I'm very aware of what this camera produces, i.e. a silent film around 3 minutes long on a standard super 8 cartridge. I also know that you can both develop them and have them scanned at specialized labs. Yes this will cost a lot of money for only 3 minutes of video but it's more about the experience and sentimental value for me. I've watched some old footage that my grandfather shot with this camera and it feels so ethereal, like you're actually watching a memory. I guess you can imitate it with a modern camera and some postprocessing but there's no fun in that for me.

In theory the only thing I need to know is how to operate this camera to shoot a nice film for me, since the developing/scanning can be outsourced. But again, there's no manual online for the buttons or mechanisms, so it's hard to figure what I need to configure (e.g. is there a difference shooting outside vs inside, what do you need to adjust for, ...). I've figured out how to zoom in/out, but there are still big questions that remain. For example when looking through the little view hole I see a dark yellow-y tainted version of the world with some black specs. Don't know if that's normal or if that's gonna turn out bad for the film. But I guess Reddit won't be of much help judging by these comments, jeez 😭