Few American tech brands are as iconic -- or seemingly as doomed to history -- as Kodak. And yet the Eastman Kodak Company managed to create some of the biggest buzz at the Consumer Electronics Show with a retro product with some really famous fans: a new Super 8 motion picture camera that will shoot old-school film.
That's right, Kodak is planning its first film camera since 1982, a modern interpretation of the one that brought film-making to the masses when it was introduced at the World's Fair in 1962, as well as a generation of filmmakers that rule Hollywood today: Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, J.J. Abrams and Christopher Nolan.
Kodak paraded into CES with big testimonials from all four directors on the importance of preserving film as a medium and not yielding to video. "I want our century-plus medium to keep its filmic look ... to me, it's just more alive and it imbues an image with mystery, so its never literal," Speilberg wrote. Abrams, of course, directed the 2011 film
