Fuji Film Single-8 story
17 Jul 2025
A new book has been released that tells the story of the Single-8 film format introduced 60 years ago (like Kodak’s Super8 film format). No one other than Jürgen Lossau from Germany can produce these kind of books, his photos are always sublime and the texts substantive.
On this website you can purchase a copy of this book, which also makes a nice gift (we are sharing this selflessly).
60 years of Single-8! FUJIFILM’s film format is celebrating a milestone anniversary in 2025. For this reason, Jürgen Lossau and Samuel Preston are presenting an illustrated book with all the cameras from Fujica, Elmo, Canon, Konica and Yashica. And there will be new information about the history of the film format.
Content of the book
- Why FUJIFILM built thousands of cameras and films in 1964 for a movie film format that didn’t even exist then
- What really happened when Kodak left the working group for a new film format with FUJIFILM, Canon, Konica, Agfa, Yashica and Bell & Howell in early 1964
- Sakura film: Why Sakura film is recommended in the cartridge compartments of Konica Single-8 cameras, but was never available to buy
- The secret of the golden Fujica P1: A camera as a trophy
- Dismantled Fujica P1: The 200 parts of the camera
- ELMO C-300 – The most universal of all movie cameras: for formats Single-8, Super 8, Double 8, Double Super 8
- FUJICA ZS400: The only optical sound camera for small format movie film
- A facade like a film package: A Japanese fan and his Single-8 house
- Commercials about FUJIFILM Single-8 with direct QR codes for viewing
- Japanese toys: Single-8 cameras as water pistols, lamps or kits
- My Single-8 – the Japanese magazine for filmmakers
- ELMO, Canon, Konica, Yashica – all about the 13 Single-8 models from the other manufacturers
- A Japanese actress who became a Single-8 advertising icon
- Shigeo Mizukawa: All the prototypes of FUJIFILM’s Single-8 models
- Albrecht Graf Goertz: A German designs two Single-8 cameras for FUJIFILM
- Too short: The Agfa Single-8 film
- Fujica Single-8: All models, all data
- The camera that never came onto the market: Gakken Single-8
- 60 years of Single-8: Which films were available in the past, which films are available today
- ELMO Single-8 cameras: The tricky ones with mirror and rewinding
- Single-8 – the Japanese feature film that was created in 2023
Single-8 museum video
That this man knows a lot about the Single-8 film format becomes clear once you see this video.
Single-8 Story
Jürgen Lossau | click & surr
befife GmbH
Gartenstr. 4
10115 Berlin
https://clickundsurr.de
Interview with Jürgen Lossau
Off2 visited Jürgen Lossau. In ‘click & surr’, his analogue specialist shop for Super 8 and analogue photography, the journalist, author, film producer, editor and publisher of several magazines talks in this video about Super 8 film collectors and other projects in which Super 8 plays an important role.
On this website you can purchase a copy of this book, which also makes a nice gift (we are sharing this selflessly).