Who needs a card reader - get a Coolpix instead!
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
- I'm not sure if this was the FIRST Coolpix but I think we can all agree that it was a huge misstep for Nikon not to pursue this technique further. Billion dollar idea, absolute gamechanger, everything else pales in comparison.
This video marks the first opportunity I've had to leverage my still camera collection on screen, an error I've been meaning to rectify for years.
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Chapters:
00:00 I talk about digital camera history for seven minutes
07:21 Overview, controls, etc.
09:16 Quality tests
10:45 "The Weird"
13:57 The part you clicked for
15:53 Review summary
17:42 Visual tests / samples
20:15 A cat picture (one of them)
20:23 Review summary pt. 2
20:55 The one design flaw
25:41 Patreon crawl 
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I'm getting to that point with these videos where I have watched all the "modern" ones (with the current style and production value) and each time a new one comes out it feels like a treat. Excited to watch this while I eat lunch!
Same!
Me too!
That Sony camera you showed in the beginning actually has a neat design quirk that lets you non-destructively turn it into a full-spectrum camera and then back to normal at will: the IR cut glass is on a mechanism so it can swivel out of the way when the camera gets put in night shot mode, but you can trigger the mechanism during manual mode by holding a strong enough magnet against the bottom of the lens barrel. It's a great camera for dipping your toes into the world of full spectrum/IR photography on the cheap.
I had that camera and remember loving that feature... But having very little practical use for it.
still have that camera stashed somewhere, also got a fish eye lens for it from an architect that sold the camera and discovered the left over lens afterward. Was a pretty neat camera for its money and quite a few people bought it, I keep bumping into people mentioning they had one. There was another model they made in that same configuration too.
That's really cool. I used to have a Sony Hi8 camcorder that had the "Night Shot" or whatever it was. I remember a big stink about how pervs we're using it as a way to see through thin clothing.
You can pop the IR cut filter out of a cheap USB webcam.
@@LarsLarsen77 Yes, but that's not an intended feature of USB webcams and in many cases it's a destructive process.
The battery pack using the natural shape of four batteries to make a hand-grip is the true sign of some designers wanting to make a Good Product Tee-Em, if you ask me. Also it's interesting to me that the "warmth" I typically associated with analog cameras of a certain era is also present in the digital cameras of the era.
Also I had a laptop with one of those slots and assumed it was a mid-2000s invention. Digital stuff progressed a lot faster than I thought thanks to growing up with so little money as I did
AA batteries are about finger sized. *that's god's plan in action*
I think one of the Gameboys or its knockoffs did the battery hand grip thing too!
@@CathodeRayDude Yeah, but they're not as tasty as bananas.
@@aprofondir The Japan-only Game Boy Light, based around the Game Boy Pocket but with an Electro-Luminescent backlit LCD screen! The battery compartment was upscaled to fit AAs instead of the pair of AAAs the Pocket ran on, and so the designer, instead of making it rounded like the later Game Boy Color, made it scalloped!
You can keep one eye on the viewfinder and the other on the action.
I love the sheer delight at the camera being a PC card.
And while it doesn't surprise me after the studio tour, it's great how many other cameras you have on hand to demonstrated various design features on. It's really cool to see that done "in camera", so to speak, instead of just cutting to photos of them.
thank you for validating my hoarding tendency lmao. But seriously that is EXACTLY how I feel. Jpegs are all well and good but you can get those from google images. I much, MUCH prefer to have physical props on hand so I can turn something around and SHOW you what it does, not just tell you. I ain't wikipedia over here.
@@CathodeRayDude it's not a hoarding tendency, it's a business expense.
The Nikon Coolpix camera was amazing as it interfaced with microscopes and a pretty unique internal focusing system.
The coolpix 100 has a very similar formfactor to a smartphone, making it weirdly ahead of its time in a way
Kinda reminds me of those Flip cameras from the late 00's
"We have flown so far from the light" - I had to pause as I was laughing way too hard.
