Designer Yves Béhar wants to help Hollywood go retro with a new–well, technically, old–camera.

“The notion of the craft is back,” he says. “People have patience for things that create higher-quality results.”

The designer was behind a recent project to redesign the Kodak Super 8, the first release of the classic filmmaking tool since 1982. It shoots on 8-millimeter film. The footage it captures, Béhar says, is of a quality not seen with today’s digital cameras.

Many of Hollywood’s elite directors share a love of good old-fashioned film. In 2014, a group including Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, and J.J. Abrams agreed to help fund Kodak’s production of celluloid film, after the department revealed it was on the verge of folding.

The re-release of the Super 8 follows that trend. Tarantino, Nolan, and Abrams are among the many directors that have publicly supported the project, as well as Steven Spielberg and Steve McQueen. “I’ve always believed in the magic of movies,” Tarantino said in a Kodak release, “and to me the magic is connected to film.”

Béhar–the founder of San Francisco-based design firm Fuseproject and the designer of the Jawbone Jambox, the August lock, and many others–was tapped by Kodak for the collaboration. He had to balance creating a new piece of technology with maintaining elements of the retro camera that filmmakers loved. “The weight and feel very much resemble that of the original Super 8,” he says. “We didn’t want to stray too far from a product people loved.”

The camera is slightly more compact than the original, but there was only so much Béhar could do in that department. “You’re constrained by the fact that it needs to fit an 8-millimeter film cartridge, which is fairly bulky,” he says.