Let's be clear from the start – the newly developed Octopus Cinema 16 cine camera is digital, not analog. You're not going to be putting a reel of Super 16 film through it, but you'll be capturing 4K video on its digital sensor purpose-built for video that's the same size as a frame of Super 16 film.
It's no Kodak Super 8, but the Octopus 16 offers huge bang for buck and could be the go-to cine camera for low-budget movie productions, if you can get your hands on one. Blackmagic, makers of excellent cine cameras like the Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K, should be worried – Octopus says its latest creation, in an often overlooked format, will cost less than $1,000 and offer the kind of performance you'd expect from a camera 10x the price.