Despite initial hesitations, I would definitely give this presentation a number of gold stars.
the moment when you revealed the big deal with this camera made my fucking week; i love seeing you that happy so much.
and you are correct, the fact that contemporary design got so boring is so sad. i mean, i guess it's because we know what works and what doesn't, but we've sacrificed so much of the fun part of technology and the human spirit in the process. okay, i apologize if i went over the top with that last bit, but my point remains! designers should have a will to experiment again! it's what made the past so memorable and interesting in my eyes, and it makes me wonder what we have to leave behind as of now, other than boring and/or awful decisions on all fronts whose sole purpose is to keep the economy afloat, i guess.
Things are so much better than they were back then, and many of the wacky ideas were just wacky - but man, at least we got to see new things.
@@CathodeRayDude exactly! you get it so well!
Im sure they have the will, it's just not what the shareholders want anymore. It can be difficult to set out to do things on your own without the resources available where you design you other products too.
I worked in crash investigation several years ago, and we used modern digital cameras. The more experienced among my colleagues were around when the digital transition occurred, and these are the exact sort of cameras they used. Glorified point and shoot which were dead simple, and relatively indestructible. I think you are spot-on in who this was marketed toward.
2:00 - Thank you for reminding the world about the Samurai! The Samurai is the WORLDS BEST 35MM CAMERA! It's half-frame, so you get twice as many photos per roll of film, it has an amazing zoom range, and it basically is a tiny movie camera that records 1 frame at a time.
It reminds me of the Canon Photura that my dad owned. It is barrel shaped with the flash on the back of the pop out lens cap
it's also one of the only half frame cameras that shoots a horizontal image rather than upright because of it's strange shape.
I was gonna comment on that. It would lose a lot of quality being just half-frame. Worse, even than APS which had a brief popularity before everyone went digital.
@@peetiegonzalez1845 Half frame is actually a fairly large format, it's only half a 35mm frame, which ends up being larger than APSC but a little smaller than APS film but you get many many more shots. It's probably one of the larger cheap formats of that era, much much bigger than 110 and disk film. If you shoot any half frame cameras today the resolution you can get from them is actually incredibly surprising, and it's definitely enough to print larger than 8x10. I wouldn't print 110 film past a 4x6. If you wanted to save money on film and developing costs, half frame was the way to do it, and something like a pen-f has incredible glass and is significantly smaller than any of the other slrs of the same time. Half frames were fairly popular because of this. The samurai was strange but many people bought them as vacation cameras, tiny and was easy to use and fast as well.
The extra fuse footprint does not cost any extra copper. It is just an extra opening of the solder mask. The copper underlying is still there regardless the solder mask is open or not. My bet is back then when component level servicing was a thing, they left a second parallel fuse footprint on the exposed side to make it easier for technicians to repair without having to take the board out of its mount.
Having dealt with the design and manufacturing process for different companies, the initial design probably had the spring protector on the battery side for the reasons you outlined as the designers would have been well aware of its function. However during the tooling phase someone probably figured that it would be easier to make or would at least save them time or money during manufacture if the plastic spring protector was on the camera side instead. This would seem fine to someone not aware of the function of the plastic spring protector. "It's only on one side, it shouldn't matter if we just swap it to the other"
Came for the channel name, stayed for the awesome content.
Neo Geo's also used PCMIA cards as memory cards. Well the actual card, an off the shelf one needs to be modified slightly to make it compatible.
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Love seeing people I know in the comment section. Love your narration LBJ!
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@XRDev oh not even close... the Neo Geo (cart-based) games were like $200 each, with a few titles going for $300. The machine itself was $700. That was a LOT back then.
Some of these "weird" form factors perhaps aren't so strange if you think about the history of cameras before the 1970s when things coalesced around the "conventional" 35mm SLR and point and shoot designs. Remember flat shaped 110 format cameras? TLRs with waist-level viewfinders? Collapsible press cameras?
