{"id":3889,"date":"2014-07-23T20:52:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T00:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2014-07-23T21:04:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T01:04:49","slug":"can-we-digitize-super-8-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/can-we-digitize-super-8-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we digitize Super-8 film cameras?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hayesurban.com\/current-projects\/2012\/3\/14\/digital-super-8.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3890\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/OrthoViews2.png\" alt=\"OrthoViews2\" width=\"600\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/OrthoViews2.png 600w, https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/OrthoViews2-300x110.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Toronto.<\/strong> Hayes Urban, a designer in the South-Western USA, thinks we can. His idea is to make a digital version of Kodak&#8217;s ubiquitous Super-8 film cartridge, allowing the many Super-8 film cameras to live once again.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I remember his concept being proposed by others a few years ago, but for the 35mm film cassette. The cassette would contain the power and electronics while the sensor would sit on a &#8220;tongue&#8221; that positioned it in the aperture exposed by operation of the camera&#8217;s shutter. This innovative idea never managed to get off the ground before digital cameras drowned out the old film cameras.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, Urban notes that there are many high quality super-8 cameras and lenses while the Kodak film cartridges are no longer made making the remaining stock both costly and fast disappearing. His digital cartridge would include a 5 mp sensor suitable for recording 720p HD video as well as sound on a plug-in\u00a0SD card. Any super-8 film camera which could use the standard cartridge could used this digital one instead. Have a look at his web site for more information.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to George Dunbar for pointing out the <a href=\"http:\/\/hayesurban.com\/current-projects\/2012\/3\/14\/digital-super-8.html\">Hayes Urban<\/a> web site to me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Hayes Urban, a designer in the South-Western USA, thinks we can. His idea is to make a digital version of Kodak&#8217;s ubiquitous Super-8 film cartridge, allowing the many Super-8 film cameras to live once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[30,21,93,272],"class_list":["post-3889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-images","tag-kodak","tag-movie","tag-super-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3898,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions\/3898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}