Let's compare this to normal 1440 KB floppy: - 30 JPG photos at 640x360 resolution at somewhat usable compression, - 12 JPG photos at 1280x720 resolution with just a minor compression artifacts. Storing 50 images on floppy, even as analog NTSC frames was really awesome for it's time. Also there's a true beauty in how simple this thing worked. It was also really fast. You just couldn't write a floppy drive as fast as making all 50 continuous shots on this camera. Not to mention about JPG compression that took a lot of time even for dedicated hardware codecs. In early 2000's phones that had cameras were sluggish when it came to saving and loading JPG files. This just show how good that camera was.
Do you remember how abysmally slow early (even up until 2003 or so) digital cameras were? There were a solid second between the press of the button and the actual picture :)
I remember the comparison between my uncle's SD using Yashika thingy at about 5 megapixels vs our Canon Powershot A75 with it's Compact Flash cards. That Canon one was ridiculously faster (also Canon had their Digic image processor too to help), like you could actually take fast sequential shots and video on that. Found the old 256MB card one day again and popped into the PC's reader. It was an amazing surprise to see that card made 6.5MB/s reads and writes back in 2003 or so, and even today you can find 32GB Class 4 cards that can't do it.
You must also think that the HD (High Density) disks that hold 1.4 MByte are not even a thing yet in '88. The C64 a few years earlier (1984 I think?) uses floppies that hold 160 KByte. So we are talking about even much more space on the VD compared to the 1988's floppy.
OMG! I REMEMBER THIS! My middle school bought the original model for it's computer and technology class, well more specifically, comp/tech club. I was 12 years old and it was my task to figure out how it worked/hooked up to AV. Apparently there was some sort of program for the entire state (KY) that each middle/high school was going to get one of these. We ended up being one of the pilot schools. So after learning how to do everything you could with it i was invited (along with my comp teacher) to stand in front of an audience of about 200 teachers/principles/staff at the Lexington Marriott conference room and give a demonstration. I had to give a tutorial and a short talk on why this device would be beneficial in tech clubs/classes across the state. I about shit my pants when I walked out on stage and saw all those teachers. Talk about being in the enemies den! lol (nah everyone was super nice!) Jeez how long ago was that... early 90's? 25? 27 years ago? FUCK YOU TIME!
Hey, don't complain, In the early 90's I had already graduated('93). The computers in my programming classes in HS were all AT clones without HDD, just 5 1/4" floppies. I did have an Amiga 500 in my AV class with a digitizer(complete with the B&W camera and 3 color disc wheel), where I would make the animated intros for our news studio.) And our HS was practically brand new at the time.
@@thescreamingfish Indirect Sound has been utilized for a dang long time. The idea was to put the TV in a corner, and let the acoustics make them sound like a larger volume cabinet. It was always "muddy" as it made the case of the TV vibrate at higher volumes, but it was novel, and was better than anemic front-face only speakers. 🤷♂️ Win some, lose some; at least they work
Yep the mechanical sounds giving a real feeling something happens in the machine. Now it just plays a crappy shutter-like sound sample and all the magic is fully hidden.
just imagine all those millions of photos taken in the past, that due to "privacy concerns" etc eventually just end up at the dump never to be looked at by another human being. and now I've made myself sad
When I was at college in the UK, I remember going in to a school to give a talk (media student - hmm) and they were using these. My Dad had one through work, and the teacher was amazed that I knew how they worked. At the end of the day, he gave me a couple of blank VF disks to use with my Dad’s camera and said “don’t tell anyone I gave you these!
Dang! These were before my time and I honestly had no clue up until now something like this existed. It's ridiculous how both technology and our perception of it has changed. When I was a kid a walkman seemed so sophisticated. Electronic typing machines seemed like sci-fi because of the moving part (printers were slow, so typing machines were usually preferred in hospitals, police stations and what not). Big screens and mobile phones were so fascinating and if you understood computers even a little bit, you were considered a whiz. Now we've got plain Joes wondering whether a quantum computing chip could improve Witcher 3 graphics :) While I greatly appreciate all the technology we have today, I do kinda miss the sounds analog devices used to make.
