Tech Legacy - “Super 8/8mm” Handheld Video Camera (Part 1)

In this series I will highlight some technologies that have come and gone while contributing a lot to society and opening up possibility for technologies we use today. In this first issue I'll go over a very interesting technology indeed, the "Super 8/8mm” Handheld Video Camera.

Kodak invented the Super 8/8mm film format in 1965. Soon after, handheld film cameras flooded the market and the living rooms of people everywhere were filled with families watching the hi-jinks at Freddie’s sixth birthday party.

Above is a Canon Super 8mm camera, used for television commercials. Hard to imagine that these old clunkers have paved the way for the types of high end digital cameras we have access to today!

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Wikipedia