New Super 8 from Kodak

Surely you have already heard the news of a new Super 8 camera manufactured by Kodak. The multinational company has decided to go back to its origins by releasing its first Super 8 since 1982, a time when video cameras began to be more widely used.

This announcement comes shortly after a lot of users were concerned about the discontinuation of Tri-X film and the disappearance of Super 8.

This time, the camera is not intended for home use, but rather for students and experimental artists, but also for any other more commercial use.

The new Super 8 is a hybrid between a digital and an analog camera, as it records to SD cards as well as film and has a digital viewfinder. It features a “Max 8” gate that uses the space usually reserved for the magnetic soundtrack to capture a wider image. This means that it is possible to obtain the 16:9 aspect ratio with much less cropping.

Available recording speeds are 9, 12, 18, 24 and 25fps.

A limited edition of the first new Super 8s is expected to be released in late 2016, priced between $400 and $750. There has also been talk that in 2017 there will be a camera with more limited functions and therefore a lower price.

Kodak further plans to design an entire workflow where you buy the film, burn it, send it to Kodak and they send it back processed into a password downloadable digital copy, all at a price of $50 per cartridge.