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14/08/2007: "16mm Vs. Super 8 ...... New for film makers"
The above location was Lady Musgrave Island where we camped for a couple of weeks with the Sea Life Dive Company this was 1980.
By then the price of processed 16mm film was hurting. The Leyland Brothers were now shooting their TV documentaries on Super8 and transferring to two-inch video tape for delivery to the station.
We figured if the two-inch tape could be edited (expensive) then a clean result with no splices might be worthwhile.
One-inch tape was to be the industry standard. We used this format for a pair of video's released in 1983 that were filmed exclusively on Super8. The quality was sufficient and easy to use with underwater Eumig Nautica Super8 camera's.
The lens lacked sufficient wide-angle capabilities, so it was back to 16mm.
