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Electronic cartridge lets old Super 8 movie cameras shoot video

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The Super 8mm movie camera may be one of the poster children for obsolescence, but many of them were quite well-made, and are still running perfectly to this day. Designer Hayes Urban wants to get those cameras out of the attic and back into use, with his Nolab Digital Super 8 Cartridge.

Super 8 cameras, for those of you who are unfamiliar with the things, shot film that came in cartridges. Each cartridge contained about 3.5 minutes of film, had to be sent away for processing, and cost about $25 with processing included (at least they did when and where I used them). In order to edit the processed film, you had to either physically cut and splice it, or get it transferred to video.
via Gizmag

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