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I still have my Mavica. Still works too. I also have a handycam - a Digital8 with a flip-out LCD and firewire. It's all new in the bag. It was used only one time. I have no idea why I still keep them.
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I found some lovely ancient Ricoh RDC-2 at work several years back. After borrowing a PCMCIA flash storage card from a hoarder co-worker, I fired it up and took some pictures. It was truly garbage, taking pictures at 768x576. The stupidest thing was that the pictures were stored in a ".J6I" file format which is just JPEG with an additional header at the start of the file, so you can't open it with a regular image viewer until you strip that header. Looked cool though:  And here's a very old-fashioned website about it: http://www.steves-digicams.com/ricoh.html
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Sep 3, 2018 03:20
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I rocked a Sony Mavica in highschool. At the time the floppy storage limit of about 20 photos sort of made sense as an average roll of film was about 24 to 30 depending on what you got. So the "tradeoff" was that you'd could just carry a box of floppies around. However compared to taking a standard shot off a regular camera and scanning, the quality was pretty brutal. 640x480 and the optics were pretty bad with no autofocus. Macro stuff was impossible or you had to cheat the autofocus to focus in close with your fingers. Sony also released CD versions of their stills cameras. With the issue of erasing photos being solved with a CD-RW. It also used the mini-CD formats, which I understand gained some notoriety for companies that used them as promotional materials and uneven shaped discs would levitate and smash into pieces into a drive. Or people put them into a slot not a tray and could not get them back out.
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Sep 3, 2018 06:11
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0toShifty posted:I also have a handycam - a Digital8 with a flip-out LCD and firewire. It's all new in the bag. It was used only one time. I have no idea why I still keep them. I just realized that is been 14 years or so since I last used a video camera and edited stuff on a PC with a crappy Athlon processor in the school computer lab. Firewire was basically magic technology back then, you could just shoot stuff and them edit it ON A PC! Before that I had only used oldschool video editing decks. I have no idea if people even use handycams these days.
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Sep 3, 2018 06:54
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They had just got a Mavica when I started at my job in '99. It was to take photos of damaged freight on the incoming trucks. We used Polaroids for that before then. Used it for my first dick pics. Brought my own disc in and went into the bathroom to take photos of my cock for AIM purposes. Somewhere, somebody probably still has photos of my young penis taken in a filthy warehouse toilet stall.
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Sep 3, 2018 08:09
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Were there cameras that used Zip discs or something similar? I went to a charter school for part of elementary school, and they were pushing technology hard. Full Apple lab, Mac Clones for every student to take home, CCTV morning news, etc. Seemed like they had cameras that took storage that looked like thicker floppies but this was 20 years ago so I don't know.
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Sep 3, 2018 08:19
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:They had just got a Mavica when I started at my job in '99. It was to take photos of damaged freight on the incoming trucks. We used Polaroids for that before then. I had a Mavica around the same time and used it similarly, but with another person involved. Those images never made it to the net in any form, though.
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Pham Nuwen posted:I found some lovely ancient Ricoh RDC-2 at work several years back. After borrowing a PCMCIA flash storage card from a hoarder co-worker, I fired it up and took some pictures. It was truly garbage, taking pictures at 768x576. The stupidest thing was that the pictures were stored in a ".J6I" file format which is just JPEG with an additional header at the start of the file, so you can't open it with a regular image viewer until you strip that header. There was 15 different file formats for CD images. Even when MP3’s were already a thing, digital music players, both hardware and software wanted you to use their special snowflake formats, for their lovely DRM or for vendor lock-in or whatever. Or open source spergs with something marginally better in a technical sense, but just clogs up the field ultimately. Sure, I get FLAC and other lossless stuff serves a purpose for archiving. Aren’t RAW files from digital cameras still kinda a clusterfuck, or did that finally get sorted out?
