A newly engineered Super 8 camera is set to debut in the spring of 2014. You read correctly. The first one in approximately 32 years. Developed by a Norwegian team represented by Lasse Roedtnes who has been posting updates with pictures on the cinematography forum. Metal/carbonate body with C-Mount and a manual threading path! In fact we initially thought they had copied the famous innards of the legendary Mekel Engineering SP-1 Super 8 camera. No optical viewfinder. Electronic only. Onboard digital audio recorder. Firmware upgrades.
They will be soon launching a pre-order for the first ten cameras on Indegogo. Anticipated price is 2,695$ USD. We suspect that the first batch will be snapped up quickly by rental houses. Analog film keeps punching holes in the digital religion. Here is Lasse's latest post with a picture of the prototype, i.e. http://www.cinematography.com/index.php?showtopic=60409&page=15. I have compiled an album with 8x photos of the prototype on my public UltraPan8 Facebook page, i.e. https://www.facebook.com/UltraPan8WidescreenFilm _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
