My Super 8 Dreams

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Tonight along w/all the other things that are going thru my head....I'm wishing Super 8 film was still more available. I've been debating transfereing my old films to discs as it will just make me jones for it even more. I'm esp. missing a certain Canon camera that allowed me to shoot on a frame ration that would make a transfer to 16mm seamless. Ugh. the digital world has ruined so many good things and film is one of them.
Super 8 put moviemaking in the hands of the average person. Digital has done that too but w/less depth and feel.
Lots of filmmakers started in super8 and even some that became famous even used those crazy cameras where you made movies on audio cassettes.....damn how come I can't remember what they're called right now?!
Editing super 8 and esp the sound is challenging and was fun.
Just bemoaning a long lost friend I guess!
 

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That brought back some memories. I started out on 8mm, moved to Super8mm and then to Fujica's Single8 system, which allowed you to rewind the film cartridge to do fade in/out, lap dissolves and double exposures. I reluctantly embraced video, but it was never the same as film. Tragically, I lost all those films to a fire 6 years ago.
 

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That brought back some memories. I started out on 8mm, moved to Super8mm and then to Fujica's Single8 system, which allowed you to rewind the film cartridge to do fade in/out, lap dissolves and double exposures. I reluctantly embraced video, but it was never the same as film. Tragically, I lost all those films to a fire 6 years ago.

Nice that sux! Big time. The thiing I loved so much about my Canon camera is that you could do all that w/out rewinding etc. It had a remote for stop frame etc.....
 

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filmmaking is fun and cahleenging..artistically and physically. Editing real film is a challenge and fun. It's RIGHT there in your hands.

Editing 16mm is a total other thing but in my mind I try to relive the super 8 dream now and then.