Kodak’s announcement in 2016 that it was bringing back the Super 8 movie film format via a new hybrid film-digital got a lot of attention, but since then it seems not much has happened. Well, things are moving: Kodak has distributed several working prototypes of the camera to various cinematographers, and finally has something to show: Demo films.
Here are five videos that are considered among the first footage to be shot with the new Kodak Super 8.
The Kodak Super 8 Camera will use a new generation of Super 8 film in 50-foot lengths, and will feature a 4-inch digital viewfinder for composing shots (and perhaps a method of recording them digitally on SD cards). After you’ve recorded your films, you would send the footage back to Kodak for processing, and it gets returned to you in both finished film, ready to be watched on a Super 8 projector, and as a digital copy.
The camera will feature a 6mm f/1.2 Richo (Not Ricoh) manual-focus lens, and shooting speeds of 18, 24, and 36 frames per second, according to the Kodak web site. It is expected to be available around the end of this year. When it was first announced it was expected to cost $400-750, according to PetaPixel, but now they’re saying the price will be much steeper, $2,500-3,000.
