Nick Shirrell had some fun at a recent IndyCar race, he decided to shoot some footage using a Canon Super 8 camera from 1968. It's kind of cool seeing current events shot on this old hardware.
Technical information from the video:
- Camera: 1968 Canon 1218 Super 8
- Film: Kodak 50D & Kodak 200T
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Lots of attention paid to detail, the graphics too!!
cayenne
Maybe I should dig thru my boxes and boxes of old movie cameras, I'm pretty sure that I've sold my old Canon cameras.
Compared to what you get today, those old films and cameras had terrible IQ.
Is 4k really so important?
That is why I consider 102K iso on my 5D3 to be useable. It simply looks 'vintage'.
Kodak is somehow trying to keep its movie film business alive - and it was able to get some big titles shot on film, some directors like J.J. Abrams does like the look.
At the same time it made available again some Super 8 films - some schools find it useful to teach shooting on film with cheaper equipment, and some artists and enthusiasts like it for the retro look like in this movie. Just the first films made available were negative ones - Kodak does scan them but can't be projected directly. Now there's an Ektachrome film as well for a full retro experience.
Still AFAIK none of the new films has the magnetic strips for sound - it has to be recorded separately and synced. Just AFAIK the costs for development and scanning doesn't make this a really cheap option, just for the fun of re-using some old equipment you have. Yet I still have my late father's Nizo camera, and may be tempted to run some film through it...