There are still good reasons to blow Super-8 up to 16mm, mostly if you
have a few short Super-8 scenes that you want to conform into a 16mm
film.  Take the Super-8 OCP, get a 16mm interneg made, and it'll cut
right into your 16mm camera negs.

But... if I were going to do a blowup from Super-8, my inclination would
be to just blow-up to 35mm since these days 16mm really is not a 
popular release format and there are far more places able to show 35mm
than 16mm.  For a short film the cost won't be that much more.

Jeff's comment about scans is a good one, and the scan will allow you to
do a digital intermediate and in the process clean up some of the inevitable
film damage defects on the Super-8 original.  I don't know what the current
costs are to scan it and then get a 35mm filmout are, but it gives the
filmmaker another whole level of control and at 3k really no sacrifice in
sharpness or tonal scale.
--scott
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