Camp Snap CS8 retro Super 8 camera

[Boyd Ostroff]

This one gave me a laugh....

"Introducing the CS-8, a digital video camera inspired by the iconic Super 8—reimagined for today. With no playback screen and no instant previews, the CS-8 brings back the magic of filmmaking where you stay in the moment and experience the surprise later.

It’s rechargeable, reusable, and gloriously distraction-free. Whether you're capturing a weekend adventure, a creative project, or everyday life, the CS-8 transforms your footage into timeless, cinematic memories."

https://www.campsnapphoto.com/products/cs8

[Greg Smith]

It obviously takes a lot of styling cues from the Canon super 8 camera line of the 1970s, for example:

https://global.canon/en/c-museum/product/cine282.html

It actually looks like it could be kind of fun for the intended purpose, and a 1/2.7" sensor is only a little bit smaller than the actual super 8 film frame. The price seems pretty reasonable by today's standards for what you're getting.

It probably won't replace my C300 Mk III, but I'm tempted to pick one up just for the fun of it.

[Boyd Ostroff]

Portraying the lack of a screen as "gloriously distraction-free" is hilarious. I mean, I see the point but I was there back in those days and have never wanted to return. I remember getting a VX-2000 back in 2001 and thinking that the flip-out screen was a huge game changer.

I had a bottom of the line, cheap Kodak 8mm camera back in the 1960's. One of those fixed lens all-plastic things, I think this was it

https://collection.sciencemuseumgrou...m-movie-camera

I had a rich friend with the top of the line version, with a zoom lens and "electric eye" for automatic exposure. He let me use it sometimes and I was so jealous! This would have been sometime in the early 1960's.

But this was me at age 14 in 1963, pool side on winter break at my grandparents home in Arizona, thinking I was way too cool with clip-on sunglasses and my Revere 3-lens 8mm camera that my Dad and I found in a pawn shop. :-)

This looks like it:

https://collectiblend.com/Cameras/Re...-Model-99.html

I loved that camera and kept it for years, it was lots of fun but I really don't want to return to those days. Never had a super 8 camera, and by the late 60's I had moved on to still photography and got my first Nikon.