The best way is to have a lab transfer the footage to DV tape. It's called "telecine". http://www.bonofilm.com/home.asp http://www.yalefilmandvideo.com/ Sorry, I don't understand this question. You don't have to edit in a dark room. Not really. Depending on the camera you use, the shutter speed, the speed of the film itself and the apature you may be able to make it work with existing light. All movies like Maniac! and Nightmare use a lot of atrificial light to get the dark gritty look. Yes. In order to get sound you meed a mic to record it. And you need something to record to. Any audio recorder - analog or digital - will work. But sync sound will be a problem. Only the top of top of the line super8 cameras have crystal sync motors. It true. Kodak stopped making magnetic striped (audio) film several years ago. The three best - in my opinion - are: Beaulieu 4008 ZM II - I shot two features with this camera. Nikon R10 - the first camera I ever bought Canon 1041 XL-S - a solid camera with a great lens and pretty good under low light conditions. The others: Canon 514 XL-S and 814 XL Elmo 612S-XL / 1012S-XL Bauer and Elmo make solid cameras on the lower end.