The worst seems to be the analog format and transfer losing a lot of color and chroma. "Standard analog television signals go through several processing steps on their way to being broadcast, each of which discards information and lowers the quality of the resulting images." I remember using a Sony Mavica floppy disc camera, over a decade later, and it was slow as hell just to save a single 50 KB image... But back then there probably was no compression techniques to even fit an image digitally, JPEG had not been invented yet, and digital memory storage might have fit a few hundred kilobytes at most and being very expensive.
I am a little blown away with how competent a product this is. It’s fast, takes completely good photos, has a good interface. Shows how Canon was able to absolutely obliterate the digital camera market. They knew what they were doing 15 years before it really heated up. Amazing.
I'm going to guess that accidental erasures were a bit of a problem during the test phase. "Let's see, how can we make sure people don't accidentally erase their photos like we did? Hey, I know..."
That shit was fucking SATISFYING in the era of this garbage! Everything was just a tiny bit shittier than you wish they were, build quality, usability, durability(usually either incredible or horrid), etc., but it was all immensely satisfying to use, as you click along, taking these crappy pictures of dumb stuff, deep down knowing that you're probably gonna regret this purchase just slightly when you see the mediocre quality of your pictures. But, I'll be damned if you don't still pull it out occasionally, because it's just so damn satisfying - the camera. Anyway, I gotta...
I'm watching all these great old digital camera episodes and it reminds me why I never even really noticed digital cameras until the Black's Photography store in my local mall abruptly closed doors and DSLRs were suddenly everywhere. Film cameras seemed so superior for so long, until they weren't in around 2003ish, which is when I'd say digital finally was able to close the gap well enough in terms of price and quality. It's crazy how much even the cheapest of these digital cameras cost for the quality. Without the internet driving a desire to upload digital photos to websites, I'm not sure the tech would have progressed as fast as it did.
I actually love those product illustrations in manuals as well. Since I was working in graphic design for quite some time I always „dreamed“ of one day also making some of these. washing machines, vacuum cleaners, it wouldn‘t have mattered.
I remember those cameras! My elementary school had a couple for video production in the early 90s (it was a well-off school district), and I got to use one for a project once. The Xapshot was the coolest thing at the time, and I remember being pretty pleased that they'd trust 9- or 10-year-old me not to drop their cool expensive camera, having taken to heart the warnings to be /very/ careful with it. The pictures I took ended up edited into a video through some analog editing equipment (which was the same color as that VFD player you had), and they showed me a bit of what to do on that to put them where I wanted. I don't remember the video floppies really; I think we hooked the camera into the editor and spliced the pictures in that way. I've long since forgotten what I took pictures of around school, or what the project was even about, but I /do/ fondly remember the camera! Thanks for the look back! And may your old devices work /juuust/ well enough. :-)
That big Still Video Recorder has to be one of most unusually outdated devices I've ever seen. This is cool stuff and exactly what I subscribed for. You and Techmoan are the best.
While I understand and appreciate the want to take retro photos of retro things, I think it would be kind of cool to take pictures of new things, too! Something about using a camera from the 80s to take a picture of a Nintendo Switch or a similarly modern product, really fills me with wonder and fuzzy feelings. I encourage you to explore that possibility sometime!
It's great to see this format getting coverage, I've got a Casio VS-101 from 1986, it's a brick compared to this camera you've got to hold it camcorder style. It's really cool to finally see what the images from the disks look like because when I was going to test and see if my camera had anything recorded on the disk my old Mitsubishi TV I've had my whole life went kaput. Anyways great vid as always!
That Sony MVR floppy disk reader looks great. It reminds me of the machine Rick Deckard had in his apartment in Blade Runner with the disk ingestion system and buttons.
Just the best channel ever, I always loved technology and never got to see any of these items you show, you are so lucky to get to explore all these weird and wonderful things, keep up the excellent work and I'm sure great things will come of it..
