Super 8 Camera
Considering getting a Super 8 camera to add a bit of flair to my filming and edits. I really like the vintage look and the doco feel u get from it. Its much more of an art form I feel.
I’d like to know who has them or has used them?
How do you get the footage onto a computer?
and any general discussion 
my b-i-l cameraman used one from work when the kids were little, (and cameras were out of reach for the home market) and in the last few years we dealt with it like this. (I’m sure it’s not the easiest or most efficient way…)
The footage was on tape, and we plugged the camera into a video player and recorded it to VCR. Then we played the VCR and burned it to DVD. Then we put the DVD into the computer and ripped it to a digital file. The only reason we’d bother was because that’s all we had when the kids were small.
Did a bit of looking on youtube yesterday and seems only way to do it is to have a projector, play on a white screen and record that with a digital camera
I guess it depends what outputs are on the camera. We might have been “lucky” because we had a tv studio camera? Can you get the same effect another way?
surely its been replicated in a digital effect way.
Unless you want to do it for the whole ‘art fag’ hipster feeling of lugging around a camera like that.
I guess its kinda like peeps who dig vinyl records and those happy enough listening to cds/mp3 etc
I guess it depends what outputs are on the camera. We might have been “lucky” because we had a tv studio camera? Can you get the same effect another way?
^^^^^ This!!!!!
All depends on the Outputs on the Camera!!!!!
Then it’s a matter of just getting the right Converter, that you can use to convert the Image in order to edit it!!!!!
They have all types of Converters available these days!!!!!
They have all types of Converters available these days!!!!!
this!!!
You need a Super 8 player or camera that has outputs such as VGA.
A card for your computer that has the VGA input.
Or run VGA into a Digital camera that can direct output via firewire to your computer.
I have a Digital 8mm camera that is firewire so it’s an easy transfer. Of course this isn’t Super 8 but the Digital 8mm equivalent, it only just predates MiniDV and is similar to a modern camcorder.
When I do VHS transfer I do it; VGA - Digital - Firewire - Computer (like mentioned above).
Doing it via Tambo’s method is extremely detrimental to quality, EXTREMELY (but mostly because it was done through VHS).
It’s the easiest way but I would have paid to have a direct from film transfer to preserve quality or is 8mm such low quality to begin with…?
Using a professional quality digital camera to film in a theater type atmosphere during the process would work but quality is still going to be affected and my biggest thing is you’re just making digital footage look 8mm.
You might consider just creating a 8mm film look in post production from digital files;
Either shoot in 24fps or convert your footage to 24fps, lower saturation, soften it and crop it with rounded edges. Simple.
^^DO IT THIS WAY!
(Unless you have deep pockets for equipment).
The frame rate and aspect ratio are the main components of the film look - even ActionCams have 24fps settings to emulate film.
Personally if I were going for an artsy film camera I would go 16mm because of it’s widescreen aspect ratio, high resolution and LENS selection.
Thanks for all the tips guys.
I will try doing it in post production first and see how I like the look. But eventually I will probably still get an 8mm or maybe 16mm camera. I really like the idea of the process of filming with one. A bit like using a film camera or polaroid camera. They just have a different feel than using digital.
Thanks peeps 
Some of them even need the film processed because the film is the same as negative film of stills.
Source film stock and a lab but mostly be aware that any repairs to a camera make it a very expensive medium.