The 1988 VIDEO Floppy Disk Camera: Canon Xap Shot RC-250 

OMG! I REMEMBER THIS! My middle school bought the original model for it's computer and technology class, well more specifically, comp/tech club. I was 12 years old and it was my task to figure out how it worked/hooked up to AV. Apparently there was some sort of program for the entire state (KY) that each middle/high school was going to get one of these. We ended up being one of the pilot schools. So after learning how to do everything you could with it i was invited (along with my comp teacher) to stand in front of an audience of about 200 teachers/principles/staff at the Lexington Marriott conference room and give a demonstration. I had to give a tutorial and a short talk on why this device would be beneficial in tech clubs/classes across the state. I about shit my pants when I walked out on stage and saw all those teachers. Talk about being in the enemies den! lol (nah everyone was super nice!) Jeez how long ago was that... early 90's? 25? 27 years ago? FUCK YOU TIME!

LGR really is becoming the American Techmoan.

Let's compare this to normal 1440 KB floppy: - 30 JPG photos at 640x360 resolution at somewhat usable compression, - 12 JPG photos at 1280x720 resolution with just a minor compression artifacts. Storing 50 images on floppy, even as analog NTSC frames was really awesome for it's time. Also there's a true beauty in how simple this thing worked. It was also really fast. You just couldn't write a floppy drive as fast as making all 50 continuous shots on this camera. Not to mention about JPG compression that took a lot of time even for dedicated hardware codecs. In early 2000's phones that had cameras were sluggish when it came to saving and loading JPG files. This just show how good that camera was.

the real star of the show here, honestly, is the ultra-aesthetic deluxe Trinitron TV.

I miss electronics that made a click-ka-chung sound.

Came for the sandwich. Stayed for the review.

I heard there would be sandwiches?

Man you are the Mad Titan of old tech. I would have given up after the second broken unit. YOU BOUGHT A VIDEO DISK VCR FFKK, I bow to you

i just love how late 80s-early 90s tech looks

Those found retro photos were awesome. What a find. Thanks for the show. The comparison with the phone was remarkable.

It looks kinda like the binoculars in Empire Strikes Back

"and you get an LCD panel...for displaying LCDs...on a panel" The quality content I subscribed for! 👍

Man, I just love how stuff from the 80s and 90s look.

When I was at college in the UK, I remember going in to a school to give a talk (media student - hmm) and they were using these. My Dad had one through work, and the teacher was amazed that I knew how they worked. At the end of the day, he gave me a couple of blank VF disks to use with my Dad’s camera and said “don’t tell anyone I gave you these!

When it was looking like this was gonna end with "sorry guys, we can't view the pics" he busts out an MVR-5300. LGR never lets us down. Awesome.

3:46 - I love crisp disk eject mechanisms! Sooo good!

Lol, that delete procedure....so very intuitive.

Always love collab videos. LGR and LGR Foods working together!

2:38 Missed opportunity to plug your other channel

I am so hyped, I must solve the plain sandwich mystery!!!

That’s a nice looking sandwich

Kind of impressed with the image quality, I was expecting much worse.

Dang! These were before my time and I honestly had no clue up until now something like this existed. It's ridiculous how both technology and our perception of it has changed. When I was a kid a walkman seemed so sophisticated. Electronic typing machines seemed like sci-fi because of the moving part (printers were slow, so typing machines were usually preferred in hospitals, police stations and what not). Big screens and mobile phones were so fascinating and if you understood computers even a little bit, you were considered a whiz. Now we've got plain Joes wondering whether a quantum computing chip could improve Witcher 3 graphics :) While I greatly appreciate all the technology we have today, I do kinda miss the sounds analog devices used to make.

I love these videos on obscure floppy disks. Companies like Sony and Canon were doing filmless cameras in the 1980s.

I love the industrial design of this unit.

Haha! The LGR ham sandwich makes its debut!

