Well I've redicovered my dad's Super 8 camera 7 years ago and since then I went through many stages of film availability. The first one I bought was a bit less than 10? and I had to go through a sign your name in black book - wait for phone call from shop, now this sometimes took up to 40 days. 5 years ago they started preordering it themselves . Of course the price went up to about 13-15 ? it still varied from time to time. The suply was not perfect, but much better than order-wait-phone call-start filming process . In the last 4 years the price started rising and went from 13? up to 25?. I asked the people who worked there why it became so expensive and they said that the demand went up ( in k40 sales that ment through the roof) and since they were the only store that sold them we just had to live with it.
Well for now things are great the price fell to a bit under 20? and it is regulary available.
There are hundrets of things, gadgets, gizmos, tools ...... that are more out of date expensive & complicated to manufacture and even have less potential users and uses than super 8 but yet you still find them in more shops!
If the comunity works for it anything can be done! :ph34r:
And a note to Kodak what about expanding the market to Asia? 3 billion people live there! i think a million of them would be interested in super 8 filming ;) don't u?