Polaroid SX-70 cameras where most of the camera hinged away into the base, so you could put it in a purse or a (large) pocket? (My grandma had an all-black one from the 1970s or so, with the gold-colored sonar thing.)
It really got weird when they made fancier 110 cameras. The Minolta 110 Zoom SLR kept the flat shape of other 110s, and you'd hold it like binoculars. The lenses were somehow taller than the camera's front, and adding a regular flash would make it look even more squat.
Other than using an enclosed connector, I can also imagine that the shorting issue wouldn't exist if Nikon added a small switch that detects that the battery is inserted into the camera
Or just run GND through the pc-card connector, that would also make it harder to short on accident unless you walk around with loose steel wool in your backpack
...Or just place the power rails to the far ends of the connector, as opposed to what most engineers do - one "group" together!
And it would be a lot easier to short out than most people would realise. You have to remove the battery pack to plug in the camera, after all. If you set it down somewhere outside and there's a little rain and a droplet shorts out the contacts, fuse blown. If you set it down on a metal bench or chair in the wrong way, fuse blown. Even just tossing it on the table with your keys could have a key touch the contacts!
The entire time I thought, “how is the camera gonna be the storage”, and right before you showed it, I got it. It’s amazing! I wonder if someone ever made a camera like that, but with a different connector. USB? Although that might be too flimsy for a heavy camera. Awesome video as always :D
Closest thing I can think of would be the old Flip cameras where the usb flipped out the side of the device.
my mom had one of those kodak flips about a decade ago, i thought it was the coolest thing ever back then
Didnt they come with a little male/female extension usb cable in the box? Maybe I'm tripping but I thought those flips came with one for exactly that reason
the closest I can think of as a modern camera is a sony camcorder with a built in USB cable. It is hidden in the handle.
I owned a Kodak HD video camera that basically did that with USB. It just flipped out the side of the camera and would hang there. It only worked because it was a pretty lightweight pocket camera.
I loooooved my old Sony that allowed you to move the lens separate from the screen. Not sure why you thought it was awkward. I thought it was very intuitive and comfortable to use. Especially with how dim screens were, having the ability to tilt the screen separate from the lens was a huuuuge advantage! Best camera I owned from that time period around 2001-2003. Also the lens on that thing was pretty Damn amazing!
exactly! The swivelling body was a great plus in many awkward angle shoots and indeed the lens was amazing. Tripod thread was on the lens part so it was stable as a rock while you turned the body to whatever angle suited you. It's a paltry 5 MPixel resolution and pretty useless now but I've still kept mine.
A friend of mine had the Sony F717, so I got to use it quite a bit. What a great camera it was! It was fast, flexible, and had that ingenious hologram laser autofocus illuminator that let it focus with zero ambient light. I am absolutely baffled as to why the laser illuminator didn’t become widespread, since it worked so very well. Even Sony quit using it shortly thereafter. (I’m sure there is a reason why it went away, but I’ve never found out what that reason is.)
At the same time, I had the Nikon Coolpix 4500, the direct successor to the Coolpix 990 in the video. That was a nice camera too.
I love this! This was before my time but I know I would have wanted one of those as a child XD
The concept reminds me of an organizer I have that is also a PCMCIA card but with a display on it. The entire thing vanishes inside the slot! Annoyingly it's powered by two coin cells and it eats then up very quickly ^^
Oh yes, those are wonderful little gadgets, always wanted one but probably wouldn't find it all that exciting, haha
@@CathodeRayDude Yeah it's not all that useful, especially because it's read-only outside of a computer. But I guess if you have a lot of phone numbers and appointments to remember it would have been neat.
Btw just want to say I love your video style, just recently came across your channel and binged almost all of your uploads :D
Man, I really liked those Nikon CoolPix with the pivot in the middle. Really good for taking detail shots of stuff. Unlike articulating LCD screens, the two handed pivot approach both set up the shot and your viewing of it in one motion.
Oh wow, the Mavica with the floppy disk! I'd completely forgotten about those. My high school had one, first digital camera I ever used.