I was watching this video thinking, "Man! Clint drank way too much coffee today!" Then I realized I had RU-vid on 1.25 speed from a few videos ago.

Gotta love how everyone’s from LGR Foods trying to solve the sandwich mystery

These vids are so crazy relaxing. Love learning about weird tech while chilling out.

This was great! I love these old and odd one foot in analog and one foot in digital pieces of hardware.

That big Still Video Recorder has to be one of most unusually outdated devices I've ever seen. This is cool stuff and exactly what I subscribed for. You and Techmoan are the best.

I would honestly love a modern digital camera in that form factor. Looks nice to hold, like binoculars.

your camera videos are one of the things I enjoy the most from your channel

The amount of work that has been put in this video is amazing! Keep it up

Your videos officially contain way, way too much gorgeous equipment. I'm voting that Sony still video recorder to be NSFW!

Great job Clint! Loved this episode, thanks man!

Thanks for this interesting, chill video. Needed it right now. Much love LGR

This has become one of my favourite channels. Keep up the good work.

Love these retro cameras thankyou Clint, happy Friday :)

Just the best channel ever, I always loved technology and never got to see any of these items you show, you are so lucky to get to explore all these weird and wonderful things, keep up the excellent work and I'm sure great things will come of it..

That was one of the most beautiful looking sandwiches I’ve seen in a while. I can tell you spent a lot of time making it look good.

Videos are always relaxing, good for my lazy days off work.

I am a little blown away with how competent a product this is. It’s fast, takes completely good photos, has a good interface. Shows how Canon was able to absolutely obliterate the digital camera market. They knew what they were doing 15 years before it really heated up. Amazing.

I love your channel man, it's different & unique.

I'm not into photography, but I am into the retro items and feel of your vids. Keep up the great work LGR.

I used to be a Canon Still Video dealer. Thanks for the flashback, I still remember the models and details well.

Awesome video, love the vintage camera content!

Amazing video. I love this channel. Keep up the amazing work!

I love this. I had no idea anything like this existed, and I love the aesthetic this camera creates.

this tiger seems to be one of your fav things to photograph with such old cameras.i like that!

I'm watching all these great old digital camera episodes and it reminds me why I never even really noticed digital cameras until the Black's Photography store in my local mall abruptly closed doors and DSLRs were suddenly everywhere. Film cameras seemed so superior for so long, until they weren't in around 2003ish, which is when I'd say digital finally was able to close the gap well enough in terms of price and quality. It's crazy how much even the cheapest of these digital cameras cost for the quality. Without the internet driving a desire to upload digital photos to websites, I'm not sure the tech would have progressed as fast as it did.

wow man awesome episode, thankyou!

Awesome, awesome video Clint! I've always been curious about these and now I know all I need to know. Also, the intro and outro music was on point!

I love you videos dude!!!! Well done

Your videos always have the best music.

I actually love those product illustrations in manuals as well. Since I was working in graphic design for quite some time I always „dreamed“ of one day also making some of these. washing machines, vacuum cleaners, it wouldn‘t have mattered.

Man you've really stepped up the b-roll work on this one. Good stuff

Awesome! I love this stuff. I've never even heard of this format. You are like the Techmoan of computer technology.

Sandwich squad where are you guys???

Watching this takes me back to my childhood when Stuff like this was brand new and way out of any common person reach (at least in my area)

Making pics of old things with olf cameras is mindfuck

Wow a lot of works were put into making this video, thanks!

Buddy you got a great channel man. Love the videos!

Love your videos, brings back so many memories. And was waiting for this! we used to have this camera, was an ion (Living on the old continent) in white, have been tring to find some info... and here they are!!!!

Your videos relax me.

Is this a format that Techmoan has yet to cover?

