Jourdan Aldredge invites us, on No Film School, to Take a Look at the First Footage From the Kodak Super 8 Camera.

“Pulling from our friends at B&H, it looks like their crew featuring Nick and Dave were able to take the new Kodak Super 8 camera through the paces as they ran around New York City.”

Here are timestamps for each section:

• 0:00 – Main Specs
• 0:48 – Lenses & LCD Screen
• 1:52 – Menu System
• 2:15 – Filmstock, Presets, & FPS
• 3:12 – Extended Gate & Resolution
• 3:35 – Sound & Connectivity
• 4:10 – Who Is This Camera For?

The kicker? Kodak’s new Super-8 camera, based on sixty-year-old technology, costs $5,500 USD.

My take: This is way too expensive for me! And the image still bounces around like crazy. IMHO Kodak missed an opportunity to improve their technology by bypassing the cartridge’s internal pressure plate and figuring out how to stabilize each frame during exposure, kinda like the “true pin registration” that the Logmar GENTOO GS8 does. Pity.