Love when I see a new video of yours show up in my feed!
There was a light rail system in Germany called the "ET 420", used in almost every major city (Munich started it for the 1972 olympics). Those trains were pretty dope.
that's so dank
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Hey dude I just want to say thanks for doing what you do and the work you put into your videos just for the sake of my free entertainment. Your videos legit make my day happy and I enjoy them immensely. I hope you find much success on this platform and any others you choose to use. You def have the skill to be so. Thanks again man and good luck!
Man, that brings back memories. That Minolta Dimage V was the first digital camera my family ever got. I still have the photos and the SmartMedia card from it. It took 640x480 pictures on a SmartMedia card and it plugged into the serial port and if I remember right took about 15 minutes to download a 4MB card of photos.
Back in 2000, I bought my first digital camera. It was a point and shoot Agfa 0.7 megapixel camera. It has nearly no adjustment except an optical viewfinder and a tiny display at the back.
The picture quality was a hit and miss. I complained to the local Agfa office and their manager apologized to me! She took the camera back and gave me an upgraded model. It was a 1.3 megapixel camera!
I have the coolpix 4500, which is the last model in the 990/995 split body family. It has a pop up flash, and I also have the fisheye lens and teleconverter. It's a fantastic camera, it's just limited in megapixels. Wish they had continued to make them in that format.
I had the 4500, too! Took quite a few great pics with it! I still own it, but haven’t used it in yeeeeears. Once I got a Nikon D70s DSLR, the Coolpix only got used for the occasional video.
It was my first digital camera. It’s small sensor size and fantastic lens lent itself to macro photography like no other camera I have ever owned.
Your unbridled joy starting at 14:00 absolutely made my day.
Oh my god. I had the Creative Jukebox Nomad. It honestly felt like the future and the thing was a BRICK.
Absolutely I had one and adored it.
@@CathodeRayDude I remember when the ipod came out and people were like "dude, that thing is huge"
And I would like "Yeah! 6gb huge".
I mean, how long did it take for mp3 players to catch up to that? Years I think.
@@novelezra Other MP3 players, at least the hard disk based ones, caught up very quickly. First iPod already was 5GB (so your Nomad wasn't thaaat much huger :P ), 2nd gen in 2002 got you up to 20GB. Flash media always stayed behind thanks to it being expensive.
The following is pure supposition: Based on my own experiences with tech from this era, it feels like there was probably intention (that never made it to market due to lack of demand) to offer rechargeable sealed Ni-Cad battery packs. That board and socket seem purpose built for back-charging the cells, and the whole assembly just has that "quick change" feeling to it.
Of course with the minimal capacity of 1MB on the PCcard, only being able to take 25 -50 pics before pulling the camera head off, it's far more likely you'd be swapping camera modules on a single power unit than using multiple power units.
To me this has the feeling of a planned "System" (like you now see with power tools, think Ryobi), where you might be able to swap in and out multiple camera modules, upgrade to rechargeable power packs, a video camera add-on, plug it into a docking station to use as a webcam, etc.. a system that just kind of flopped out of the gate in a very competitive market.
I love this guy. Always putting out content I didn't even know I needed. Well done brother keep it up.
My grandfather had one of those Kyocera cameras. It was amazing to use for him, because he lost control of one of his hands, and using that camera allowed for one handed operation. (He used to be a photographer)
My first real camera was a Nikon Coolpix from the mid 2000s. I was probably 12
Sub-HD but very clear, decent color. Came with a beefy SD card for the time as well.
I love your excitement when you reveals the camera's party piece
How is this man not blowing up. He is funny, charismatic, has so much knowledge about everything he talks about. Definitely one of my favorite channels. No matter how big or small the sub count.
Isn't the Kyocera Samurai a half-frame camera, though? (Mine is, but I know they made a bunch of models... including a later video floppy model!) The vertical orientation means that when you're shooting half-frame, your camera is still designed around producing landscape orientation photos. There were others, like the clockwork-driven Canon Dial 35, and while I definitely prefer the landscape-by-default concept over, say, the Olympus Pen approach... they are wildly awkward.