I remember those cameras! My elementary school had a couple for video production in the early 90s (it was a well-off school district), and I got to use one for a project once. The Xapshot was the coolest thing at the time, and I remember being pretty pleased that they'd trust 9- or 10-year-old me not to drop their cool expensive camera, having taken to heart the warnings to be /very/ careful with it. The pictures I took ended up edited into a video through some analog editing equipment (which was the same color as that VFD player you had), and they showed me a bit of what to do on that to put them where I wanted. I don't remember the video floppies really; I think we hooked the camera into the editor and spliced the pictures in that way. I've long since forgotten what I took pictures of around school, or what the project was even about, but I /do/ fondly remember the camera! Thanks for the look back! And may your old devices work /juuust/ well enough. :-)

god do i love the aesthetic of this thing and its photos. not only were those pictures you took deliciously awesome and retro, but the fact that one of the floppies it came with had truly vintage photos on it is so freaking cool to me. makes me want to go to my parents' house and look through old photo albums. makes me feel super nostalgic and kinda choked up, honestly. great work as always, LGR.

Another awesome and interesting video. I love LGR!

Another great moment spend, watching you content.

Yet another tech that I had absolutely no knowledge of existing up until today. Thanks Clint!

2:40 Hey! I know that sandwich from somewhere.

Retro camera reviews like this are always welcome :)

I applaud you for spending so much time and money just to show us this format.

It's great to see this format getting coverage, I've got a Casio VS-101 from 1986, it's a brick compared to this camera you've got to hold it camcorder style. It's really cool to finally see what the images from the disks look like because when I was going to test and see if my camera had anything recorded on the disk my old Mitsubishi TV I've had my whole life went kaput. Anyways great vid as always!

This might be the coolest looking thing you've ever reviewed. How I'd love one of these things. Such a weird concept...

This video was a perfect relaxing and informative thing to watch while I'm laying in bed sick and miserable.

New camera review! I remember my uncle having that, it was such an amazing gadget

Love your camera review video's

beautiful images. i love the analog feel

Those floppy disks are so adorable..And those sounds, are amazing

Damn I really like the design of this thing! Well ahead of its time I think.

Love these camera videos

Wasn't expecting to get a blast of nostalgia and homesickness in this video, but that Ingles sign really takes me back.

LOL "cursed image material". Love that close up of your face in that blurry mess. These videos are gold lol.

Amazing what human ingenuity can accomplish in ~30 years.

This takes me back. I used one in my job at an antiques auction company to make catalogues and advertisements. There is also a macro switch for shooting small objects.

While I understand and appreciate the want to take retro photos of retro things, I think it would be kind of cool to take pictures of new things, too! Something about using a camera from the 80s to take a picture of a Nintendo Switch or a similarly modern product, really fills me with wonder and fuzzy feelings. I encourage you to explore that possibility sometime!

Thanks LGR. Clint is a real inspiration, his channel has really improved in every way since its beginning. I hope to do the same.

That Sony MVR floppy disk reader looks great. It reminds me of the machine Rick Deckard had in his apartment in Blade Runner with the disk ingestion system and buttons.

I love this. Thank you.

I see a new LGR video in my feed and I become happy....even before watching.

The picture of that old 5-series is just pure gold. I'm slowly restoring a 1986 BMW 635CSI and once I'm done with it, I'd love to take some "classic" pictures of it to nail in that oldschool feel. Sadly I'm not good at making really old computer stuff work, so I may just get an old analog film camera and take pictures with that...

That’s utterly bizarre. Tiny floppys they store analogue video!? Madness! I love it.

This is really cool I never knew these types of cameras existed. I just remembered the early digital cameras in the 90's. I got a hand me down one that I took myspace pics with lol.

I was an early buyer. As a school librarian, I made illustrated newsletters with it. I took it on a trip to England and since the camera has long since died, the few floppies with the pics of that trip are just in a drawer.

Wow those turned out way better than I expected.

Never seen this, the sounds are so lovely

Those photos are great!

I love 80s tech. It's was so unique and weird.