Several years ago, when I was still in film school, a couple of my best friends had an idea for a movie. They wanted to shoot it on Super 8 because they figured it'd be cheap.
I had to break it to them that, due to supply and demand problems, and the fact that most Super 8 rolls are only two and a half minutes of film, and transfers were more labor intensive, that Super 8 was actually more expensive than shooting 16mm.
Kodak just came out with that new, stupid Super 8 camera that's stupid expensive; but, on the flip side, they've also produced an at-home scanner for standard 8mm and Super 8 that can be had for $400.
It's a 1080p 8mm scanner. That's all the resolution you'll ever need for that format. The cost of the scanner is about the equivalent of getting three or four rolls scanned at a lab.
Since I'm in development on a series of music videos that are all supposed to be shot on Super 8, this thing seems like a no-brainer.
Kudos to Kodak for coming up with a way to make this format, which was always meant to be the cheap, home movie format cheap again.