Sunday, January 10, 2016

Kodak's Back

As we continue our never-ending love affair with nostalgia, the technology from our past will continue to re-emerge. The latest is Kodak's 21st-century spin on the Super 8 camera.
The home movie camera that gave rise to innumerable amateur videographers is back. The prototype Kodak displayed at CES had a 3.5-inch fold-out screen, so you won't need to close one eye and peer through a viewfinder to see what you're capturing.
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Details otherwise are scant, though images show an SD card slot and various cable sockets, so the footage you capture may not exist only on a Kodak film cartridge.
Also, when you send footage to Kodak for processing, you'll receive a digital copy, so Kodak is somewhat in tune with the modern video recording. It's antiquated even to consider sending one's footage away for processing -- yet it brings a physicality and a sense of romance that digital video can't match. I hope the world isn't quite finished with filming kids' birthday parties with a Super 8 camera.

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