I've expanded the SuperDisk photo gallery with a buncha pics taken at Retro World Expo '24! imgur.com/a/panasonic-superdisk-palmcam-sd4090-gallery-lgr-WJw3hOD
I remember doing some research on the super disk vs the zip drive. You see, I was adding one of them. That weekend I was going to a computer fair, so ubiquitous in the 90s, to purchase one. Yeah, I chose the zip drive.
I hope you like that stuff I gave you it was an honor meeting you and I was that generous viewer 😅 and I was on that camera thank you very much You made my Day at Long Island retro a day I would remember
13:12 Was listening to this video while handling some day job work on my other monitor, and lemme tell you this line made me whip my head back so fast I nearly gave myself whiplash
This was a crazy device for it's time! Do you know the Logitech Quickcam Traveler from 2001? It was both a high end webcam and a basic digital camera with 2x AA batteries, internal 4Mb of memory, and no flash. It also supported the Reality Fusion augmented reality games, motion detection videos, etc.. It's now quite complicated to find anything on this camera, but back then it was quite good.
That’s an enhanced version of the Intel digital camera I reviewed not long ago! It has most of the same features including Reality Fusion games: ruclips.net/video/tI9qHg2yGtw/видео.html
@@LGR Considering your episode I would say it's the other way around as I don't recall the Logitech model being able to make videos. However the focus ring went from infinite focus to macro, which seems better. One funny thing is that the Reality Fusion games you test on both of your videos don't match those that were bundled with Logitech if I recall correctly. Those games were tech demos but they were quite ahead of their time nonetheless. Funny to know that we more or less share our first digital camera. I still have tons of photos made with it, but the quality really isn't great. I tried some AI upscaling, but it turned out to be a complete mess ^^ Anyway, thanks for another great video!
Had a logitech as my family's first digital camera, it's best parlor trick was when you only had a few shots left on the counter you turned it off and on again you could get two or three more pictures then before you power cycled it, naturally the only worked a few times before it truly had a full memory but it was a neat trick at the time. Still got it but I doubt Clint needs one.
Clint: Thanks so much for the Manhattan pics! I'm a native NYC son now living in HK for the last 10 years. I miss home terribly and your pics made me smile :) I hope my home, the best city in the world, treated you well!!
I wonder, Clint ... you are so fluent, witty and easy on the ear: an excellent and very pleasant voice-over that draws the viewer in ... Do you read from a script, or partly memorize it, adlibbing where you can and want? It just makes your already fabulous and highly interesting and entertaining videos EVEN better. Kudos! I do hope, by the way, there's going to be a video of your NY trip ... The Chicago one was really great, and no: at some 2 hours not even a second too long.
Videos such as these are fully scripted! I’ll adlib a line here and there but mostly I like to write and refine a script long before I think about recording. And yes a New York travel video will be on LGR Blerbs before too long :)
THIS is what I call plug & play! No long-lost drivers, no hassle to get it working, no proprietary software. Still usable 25+ years later on modern machines. Love the photos these early CCD digital cameras output.
Thanks for coming to LI Retro! I didn’t take a selfie, but we talked on Saturday for a bit about the camera itself. I mentioned how my Video Production class in High School had a similar digicam that saved to normal floppy discs. Might’ve been one you reviewed in the past, have to check. Hope to see you again!
I've been singing the praises of the LS-120 SuperDisk since it was new... And I was never even a Mac user. I still include one in most of my retro PC builds. They are better than zip drives in every way. They are supported in most PC BIOS, from Pentium I (including some late i486 mobo's), all the way up to at least Haswell, possibly beyond. They don't actually require drivers, or software. You can boot from them. They came in IDE, SCSI, Parallel, and USB... Internal and External. You can crack open an external enclosure to get an internal drive. They also read and write HD 1.44 floppies faster than a regular floppy drive. No "Click Of Death". I'm sure I'm forgetting a few other highlights.
