Still not dead—Kodak shows off brand new Super 8 film camera at CES
Jan 6, 2016
Gannon Burgett
Gannon Burgett is a communications professional with over a decade of experience in content strategy, editing, marketing, multimedia content creation. He’s photographed and written content seen across hundreds of millions of pageviews. In addition to his communications work for various entities and publications, Gannon also runs his multimedia marketing agency, Ekleptik Media, where he brings his expertise as a full-stack creator to help develop and execute data-driven content strategies. His writing, photos, and videos have appeared in USA Today, Car and Driver, Road & Track, Autoweek, Popular Mechanics, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, DPReview, PetaPixel, Imaging Resource, Lifewire, Yahoo News, Detroit Free Press, Lansing State Journal, and more.
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CES is all about the latest and greatest technology. Sometimes though, the greatest tech isn’t anything new at all.
No one knows this better than Kodak, who’s revealed a Super 8 camera capable of, you guessed it, capturing video on good ol’ gelatin-based film.
To celebrate 50 years of the creation of Super 8 film, Kodak showed off an early prototype of a Kodak Super 8 camera that combines the best of the digital and analogue worlds. The camera offers a digital viewfinder, USB ports, SD card slots and a built-in microphone. But the key component is its 8mm film cartridge option.
In speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Jeff Clarke, CEO of Kodak, said the film will cost between $50–70 a cartridge. After being used, these cartridges will be able to be developed and returned to you as either a digital scan or in 8mm format for use in a projector.
Kodak says the camera is set to cost between $400 and $750 and will drop sometime in Autumn 2016.
[via Gizmodo]
Gannon Burgett
Gannon Burgett is a communications professional with over a decade of experience in content strategy, editing, marketing, multimedia content creation. He’s photographed and written content seen across hundreds of millions of pageviews. In addition to his communications work for various entities and publications, Gannon also runs his multimedia marketing agency, Ekleptik Media, where he brings his expertise as a full-stack creator to help develop and execute data-driven content strategies. His writing, photos, and videos have appeared in USA Today, Car and Driver, Road & Track, Autoweek, Popular Mechanics, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, DPReview, PetaPixel, Imaging Resource, Lifewire, Yahoo News, Detroit Free Press, Lansing State Journal, and more.
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