Kodak Super 8 Camera
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Kodak Super 8 Camera
- Lens mount: standard C-mount
- Lens: camera is sold with a f1.2/6mm Ricoh lens
- Frame rates: 18, 24, 25, 36 (only 24 and 25fps are crystal sync)
- Film EI setting: manual (via EVF)
- Viewfinder: no optical TTL-viewfinder, only an EVF (a 4" display with standard definition video input and swivels +/- 45 degrees)
- Batteries: Integrated battery and charger via standard USB wall adapter (at the moment it looks like the battery can't be replaced)
- Sound: "sepdig" (separate digital sound recording via integrated microphone on SD-card; to be sync'ed in post; file-format, file system and supported SD-cards still to be announced)
- Extras:
- extended Max-8 gate
- support for an external monitor/video recorder (via mini-HDMI)
- connector for headphones
- integrated light-meter (but without connection to the lens' iris)
- Year of Production:: 2023-?? (in January 2018, the first demo-clips shot with a "production ready prototype" were shown)
- Original price of the limited edition in November/December 2023 (white or black body): 5495 US$ (only sold in the US)
- Older price announcements:
- Original price of the limited edition (grey body): approx. 1000 US$ (first announcements from CES 2016), approx. 2000 US$ (announcements from CES 2017), approx. 2000-2500 US$ (announcements from CES 2018), no official price tag yet (January 2018)
- Original price of the regular version (black or white body): approx. 450 to 750 US$ (first announcements from CES 2016), no official price tag yet (January 2018)
- Instruction manual: At least US-English
- Supported Super8-cartridge-types: Only standard "silent" cartridges with usually with 50ft/15m of film
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Originally announced in 2016, it took Kodak until 2023 to actually start the first regular production run. But finally, Kodak announced the limited production to begin and started taking customers on a wait list in November 2023. The first cameras were shipped to the customers on December 4th, 2023.
Apparently the camera mechanics are made by Logmar - see Logmar's "Humboldt" project
Links
- Kodak's main page for the camera (English)
- English User Manual
- English Datasheet
- Kodak's high resolution images of the camera
- archived resources (=more images from the design-study-phase)
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