If you are a lover of the aesthetic of vintage photography and Instagram’s filters don’t quite cut it for you, then there are plenty of opportunities even in this post-film age to sample the real ...
A few years ago, I bought an 8 mm home movie camera in a second hand store. I did a teardown on it here and pulled out for your pleasure those parts of it which I considered interesting. My vague plan ...
Replay: Super 8mm and its relations still have quite a following, but what is the point of the format in the modern age? Last year I decided to do something I'd been meaning to do for a long while, I ...
Despite the switchover to digital, analog film remains popular among Hollywood’s big-name directors – so much so that J.J. Abrams, Judd Apatow, Christopher Nolan, and Quentin Tarantino are among those ...
While once a standard, you'd be hard-pressed to find an 8mm film camera today outside of a second-hand shop or Ebay. If you still want the look of the vintage camera in your video - as well as a ...
Setting the way-back machine for 1970s Japan, we find a thriving market in 8mm and super-8 film cameras. With film as a technology still garnering significant cachet and a leaning toward the retro in ...
Remember we told you that Nikon’s Coolpix S1000pj was the “the first that we know of in a consumer camera”. We were wrong. Way back in 1959 you could buy the Zoom Cine-Twin, a honking great 8mm film ...
I recently came into 15 reels of old family films in 8mm and Super8. I'd like to convert them to an HD format for editing. My equipment is a projection screen and a Canon 7D, the latter with ...