The formats listed here are all fairly common and new film is available for all of them.

Standard 8

Standard 8 Projector image area

Standard 8, also known as regular 8, double 8 and 8mm, was created by Kodak in 1932 as a cheap amateur format.

Standard 8 film starts out as 16mm film with double the perforations. One half of the special 16mm film is exposed in the camera and then the spool is turned over and the other half is exposed. After processing the film is split down the middle and the two halves are joined together to give one continuous 8mm film.

Standard 8 film can have a magnetic mono soundtrack^[1] shown as a brown stripe in the image on the right.

Specifications:

• Width: 7.98mm
• Projector image area: 4.37×3.3mm^[2]
• Camera image area: 4.88×3.68mm^[3]

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