60 years of Single-8! The Japanese answer to Super 8, with cameras from Fujica, Elmo, Canon, Konica, and Yashica. Now available: the photo book "The Single-8 Story" by Jürgen Lossau with photographs by Samuel Preston. 254 pages, large format, full color, German/English.
Available here: https://clickundsurr.de/products/single-8-story?_pos=2&_psq=single-&_ss=e&_v=1.0
Here are the topics:
- Why FUJIFILM built thousands of cameras and films for a narrow-gauge film format in 1964 that never actually existed.
- What really happened when Kodak left the joint working group for a new film format with FUJIFILM, Canon, Konica, Agfa, Yashica and Bell & Howell in early 1964
- Sakura Film: Why the Sakura Film is recommended in the cassette compartments of Konica Single-8 cameras, even though it was never available for purchase.
- The secret of the golden Fujica P1: A camera as a trophy
- Disassembled Fujica P1: The camera's 200 parts
- ELMO C-300 - The most versatile of all narrow-gauge film cameras: Single-8, Super 8, Double 8, Double-Super 8
- FUJICA ZS400: The only optical sound camera for 8mm film
- A facade like a movie box: A Japanese man and his single-8 house
- Commercials about the FUJIFILM Single-8 with direct QR codes for viewing.
- Japanese toys: Single-8 cameras as water pistols, lamps, or construction kits
- My Single-8 – the Japanese magazine for filmmakers
- ELMO, Canon, Konica, Yashica – all about the 13 single-8 models from other manufacturers
- A Japanese actress who became a Single-8 advertising icon
- Shigeo Mizukawa: All prototypes of the FUJIFILM single-8 models
- Albrecht Graf Goertz: A German designs two single-8 cameras for FUJIFILM
- Too short: The Agfa Single-8 film
- Fujica Single-8: All models, all data
- The camera that never made it to market: Gakken Single-8
- 60 years of the single-8: Which films were available then, which films are available now
- Elmo Single-8 cameras: The tricky ones with mirrors and rewind.
- Single-8 – the Japanese feature film that was made in 2023