It is. Amazingly, they even made a left-handed version
I own a Canon Dial 35. They're way better than they have any right to, as such a gimmicky camera. Razor sharp images, much better than i ever expected from such a tiny negative size.
Yes, the Samurai was half-frame (as you can see when he opens the film compartment). In my opinion, the orientation makes total sense.
@@mfbfreak They are really neat little cameras! Awkward to handle, but feel nice and solid and take great pictures as you said! I still have mine as well, but I only got a couple of rolls through it before the clockwork mechanism failed.
It amazes me how chunky the Samurai was, the Konica AA-35/Recorder was also half-frame landscape, but about the size of a pack of cigarettes, though not an SLR.
This is the earliest I've ever gotten one of your new videos in the recommended tab before I even saw it in my subscriber feed. Bless the algorithm!
"We have flown so far from the light..."
I love this sentiment, the enthusiasm, the brilliance! I completely agree.
This brings back so many memories! I was born in 82 so I can remember posing for a lot of pictures when all the moms brought their cameras out for the big events.
The absolute joy when you showed us how it installs, man... I love it
This is such an awesome device!!!
I love stuff like this that's so quirky and ridiculous.
Your videos are getting so professional man it's really a pleasure to watch them.
I think it isn't a design flaw. Nikon just thought to protect the more expensive side of the camera. It is cheaper to replace the battery holder in warranty than the camera itself.
Also they needed a fuse so the battery pack wouldn't start a fire if it was shorted.
Adding an interlock switch or other kind of protection would not have undone that advantage, so not a relevant point in context. Sure, would still have added a few cents of manufacturing costs, though.
@@scottlarson1548 Yes, actually surprising to see such, not usually seen a fuse in a shortable battery pack. Good for safety.
Btw, I think the reason having the fuse pads on both sides of the PCB is that it is easier to repair as you can solder the replacement fuse without taking out the board, while simplifying the manufacturing process by having the original fuse soldered on the same side as the other components, which there seemed to be a lot on the other side, and on the "replacement fuse side" only few solders, which may have been done manually or by some other less cost-efficient means than the other, component-populated side. And having the extra copper for the replacement fuse pads actually adds no cost, because the PCB is already double-sided, supposedly for other reasons, and PCB traces and pads are usually formed on a "blank" by removing the unwanted regions from prelaminated fully-covering copper layer of the blank, not by adding the needed copper on a copperless board.
Great and interesting video, btw, as always, dude!
This is the content I have been searching for! Thank you for being you and doing what you do. Top tier man, top fricken tier
Also, look at those subs grow!! CRD SEASON 3 FTW
I was fully prepared for you to say that you mail the camera back to some kind of shop that pulls the images and then prints/stores them for you before sending the camera back, and then was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't quite that ridiculous. But then I thought I remembered that there actually WAS a single-use digital camera that did this at like CVS or Rite-Aid, and now I'm not sure if I'm remembering some bizarre dream I had or if this is even real life anymore.
Also, the "that's the weed number!" had me laughing hysterically.
It's a Nikon, not a Kodak.
@@Stoney3K This tracks. That would be an incredibly Kodak thing to do.
I remember single-use cameras being available at zoos, theme parks and such, especially to kids.
My guess is that they used that circuit board in multiple cameras and perhaps other models used that other unpopulated side of the board for other components. It may have been cheaper to order one 2-sided board for all applications rather than 2 different boards for the different models.
I look forward to your videos as much as I look forward to new LGR videos. Keep it up dude, you rock!
Great video! You do a fantastic job of keeping the information rolling and keeping it interesting. Great stuff
I'm so glad i watched to the end, your enthusiasm made it all worth it
just found this channel - absolutely love this guy!! Love your energy and vibe my bro.
I rarely comment on videos. I always enjoy your content....... But I cackled with absolute glee - out loud, by myself - for the "The part you clicked for" segment. Pure and utter bliss. Thank you!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Your content just keeps getting better and better!
