Reinventing the Single 8 home movie format, my talk at Hacker Hotel 2024

This is my presentation of the 3D printed Single 8 cartridge project, presented at Hacker Hotel 2024 on the 11th of February 2024. I should admit, maybe I overestimated the value of a high-end Single 8 camera in this talk.

An engineer buys a camera in a second hand store, and finds herself bringing back a defunct film format.

When home movies on 8mm film were king, there was a format war between Kodak's Super 8 and Fuji's Single 8. Just like Sony's Betamax in the home video wars, Fuji's technically superior contender lost the battle, and the final Single 8 cartridges were manufactured in about 2010.

The physical dimensions of the film are the same though, so here in 2023 it should be possible to load a Single 8 camera with film from a Super 8 cartridge. This is the story of the revival and reinvention of a lost film format through OpenSCAD and 3D printing, done mostly without an original cartridge to copy.

This is cross posted from the original upload at media.ccc.de, where it is available under a CC-BY 4.0 licence.

https://media.ccc.de/v/hackerhotel-20...