@@MrDuncl LS240 had a function to write 32 megabytes to a standard 1.44M floppy, but it could only do it in disk at once (DAO) like burning a CD-R, and of course such disks were only readable in LS240 drives. It would be a way to store files you didn't want just anyone to be able to access.
Great meeting you at Retro World Expo today, and thanks for signing my copy of Sim City 2000!!! Guess I got a sneak peak of this video by seeing the camera at the expo :)
I've been around Asheville / WNC my entire life so your camera reviews always hit home since I see some of these spots almost daily. I remember taking similar photos on terrible 2000s digital cameras back in the days of the much more aesthetic BB&T building.
This was my first digital camera! :O I was fortunate to have a retied Lt. Col. as a grandfather, and he liked cutting edge technology. Looking back at your roots is so much fun. Thank you!
I caught the Critical Roll Bells Hells figures, dnd nerds unite! Didn’t know you were into dnd LGR, but that’s cool to learn about you. Keep up the great content.
I had an external superdisk drive in college. As a matter of fact I still own it and have a couple disks. I needed an external disk drive and bought this since it was a similar price but added the feature of 120MB disks. It was a GREAT product for me at the time. Students were jealous I could pack so much into a disk.
Had one, my 4090 was a WORKHORSE for many years, loved it loved it loved it. As I recall the drive went bad in mine and I ebayed it 'as is'. Good times. Thanks so much for the trip down memory lane.
Oh this was great! A real blast from the past, I remember watching this on the Computer Chronicles, which was my FAVORITE show growing up. Thank you for taking us along your trip, image and video samples and going back to when I was raving about the LS120 drive when my classmates probably had no clue what I was talking about lol. Oh I miss the 80's and 90's.
I'm really shocked to see how good the quality is. Makes me wonder what people will be saying in another 25 years or so about the cameras we use today. Thanks for another fun and interesting review, Clint.
We only used Superdisk back in college, because it was connected to the iMacs in the computer lab. The only person I knew who had that Panasonic camera was a classmate in my photography class back when digital cameras were in their infancy.
It was a pleasure to interview you earlier today. Thank you very much for taking the time to talk with a much smaller channel. It was greatly appreciated.
@@LGR also if you ever change your mind and would like to appear on a live stream we would be more than willing to accommodate in any way you needed including not being on camera. We’d just love to have you on and chat and play games and have you pick the games we play. I have 34k+ of them on my cabinet.
My family had a USB LS-120 for our Second Edition Bondi iMac! The fact that it could use regular floppies as well as the LS-120 made it crazy easy to write up a paper and print it off at school. The disks and drive were also way more reliable than Zip drives. Until re-writeable CDs and burners came out it was super useful.
Hello sir! I have, many years ago, come across the super drive and its floppy disk. Thank you for reminding me. I have many cherished memories from that time. 😊
I actually have one of these found it in a car in the junkyard 7+ years ago and sure enough the it worked after puttin in a replacement battery. Just recently the drive finally gave up. I definitely have to say that was a well-made camera.
I also have one, but it's not a fun junkyard find. It was used at my office for a little while before being replaced. I pulled it out a few years ago when I saw a similar camera on LGR. The original battery and the drive both surprisingly still work, I assume because it was always stored in a climate controlled environment and never really saw much use. I don't have any super disks to try, but it still reads ordinary floppies.
5:30 omg! Countryside Mall is a 15 minute drive from me. Its in Clearwater right on the major north-south road, Us Hwy 19. Fun fact, Countryside has an ice skating rink inside. Nothing took over the Sears fully when it closed, but the bottom floor became an external only (no mall entrance) Whole Foods. The upstairs old Sears part is still empty. Anyway, just amazed to see something so close to home.
I bought a Mavica 88 after your video on those cameras and I use it all the time to take pictures with my daughter when we go on ATV rides. I might have to pick up the SD4090 now. I really love the aesthetics of that modern charging dock and the superdisk capabilities.