The picture of that old 5-series is just pure gold. I'm slowly restoring a 1986 BMW 635CSI and once I'm done with it, I'd love to take some "classic" pictures of it to nail in that oldschool feel. Sadly I'm not good at making really old computer stuff work, so I may just get an old analog film camera and take pictures with that...
Amazing! You should really make an special episode in which you put your retro cameras into the hands of professional photographers to see what they come up with!
god do i love the aesthetic of this thing and its photos. not only were those pictures you took deliciously awesome and retro, but the fact that one of the floppies it came with had truly vintage photos on it is so freaking cool to me. makes me want to go to my parents' house and look through old photo albums. makes me feel super nostalgic and kinda choked up, honestly. great work as always, LGR.
Amy Carter I don't deny it's amazing, just not the kind of amazing I like. Me expressing disgust is not intended to dismiss the opinions of those who prefer things I want to avoid. For some reason things like this tend to degenerate into fights as if we've somehow forgotten that it's okay to like different things and that we aren't all the same. (I'm not implying that you are guilty of this, just trying to forestall unnecessary escalation.) We've established we have different taste in bread lubricant. Let's go back to how amazing LGR is at narrating videos and get along as best we can despite never being able to agree on one of the most amazing parts of a sandwich. We good? Good.
I have never thought of condiments as bread lubricant until I read this comment. I have no idea if I am laughing this hard because it is that hilarious, or if I am just that tired and stuck at work.
That MVR-5300 reminds me a lot of HP test gear from their golden age. Just really nice industrial electronics for people who have to work with them on a daily basis.
This takes me back. I used one in my job at an antiques auction company to make catalogues and advertisements. There is also a macro switch for shooting small objects.
Very interesting to see the origins of that face we all make @1:42 when we're on some holiday with family and we've been asked to pose for the 18th time for a picture taken in the exact same spot as the previous 17 ones. Thanks Digital (and Still Video) cameras!!!
I still have my Canon XAPSHOT RC-250. I bought it new and got a real deal at the time because it was for medical use (it's white instead of black). I also bought a Canon Wide Converter WC-C2540 wide angle lens for it. It makes the pictures much larger without standing back so far. I still have a new box of disks for it as well. It was a really great camera in the day as the first (maybe?) digital camera. Thanks for the video!
Love your videos, brings back so many memories. And was waiting for this! we used to have this camera, was an ion (Living on the old continent) in white, have been tring to find some info... and here they are!!!!
I bought one of these at an auction in the early 90’s.. I was there to buy it cheap... but at the last minute they decided to bundle it with a Sony player to squeeze an extra 75 bucks out of me... honestly it was a steal at the time. Used them both for fun at the time
This is really cool I never knew these types of cameras existed. I just remembered the early digital cameras in the 90's. I got a hand me down one that I took myspace pics with lol.
Another wonder gadget I was completely oblivious to at the time it was current, wow! My mother was always hugely into photography, an interest instilled in her by her dad at a young age, and if she too had known about this kind of camera, she would have been in seventh heaven with it. It's just such an amazing thing for 1988. Yet another alternative media format from Sony I didn't know about, those 2 inch floppies.
It just amazes me there was such a market for these weird semi-digital cameras in the 80’s and 90’s. I was still shooting film exclusively into the late 2000’s!
I was an early buyer. As a school librarian, I made illustrated newsletters with it. I took it on a trip to England and since the camera has long since died, the few floppies with the pics of that trip are just in a drawer.
Watching the pictures scroll by on the TVs really got me for some reason. Also was excited to see where the sandwich and the circus tiger would come in.
Super cool! When I was in 7th grade I used one of these to make a stop-motion animation in my multimedia class! I captured the video by mashing the FF button while connected to the video input of an all-in-one mac of some sort running Premiere. I dumped that out to VHS, and then I made a credit crawl with an Apple IIGS!
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Let's compare this to normal 1440 KB floppy:
- 30 JPG photos at 640x360 resolution at somewhat usable compression,
- 12 JPG photos at 1280x720 resolution with just a minor compression artifacts.
