Out now: Super 8 Magazine #17

Here are the topics of the new issue:

Super Nature – the incredible documentary 82 minutes for the big screen—shot on Super 8. Forty filmmakers traveled around the world to bring this project to life. Under the direction of Ed Sayers, founder of the Straight 8 competition in London, a magnificent work was created. Scenes from the animal and natural worlds, captured on a format that is just as threatened with extinction as so much of our environment. Super 8 Magazine spoke with Ed Sayers, who is now touring theaters across the UK to present this fabulous film.

Kodak Super 8 Camera—Three Years After Launch It took six years for the Kodak Super 8 movie camera to finally be ready for the market. It’s been available for three years now, and for the past year in Europe as well. We asked six users about their experiences. What can the camera do? What needs improvement? Is the only Super 8 model still in production worldwide worth the price?

Kodak Super 8 Camera – Interview with the Manufacturer Super 8 Magazine wanted to know from Kodak how things are going with the camera from Canada. Kodak press spokesperson Kurt Jaeckel reveals what the manufacturer has improved in the meantime, what’s planned for the future, and which C-mount lenses are particularly well-suited for the model.

FRÄNK – The Automatic Film Developer Develop Super 8 film at home? Two rolls at once, and at an affordable price? The motorized FRÄNK from the Vintage Visual team in Estonia is designed to make it possible. A crowdfunding campaign is currently underway, and the goal has long since been reached. As of press time, around 80 backers had already raised 70,000 euros. Together with development specialist Dagie Brundert, we tested the FRÄNK prototype.

Fun Facts – the Super 8 camera with three names Why there actually were Super 8 films that were 30 meters long and ran for seven minutes. Why the Agfa Microflex 300 pocket camera had a completely different name in other countries. And why it was already possible to shoot Super 8 films in 3D stereo as early as 1969—the first part of this new series of articles reveals all this and much more.

Artem – the Celluloid Connoisseur 35mm, 16mm, Super 8—this director uses all film formats! Artem Zamashnoy was born in Novosibirsk, Siberia, in 1989. He later studied film in Moscow and went on to work as a cinematographer, director, and writer. Today he lives in Berlin and regularly shoots with Super 8. We wanted to know more about that.

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