An Excellent Breakdown and What to Expect From Kodak’s New Super 8
It may have taken Kodak the better part of a decade, but its new Super 8 camera is starting to arrive on store shelves.
It may have taken Kodak the better part of a decade, but its new Super 8 camera is starting to arrive on store shelves.
British electrical engineer Jenny List, known for their extensive work at Hackaday, released a 3D-printable cartridge to fit Fujifilm Single-8 home movie cameras.
Kodak is bringing back the Super 8 camera but with a twist. In the company's own words, it is the "magic of analog filmmaking meets modern convenience" in a limited edition camera body.
Photographer Jason De Freitas has combined his passions for flight and film by mounting a 1960s Super 8 motion picture camera onto a modern first-person view (FPV) drone, and the resulting footage (seen in the 3-minute video above) is magical.
There is no denying that shooting on film is expensive. It is among the many reasons major studios have all shifted to using digital cameras for their movie-making. But even with the shift in technology and cost, there is just something appealing about the way these old analog cameras work. This is why engineer and designer Yuta Ikeya decided to make his own analog movie camera with 3D printing.
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.
The Fragment 8 camera is the latest entry in the nostalgia-driven "retro" craze: a Super 8-inspired digital camera that trades 8mm film for 720p resolution GIFs or MP4s shot on a tiny CCD image sensor.
A guy named Nick Shirrell recently attended a car race, but instead of shooting it with a modern camera, he brought along a Canon Super 8 camera that was launched back in 1968. As you can see in the resulting 3.5-minute video above, the results were delightful.
The popular craft brewery Dogfish Head is launching a new gose beer called SuperEIGHT. The brew shares more than a name with Kodak's famous Super 8 film format: the beer was actually designed to process the film.
Kodak announced at CES in January 2016 that it would be bringing back the famous Super 8 camera as a film camera with digital features. Now, two years later, Kodak has just released the first footage captured with the camera in the 1-minute video above.
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.
While other photo brands are busy announcing their latest and greatest digital cameras, Kodak has a rather unusual unveiling: it's bringing back the legendary Super 8 camera as a film product with digital features.
A lot of film people have deep connections to Super 8 cameras, once the medium of choice for everyone from film school students to porn directors. But it's getting harder and harder to actually use the things, as stocks of film cartridges dwindle.
To the rescue comes Nolab, a project to build a digital adapter that will allow any Super 8 camera to shoot 720p HD video.
When Malik Bendjelloul -- director of the Academy Award-winning documentary 'Searching for Sugar Man' -- ran out of money just a few necessary shots away from completing his film, he wasn't sure what he was going to do. He had decided to shoot the film on a Super 8 film camera, but the cost of film had taken a larger toll on his budget than he had expected.
That's when he stumbled onto the $2 iPhone app that saved his film and, to some extent, is the reason Bendjelloul now has an Oscar sitting on his mantle.