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Sep 3, 2018 10:12
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Laslow posted:Oh man, remember when ftfy
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Sep 3, 2018 10:32
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Casimir Radon posted:Were there cameras that used Zip discs or something similar? I went to a charter school for part of elementary school, and they were pushing technology hard. Full Apple lab, Mac Clones for every student to take home, CCTV morning news, etc. Seemed like they had cameras that took storage that looked like thicker floppies but this was 20 years ago so I don't know. I don't think ZIPs made it to digital cameras, but I do remember these:  and yes, they worked as well as you expected. If I recall correctly, you could fill the disc will all your shooting, but if you forgot to finalise it before ejecting the disc, it was useless (not sure if you had a ability to put it back in and do it, or if it were screwed forever) Shai-Hulud posted:ftfy Sony were/are their own worst enemy.
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Casimir Radon posted:Were there cameras that used Zip discs or something similar? I went to a charter school for part of elementary school, and they were pushing technology hard. Full Apple lab, Mac Clones for every student to take home, CCTV morning news, etc. Seemed like they had cameras that took storage that looked like thicker floppies but this was 20 years ago so I don't know. There was a competitor to the zip disk called the LS-120 SuperDisk and there was a camera that used those disks http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Panasonic_PV-SD4090
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Sep 3, 2018 13:46
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Let me quote myself:Data Graham posted:I had one of these fuckers See that grip around the side where your right hand would go? That’s big enough to fit your whole meaty paw. A 3.5” drive and all its innards has to fit in there. Thing was a beast and not something you would just carry around lightly. Which isn’t to say that stopped me from taking it skiing and recording my friends tumbling downhill 
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Sep 3, 2018 14:02
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I remember a lot of MP3 players (Or I guess technically "PMPs", portable music players) trying to shove WMA down our throats like that was going to be a thing. To add two things to camerachat, who remembers having to get that fake FlashPath not-floppy to get pics off their camera? It was as dumb as it sounds. I feel like a bunch of companies bet hard on SmartMedia being a thing, and then SD just ate their entire lunch (except Sony, who still refuses to just use MicroSDs like a normal person). Also, how many of us were the annoying dork running around with this at the party: 
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lazydog posted:There was a competitor to the zip disk called the LS-120 SuperDisk and there was a camera that used those disks In other news LGR got an external SCSI CD changer drive, and decided the best use would be jam Phantasmagoria in to it. https://youtu.be/z6HfEgCbMb0
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Sep 3, 2018 16:06
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Maybe a still video camera? Those used Video Floppy disks instead of normal 3.5" ones. (Weird technology, too - each track on the floppy is basically a single analog VHS frame.)
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Sep 3, 2018 16:15
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doctorfrog posted:I bought a Mad Catz accessory that siphoned images off the Game Boy camera onto a computer through a parallel port. The window for when that thing was usable was so short I only used it once. There's a cool arduino gameboy printer emulator if anyone for some reason wants to actually get photos off their gameboy
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Sep 3, 2018 21:13
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Enos Shenk posted:I had a digital camera I got for signing up with Earthlink around 2000. It was the most amazingly terrible thing. I had this thing and thought it was the hottest poo poo ever made at the time.   4 AAs and a massive 8MB card that let you hold like 17 or 18 pictures. The screen was absolutally poo poo and was almost useless to frame what you were trying to take a picture of. I think it was one of the first consumer grade point and shoots that were 1 megapixel. Bought it for like $300 and sold it for something like 30 bucks 2 years later.
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Neito posted:(except Sony, who still refuses to just use MicroSDs like a normal person). Sony has been dead to me since 2005. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
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Sep 3, 2018 21:27
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Neito posted:Also, how many of us were the annoying dork running around with this at the party: I used one of those up until it got lost when I moved, it's fun to use something like a car key to draw onto the photos as they're developing. Kind of annoyed that all my cameras disappeared into the aether along with it because I had some cool and odd cameras.
