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Topic: Kodak's new super 8 camera
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Rob Young.
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1633
From: Cheshire, U.K.
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted January 23, 2018 02:46 PM
Oh Goodness, is this still rattling on?
Come on Kodak, give us reason to be truly interested, or give it a rest.
Far too little, far too late...
When first mentioned, this venture was truly exciting, but now it's just a joke.
When first announced, I was really thinking of buying one, but now the cost is spiraling, the quality is awful and there literally is no real market...what is this nonsense???
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Paul Adsett
Film God
Posts: 5003
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted January 26, 2018 11:53 AM
The question is, what market are they aiming for? Certainly not the every day Joe, who was they're bread and butter at one time, and who now does not even want to use a video camera, preferring to take those idiotic vertical videos with their cell phones. Then we have the film students at Universities and colleges. Do they still use 16mm, or is all the equipment now high end video cameras? Not sure where the new camera would fit in here, but if these places have plenty of money, which they seem to have, maybe there is a small market here for introducing some elements of reel film into a film course. But there again, 16mm would make a much better learning tool than super 8. Finally we have the film enthusiast, us guys! Are any of us going to spend 2K -3k on this camera? I doubt it very much. Many of us still have more than one S8 camera, and if we don't we can pick up a great camera for a couple of hundred on ebay. So, who is going to buy this camera?
-------------------- The best of all worlds- 8mm, super 8mm, 9.5mm, and HD Digital Projection, Elmo GS1200 f1.0 2-blade Eumig S938 Stereo f1.0 Ektar Panasonic PT-AE4000U digital pj
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