The Filmless Camera

jhodges10 · Sep 29, 2012

His link is to a Popular Mechanics article from 1985. It's a pretty funny picture and read about the original digital cameras.

http://books.google.com/books?id=d-MDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA104&pg=PA156#v=onepage&q&f=false

Derrel · Sep 29, 2012

Oh my--that was worth it just to see that old "BE A LOCKSMITH!" advertisement!!! Ahhhhh, memory lane!!!!

Buckster · Sep 29, 2012

I have one of those little floppys. It's in my 1988 Canon RC-250 digital CCD camera - the oldest digital camera in my camera collection.

rexbobcat · Sep 29, 2012

Omg I can totes relate guys. My first digital pic camera was an ancient 10 MP cam.

I was like wtf mom and dad why do you buy me such old and outdated things from like 2004 or something.

jhodges10 · Sep 29, 2012

Buckster said:
I have one of those little floppys. It's in my 1988 Canon RC-250 digital CCD camera - the oldest digital camera in my camera collection.

I was a Freshman in HS in '88. I met my wife in '96 and she got a Kodak Advantix camera about a year later. That seemed pretty advanced to me at the time. We didn't go digital until '05 when we bought a 5.0 MP Kodak Easyshare for our trip to Hawaii. It's crazy to see how far the technology has come in less than 30 years. Who knows where it might be in 5 years let alone another 30.

jhodges10 · Sep 29, 2012

Derrel said:
Oh my--that was worth it just to see that old "BE A LOCKSMITH!" advertisement!!! Ahhhhh, memory lane!!!!

The 1985 version of MWAC, MWATkd5KM (mom with a Taylor kd5 key machine). It's a cash money business that you can learn as you go. Sound familiar?

mjhoward · Sep 29, 2012

Derrel said:
Oh my--that was worth it just to see that old "BE A LOCKSMITH!" advertisement!!! Ahhhhh, memory lane!!!!

I liked the 3.5" floppy disk reminder. "Video floppy, not much larger than a 35-mm slide, can store up to 50 images..." Now THERE'S a reminder! Up to 50 images on a 1.44 MB floppy??? That's only a 28.8k image SOOC! It's not uncommon anymore to have a RAW file 1000x that!

Buckster · Sep 30, 2012

mjhoward said:
Derrel said:

Oh my--that was worth it just to see that old "BE A LOCKSMITH!" advertisement!!! Ahhhhh, memory lane!!!!

Click to expand...

I liked the 3.5" floppy disk reminder. "Video floppy, not much larger than a 35-mm slide, can store up to 50 images..." Now THERE'S a reminder! Up to 50 images on a 1.44 MB floppy??? That's only a 28.8k image SOOC! It's not uncommon anymore to have a RAW file 1000x that!

It's not a 3.5", 1.44MB floppy, but something quite a bit smaller. It really IS just a little larger than a 35mm slide, just as it shows in the photo. Check it out:

Info on the VF-50 disk: Video Floppy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

bratkinson · Oct 1, 2012

Would you believe when I started working at my current employer 4.5 years ago, they were STILL using a 1.44mb floppy-based point-and-shoot camera to take the occassional pictures needed for legal and documentary purposes? It was at least a year later before I managed to convince the boss to get us workers a 'real' 6MP point 'n shoot camera!

And for what it's worth, I saw the old clunker bouncing around in one of the file cabinets just a couple of weeks ago...gotta keep that backup!

AJB91 · Oct 1, 2012

interesting article, thanks for posting

AJ

ghache · Oct 1, 2012

oh my god, thats all i have to say. i was 1 year old.

Kolia · Oct 1, 2012

8 FPS at 0.18MP !!! Weeee !

Good find !

mjhoward · Oct 2, 2012

Buckster said:
mjhoward said:

Derrel said:

Oh my--that was worth it just to see that old "BE A LOCKSMITH!" advertisement!!! Ahhhhh, memory lane!!!!

Click to expand...

I liked the 3.5" floppy disk reminder. "Video floppy, not much larger than a 35-mm slide, can store up to 50 images..." Now THERE'S a reminder! Up to 50 images on a 1.44 MB floppy??? That's only a 28.8k image SOOC! It's not uncommon anymore to have a RAW file 1000x that!

Click to expand...

It's not a 3.5", 1.44MB floppy, but something quite a bit smaller. It really IS just a little larger than a 35mm slide, just as it shows in the photo. Check it out:

Info on the VF-50 disk: Video Floppy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well hot damn! I glanced and it looked JUST like a standard 3.5" floppy. Apparently those little things only hold about HALF the information of a 3.5" floppy, which means file sizes were more like 14.4k :lol:

bhop · Oct 2, 2012

Jerks ruined photography..

Buckster · Oct 2, 2012

mjhoward said:
Buckster said:

mjhoward said:

I liked the 3.5" floppy disk reminder. "Video floppy, not much larger than a 35-mm slide, can store up to 50 images..." Now THERE'S a reminder! Up to 50 images on a 1.44 MB floppy??? That's only a 28.8k image SOOC! It's not uncommon anymore to have a RAW file 1000x that!

Click to expand...

It's not a 3.5", 1.44MB floppy, but something quite a bit smaller. It really IS just a little larger than a 35mm slide, just as it shows in the photo. Check it out:

Info on the VF-50 disk: Video Floppy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Click to expand...

Well hot damn! I glanced and it looked JUST like a standard 3.5" floppy. Apparently those little things only hold about HALF the information of a 3.5" floppy, which means file sizes were more like 14.4k

Yeah, they actually precede the 3.5" 1.44 MB floppy by a couple years.