My favourite thing about these 90's and early 2000's cameras is the vibe that the images have. I have a 2013 Nikon Coolpix L315 and it's a really good camera but I constantly find myself wanting to use my Digitron S9 from the late 2000's just because it has that graininess and different colors.
I remember borrowing a digital camera to take pictures of my kids, and it quickly filled all the floppys I had, sadly, none of those picktures are to be found today, while every photo taken on film and developed is still to be enjoyed on their albums. Even if I found the floppys, I dont have a computer with a drive anymore. Later on in life, all pictures were taken with cellphones and never saved befor the phones died and there is a gap of many years I have no pictures from. My 2 latest phones are backed up to my laptop, that is about to die too, so it's just a matter of time before they are gone too. Thank's for reminfing me to back them up to something else
It is crazy how some old cameras hold up. I'll never forget my first digital point and shoot: Samsung Digimax i6. This thing was insane and i still cry after it. (I lost it after a night out and didn't get it back)
6:19 - OMG turning ON a beautiful device from the past is a TOP ASMR event for and old boomer who grow up admiring them (it was too expensive to purchase it tho) 🙏
I'm impressed at just how awesome the video looks from the camera that filmed this. Seeing NYC in 4k and then in whatever god-awful resolution from that camera, it was quite the difference!
10:10 A photo of a VR headset hooked up to a modern smartphone on a wireless charging pad, taken with a 25yr-old digital camera & stored on super-floppy. I love these seemingly anachronistic combinations. State-of-the-art, 2 & a half decades apart.
I grew up within twenty blocks of where you took the skyline photos and this old tech video made me so emotional to recall how things were back twenty five years ago ❤❤
absolutely love how photos from the 90s & early 2000s looked. i took a photography class for fun around 2014 but the only camera i had was one my mom bought in 2000. i still have some of the photos saved that i brought over between at least 4 pc's since i liked how much they turned out. in class, people would comment on how they liked the color correction or "effects" i used.. i didnt correct anything at all unless it was part of an assignment lol. the camera wasnt That Old back then, but even still there was a pretty huge difference between the photo quality of the camera i was using & others brand new cameras
You took some great photos in NYC. Pretty impressed by the quality of that old camera. I only had various cheap film or disposable cameras in the 90s. Still have a Polaroid sun600 from the late 80s and my first and only digital Kodak C613 I still use for it's optical zoom. Wish my Samsung zflip4 had that lol good video as always Clint.
The simple fact that it also works as a modern-day USB floppy disc drive makes this possibly the most practical old-school digicam to still has use for outside of for the novelty of it, honestly. Sure, you can just get a modern-day USB floppy drive... but I don't think those are compatible with Super Disks, now are they?
This video reminds me that I need to get a Smart Media Card so I can use my Olympus c-3040zoom. Using an old camera to take modern pictures has just always been fun no matter if it uses film or is digital.
Honestly Clint the fact that it even is recognized by modern computers puts this thing in a league in its own... I know so much old tech I use that when I plug it in on an Apple anything or PC... anything not time specific it just explodes. These guys made a beast here.
Never heard of the Super Disk. Am amazed that the printing on the receipt hasn’t faded, the ones I get from my local supermarket seem to fade within a month. I remember using a disk based camera at work years back, being able to take photos direct to disk felt like the future.
These were great at the time! I traveled Europe for a month with one of the floppy versions and the pictures were surprisingly decent-ish. Came across some of them a few months ago and was actually shocked that they were better than some of my old cell phone pix.
Every time I watch one of your videos, I feel that same sense of wonder I had as a kid, marveling at my room with my little gadgets. It's a wave of nostalgia for a time most of us wish we could experience all over again. Thank you
I remember in 2000, we had one of these for the yearbook club at my school and it was so much easier at the time than using film cameras. We thought we had something with our floppy disk of pictures!
I bought one of these last year! Couldn’t find a superdisk reader for cheap so I emulated win 98 to get the usb drivers to work, haha. Fun camera and great vid!