I recently did a research paper on the history of digital photography for school, it's nice seeing this come out alongside my paper as well
Your videos are so refreshing and interesting.
The amount of joy expressed when he shows us how the storage interfaces to the computer 😁
*immediately clicks*
I love that I discovered this channel around Christmas.
Love your style! Seriously had the best laughs in days thanks to you.
I agree that we have lost the quirky, weirdly functional, but insane designs. My Digisette cassette-tape-shaped MP3 player comes to mind. It could even record, IIRC, directly from your tape recorder, one record head to another. I kinda wish I still had it.
Awesome video Gravis. I appreciate the love for the design!
Subbed, love your passion for this kind of stuff! Always great to see someone sharing some interesting uncommon knowledge of a subject.
As soon as it dawned on me how it would work, I got physically excited for what was to come (whacking the camera right into the laptop)
I used to work in camara retail for 99 till 08 and this is a trip through memory lane. Loved it
Thank you sir. I was smiling when you showed the rotating lens cameras but you made my day with the pcmcia reveal. I would be happy to use a portion of this video as my desktop pattern, with no shame. :)
Sony Venice cinema camera has a detachable sensor block that you can use an extension cable with. It was designed to do that because the director of the new Top Gun needed that for Top Gun Maverick cockpit shots.
I love this channel as a kid I remember walking around 42street and looking at all the electronic stores for some reason all the cameras takes me back in time
just what I needed after a long day of work!
Dude I'm dropping a comment because I like how confident you sound. After a quick perusing I feel like the content of your channel is very niche. I like the old school gadget stuff and I feel like your channel have more room for improvement. You are a very good presenter and your breakdown of the product is very good
Cool camera, great review and explanation, thanks!
Oh yeah, regarding serial port card readers: the first digital camera I ever used was a Kodak EasyShare with CF and a serial cable. That meant the camera was essentially a 9-pin serial CF reader.
My first digital camera was a Coolpix! Thanks for the dose of nostalgia!
I made audible noises when you revealed the PCMCIA end of the camera. Love your channel.
I remember the PCMCIA flash memory cards. In the era I worked a job that had DEC/Compaq/HP SCSI/Fiber Channel disk arrays. The array controller firmware updates came on such cards which slotted into the controllers.
RUclips actually suggested a good one! You are really well spoken man. Love the content.. Subbed.
I remember some cardbus video interfaces with an external cameras for video conferences. Some even powered the camera from the port, some didn't.
HP and Casio also made cameras to plug in the CF card slot of their pdas which could be adaptet to be used in devices with pcmcia slots. Those at least made VGA-res pictures.
I still have a Casio QV-300 around that my granpda bought back in the day. It aso has a rotate function and uses a 2,5mm(?) jack to be connectet to the serial port of the pc or as a video out.
Damn, I wish I lived that life: traveling around taking pictures, and writing my reports in a hotel room.
XD I like that you have a time stamp for the part I clicked for. That's all I need but you get my likes
Dude was so excited for the PC Card reveal. That's what I'm here for, the pure enthusiasm of publishing videos that he wants to make.
Great video! I like the way you built up to the reveal.
The Nikon cool pix design reminds me of the little 12 year old Sony audio recorder I have that sports a pop-out USB connection. Hyper-convenient to download audio.
The double sided board is very simple, the boards are made as a big panel, likely with the boards for the camera as part of the panel as well. Thus the PCB layout person included in there the interface board along with the rest of the camera boards, as a single panel that was then used during assembly to make multiple boards to assemble into cameras. The board itself is likely 4 layer in reality, but you do not need the inner layers, but having copper on both sides means the board will not warp during reflow soldering, so 2 sided it was. Then after all components were placed on the board and soldered, the assembly people simply used a sharp knife to finish off the cuts that held the boards together, and then quickly finished off the edges to get rid of the jagged bits, so it would fit the tight PCMCIA stainless steel case with a very close fit, and assembled the camera. Same for the rest, and then assemble the power interface, and clip in, solder the battery tabs, and send through to QC where they took a few pictures, aligned the camera lens to correct focus, and then put the case together, and packed for shipping.
