Single-8

Although Fujifilm stopped exportation of Single-8 Film to other countries, individual companies in the United States and Europe import the filmstock independently.

Single-8 is readily available in its home country of Japan where even used cameras can reach high prices in online auctions on Yahoo!

For example, a used Fujica ZC1000, the top-of-the-line Single-8 camera, can fetch prices upwards to 250,000 Japanese yen (approx $2900).

Single-8 film uses a polyester base, which is 2⁄3 the thickness of tri-acetate Super 8, but the films within the incompatible cartridge systems are otherwise identical, incorporating the same dimensions for sprocket holes and image size, which means developed Single-8 can be projected in Super 8 projectors and vice versa.

[9]: 3–4  Rewinding enables in-camera special effects, including dissolves, multiple exposures, and title sequences.

[2][5]: 29  It was believed that Single-8 offered superior film positioning,[7]: 21 [9]: 4  but the reality was that Super 8's plastic pressure plate could be moulded with far smaller tolerance than Single 8's metal version could be machined.

[5]: 30 Fuji offered on-film optical sound recording rather than a magnetic stripe; this system required the user to draw additional film out of the cassette.

There is more involved in the removal of the remjet antihalation backing than the now long discontinued Kodak Ektachrome Process EM-26 films.