That was my first digital camera back in the day. I even made a telescope adapter to do some basic astrophotography. I still have a shot I took of the moon with that camera hanging on my wall.
Oh geeze, I remember these and the superdisk (sort of for the latter). One of the schools I attended had a few of these cameras for one of the classes, but typically only used standard floppies with them. There was a single superdisk drive (the same external mac-themed one shown) other than the cameras themselves and a single LS-120 disk, but due to "student exposure" they were both inoperable since someone picked at the metal cover on the disk causing it to fold up at the corner, and then inserted it into the drive, causing it to get jammed.
I've expanded the SuperDisk photo gallery with a buncha pics taken at Retro World Expo '24! imgur.com/a/panasonic-superdisk-palmcam-sd4090-gallery-lgr-WJw3hOD
Nice meeting you at Retro World Expo and was fun taking a pic with you on the same camera featured in this video :D
NYC is timeless with that camera. Amazing photos. Really enjoyed this video. I bought a camera for my Palm pilot last year, lots of fun.
I remember doing some research on the super disk vs the zip drive. You see, I was adding one of them. That weekend I was going to a computer fair, so ubiquitous in the 90s, to purchase one. Yeah, I chose the zip drive.
90s quality pictures of NYC just feel right IMO
It feels like coming from my childhood movies and magazine.
The CCD look is definitely something
There's just one thing missing. Well, two things.
@@abcpea Now I'm sad :(
Without the twin towers....
Thanks for including our selfie, Clint. It was great to meet you at LI Retro.
I’m guessing he wasn’t there on Sunday, since I looked all over and only saw My Life In Gaming 😖
I also appreciated the in-person sneak peak of this video.
Aw now I’m just finding out LGR was at LI retro and regretting I didn’t go
You're a legend
I hope you like that stuff I gave you it was an honor meeting you and I was that generous viewer 😅 and I was on that camera thank you very much You made my Day at Long Island retro a day I would remember
13:12 Was listening to this video while handling some day job work on my other monitor, and lemme tell you this line made me whip my head back so fast I nearly gave myself whiplash
literally same, was in the other room and was like WHAT
I feel baited
Real
@@FormulaGuppy I'll bet you do. 😏
LOL!
90s and early 2000s digital cameras were always interesting
It's the quirkiness of them. Now everything is so standardized that there aren't really any devices that stick out anymore.
@@hugothepinkcatit must be smaller… and FASTER!! 😅
@@hugothepinkcat Is that really a bad thing? I dont mind ever seeing a Memory Stick Duo ever again. (Sony flavored SD water)
@@rastas_4221 From a daily use point of view, no.
From the point of view of someone who likes quirky electronics, it's a bit sad.
find new but yep! They aren’t quite the same form factor and don’t fit, so whatever,
I can’t believe “floptical disk” is a real name for a real product
It was a bit of a flop. 😁
Great band name.
It's just.. glorious.
When you buy a 4090 from some online seller and they send you this 4090 instead.
And then you don't mind it anyway
But you still get to experience the chunkiness.
Similar price, with inflation taken into account.
"Not with the 4090, it's a thick chonkin handful of a device" The more things change, the more things stay the same.
Yeah, I can see where nVidia got their ideas from.
Panasonic was making 4090s, before it was cool.
I love that all of these photos look like they could have come from an old GeoCities page
There was also Lycos! lol! And Alta Vista. :P Oh I miss those days, of choice!
3:00 I am glad they labeled it a SHTR so people knew before they bought it.
SHTR's full!
Old digital camera videos are absolutely my favorite, keep them coming!
13:10 I was absolutely NOT prepared for this lol
This was a crazy device for it's time!
Do you know the Logitech Quickcam Traveler from 2001? It was both a high end webcam and a basic digital camera with 2x AA batteries, internal 4Mb of memory, and no flash. It also supported the Reality Fusion augmented reality games, motion detection videos, etc.. It's now quite complicated to find anything on this camera, but back then it was quite good.
