Whats the difference between 8mm, Super8, Hi8, and Digital 8?
There has been some confusion with 8mm formats. 8mm and Super8 (see picture below) are two names for the home movie films most people used between the 1930s and the early 1980s. These are the two formats, along with 16mm, that we have been discussing on this page. For the past 15 years or so, Sony has been selling video cameras that use 8mm videotapes (see photo below). The original models were referred to as 8mm camcorders. Later models introduced were capable of recording at a higher resolution and were called Hi8 camcorders. Several years ago, Sony introduced a new digital version they call Digital 8. All three of these formats use the same size camcorder videotape. Sunray can transfer these to DVD, but that’s not what this page of our website is for. For more information on this type of transfer, go to our video transfer page. As mentioned above, we can put your 8mm films onto a Digital 8 master if you happen to own a Digital 8 camcorder.