Storing 50 images on floppy, even as analog NTSC frames was really awesome for it's time. Also there's a true beauty in how simple this thing worked. It was also really fast. You just couldn't write a floppy drive as fast as making all 50 continuous shots on this camera. Not to mention about JPG compression that took a lot of time even for dedicated hardware codecs.
In early 2000's phones that had cameras were sluggish when it came to saving and loading JPG files.
This just show how good that camera was.
As for me I remember that Nokia have the option in their phones to watch preview of the photo and only then save it.
Do you remember how abysmally slow early (even up until 2003 or so) digital cameras were? There were a solid second between the press of the button and the actual picture :)
I remember the comparison between my uncle's SD using Yashika thingy at about 5 megapixels vs our Canon Powershot A75 with it's Compact Flash cards. That Canon one was ridiculously faster (also Canon had their Digic image processor too to help), like you could actually take fast sequential shots and video on that.
Found the old 256MB card one day again and popped into the PC's reader. It was an amazing surprise to see that card made 6.5MB/s reads and writes back in 2003 or so, and even today you can find 32GB Class 4 cards that can't do it.
Why not use wavelet Jpeg2000?
You must also think that the HD (High Density) disks that hold 1.4 MByte are not even a thing yet in '88.
The C64 a few years earlier (1984 I think?) uses floppies that hold 160 KByte. So we are talking about even much more space on the VD compared to the 1988's floppy.
OMG! I REMEMBER THIS! My middle school bought the original model for it's computer and technology class, well more specifically, comp/tech club. I was 12 years old and it was my task to figure out how it worked/hooked up to AV. Apparently there was some sort of program for the entire state (KY) that each middle/high school was going to get one of these. We ended up being one of the pilot schools. So after learning how to do everything you could with it i was invited (along with my comp teacher) to stand in front of an audience of about 200 teachers/principles/staff at the Lexington Marriott conference room and give a demonstration. I had to give a tutorial and a short talk on why this device would be beneficial in tech clubs/classes across the state. I about shit my pants when I walked out on stage and saw all those teachers. Talk about being in the enemies den! lol (nah everyone was super nice!) Jeez how long ago was that... early 90's? 25? 27 years ago? FUCK YOU TIME!
Hey, don't complain, In the early 90's I had already graduated('93). The computers in my programming classes in HS were all AT clones without HDD, just 5 1/4" floppies. I did have an Amiga 500 in my AV class with a digitizer(complete with the B&W camera and 3 color disc wheel), where I would make the animated intros for our news studio.) And our HS was practically brand new at the time.
@@mikeworkman3593 They didnt complain?
This is a great comment.
Amen, Stanley!
So, what did they think?? Did you convince them to place an order for more of the cameras?
Great story btw, thank you for sharing your memories.
the real star of the show here, honestly, is the ultra-aesthetic deluxe Trinitron TV.
the real star is the ham sandwich thankyou.
My grandma had her Trinitron from 1988 in constant use until ~2016, when the image went to Black/White... It was 6 months older than me. 😭 RIP
I never understood the concept of tvs with side speakers that angle outward. They both fire away from you.
@@thescreamingfish Indirect Sound has been utilized for a dang long time. The idea was to put the TV in a corner, and let the acoustics make them sound like a larger volume cabinet. It was always "muddy" as it made the case of the TV vibrate at higher volumes, but it was novel, and was better than anemic front-face only speakers. 🤷♂️ Win some, lose some; at least they work
thescreamingfish look now, we didn’t get where we are without a little trial and error along the way.
I miss electronics that made a click-ka-chung sound.
I miss you
Yep the mechanical sounds giving a real feeling something happens in the machine. Now it just plays a crappy shutter-like sound sample and all the magic is fully hidden.
Only guns and artificial teeth make those sounds these days.
I miss cars that make that sound
Agreed. The iPad smart-cover just isn’t good enough.
LGR really is becoming the American Techmoan.
But wilø clint throw Techmoans tea in the harbor??,
Eeeey, Techmoan squad! :D
Already there in my opinion. They are two of my favorite channels!