That’s an enhanced version of the Intel digital camera I reviewed not long ago! It has most of the same features including Reality Fusion games:
ruclips.net/video/tI9qHg2yGtw/видео.html
@@LGR Considering your episode I would say it's the other way around as I don't recall the Logitech model being able to make videos. However the focus ring went from infinite focus to macro, which seems better.
One funny thing is that the Reality Fusion games you test on both of your videos don't match those that were bundled with Logitech if I recall correctly. Those games were tech demos but they were quite ahead of their time nonetheless.
Funny to know that we more or less share our first digital camera. I still have tons of photos made with it, but the quality really isn't great. I tried some AI upscaling, but it turned out to be a complete mess ^^
Anyway, thanks for another great video!
Had a logitech as my family's first digital camera, it's best parlor trick was when you only had a few shots left on the counter you turned it off and on again you could get two or three more pictures then before you power cycled it, naturally the only worked a few times before it truly had a full memory but it was a neat trick at the time. Still got it but I doubt Clint needs one.
Fun fact: the old Imation building in the Twin Cities was converted into a business campus. It now houses the headquarters of Slumberland.
I thought Slumberland Records was a one-man operation in Olympia, Washington.
Clint: Thanks so much for the Manhattan pics! I'm a native NYC son now living in HK for the last 10 years. I miss home terribly and your pics made me smile :) I hope my home, the best city in the world, treated you well!!
"And of course, the most action happens around back."
Of course. I'm glad that you're still having fun writing scripts. :)
@@CyanneDTM Hearing that the camera was used for "Dick pics" caught me off guard. 😂
I wonder, Clint ... you are so fluent, witty and easy on the ear: an excellent and very pleasant voice-over that draws the viewer in ... Do you read from a script, or partly memorize it, adlibbing where you can and want? It just makes your already fabulous and highly interesting and entertaining videos EVEN better. Kudos! I do hope, by the way, there's going to be a video of your NY trip ... The Chicago one was really great, and no: at some 2 hours not even a second too long.
Videos such as these are fully scripted! I’ll adlib a line here and there but mostly I like to write and refine a script long before I think about recording.
And yes a New York travel video will be on LGR Blerbs before too long :)
13:12 I was having lunch and I almost choke on coca cola
THIS is what I call plug & play! No long-lost drivers, no hassle to get it working, no proprietary software. Still usable 25+ years later on modern machines. Love the photos these early CCD digital cameras output.
Thanks for coming to LI Retro! I didn’t take a selfie, but we talked on Saturday for a bit about the camera itself. I mentioned how my Video Production class in High School had a similar digicam that saved to normal floppy discs. Might’ve been one you reviewed in the past, have to check. Hope to see you again!
Time to watch LGR and chew bubble gum and I’m all out of gum
You could always try the Conehead method....
@@user-wu2pg5zh2ru look like a molester
I've been singing the praises of the LS-120 SuperDisk since it was new... And I was never even a Mac user.
I still include one in most of my retro PC builds. They are better than zip drives in every way.
They are supported in most PC BIOS, from Pentium I (including some late i486 mobo's), all the way up to at least Haswell, possibly beyond.
They don't actually require drivers, or software. You can boot from them.
They came in IDE, SCSI, Parallel, and USB... Internal and External.
You can crack open an external enclosure to get an internal drive.
They also read and write HD 1.44 floppies faster than a regular floppy drive.
No "Click Of Death".
I'm sure I'm forgetting a few other highlights.
And to top it all they then brought out an LS240 version.
why didn't they get more popular it would have been handy for a few years at least
@@belstar1128 The falling prices of Flash Memory and CD / DVD writers. Have a look at how many Camcorders incorporated mini DVD writers for a while.
@@MrDuncl LS240 had a function to write 32 megabytes to a standard 1.44M floppy, but it could only do it in disk at once (DAO) like burning a CD-R, and of course such disks were only readable in LS240 drives. It would be a way to store files you didn't want just anyone to be able to access.
