A New Super 8 Movie Camera!?

[Corrado Silveri]

Check it out...

http://www.retrothing.com/2007/01/a_new_super_8_m.html

 

[Petr Dvorak]

I love that compact design

but frame must be little bit offset from optical axis...

 

[Pol Turrents]

€ 5,200!!!!!

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

But why??????

 

[Pol Turrents]

I can't wait for a brand new VHS-C camera!

 

[Brook Willard]

If only it was S16 gated...

 

[chuck colburn]

If only it was S16 gated...

I believe they offer it in S-16 also.

 

[Noah Kadner]

Cute design but the film format sounds silly:

"Double Super 8 (DS8) is a hybrid format that uses 16mm wide film to capture Super 8 sized frames. One half of the film is exposed, the reels are flipped, and the other half is shot. The 16mm strip is cut into two 8mm-wide reels after processing."

So I have to run film through the camera twice and hope they cut it properly in processing? That seems way more complex and potentially risky to your film-rather than simply building a pin registered Super-8 movement and shooting Super-8 stock.

Noah

 

[Chris Gearhart]

I can't wait for a brand new VHS-C camera!

That's nothing. I now have a brand new 8-track tape system--in my CAR!! That means I can listen to songs when I'm driving!

 

[Jeremy Hughes]

In a few centuries(perhaps decades), the same thing will happen to video cameras! Once quantum cameras arrive!

 

[Jeremy Hughes]

In a few centuries(perhaps decades), the same thing will happen to video cameras! Once quantum cameras arrive! Then the same thing with quantum cameras when you can take movies with your eyes and the field.

 

[Petr Dvorak]

there is camera with only 1 pixel in labs!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6263551.stm
http://www.dsp.ece.rice.edu/cs/cscamera/

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

there is camera with only 1 pixel in labs!!!

Interesting... Kinda like DLP projection, but in reverse.

I see a few issues with it though... I also don't see how such a technique could possibly address some of what they claim is a problem with current digital camera systems. Seems to me, that it would still require significant CPU power and battery power to process images by this method, not to mention exposure times would be greater and rely on how fast a micromirror device can flutter those tiny little mirrors on and off. Interesting concept, though.

 

[Petr Dvorak]

ditto... but one never know where it ends

 

[Mark Thorpe]

That's nothing. I now have a brand new 8-track tape system--in my CAR!! That means I can listen to songs when I'm driving!

Yeah, right. Next you'll be telling us that you've also found a way to jump immediately between tracks too !!!!!

 

[Emanuel A.]

Here is the Super16 option for €5,200 or $6,590 US:

http://www.ikonoskop.se/acam/index.asp

 

[Corrado Silveri]

Have you seen the dimensions of these things?

So funny...