Super-8mm Cameras manuals

It's 2020, and resources about Super-8 can be hard to find.

The reason why - and why people stopped shooting film to shoot digital pictures - somewhat still puzzles me, as the two technologies are completely different. But I feel like people also stopped drawing or making "physical" art as much as they used to (that is, non-digital art).

The massive collective hallucination that anything digital necessarily has to be better than its analog counterpart might come to an end someday, in the meanwhile, it'll be the few of us enjoying the "older" technology as much as we can.

That being said, I've found this website, with Super-8mm Camera manuals, and it's still maintained!

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