I had never heard of Super Disks until this moment
The photo of the Thunderbird in the parking garage looks like a car selection screen out of a Need for Speed game from 25 years ago. Neat.
Loving the turn-of-the-millenium look of the images. Peak nostalgia.
Great meeting you at Retro World Expo today, and thanks for signing my copy of Sim City 2000!!! Guess I got a sneak peak of this video by seeing the camera at the expo :)
I've been around Asheville / WNC my entire life so your camera reviews always hit home since I see some of these spots almost daily. I remember taking similar photos on terrible 2000s digital cameras back in the days of the much more aesthetic BB&T building.
This was my first digital camera! :O
I was fortunate to have a retied Lt. Col. as a grandfather, and he liked cutting edge technology.
Looking back at your roots is so much fun. Thank you!
I caught the Critical Roll Bells Hells figures, dnd nerds unite!
Didn’t know you were into dnd LGR, but that’s cool to learn about you. Keep up the great content.
I had an external superdisk drive in college. As a matter of fact I still own it and have a couple disks. I needed an external disk drive and bought this since it was a similar price but added the feature of 120MB disks. It was a GREAT product for me at the time. Students were jealous I could pack so much into a disk.
Had one, my 4090 was a WORKHORSE for many years, loved it loved it loved it. As I recall the drive went bad in mine and I ebayed it 'as is'. Good times. Thanks so much for the trip down memory lane.
Oh this was great! A real blast from the past, I remember watching this on the Computer Chronicles, which was my FAVORITE show growing up.
Thank you for taking us along your trip, image and video samples and going back to when I was raving about the LS120 drive when my classmates probably had no clue what I was talking about lol. Oh I miss the 80's and 90's.
I'm really shocked to see how good the quality is. Makes me wonder what people will be saying in another 25 years or so about the cameras we use today. Thanks for another fun and interesting review, Clint.
We only used Superdisk back in college, because it was connected to the iMacs in the computer lab. The only person I knew who had that Panasonic camera was a classmate in my photography class back when digital cameras were in their infancy.
It was a pleasure to interview you earlier today. Thank you very much for taking the time to talk with a much smaller channel. It was greatly appreciated.
Certainly, it was nice chatting!
@@LGR also if you ever change your mind and would like to appear on a live stream we would be more than willing to accommodate in any way you needed including not being on camera. We’d just love to have you on and chat and play games and have you pick the games we play. I have 34k+ of them on my cabinet.
Love the picture of the Critical Role minis. Always happy to see another fan!
Love the selfie of you and adam koralik!
13:12 really caught me off guard!
Glad you enjoyed your NYC trip.
9:27 the CR minis are so cute!!
I have one of these! It came with 1 Superdisk. It was wild being able to have a 120mb floppy.
Old digital cameras having a scene warms my heart. These produce such a unique image and vibe.
My family had a USB LS-120 for our Second Edition Bondi iMac! The fact that it could use regular floppies as well as the LS-120 made it crazy easy to write up a paper and print it off at school. The disks and drive were also way more reliable than Zip drives. Until re-writeable CDs and burners came out it was super useful.
that video of the city is surreal
it looks like AI
Hello sir! I have, many years ago, come across the super drive and its floppy disk. Thank you for reminding me. I have many cherished memories from that time. 😊
5:24 OMG, dude! That mall was literally walking distance from my house growing up! Small world!
There’s more for your life at Sears!
Always love your camera videos. Something beautiful about early digital photos
I had that Sony Mavica FD camera in the early 2000s. The floppy disks were annoying but the image quality was really good.
$900 Dollarydoos in 1999 is now about $1700 today. I always find it fascinating to see how prices drop for new tech
It has been the falling price of Flash Storage that changed everything. In 2002 I paid £85 for a 256MByte CF card
I actually have one of these found it in a car in the junkyard 7+ years ago and sure enough the it worked after puttin in a replacement battery. Just recently the drive finally gave up. I definitely have to say that was a well-made camera.