We should all chip in and get him a Clint muppet
I thought the 8 bit guy was the american techmoan
I heard there would be sandwiches?
Cheeseburgers for everybody!
Here! Have a LGRwich!
What does woodgrain taste like?
That's a nice looking sandwich. I thought for a second he used a stock image.
beware of "Sandvich" hunter from Gabe's kingdom!
Man you are the Mad Titan of old tech. I would have given up after the second broken unit. YOU BOUGHT A VIDEO DISK VCR FFKK, I bow to you
It looks kinda like the binoculars in Empire Strikes Back
Omggggg yes
probably was a mold version of it.
And now I want it.
I can guarantee u it probably was. They used alot of random objects to do that movie
@@SalariaStudios this one was released 7 yrs after ESB
Came for the sandwich. Stayed for the review.
And it was a satisfying-sounding sandwich.
DankTendencies I came for the review & stayed for the sandwich which I made just now to go with =)
Where the fuck. Is the sandwich.
@@lavabite 2:41 - 2:44
that sandwich was so perfect I thought it was clipart or edited in until he moved it, I may need more sleep...
Those found retro photos were awesome. What a find. Thanks for the show. The comparison with the phone was remarkable.
Agreed! The whole video was fascinating but damn those old photos were pleasing to see! A rare environment to boot.
just imagine all those millions of photos taken in the past, that due to "privacy concerns" etc eventually just end up at the dump never to be looked at by another human being. and now I've made myself sad
"and you get an LCD panel...for displaying LCDs...on a panel" The quality content I subscribed for! 👍
That and "A viewfinder thing for finding views."
Classic.. :D
When I was at college in the UK, I remember going in to a school to give a talk (media student - hmm) and they were using these. My Dad had one through work, and the teacher was amazed that I knew how they worked. At the end of the day, he gave me a couple of blank VF disks to use with my Dad’s camera and said “don’t tell anyone I gave you these!
Man, I just love how stuff from the 80s and 90s look.
i just love how late 80s-early 90s tech looks
Dang! These were before my time and I honestly had no clue up until now something like this existed.
It's ridiculous how both technology and our perception of it has changed. When I was a kid a walkman seemed so sophisticated. Electronic typing machines seemed like sci-fi because of the moving part (printers were slow, so typing machines were usually preferred in hospitals, police stations and what not). Big screens and mobile phones were so fascinating and if you understood computers even a little bit, you were considered a whiz. Now we've got plain Joes wondering whether a quantum computing chip could improve Witcher 3 graphics :)
While I greatly appreciate all the technology we have today, I do kinda miss the sounds analog devices used to make.
Kind of impressed with the image quality, I was expecting much worse.
The worst seems to be the analog format and transfer losing a lot of color and chroma. "Standard analog television signals go through several processing steps on their way to being broadcast, each of which discards information and lowers the quality of the resulting images." I remember using a Sony Mavica floppy disc camera, over a decade later, and it was slow as hell just to save a single 50 KB image... But back then there probably was no compression techniques to even fit an image digitally, JPEG had not been invented yet, and digital memory storage might have fit a few hundred kilobytes at most and being very expensive.
JPEG came out in 1992.
Right? Compared to the first digital cameras it wipes the floor. Suppose Canon had some secret sauce in its patent portfolio.
When it was looking like this was gonna end with "sorry guys, we can't view the pics" he busts out an MVR-5300. LGR never lets us down. Awesome.
I love these videos on obscure floppy disks. Companies like Sony and Canon were doing filmless cameras in the 1980s.
I am so hyped, I must solve the plain sandwich mystery!!!
It was worth the wait.
I am a little blown away with how competent a product this is. It’s fast, takes completely good photos, has a good interface. Shows how Canon was able to absolutely obliterate the digital camera market. They knew what they were doing 15 years before it really heated up. Amazing.
2:38 Missed opportunity to plug your other channel
I came here from that channel... but I came to that channel from LGR
3:46 - I love crisp disk eject mechanisms! Sooo good!
