Unseen 8mm Footage of The Beatles Expected to Sell for $10,000
Never before seen footage of The Beatles shot on 8mm film is expected to sell at auction for $10,000.
Never before seen footage of The Beatles shot on 8mm film is expected to sell at auction for $10,000.
The photo technician who made a secret copy of the Zapruder film -- the clearest video footage of President Kennedy's assassination -- says he was "scared out of his wits."
Fujifilm has updated its lens roadmap to include three new lenses -- a large-diameter mid-telephoto prime lens, a standard macro lens, and an ultra-wide-angle prime lens -- bringing brings the company's total count of produced and planned optics to 42.
Tokina has announced the SZ 8mm f/2.8 Fisheye lens for Fujifilm X and APS-C Sony E-mount cameras. This ultra-wide manual focus prime covers the full image area of crop sensors for what the company calls a "unique perspective."
C+A Global, a brand licensee of Eastman Kodak, has announced the Kodak Reelz Film Digitizer, a new 8mm and Super 8 film digital converter that turns old film strips into modern MP4 files.
For Father's Day this year, Dakota Deady surprised his father, Jones, with found footage of Jones' father who died when Jones was just a toddler. Jones had never seen anything but a single photograph.
It looks like Canon wants to get creative with the full-frame mirrorless RF mount. A new patent uncovered by Canon News shows that the brand is working on an 8mm f/4 circular fisheye lens with a whopping 182° field of view.
Photographer Joey Ready wanted to take his Super 8 film camera into the water to snap some clips of surfers. There aren't any underwater housings designed for his old Canon camera, so he fashioned his own. The video above is what resulted.
Want the look of an 8mm film camera but the convenience of digital? Instead of using a filter app and your phone camera, you can hack together your own digital 8mm camera using Raspberry Pi.
Street photographer Willem Jonkers often hits the streets of Rotterdam in the Netherlands with an ultra-wide-angle 8mm fisheye lens. He then approaches strangers and gets not only close, but low -- really low.
His collection of ultra-low, ultra-wide street portraits show a "Gulliver" effect that makes his subjects look like enormous giants towering over each scene.
The Rokinon 8mm f/2.8 lens is one of the best options for photographers wanting to get in on the super-wide-angle action with as little of an investment as possible.
One problem with this lens, however -- and it's the same with most fisheye lenses -- is the curved front element. With such a dramatic curve, the use of filters on such a lens is almost impossible... almost.
If you believed the rumors, today was supposed to be the day Samyang debuted its first AutoFocus-capable lenses. But that, it seems, wasn't in the cards. What Samyang did announce today (and what they have apparently been teasing all week) was a new 12mm f/2 and several revamped older models that will now work with APS-C and MFT mirrorless cameras.
Here’s some interesting color footage showing the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1939.
Cinematographer James Miller spent two years developing a technique for converting 8mm footage to digital by beaming it directly onto the sensor of a Canon 5D Mark II. He replaced the bulb on an old projector with LED lights, and used elements from a disassembled lens to focus the light. You can read a step-by-step walkthrough of this project here.