| "but there's something fun about not knowing the result instantly." Let me guess, you have never ever used a super 8 camera. I have, and FUN is the last word that will come to my mind about those machines. Using a new cartridge and not being sure about light exposure in complex scenes, only knowing about it after having sent the cartridge away and returned. Idem with motion response, color and lots of little things that now we have feedback about in seconds, but at the time, took weeks. I mean, after all the pain now you need to mount the projector, switch light off only to discover that your film is ruined, because you did not take the right decisions or just the developer lab did it wrong. Frustration, anger, disappointment, anything but fun. This happened several times to my father. It was an expensive process to learn, only fun if you did not pay for it. It was a pain in the ass. |