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  As a 35 year veteran of the Super 8 world, I am quick to pick up on trends.  This in part comes from the vantage point of having run Pro8mm for so long, answering dozens of inquires on a  daily basis,  selling film stock and running a lab. As a company connected to the professional use of super 8 film ...

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        With the love of all things analog trending the past few years and the growing popularity of the  Rhonda Cam(rebuilt from the classic Super 8 Canon 310, introduced by Pro8mm in 2012), we are excited to release our second intro to film/consumer-friendly camera, THE RHONDA CAM DELUXE. The Pro8mm R&D camera team was successfully able to ...

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Filmmaker Focus: OTHERSIDE Takes Super 8 Award at Slamdance Filmmakers Steve Darby and Tyler Winther talked with us about how a Pro8mm 8 Roll Film Package got them motivated to make a film for the Kodak Super 8 Film Challenge. They ended up as finalist with a coveted screening at the Slamdance Film Festival  in Park City, a showcase (during ...

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When I was a kid my favorite part of our holiday gatherings was always after the meal when my grandfather would take out the home movies. I would watch in awe and feel great anticipation, as he would thread the projector. Sometimes he would ask us, “What would you like to watch?” My cousins and I would shout out the ...

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Press Release August 1, 2015 Pro8mm 2K, 4K and 5K Has Arrived! Pro8mm Announces their purchase on a Data Scan Station Scanner 2K, 4K and 5K scanning has arrived! Pro8mm is excited to announce the installation of their new data scanner which will allow for maximum amounts of raw information to be transferred to digital in 2K, 4K or 5K ...

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Celebrating 50 Years of Super 8 Film with the 50th Anniversary Edition of the Classic Pro Next April Super 8 film will celebrate its 50th anniversary. It was April 1965 when the Eastman Kodak Company introduced a revolutionary new format called Super 8mm film that adapted traditional regular 8mm home movies to an improved cartridge system that we still use ...

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Tips regarding Super 8 film , Regular 8 film and 16mm home movie preservation, including how to choose a scanning facility, and why you want to scan your films to a computer editing fille instead of DVD

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12-20-13 Life is Super Gr8 Wrap 2013 Last month Phil and Rhonda attended the fourth annual Super Gr8 Film Festival in Harrisonburg, Virginia, a charming little town in the Shenandoah Valley.  This is the 3rd year in a row that they have sponsored and attended this spectacular community celebration of super 8 story telling shot on a single roll.  The ...

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