Certainly not trying… you are arguing 
May I suggest you read the Kinograph Design Goals?
I do not see anything indicating 8mm is out of the picture. And the price ranges of the Piktor -or the equivalent Piktor Pro- are clearly above the Kinograph stated cost goal.
Which project is “a Kinograph”? Until it is defined -and documented- what it is, nothing is.
@filmkeeper my takeaway from this back and forth… you are very defensive on maintaining a the price level of 8mm at the level of the Piktor… not sure why.It seems that you have in mind -as you say- a market, which one would understand as a commercial target segment.
Maybe not your intention, but it is coming across as “the Piktor or nothing (is good enough for 8mm)”… or that you have a vested interest Filmfabriek.
By the way, there is talk of other high-quality commercial 8mm scanners (probably at a similar or higher price range to Piktor/Piktor Pro). Kinetta made mention in its forum of the idea of an 8mm new scanner.
Rather than a “market” I see use-cases, rather than “target customers” I see user-profiles (both financial and technical).
I have collaborated with Kinograph -at no cost to the project- because I did not see it as a commercial enterprise. At the time, maybe others did not see it that way.
@matthewepler has reached the same realization, and made it clear when articulating his new direction for the project as a non-for-profit at the youtube townhall link to relevant portion.
For the student-artist community shooting new Super-8, and other non-profits exploring novel 8mm, a $12,000 8mm scanner is not financially accessible.
The use-case for a sub $2000 scanner may not be commercial scanning services, although many are already providing these services with even lesser quality commercial scanners, plenty of examples at this Facebook group.
So let’s agree to disagree.