Remember the super 8mm film cameras?Some of you may still have some reels here and there, and most of you don’t even know what it is, but the format that was once synonymous with personal movies is coming back 50 years after Kodak made its first camera. Have analogue formats come back to life lately, including film, is Kodak launching a new Kodak Super 8mm digital camera?which combines analog film with the ease of digital filming, such as adding an LCD screen to shoot (rather than an optical viewfinder), and other digital connections on the back. According to the Wall Street Journal, this model will cost between $400 and $750, but a much cheaper model will be released in 2017.
The first new Super 8 will arrive in limited edition in October 2016 and was designed with the help of industrial designer Yves Behar and will likely cost between $400 and $750. The film should cost between $50 and $75 per cartridge to process.
Film Calibre: Super 8 (Max-8 Extended Calibre)
Film Loading: 15m Kodak Cartridges
Mounting: C-mount
Ricoh 1. 2 fixed 6mm, optional 8-48mm zoom lens
Focus and iris manual
See: 3. 5? See standard input definition and rotation of / – 45 degrees
Exposure control: integrated photometer for speeds compatible with all types of Kodak films, manual speed / diaphragm configuration
Built-in battery and charger via a standard USB wall adapter
Built-in microphone
Control panel: via a 3. 5-inch TFT LCD display
Configuration: Jog Wheel as a user interface
Price: First limited edition?$400?$750, cheaper version to come after
The company has seen a steady stream of filmmakers choose the film in recent years, since the company returned from bankruptcy, but this comes mainly at the top with the 35mm, which is much more expensive, or 65mm madness. (in the case of IMAX and filmmakers such as Quention Tarantino). The Super 8 mm film does not give you the runtime of these formats depending on the cartridge system (a 15 meter cartridge only lasts about 2. 5 minutes), but for most people who just want to experiment with the format will not be a problem.
This is where things will get a lot simpler with Kodak’s plan. As the Super 8mm’s processing becomes increasingly difficult to find and more expensive, Kodak apparently plans to offer services to process the film and give it a digital file. I don’t know what kind of process it will be, but much of that plan makes sense, because a lot of people would like to experiment with the film, but they don’t want complications related to trying to get it back digitally. Kodak says:
Filming with analog technology has never been easier. When you buy the camera, you buy the film, the processing and the digital transfer. The lab will send you your developed film by email and you will receive a password to retrieve your digital scans from the cloud. you can edit and share as you like.
This will decide whether this new company will succeed. If Kodak makes it very easy to send movies (and Super 8mm is already easy to download to the camera), then they’ll start watching a lot of people trying it out, people they couldn’t have?bring nostalgia to people who used the format, and you may want to try it several times.