1M of memory likely as that was 36 exposures at the best compression, equal to a roll of film, so was done. Remember then flash memory was expensive, and needed a few power rails to operate and erase, and also was slow, and with a limited lifetime. Compression by a early Nikon JPEG compressor chip, probably repurposed from earlier work, so it was optimised for fast and low power over compression and detail. They could also have decided that instead of flash memory they were going to use some static RAM, and put a capacitor in the camera body to give a few hours of memory retention or a separate CR2032 cell in the camera, thus the small memory size, as static ram is hard to scale while keeping power consumption low.
Those bubble pack cameras we sold at our camera store as "disposable digital" and they were miserable to work with, customers/we had no idea why you couldn't reuse them
After seeing the pictures produced by those cameras, I'm not sure why anyone would WANT to reuse them!
Never seen those heard though. Wondering if they have one-time programmable read-only memory ;)
This camera was badass. Thanks for the video.
I think I like you bro, you present things very well and you seem very knowledgeable
I completely agree with what you say at 14:45. Designers nowadays are too scared to take large risks and try new things. Improvements are small and incremental, we've forgotten the art of the radical redesign. Everything has converged into one standard. All smartphones are a rectangle of glass and the biggest difference in designs is whether it's a notch or an island. All cameras are a box with a lens in front. There is infinite design possibilities and we use like 5 of them
My friend paid a silly amount, back in 1997, for a camera which had 640x480 resolution. It cost so much, he never took it outside of the house.
Mr. CRD, you are a master story teller!
The absolute glee and commentary starting at 14:07 had me almost in tears lmao
The pivoting handle was an amazing feature in handheld cameras that was sorely missed when it went away.
The form factor really reminds me of the old SD card camera I had for my Pocket PC PDA, although that used the PDA's power and flash to store the pictures.
Thank you for making this.
I love your videos 😀 as a kid in the 90s, especially since I live in Central Europe, these are real little technical time travels for me. I just discovered your channel.
But, just keep going 🖖
OMFG. I couldn’t believe when you did that reveal! I am so proud I am nerd enough to realize how dumb and amazing it is!
nice vid! when u pulled a floppy disk out the camera my jaw droped lol
My first "digital camera" was a Panasonic GD87. Had some weird quirky filesystem that could keep files with duplicate names in the same place, but couldn't handle files larger than 48KB (I think?).
Remember specifically seeking out well crafted MIDIs under a certain size for ringtones and such.
It took photos with resolution of whopping 132x176 pixels :P
Never had a data cable for it, so it was a painful process of "align IR ports, do a little dance so it would sync to computer, and *don't breathe* while it's uploading"
I'm going to get a Hi-MD Walkman tomorrow, lol
Great content dude love ur work
I immediately recognized the location when you showed the viewfinder shot, since it's only a couple of blocks from where I used to work (next to the stadiums in Seattle.)
I still have my Coolpix 100. Still works...well it did 5 years ago before my old laptop with a PCMCIA slot dies. Loved it.
Thanks for the video!
The Yashica Samurai was designed like that because it took ergonomic cues from camcorders (looks like you're missing the hand strap). It's also a half frame camera, with the film travelling vertically through the camera, meaning you can take 72 pictures on a 36-exposure film.
Awesome interesting video it make my day happy, keep up the good work😀😀😀😀
absolutely amazing
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This is reminding me of Flip Video, but many years prior! (The cameras had, in that case, built-in USB-A connectors)
(15:22) You'd need to install a DOS-based version of Windows for that to happen, such as Windows 95 or 98.
(16:18) I'm reminded of when my cousin got scammed in 2007 into buying such a camera for around $100-200, that didn't even work because it had weird proprietary drivers that didn't even install on Windows XP SP2 and newer!