A Super 8 cartridge holds three minutes and twenty seconds of film. By the time it's bought, shot, developed, scanned, and shipped, each of those minutes has real money in it.
The line items
- The cartridge: Kodak Vision3 stock, always bought fresh
- Developing: a professional US film lab
- Scanning: frame-by-frame at high resolution, the step that makes it usable in a 4K edit
- The camera: a serviced 1970s machine that needs maintenance nobody manufactures parts for
Three minutes per cartridge forces a choice about what is worth shooting, and that shows up in the footage.
Fresh stock, real invoicesWhere the money goes
Why we shoot it anyway
A digital filter can only imitate film. The grain lives in the emulsion, and in thirty years the Super 8 minutes of your wedding will look as warm as they do today. Couples tell us those minutes are the first thing they replay.
How to get the most from it
We spend the cartridges where film earns it: first looks, golden hour, the dance floor. If you want more coverage on film, add cartridges to any collection. We'll tell you when digital is the better tool for a moment.