL1MzkNluiv1Q

It's a bit slower, but it's in active development.

I wanted to scan some old family super-8 movies. You can buy film scanners that will do the job on amazon. The only problem seems to be that they will encode the video, but nobody seems to convert the magnetic audio track.

EDIT: example - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CN93JSX6

The quality is probably not as good but my father got fairly decent results filming directly with his digital camera the projection of the super8 film on a screen (obviously in the dark).

The added bonus is he would grab the sound of the projector which add a bit to the vintage touch.

I was hoping for a sample of the footage being captured, but I don't see any on their blog.