These vids are so crazy relaxing. Love learning about weird tech while chilling out.
Haha! The LGR ham sandwich makes its debut!
That’s a nice looking sandwich
Pretty well packed if you ask me
Sturdy
I was watching this video thinking, "Man! Clint drank way too much coffee today!" Then I realized I had TH-cam on 1.25 speed from a few videos ago.
"Has Clint been drinking?" Nope (maybe), 3/4 speed.
Lol, that delete procedure....so very intuitive.
Good luck finding that without the manual!
*edit:* To be fair, I hadn't noticed that the _mode_ button is also labeled "erase". But still...
I'm going to guess that accidental erasures were a bit of a problem during the test phase. "Let's see, how can we make sure people don't accidentally erase their photos like we did? Hey, I know..."
That shit was fucking SATISFYING in the era of this garbage! Everything was just a tiny bit shittier than you wish they were, build quality, usability, durability(usually either incredible or horrid), etc., but it was all immensely satisfying to use, as you click along, taking these crappy pictures of dumb stuff, deep down knowing that you're probably gonna regret this purchase just slightly when you see the mediocre quality of your pictures. But, I'll be damned if you don't still pull it out occasionally, because it's just so damn satisfying - the camera.
Anyway, I gotta...
I'm watching all these great old digital camera episodes and it reminds me why I never even really noticed digital cameras until the Black's Photography store in my local mall abruptly closed doors and DSLRs were suddenly everywhere. Film cameras seemed so superior for so long, until they weren't in around 2003ish, which is when I'd say digital finally was able to close the gap well enough in terms of price and quality. It's crazy how much even the cheapest of these digital cameras cost for the quality. Without the internet driving a desire to upload digital photos to websites, I'm not sure the tech would have progressed as fast as it did.
Your videos officially contain way, way too much gorgeous equipment.
I'm voting that Sony still video recorder to be NSFW!
More like NSFL. That thing (despite it working) is technically paper weight nowadays compared to a normal cassette or vhs deck.
I actually love those product illustrations in manuals as well. Since I was working in graphic design for quite some time I always „dreamed“ of one day also making some of these. washing machines, vacuum cleaners, it wouldn‘t have mattered.
I love the industrial design of this unit.
Total unit.
This was great! I love these old and odd one foot in analog and one foot in digital pieces of hardware.
Watching this takes me back to my childhood when Stuff like this was brand new and way out of any common person reach (at least in my area)
I remember those cameras! My elementary school had a couple for video production in the early 90s (it was a well-off school district), and I got to use one for a project once. The Xapshot was the coolest thing at the time, and I remember being pretty pleased that they'd trust 9- or 10-year-old me not to drop their cool expensive camera, having taken to heart the warnings to be /very/ careful with it.
The pictures I took ended up edited into a video through some analog editing equipment (which was the same color as that VFD player you had), and they showed me a bit of what to do on that to put them where I wanted. I don't remember the video floppies really; I think we hooked the camera into the editor and spliced the pictures in that way. I've long since forgotten what I took pictures of around school, or what the project was even about, but I /do/ fondly remember the camera!
Thanks for the look back! And may your old devices work /juuust/ well enough. :-)
I would honestly love a modern digital camera in that form factor. Looks nice to hold, like binoculars.
That big Still Video Recorder has to be one of most unusually outdated devices I've ever seen. This is cool stuff and exactly what I subscribed for. You and Techmoan are the best.
beautiful images. i love the analog feel
That was one of the most beautiful looking sandwiches I’ve seen in a while. I can tell you spent a lot of time making it look good.
I love this. I had no idea anything like this existed, and I love the aesthetic this camera creates.
this tiger seems to be one of your fav things to photograph with such old cameras.i like that!
I'm pretty sure he uses it as a consistent example of all still cameras he does a video on.
It's a good object to shoot for quality and color profiling.
