While at our lake house, I came across this classic in the closet. In 2000 (I was 20), I took this camera everywhere. Finding it made me think of all the good times I had with friends back then.
I let it charge for a few hours so I could see if it still worked and what the CD inside contained. Based on the photos, the last time it was used was 20 years ago in 2005.
I was doing burnouts in a 2005 Corvette on an industrial road where people often raced.
Now I need to get an external CD drive to go through the hundreds of CDs.
I remember the older model of this that used 3.5" floppy discs. I convinced my middle and then high school AV department to let me borrow it several times. It felt like magic to get photos to a computer that easy back then.
I had that one prior to this one. I know, I thought the same 😆
Maybe not this specific one but these old cameras or whatever you call them absolutely make me think of jackass style fun amongst the friend group
That’s reminds me of YouTube early days, I could swear that I saw this video on it
I used this camera for a ton of early YouTube content. There was definitely videos of this car.
What a small world
Here are some videos from back then that were taken with that camera YouTube Videos
So I made all those bomb ass MP3 mixes on CDs for Jpegs?
This burned videos directly on to those small CD-Rs? So many questions. Resolution? Format? Was it instantaneous burning the videos?
Pretty wild, I was still using flip phones in 2000
Yes, it did photos and videos (15-60 second clips). It was expensive back then, IIRC $1,500
Specs are:
2.1MP digital camera
3-inch CD-R discs for storage
10x optical zoom lens with SteadyShot stabilization
2.5-inch LCD
Electronic viewfinder
Video recording in MPEG format, 16 fps, full-frame playback
600x1200 resolution JPEG, GIF, TIFF (uncompressed) photos
No, still images. There was also one that used floppies, the first ones recorded analog video still frames as concentric tracks on the disk. This was before memory was affordable enough for even as single frame buffer.
Flip phones were pretty expensive in 2000, most people had bar phones.
Yes, it did images and videos. I posted the specs above. The previous one that used floppy discs was a MVC FD-91. I had that one as well.
Continous video? I had compact flash cameras in the early 00s and even those could only do short clips.
Sorry, I was incorrect. 15-60 second clips depending on quality.
This must’ve been absolute wizardry to have in 2000. Many of my friends didn’t even have a home computer, let alone something with a CD burner.