Only $12,000!!!

History repeats itself.

Back in the day, back in the late 80's and early 90's, Pro-8mm sold "Studio Pro" Super-8 Camera packages for between $5,000 to as much as $14,999.00!!!

Yes, they SOLD deluxe Super-8 packages JUST THE WAY THEY SELL THEM NOW ON EBAY!!!

What I find a shame is that there is no new Super-8 Camera production and no Super-8 feature to bring any publicity to the Super-8 format. Super-8, even with equal or greater resolution than mini-dv, is nothing more than a slowly fading footnote.

The Feature Film "28 days" spent 15 MILLION DOLLARS making their mini-dv feature which was then bumped to 35mm!

Why doesn't Kodak fund a $2 million dollar Super-8 feature to show how good film looks in comparison!
The point being that is Super-8 can look this good, then you KNOW that 16mm, Super-16mm, 35mm and Super-35mm would look even better.

I fear that the camera manufacturers whom
help drive the marketing of any film or video format. The feature film stories that appear in ALL of our magazines are never about Super-8mm, unless it's a Pro-8mm based story.

There is no new production for Super-8, so it gets ignored by the media.

If not for Pro-8mm past performance in promoting the Super-8 format, how many magazine stories about Super-8 would we find? I just find it strange that because Super-8 already exists, it is not newsworthy or noteworthy to write articles about how it can be used. What can be accomplished with the Super-8 format is no different than what can be accomplished with any other media format out there, yet mini-dv is "in", and Super-8 is not.

28 days was made for 15 million dollars. I bet with 2 million dollars someone could make a better movie, or at least the equivalent, in Super-8mm.

Super-8 offers a higher resolution than mini-dv and with a budget that is only 14% the budget of "28 days", why wouldn't someone take the chance?

It's gotta be about the new technology and tens of thousands of camera sales that is the hidden driving force. Kodak won't fund a Super-8 movie when they could discount the price on a million feet of 35mm or 16mm instad.

And no one else is gonna do it because they have nothing to gain. But somehow someone thought 28 days at 15 million dollars was more "progressive" than attempting a movie in Super-8 for 2 million dollars! It's gotta be the hype that begins when the movie ends.

Would there be a Canon XL1-S complete camera system for sale for $12,000 if the couple of features shot with the Canon Xl-1s camera had not been made?

Perhaps, but it would be a much tougher sell.

<font color="#FFFF00" size="1">[ December 11, 2003 04:07 PM: Message edited by: Alex ]</font>