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January 8, 2016

Kodak Bringing Out A New Super-8 Motion Picture Film Camera!

Kodak Super-8 Camera
The new Kodak Super-8 film camera which will hit the market in time for Christmas 2016. It's made from sheet metal and leather. On the front end is a C-mount lens. But apart from that it looks digital. It has a video viewfinder and a removable microphone that records to an SD card. When the 50-foot roll of film is full, you mail it off to Kodak who mails you back your developed film along with a link to a digitized version that you can download.

More about the concept here.

For this incarnation of Super-8 the target market will not be families taking an automobile tour of the western national parks, but film students who want to become the next great movie maker. Kodak has a list of endorsers that is pretty impressive: Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight), Steven Spielberg, JJ Abrams, Quentin Tarantino, Steve McQueen (from beyond the grave!), Robert Richardson (Kill Bill), and a lot, lot more.

It is expected to be priced for the prosumer market, which means expensive, but not so expensive that you can't actually buy it if you want it bad enough.

But no, they are not bringing back Kodachrome Super-8. It's gonna be Ektachrome and Tri-X.

Filed under Photography,Technology | permalink | January 8, 2016 at 09:41 AM

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