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Originally Posted by D.Finney
The film inside the cassettes will run through a super 8 projector.
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Whilst mechanically compatible the colour process was allegedly additive like Dufaycolour, rather than subtractive like Kodachrome etc. This means you lose about 75% of the illumination.
If it had been launched 5 or 10 years earlier it would have found a niche, but appearing at the same time as low cost video meant it was going nowhere.
A similar fate befell the Agra family system around the same time. Although not instant it tried to offer a more family friendly super 8 system. But, with video offering new technology it was doomed.