I also have one, but it's not a fun junkyard find. It was used at my office for a little while before being replaced. I pulled it out a few years ago when I saw a similar camera on LGR. The original battery and the drive both surprisingly still work, I assume because it was always stored in a climate controlled environment and never really saw much use. I don't have any super disks to try, but it still reads ordinary floppies.
5:30 omg! Countryside Mall is a 15 minute drive from me. Its in Clearwater right on the major north-south road, Us Hwy 19. Fun fact, Countryside has an ice skating rink inside. Nothing took over the Sears fully when it closed, but the bottom floor became an external only (no mall entrance) Whole Foods. The upstairs old Sears part is still empty. Anyway, just amazed to see something so close to home.
Your photos are absolutely superb.
Great composition and evoke a serious nostalgic feeling.
Great photography sir.
Awesome pics and video Clint! Always excited to see a new digicam vid from you
I bought a Mavica 88 after your video on those cameras and I use it all the time to take pictures with my daughter when we go on ATV rides. I might have to pick up the SD4090 now. I really love the aesthetics of that modern charging dock and the superdisk capabilities.
My favourite thing about these 90's and early 2000's cameras is the vibe that the images have. I have a 2013 Nikon Coolpix L315 and it's a really good camera but I constantly find myself wanting to use my Digitron S9 from the late 2000's just because it has that graininess and different colors.
I remember borrowing a digital camera to take pictures of my kids, and it quickly filled all the floppys I had, sadly, none of those picktures are to be found today, while every photo taken on film and developed is still to be enjoyed on their albums.
Even if I found the floppys, I dont have a computer with a drive anymore.
Later on in life, all pictures were taken with cellphones and never saved befor the phones died and there is a gap of many years I have no pictures from.
My 2 latest phones are backed up to my laptop, that is about to die too, so it's just a matter of time before they are gone too.
Thank's for reminfing me to back them up to something else
Ohhhh, I had one of those. And that same floppy drive. I thought it was the coolest camera at the time.
I got mine used around 2002 I believe.
You and I are kindred spirits I love looking back on older technology. Keep making these great videos!
Not sure why this didn't come up sooner. I'm subbed, with notifications on, but didn't see this till Thursday morning in my recommendations.
Had no idea there where digital cameras that used super disks
It is crazy how some old cameras hold up. I'll never forget my first digital point and shoot: Samsung Digimax i6. This thing was insane and i still cry after it. (I lost it after a night out and didn't get it back)
6:19 - OMG turning ON a beautiful device from the past is a TOP ASMR event for and old boomer who grow up admiring them (it was too expensive to purchase it tho) 🙏
I like how it was about as expensive as a "different" kind of 4090
At least the camera is still useful 25 years later
Gorgeous photos
We used one of these for cataloging finds in our archaeology lab at my university!
I'm impressed at just how awesome the video looks from the camera that filmed this. Seeing NYC in 4k and then in whatever god-awful resolution from that camera, it was quite the difference!
10:10 A photo of a VR headset hooked up to a modern smartphone on a wireless charging pad, taken with a 25yr-old digital camera & stored on super-floppy. I love these seemingly anachronistic combinations. State-of-the-art, 2 & a half decades apart.
'Yes with the 4090, it's a thick chon kin handful of a device" The more things change, the more things stay the same.
Your Pictures are fantastic!
Its crazy how much of the 80s 90s 00s look on photos is the tech itself instead of real world markers.
It was great seeing you at the LI Retro Gaming Expo! Hope to see this trip made into an LGR Blurbs video
It definitely will, almost done editing!
My old stomping grounds, Countryside Mall in Clearwater! Wasn't expecting to hear that on LGR.
