Jackson Burke

Man, this is great. All of this stuff has been really helpful. I do have one more question that's even more simplistic, though. My camera will only take those "insta-paks" that I was talking about, in other words, there's no way to thread the film in if it comes in a roll, like you can on a 16mm camera. Do all of those films that I mentioned in the first post come like that, in a pack, so I can just sort of pop them in the camera and start shooting? Again, thanks for any advice.

Hi, folks. First of all, total noob with regards to all thing Super-8, so this question is going to be embarrassingly basic. I just picked up a Nikon Super Zoom-8 from a friend who owned it as a kid, and it hasn't been used in a while. The film that it came with had been in the camera since the mid-eighties, so that was pretty much unusable, and I'm trying to figure out what kind of new stock I should pick up. The Super Zoom-8 takes what the manual refers to as "Kodapak insta-load cartridges," and the one that was in there was a Kodak Tri-X reversal film 7278, which I understand has since been discontinued. A search of the Kodak site revealed the following films are still available through Kodak: Color Negative: Kodak Vision2 200T Color Negative Film 7217 Kodak Vision2 500T Color Negative Film 7218 Color Reversal: Kodachrome 40 Ektachrome VNF 7240 Black and White: PLUS-X Reversal Film 7265 Tri-X Reversal Film 7266 Will all of these films work with my camera, and if not, which ones? Also, I would like to shoot in color if at all possible. Can anyone offer any recommendations as to which films look best using this particular type of camera? I appreciate any help anyone can give me as I make my first fumbling forays into 1960s technology. Thanks!