You see, the thing is that left and right *ARE* very significant economical categories, it’s just that you need to amend them with liberal vs. authoritarian on cultural affairs, yielding a four-field matrix. Basically the so-called political compass.

Don’t confuse maybe 5% of the footage above being highly grainy, ungraded negative 800 ASA film for “Super8". And no, you can’t “simulate” the superior quality of lower-sensitive, particularly reversal Super8 film because digital just has too poor a quality for that.

Not all commercial production companies are “hipsters”. Still, many of them nowadays shoot tens to hundreds of thousands of feet of Super8 per year. You just don’t notice because you’ve learned to associate “Super8" with ugly video defects that stem from pointing a cheap 80s video camera at a projection screen.

Wrong. The technology outside of film transport is from the 2010s, including livesound recording to internal flash card, native 16:9 image, camera screen and digital out for live preview (including simulating the film’s ASA), and smartphone remote.

The Limited Edition camera is targeted at film schools and production companies. There are production companies nowadays that shoot tens to hundreds of thousands of feet of Super8 every year.

“10 years behind the times” are only those people that believe there would be any future in digital still imaging outside of iPhones and cheap cellphones, whereas film is a growing market. There are still only few handful digital cinematography cameras that can remotely dream of rivalling the image quality of film if…

They didn’t make money off “selling their patents” to some remote other companies. Kodak has simply split into Kodak USA for movie film for Hollywood and Super8, and the UK-based Kodak Alaris (owned by KPP, the internal Kodak Pension Plan) that’s their former amateur department that was spun off, and Alaris owns all…

a.) Several thousand Dollars is the early Limited Edition that’s intended for film schools and production companies. The Regular Edition to follow will only cost a few hundred bucks.

b.) With modern telecines nowadays, most of the time you can’t tell in image quality between Super8 and 16mm.

The amateurs have been squeezed out of Super8 by the late-80s to mid-90s already due to Hi8 and DV. Today, Super8 is a prosumer and professional medium, used in the cinema, music videos, image films, and such. There are production companies that shoot tens to hundreds of thousands of feet of Super8 film nowadays.

Tell me again about a supposed “reduced quality” when with modern telecines, you can’t tell between the image quality Super8 and 16mm most of the time anymore. Don’t confuse an unusually grainy, ungraded negative 800 ASA film for “Super8" itself.

Super8 is gonna get cheaper again once the new Ektachrome will be out. Not only are telecines from reversal much cheaper, Kodka also promised back in early 2016 that new new camera wouold come with a new film package deal where 50 bucks would buy you a cart with pre-paid processing, HD-telecine, password-protected…

Did you even read Marcelo’s post? He didn’t talk about the editing table. Plus, Super8 is still cheaper than 16mm, and will become even cheaper once the new Ektachrome will be out.

And with 2.) and 3.), you’re actually confirming what Marcello has said about Super8 being superior to digital.

Well, image quality of video has always been crap until JVC came up with its special cine modes for colors around 2005, shortly after joined by Sony with their XDCAMs, and then it also began that you can natively shoot progressive video at last for much more pleasing, cinematic motions. But from early on, video…

You’ve obviously never seen a professionally telecined Super8 film in your entire life if you’re comparing the quality to something as shitty as VHS.

Remember we’re talking about color and contrast range here, not necessarily resolution. But there’s certainly enough resolution especially in legendary K40, Ektachrome100D (introduced to Super8 around 2006), and Vision3 50D negative film for 2K, all in the Super8 format.

Also, it’s funny that with von Trier, you’re naming a director who 30 years ago (which is obviously the point in time you’re using as reference for what you think “looks good”) shot on video, then switched to film for a long time, and only recently has abandoned film for digital cinematography, spending a lot of time…

You’re completely ignoring the fact that chemical film has a way bigger latitude, color and contrast range. I’m willing to wait for the processing in the darkroom just for that so my films will not look as crappy as video does. Would I prefer the results be immediately visible? Yes (so it’s not an issue of a…

No chemicals for color reversal development, no. But prosumers and labs can still develop Kodachrome to b/w negative. Negative means you have to scan it before you can view it. I think Film Rescue would be an option for you if you’re in the US.

This new camera has an out-of-the box image aspect ratio of 16:9 via Max8, lip-synch livesound recording to flash, crystal synch for a rock-solid framerate, a digital display panel for you to see right away how your exposure will turn out, jacks for professional mics, and a jack for a video-out to a professional…

You’re obviously not aware of the fact there are currently many professional production companies that are each using hundreds of thousands of feet of Super8 film per year, using them for image films, music videos, and commercials. And then there’s the entire wedding photography market.