Who still uses Super-8 cameras?
Some beginning Film Students still use Super-8 cameras. Digital artists looking to break out of the digital video look will use Super-8 film. Low Budget feature film productions sometimes will use Super-8. Short Films can be shot on Super-8. Music Videos thrive on the Super-8 look. I enjoy shooting time-lapse with my Super-8 cameras. I also enjoy shooting single frame and time-exposure productions as well. Slow motion cinematography is also possible with many Super-8 cameras. Super-8 Camera manufacturers stopped making super-8 cameras around 1980 so most Super-8 Film Cameras are at least 28 years old. French and Russian camera manufacturers made Super-8 cameras into the 90’s. The reason camera manufacturers stopped making super-8 cameras was because they were making millions of super-8 cameras every year and realized that the public would prefer videotape and it’s 2 hour recording time. It had nothing to do with quality and everything to do video being easier to use. Back in the 70’s,
