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
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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).

On the rental page you can read all about this camera.

You have been warned.

S8RL has already ordered 1 copy because it welcomes such initiatives. Also, Lossau is a creator of several books on film, and all of them were also masterpieces.

If you want a copy too (the book will be made if there are at least 300 orders, otherwise we will get our money back) then you can continue reading here.

Here an old video with a tour by former owner Roger Evans inside MovieStuff that now is gone.

Hurray for the Kodak team that they pulled this off. It was first announced in January 2016. So what a great achievement that Kodak has finally produced this new super8 film camera. I am deeply touched by their effort to keep super8 alive.

Forget the high price, forget the long wait. Let us all celebrate that super8 is here to stay people!

The camera has a lot of new features such as a 4″ LCD viewfinder, it can record sound and you can set the right film sensitivity through a menu. Furthermore, you can use other c-mount lenses, which is special because most super8 cameras have a lens bolted to the body.

The standard super8 aspect ratio is 4:3 and by embodying the full-width film, an aspect ratio of 14:9 is created, according to Kodak.

Finally, I mention the crystal-sync feature, which means you can film at exactly 25 frames per second which allows you to stay in sync even with externally recorded sound. This is a great feature for when recording dialogues or making music videos. More technical details can be found on the new Wiki-page.

If you want to buy it you must sign up again for the newsletter. It is first only sold in the USA. For example here. Read more info about this fantastic camera on the Kodak page.

Opinion

I also want to take a moment here to share my opinion on this camera. When it was announced in 2016, I was very sceptical and thought it would never actually go on sale. The price went up every 2 years from €400 – €700 to €2500 – €300. Now that Kodak has pulled it off I am more than happy, even though the price is now €6000. Because Kodak doesn’t do something like this just like that. It shows that it is still possible to build a super8 camera in the 21st century. Technically, it is in fact very difficult, I know as an ex mechanical engineer. I expect they are never going to recoup the investment, and that to me is proof that they have persevered to demonstrate their faith in film as medium. Kudos to Kodak for drawing attention to the finest film format there is for more than 55 years; super8.

I see this camera as a separate and special product. This camera is unique and cannot be compared to anything else. I know you can buy a lot of other equipment for €6000, but that’s not the point. I would buy this camera because I want to shoot super8 films, and nothing else. Also, I precisely want this camera because I want technical support and service for my beloved super8 camera. Unfortunately, the purchase price is unattainable for me, but if I had money I would consider it.

You won’t hear me say that this is a ridiculous project, or that you have to be an idiot to buy this camera. We now have a choice to buy and use a new super8 camera. That is historic and I celebrate that fact.

It is divided into these chapters.

• Living pictures
• Home cinema
• Making your own movie
• Worlds of colour and sound
• Home video
• The digital age

Here you can read a very good article in The Guardian.