Movie Cameras

Whether you’re a budding movie director or you simply want to make movies to commemorate the special times you have with family and friends, a movie camera can help you do it. Movie cameras are a little bit different from camcorders and video cameras most people think of when they think of making home movies, but the end result is the same. Plus, movie cameras have the additional magic of being “real” movie making, with film, just like they do it in Hollywood. If you want to create your own little piece of Hollywood magic, then a movie camera is definitely the choice for you.

Movie Cameras Versus Video Cameras – What Is The Difference?

When you are taping something using a video camera, the images and sound are recording in real time into a video tape, or, in the case of digital photography, onto a memory card. With a movie camera, you use actual film to record the images. What movie cameras do is actually take a series of still photographs in a rapid succession so that when you play it back, it recreates the action entirely as it happened. The film onto which you have photographed the scene is then played back in a film projector. This goes for Hollywood big budget movies right down to the home movies you can make on your own.

While Hollywood studios obviously use enormous movie cameras to create their magic, you can get handheld movie cameras for home use. According to the history of movie cameras, the first handheld movie cameras actually date all the way back to World War II, but the movie camera really hit its stride in the 1960s, with the Super 8 camera. The Super 8 camera, also called an 8mm movie camera, was extremely lightweight and easy to use, and the 8mm film on which it operated with very affordable. Super 8 cameras became extremely popular for private user. Super 8 movie cameras have a special nostalgic place among hobby film makers, and so even though there aren’t any companies making new Super 8 cameras, there is a booming Super 8 used movie camera market on the internet.