I enjoy classic digital cameras. While other people may look at these cameras as obsolete, I can see that they can still take amazing images and often at bargain prices. I also enjoy looking at the back story behind these famous or forgotten digital cameras. It's these cameras that shaped the camera industry to where it is today. Whether it's a cheap old camera or just a weird old camera, I like to feature my adventures with my finds on this channel.
Reach out to me if you share a passion for older cameras and want to collaborate, or simple to chat :)
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This is like my film photography youtube channel because not only do they both feature camera lenses, but my channel is also growing fungus from the stagnation in viewership
I've actually been really intrigued by that Sony Mavica line of cameras. There's the floppy disc version, but they also had CD storage versions eventually. I love the look of them, but I don't have floppies or writable CDs just hanging around much anymore despite how cheap/easy to obtain the cameras are now.
James you should do a nostalgia video on your first digital love. Mine was the Canon Powershot A60. 2mp of joy that literally made me stop using my 35mm film cameras and go full digital in 2005. I was going to play with the A60 again but mine died and the price they are these days? nah.
the price part is so relatable. wanted to get a powershot like the one i had growing up but had to change my mind when i saw it going for hundreds online...
I have the sony FD-91 disc camera as well. Paid $20 for a complete one back in 2018 and the guy thought I was nuts and just gave it to me for free. (I bought a lot of other cameras from him). Its pretty cool as its one of the first IBIS cameras I can think of. And Woof does it every look boxy, 90's ugly and awesome.
Excellent video, I love all of them! I'm trying and failing to get hold of the Ricoh, Polaroid and the Mavica at the end - did you find them on eBay? PS - if you need help getting the images out of the Quicktake, I went through the process in my review of it on my Dino Bytes channel. It took me ages to do in the end, and er, wasn't worth it! But it became a mission!
I will definitely check out that video for help. You're right it's not worth it, but I get stuck in these things too! 😆 Everything in this video was eBay, actually. The Polaroid was definitely the hardest. They are hard to get with the cable. I found the second lens before the camera haha. And people want way too much for them. The pdc-3000 has removable storage, so that's probably the better one to go for.
@@snappiness yeah, I guess I'll just leave those eBay alerts keeping an eye open for me! I remember reviewing both that Ricoh and Polaroid when they came out, but I've never seen them since! Love that you're finding these old and quirky models.
This tech needs to come back. I want a universal film slr back with a full size sensor to test all my vintage cameras without wasting film. But I love wasting film. I only get 8 shots out of a 36 exposure roll when adapting 35mm to my Yashica TLR. But the sprocket hole shots are worth it.
I've actually got two Sony Mavica's! This original one like you have, and the 2 megapixel one with a memory stick port. I need to find floppy disks and get new batteries...
fwiw I saw the sonar cam thumbnail a few times, but finally clicked when the gbc thumbnail appeared. not sure if it was the limeness or the novelty camera aspect.
I just recently pulled out my fully functional Panasonic PalmCam PV-SD4090 digital camera which looks pretty much like your Sony Digital Mavica. It is the first digital camera I bought back in the early 2000s. The camera records to either a standard 1.4MB floppy disk or 120MB SuperDisk. The resolution is 1.3MP (1280x960). The only thing I had to do to get it operational again was to buy a new battery for $18. Fortunately, I still have a floppy disk drive and the optional SuperDisk drive that came with the camera. I'm having fun shooting with it again.
I was actually a subcontractor that worked on that Poloroid Camera. The Poloroid project managers used to carry around really nice looking wooden mock-ups. They had lots of zeal but It just didn't take. They just priced it too high, at the time people didn't realize that you had to give away a 100 million dollars to 'make a market'. They had a patent on the Sonar, so naturally they had to use it, but it was odd ball. To be fair, IR focusing does not work through windows either. They also wanted to use their patented flat batteries from the Poloroid instant film packs, but gave that up eventually. Nice to see that some still survive.
i have this camera! it's such a delight to shoot with, and gets a lot of looks from other photographers lol. that screen actually flips up like a modern sony, which makes it a surprisingly sharp powerhouse for car photography. the images aren't great when blown up on a full monitor, but they come out perfectly acceptable on a phone screen! and as for its original intended purpose, which was small image elements on your personal Y2K blogsite? simply perfection
Great video. Real talent here. Dumb me cannot get my videos off the internal memory of the Panasonic FZ35. I put in an SD card, the vids go to an internal memory. For some reason it is not as simple as plugging it into a USB to PC and copying off. At least, when I tried years ago. Well today I filmed some amazing stuff and have to share with the world. This aggression must cease! Got to figure out how to get these videos off this Lumix! Any help from anyone appreciated.
I've been considering getting an SA mount 100-400 too for my sdQuattro set as I have the 1.8 twins too but the slow aperture worries me on Foveon. The lens itself i have fond memories of from my Canon DSLR days and i don't mind its parameters there.
what in the hell is this camera? the techie in me is completely enthused, it looks like something old and new at the same time. I don't believe I've seen this before only the FP bodies that still look sexy even with all of their limitations. now I'm really really curious.
Kinda crazy impressed by the quality of some of the shots you've managed to get. Playing around with a 0.3mp mavica it took a lot to try and get a good picture out of it (thankfully transferring it was much eaiser).
They were useful. The Internet was starting to be a big deal at the time, and it enabled folks to quickly capture and share images without physical contact. I recall my dad using it to capture job site photos for stakeholder meetings.
Did get the Canon Powershot 600, Canon's first consumer digital camera, released in 1996 back in the day... 800x600 of reasonable quality back in the day.
