Super 8mm Film

Pick by light. Kodak 50D is fine-grained and made for bright daylight. Kodak 200T is balanced for indoor light, and the camera's built-in filter adapts it for daylight. Kodak 500T handles indoor and low light. All three are color negative film, and each 50-foot cartridge drops straight into any Super 8 camera.

Super 8 is made in small runs, and Kodak is the main maker left. Each 50-foot cartridge costs about $55–$65 here and gives you about 3 minutes of footage at 18 frames per second, before developing. That is why most people plan their shots before they roll.

Our Brooklyn lab develops Super 8. Start an order online, then drop the cartridge off at 855 Grand Street or mail it in. Current prices for Super 8 and the other specialty formats are on our film developing page. Home developing is possible, but it is slow and easy to get wrong.

Regular 8mm film comes on spools and runs through the camera twice, one half at a time. Super 8, from 1965, comes in a drop-in cartridge, with smaller perforations and a frame about 50% larger, so it looks sharper. They are not interchangeable: Super 8 cameras need Super 8 cartridges.