I grew up within twenty blocks of where you took the skyline photos and this old tech video made me so emotional to recall how things were back twenty five years ago ❤❤
absolutely love how photos from the 90s & early 2000s looked. i took a photography class for fun around 2014 but the only camera i had was one my mom bought in 2000. i still have some of the photos saved that i brought over between at least 4 pc's since i liked how much they turned out. in class, people would comment on how they liked the color correction or "effects" i used.. i didnt correct anything at all unless it was part of an assignment lol. the camera wasnt That Old back then, but even still there was a pretty huge difference between the photo quality of the camera i was using & others brand new cameras
honestly your selfie game is AMAZING
I can't believe you post these for free man! Very entertaining.
You took some great photos in NYC. Pretty impressed by the quality of that old camera. I only had various cheap film or disposable cameras in the 90s. Still have a Polaroid sun600 from the late 80s and my first and only digital Kodak C613 I still use for it's optical zoom. Wish my Samsung zflip4 had that lol good video as always Clint.
Great review ! Thanks for the details and humor !!
3:12 Thank you for showing the weight in metric!
Man.....I KNOW this guy likes cars. I can tell. I'm really waiting for the Lazy car reviews channel. It would be so good.
I have a modified 2004 wrx you can review
The simple fact that it also works as a modern-day USB floppy disc drive makes this possibly the most practical old-school digicam to still has use for outside of for the novelty of it, honestly. Sure, you can just get a modern-day USB floppy drive... but I don't think those are compatible with Super Disks, now are they?
I had this camera in 2002. THIS takes me back. Thanks for the well needed dopamine boost. love you @LGR
I think it still holds up extremely well, the color and definition is what i miss from modern cameras.
This video reminds me that I need to get a Smart Media Card so I can use my Olympus c-3040zoom. Using an old camera to take modern pictures has just always been fun no matter if it uses film or is digital.
Honestly Clint the fact that it even is recognized by modern computers puts this thing in a league in its own... I know so much old tech I use that when I plug it in on an Apple anything or PC... anything not time specific it just explodes. These guys made a beast here.
Never heard of the Super Disk. Am amazed that the printing on the receipt hasn’t faded, the ones I get from my local supermarket seem to fade within a month. I remember using a disk based camera at work years back, being able to take photos direct to disk felt like the future.
Chicken Alley is my favorite camera benchmark
Digital camera development in the few years beyond this time was wild. 5e tech advanced so quickly.
As a collector of Mavica cameras, I would love to add this into the collection. I hope to find a working one.
Every time I watch a video about early digital cameras, I immediately remember why I continued using a manual film SLR for as long as I did.
These were great at the time! I traveled Europe for a month with one of the floppy versions and the pictures were surprisingly decent-ish. Came across some of them a few months ago and was actually shocked that they were better than some of my old cell phone pix.
This was my first digital camera. I bought it in 99 to take on our honeymoon to England. Still have it. Don't think it works.
The photos taken just takes me back man.
Those images almost have a film quality to them. I like the feel they give off
Every time I watch one of your videos, I feel that same sense of wonder I had as a kid, marveling at my room with my little gadgets. It's a wave of nostalgia for a time most of us wish we could experience all over again. Thank you
Clint, glad you enjoyed NYC!.....and I'm a bit mad I missed you at the Cradle of Aviation, since I sometimes volunteer there!
I remember in 2000, we had one of these for the yearbook club at my school and it was so much easier at the time than using film cameras. We thought we had something with our floppy disk of pictures!
I bought one of these last year! Couldn’t find a superdisk reader for cheap so I emulated win 98 to get the usb drivers to work, haha. Fun camera and great vid!
12:20 this would make a perfect photo for a car advertisement!!!
That was my first digital camera back in the day. I even made a telescope adapter to do some basic astrophotography. I still have a shot I took of the moon with that camera hanging on my wall.
Oh geeze, I remember these and the superdisk (sort of for the latter). One of the schools I attended had a few of these cameras for one of the classes, but typically only used standard floppies with them. There was a single superdisk drive (the same external mac-themed one shown) other than the cameras themselves and a single LS-120 disk, but due to "student exposure" they were both inoperable since someone picked at the metal cover on the disk causing it to fold up at the corner, and then inserted it into the drive, causing it to get jammed.