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Laslow posted:Aren’t RAW files from digital cameras still kinda a clusterfuck, or did that finally get sorted out? Still pretty charlie foxtrotted, but pretty much all raw developer software supports everything anyways. Even the open-source stuff supports all major RAW formats. e. my aunt still owns and uses a CD-Mavica. I even gave her my old Canon 20D and my ancient-as-gently caress Tamron 28-200 lens when I upgraded, but she still prefers her Mavica. rndmnmbr has a new favorite as of 01:11 on Sep 4, 2018 |
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Don Gato posted:I used one of those up until it got lost when I moved, it's fun to use something like a car key to draw onto the photos as they're developing. Kind of annoyed that all my cameras disappeared into the aether along with it because I had some cool and odd cameras. I've never understood how people lose things when they move. For me it's always been the opposite: you find things during a move because you empty everything out.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I've never understood how people lose things when they move. For me it's always been the opposite: you find things during a move because you empty everything out.  Perhaps they have other people helping them who put things away in odd places? I always unpack solo for exactly that reason.
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Shot goes missing when I move cause my partner tend to throw poo poo in boxes with other items that make no sense. They then end up in a spare room for a while undisturbed. I cleaned out a box at the last place that was just accumulated mail from the previous house
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For me it's often "I'll put it here for now" and then moving it to where it should be never happens, and it's not found again until I move the next time.
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If you hire movers to help you out, they'll basically always steal some stuff because there's no reason for them not to.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:If you hire movers to help you out, they'll basically always steal some stuff because there's no reason for them not to. The possibility of criminal charges isn't a reason?
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jivjov posted:The possibility of criminal charges isn't a reason? Don't be Becky, just do it yourself if stuff is that important to you.
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Dr. Garbanzo posted:Shot goes missing when I move cause my partner tend to throw poo poo in boxes with other items that make no sense. They then end up in a spare room for a while undisturbed. I cleaned out a box at the last place that was just accumulated mail from the previous house Oh yeah it took me over a year to get the last box unpacked after my previous move but I didn't consider anything "lost" because I knew it was all in there somewhere. I guess it's a matter of perspective.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I've never understood how people lose things when they move. For me it's always been the opposite: you find things during a move because you empty everything out. I didn't get a chance to pack my own stuff before it got moved to where I currently live. Not ideal but sometimes life comes at you fast
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I just realized I lost most of my miscallaneous music stuff (cords, adapters, etc.) in the last move - I can only assume the bag found it's way to recycling despite my every effort to avoid that very thing happening. poo poo happens, at least it's great good excuse to update my MIDI and synth poo poo to current spec 
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After one move I noticed I had an extra lap-top computer (with dock and all) and computer bag. I guess it was in the van already and of course we emptied it. It's got Windows 95 and Excel and Word and everything and I've used it quite a bit because it's a nice machine.
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Sep 5, 2018 13:40
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My school had one of these things that we all used for projects and field trips, owned. Cause no one posted the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nu6C-Ci7_Q
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ESPs are fantastic little devices. I use one to monitor the LEDs on my washing machine downstairs and sends me a notification when a load is finished.
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Humphreys posted:ESPs are fantastic little devices. I use one to monitor the LEDs on my washing machine downstairs and sends me a notification when a load is finished. I set a timer
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I use mine to do the same dumb rear end poo poo I do with every new tiny computer that comes out. Load it with emulators, play them for five minutes then leave the thing in a drawer for the rest of my life Eventually they'll get too small to play anything on. One might argue that it's already happened. flavor.flv has a new favorite as of 15:17 on Sep 9, 2018 |
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Sep 9, 2018 15:13
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Last Chance posted:I set a timer some washing machines use unreliable timing techniques based on weight and temperature-sensing. the ones in my building are done When They're Done.
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RandomFerret posted:I use mine to do the same dumb rear end poo poo I do with every new tiny computer that comes out. Load it with emulators, play them for five minutes then leave the thing in a drawer for the rest of my life My buddy made this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNoBQ5nTeuk
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Last Chance posted:I set a timer In the future, we use alien space technology to make everything slightly more precise
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DoctorWhat posted:some washing machines use unreliable timing techniques based on weight and temperature-sensing. the ones in my building are done When They're Done. I set a timer for a few extra minutes more than the machine says it'll be
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