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I used the crap out of FD Mavicas in my mid-high school years ('01-'07) for my computer and Tech Lab 2000 classes. They were kinda old by then but I think the schools got 'em surplus from the county or something. I also have a couple of 5 megapixel CD-R Mavicas at work.
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Yeah, Sony loves those, as well as portmanteaus. For example, 'Trinitron' refers to them combining a trinity of electron guns into one.
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How many disks (and batteries) were you hauling in that camera bag? When I took my FD91 to Northeast ComicCon, I just used the blue carrying case shown above, with six floppy discs (five in the case, one in the camera) and the reproduction battery I mentioned earlier. This was enough to yield 40 photos at the highest quality settings. It appears that the photos you took were on the 640x480 setting, so I'm guessing you took quite a few shots. Quote:
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Telecolor, Railway Express Agency in its final form ran from 1918 to 1975 and faded away as rail in the US faded away. More on Wikipedia. My first job in television was to make a weekly run to REA in 1970 to pick up a weeks worth of 2" tapes of some guy named Phil Donahue. A week later I would take them back to be sent on to another station and pick up a new weeks worth. The station looked like it was from 1890.
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Do not know. If the part numbers match up..
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Am I wrong, but there where also video cameras using MiniDisc?
Anyway, for whom presented interes this early digital cameras, since the image was not so good - even a cheap film compact camera could offer a good image. Quote:
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And yes, I think we're all aware of the inferiority of early digital cameras vs. film, but if you wanted to get an image of something onto a computer for some reason, you didn't have much choice unless you felt like scanning photos or negatives, which had its own issues. The Mavicas made this quite easy, given that removable media was far from typical in digital cameras of that era, and direct connection methods were very slow and tedious in the pre-USB 2.0 era. -Adam
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Oh, still image on a tape. What could possibly go wrong? Just a stupid joke, sorry. But I wonder how they did recorded still image on a tape?
I knew that I've seen a page with M.D. cameras a few days ago, but didn't rember the adress of that page. True the stuff with the connector. Paralel ports where slow and installing one on the camera would add size and weight. Well, the MiniDisc one had R.S.-232C port, because in the case of M.D.'s you needed a specail reader and probably not all where eager to spent money o an M.D. data reader. |
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Could be the same drive, or could be completely different or almost the same except a different connector or mounting hole somewhere, no telling. If you can find a service manual for the '90 then the part number for the drive should be there.
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My first working stand-alone digital camera, a Kodak DC3200, used a RS-232 connection by way of a funky cable (1/8" TRS plug on one end, DB-9 connector on the other) which I 'borrowed' from a broken Polaroid-branded camera I'd found earlier. Since none of my photo-capable computers were equipped with an old-style serial connector, I had to use it in conjunction with a serial-to-USB adapter cable. Somehow, this allowed for file transfer using the proprietary Kodak EasyShare software, though it was extremely slow going, and if I tried to transfer too many photos at a time, the program would crash. Given that my 256MB CompactFlash card (smallest I could get at the time) held several hundred of its ~1MP photos, I didn't transfer all of the photos I took with the DC3200 until I got a HP printer/scanner which had a built-in CF reader. Quote:
Anyway, with Comet Neowise said to be in the skies, I figured I'd attempt to take some photos of it down at the local beach during sunset using the FD91. I took some photos of what I thought was the comet, but I'm pretty sure it was just a disembodied portion of the nearby contrails. In any case, it took some pretty nice photos of the clouds, plus some wider shots of the sky, water and a large house across the lake. Here are the photos: (alternate views here and here)
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I found one for sale on a Romanian advertising site. But I'm not sure that I'm going to spent the money onto it.
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Wow nice photos guys. Thanks for sharing.
The photos have such a nice early internet / early digital camera feel to them. I still have to get ahold of a Mavica. I've been looking for one local but still haven't found one yet. The floppy disk storage would be ideal for me as I'm still using MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 a lot on my 486 computers. Oldest digital camera I've got in my collection is a Sony cybershot from 2003. I got it in the box with the battery, memory card, all the cables and adapter for 10 bucks Solid heavy little camera. Looks like this one. |
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