8MM Digitization For Anyone
There’s a pleasing retro analogue experience to shooting Super 8 film, giving as it does the feel of a 1970s home movie to your work. But once you’ve had the …read more Continue reading 8MM Digitization For Anyone
Category Archives: super 8
Sometimes It’s Worth Waiting: Kodak Finally Release Their Super 8 Camera
Think of all those promised products that looked so good and were eagerly awaited, but never materialized. Have you ever backed a Kickstarter project in the vain hope that one …read more Continue reading Sometimes It’s Worth Waiting: Kodak Finally Release Their Super 8 Camera
Improving a Kodak Film Digitizer
Despite the near-complete collapse of its ecosystem in the face of portable videocassette camcorders in the 1980s, somehow the 8 mm format, smallest of the movie films, has survived the …read more Continue reading Improving a Kodak Film Digitizer
Super 8 Film Editor Reborn as a YouTube Terminal
We love hacks that give new life to old gadgets, and [edwardianpug]’s YouTube Terminal certainly fits the bill by putting new hardware inside a Super 8 film editor. [edwardianpug] could …read more Continue reading Super 8 Film Editor Reborn as a YouTube Terminal
Super 8 Camera Brought Back To Life
The Super 8 camera, while a groundbreaking video recorder in its time, is borderline unusable now. Even if you can get film for it (and afford its often enormous price), …read more Continue reading Super 8 Camera Brought Back To Life
Soviet Super 8 Camera Hides Raspberry Pi Zero
A few years ago [Xabier Zubizarreta] got it into his head that he wanted to put a modern digital image sensor into a classic Super 8 camera, but he didn’t …read more Continue reading Soviet Super 8 Camera Hides Raspberry Pi Zero
Hackaday Podcast 034: 15 Years of Hackaday, ESP8266 Hacked, Hydrogen Seeps Into Cars, Giant Scara Drawbot, Really Remote RC Car Racing
Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys wish Hackaday a happy fifteenth birthday! We also jump into a few vulns found (and fixed… ish) in the WiFi stack of ESP32/ESP8266 chips, try to get to the bottom of improved search for 3D printable CAD models, and drool over some really cool RC …read more
High-Quality Film Transfers with this Raspberry Pi Frame Grabber
Untold miles of film were shot by amateur filmmakers in the days before YouTube, iPhones, and even the lowly VHS camcorder. A lot of that footage remains to be discovered in attics and on the top shelves of closets, and when you find that trove of precious family memories, you’ll be glad to have this Raspberry Pi enabled frame-by-frame film digitizer at your disposal.
With a spare Super 8mm projector and a Raspberry Pi sitting around, [Joe Herman] figured he had the makings of a good way to preserve his grandfather’s old films. The secret of high-quality film transfers is …read more
Continue reading High-Quality Film Transfers with this Raspberry Pi Frame Grabber