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The Camp Snap<\/span> CS-8 doesn\u2019t care about frame rates, bit rates, or whether your footage is stabilized to unerring levels of steadiness. It doesn\u2019t want to replace your iPhone or compete with your mirrorless camera setup. What it offers instead is something far simpler and more deliberate: the feeling of shooting video for the sake of it.<\/p>\n Much like Camp Snap\u2019s point-and-shoot still camera from 2023 (the company\u2019s only other major product), it\u2019s a throwback to when cameras didn\u2019t think for you and when you didn\u2019t expect to review the images you just captured until later\u2014sometimes much later.<\/p>\n Inspired by the Super 8 camcorders introduced in the 1960s, the CS-8 is unapologetically retro in both appearance and function. The body is mostly plastic, with faux-metal detailing and leatherette texture meant to evoke the mechanical era rather than mimic it convincingly. It\u2019s chunky and solid in the hand, albeit in a distinctly toylike way. If you\u2019re looking for authenticity, you\u2019re not going to find it here: There\u2019s a fake cold shoe up top and imitation screws at the base of the pistol grip. But that\u2019s not the point\u2014this isn\u2019t Kodak\u2019s $5,000 Super 8 revival but rather a $199 camera meant to live in the real world and get passed around at parties, slung into backpacks for day trips, and used without a second thought.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Photograph: Sam Kieldsen<\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s no screen, no playback, and no Delete button. Here, what you shoot is what you get. The settings and options are stripped back, with one dial for selecting aspect ratio (4:3, 16:9, 1:1, or 9:16) and another for the video effect. These include standard color, monochrome, and three lo-fi filters, including one that simulates the grainy, jerky look of 8-mm film.<\/p>\n I found that last one, labeled Analogue, was the star of the show. It drops the frame rate to 20 fps (it\u2019s 30 fps with the other modes) and sprinkles in digital scratches, resulting in footage that\u2019s imperfect in the most deliberate way. The rest of the filters feel a little flat by comparison, though the monochrome setting can conjure up its own punchy charm in the right lighting.<\/p>\n Using the CS-8 is refreshingly physical: Power it on by flicking a dial, press your eye to the rubber-cupped viewfinder, and squeeze down the trigger to record. There\u2019s no focusing to worry about here. The 8X zoom is handled with buttons labelled \u201cW\u201d and \u201cT\u201d for wide and telephoto, though it\u2019s digital-only, and resolution drops off quickly when you push in too far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Camp Snap CS-8 doesn\u2019t care about frame rates, bit rates, or whether your footage is stabilized to unerring levels of steadiness. It doesn\u2019t want to replace your iPhone or compete with your mirrorless camera setup. What it offers instead is something far simpler and more deliberate: the feeling of shooting video for the sake<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[2919,9466,9723,1085,4679,3172,94],"class_list":{"0":"post-16360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-camp","9":"tag-capture","10":"tag-cs8","11":"tag-review","12":"tag-simple","13":"tag-snap","14":"tag-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Lights, Camera, Action<\/h2>\n