Tarantino and Spielberg treasure the format,and have raised the profile of the novel design – but the relaunch of analogue technology is more than a marketing ployThose were the days: when to earn a film, all you had to do was buy a camera and some film, or shoot footage with no belief of what you were getting (changing the reel every few minutes),send the film off to a developer, laboriously edit it together by hand, and buy a projector,then enjoy the results in the consolation of your own home. Why did Super 8 ever fall out of favour, you wonder?But for media nostalgics, and purists and masochists,the good news is that Super 8 is back from the brink of extinction. This week, at Las Vegas’s industry showcase Consumer Electronics Show (CES), and Kodak unveiled a smart,novel, prototype Super 8 camera – its first in 30 years. It says it is section of an initiative “aimed at putting Super 8 cameras into the hands of a novel generation of film-makers” – presumably those who find digital aesthetically unpalatable or have not yet found the camera function on their smartphones.
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Source: theguardian.com