Super 8 Magazine
SUPER 8 magazine numéro 5
Author(s) Jurgen Lossau
Format magazine
Year 2022
Language(s) English, German
Pages 70 pages
Description
The new Kodak Super 8 camera: "Later this year."
Will it be released or not? And if so, how much will it cost? News about a camera everyone thought had already disappeared. In an in-depth article, Jürgen Lossau explores what has happened to this camera in recent years and what the prospects are for seeing the hybrid model in action this year.
Yves Béhar: designing a camera as a film enthusiast
His parents were cinephiles and, at age 12, he was shooting and editing his own Super 8 films. Designer Yves Béhar was commissioned to design the Super 8 camera for Kodak and describes his work.
High-tech according to Kodak: the modified technical specifications
In essence, the Kodak Super 8 camera, as presented at CES 2016, has remained true to itself. But certain details have changed, for example in the housing, battery, and software.
Double 8 for twice the pleasure: shooting with 8mm spring-wound cameras
Florian Cramer presents interesting 8mm cameras and explains why working with the Double 8 film format is so wonderfully analog. Old-fashioned craftsmanship, slower than Super 8.
Tour de Film: ten years of accompanied bike races
Andreas Scheffer shot an entertaining and very personal 15-minute documentary in Super 8. It features agile cyclists, big bellies, and a little boy—a documentary with singular visual effects. In an interview, he discusses the ideas that inspired the film.
Skaters in Super 8: Dan Schulz blends digital and analog
Skaters and their tricks—that's the passion of Dan Schulz, who lives in Berlin. Sometimes it takes several hours of digital filming to capture a single trick. That would be too expensive in Super 8. But it's the atmosphere and beautiful images that Schulz captures with his Nizo that matter.
Prototypes—cameras never built
Whether 8mm, Super 8, Single 8, Double Super 8, or 16mm, there are numerous camera models for all film formats that never saw the light of day. Here we present some particularly remarkable specimens from a technical standpoint, as a preview of the forthcoming book PROTOTYPE.