The Single-8 Story

60 years of Single-8! FUJIFILM’s film format is celebrating a milestone anniversary in spring 2025. Therefore Jürgen Lossau would like to present an illustrated book with all the movie cameras from Fujica, Elmo, Canon, Konica and Yashica for the Single-8 format. And there will be new information about the history of the film format. BUT IS THERE ENOUGH INTEREST IN THIS PROCECT? For this reason the author started a crowdfunding. This book is now available for pre-order and will be delivered in spring 2025. If the required number of 300 orders does not materialize, payments will be refunded at the end of 2024. https://www.mysuper8.net/shop/single-8-story-english/

• Why FUJIFILM built thousands of cameras and films in 1964 for a movie film format that didn’t even exist then
• What really happened when Kodak left the working group for a new film format with FUJFILM, Canon, Konica, Agfa, Yashica and Bell & Howell in early 1964
• Sakura film: Why Sakura film is recommended in the cartridge compartments of Konica Single-8 cameras, but was never available to buy
• The secret of the golden Fujica P1: A camera as a trophy
• Dismantled Fujica P1: The 200 parts of the camera
• ELMO C-300 – The most universal of all movie cameras: for formats Single-8, Super 8, Double 8, Double Super 8
• FUJICA ZS400: The only optical sound camera for 8mm movie film
• A facade like a film package: A Japanese fan and his Single-8 house
• Commercials about FUJIFILM Single-8 with direct QR codes for viewing
• Japanese toys: Single-8 cameras as water pistols, lamps or kits
• My Single-8 – the Japanese magazine for filmmakers
• ELMO, Canon, Konica, Yashica – all about the 13 Single-8 models from the other manufacturers
• A Japanese actress who became a Single-8 advertising icon
• Shigeo Mizukawa: All the prototypes of FUJIFILM’s Single-8 models
• Albrecht Graf Goertz: A German designs two Single-8 cameras for FUJIFILM
• Too short: The Agfa Single-8 film
• Fujica Single-8: All models, all data
• The camera that never came onto the market: Gakken Single-8
• 60 years of Single-8: Which films were available in the past, which films are available today
• ELMO Single-8 cameras: The tricky ones with mirror and rewinding
• Single-8 – the Japanese feature film that was created in 2023