While I understand and appreciate the want to take retro photos of retro things, I think it would be kind of cool to take pictures of new things, too! Something about using a camera from the 80s to take a picture of a Nintendo Switch or a similarly modern product, really fills me with wonder and fuzzy feelings. I encourage you to explore that possibility sometime!
This might be the coolest looking thing you've ever reviewed. How I'd love one of these things. Such a weird concept...
It's great to see this format getting coverage, I've got a Casio VS-101 from 1986, it's a brick compared to this camera you've got to hold it camcorder style. It's really cool to finally see what the images from the disks look like because when I was going to test and see if my camera had anything recorded on the disk my old Mitsubishi TV I've had my whole life went kaput. Anyways great vid as always!
That aesthetic pictures are lit for 2020 XD
Damn I really like the design of this thing! Well ahead of its time I think.
Mmh, I love the smell of woodgrain in the morning. Also, that still video pic of the IBM isn't SFW.
LOL "cursed image material". Love that close up of your face in that blurry mess. These videos are gold lol.
That Sony MVR floppy disk reader looks great. It reminds me of the machine Rick Deckard had in his apartment in Blade Runner with the disk ingestion system and buttons.
Gotta love how everyone’s from LGR Foods trying to solve the sandwich mystery
Just the best channel ever, I always loved technology and never got to see any of these items you show, you are so lucky to get to explore all these weird and wonderful things, keep up the excellent work and I'm sure great things will come of it..
I used to be a Canon Still Video dealer. Thanks for the flashback, I still remember the models and details well.
I'm not into photography, but I am into the retro items and feel of your vids. Keep up the great work LGR.
Amazing what human ingenuity can accomplish in ~30 years.
The picture of that old 5-series is just pure gold. I'm slowly restoring a 1986 BMW 635CSI and once I'm done with it, I'd love to take some "classic" pictures of it to nail in that oldschool feel.
Sadly I'm not good at making really old computer stuff work, so I may just get an old analog film camera and take pictures with that...
The amount of work that has been put in this video is amazing! Keep it up
2:40 Hey! I know that sandwich from somewhere.
Love these retro cameras thankyou Clint, happy Friday :)
That’s utterly bizarre. Tiny floppys they store analogue video!? Madness! I love it.
Yet another tech that I had absolutely no knowledge of existing up until today. Thanks Clint!
Amazing! You should really make an special episode in which you put your retro cameras into the hands of professional photographers to see what they come up with!
god do i love the aesthetic of this thing and its photos. not only were those pictures you took deliciously awesome and retro, but the fact that one of the floppies it came with had truly vintage photos on it is so freaking cool to me. makes me want to go to my parents' house and look through old photo albums. makes me feel super nostalgic and kinda choked up, honestly. great work as always, LGR.
Sandwich squad where are you guys???
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Here! It makes somewhat more sense now.
(But the Miracle Whip! Why!?!)
Here!
Eating a sandwich as well.
Miracle Whip is amazing; don't you dox it!
Amy Carter I don't deny it's amazing, just not the kind of amazing I like. Me expressing disgust is not intended to dismiss the opinions of those who prefer things I want to avoid. For some reason things like this tend to degenerate into fights as if we've somehow forgotten that it's okay to like different things and that we aren't all the same.
(I'm not implying that you are guilty of this, just trying to forestall unnecessary escalation.) We've established we have different taste in bread lubricant. Let's go back to how amazing LGR is at narrating videos and get along as best we can despite never being able to agree on one of the most amazing parts of a sandwich.
We good? Good.
I have never thought of condiments as bread lubricant until I read this comment. I have no idea if I am laughing this hard because it is that hilarious, or if I am just that tired and stuck at work.
Awesome! I love this stuff. I've never even heard of this format. You are like the Techmoan of computer technology.
That MVR-5300 reminds me a lot of HP test gear from their golden age. Just really nice industrial electronics for people who have to work with them on a daily basis.
This takes me back. I used one in my job at an antiques auction company to make catalogues and advertisements. There is also a macro switch for shooting small objects.
This video was a perfect relaxing and informative thing to watch while I'm laying in bed sick and miserable.
Is this a format that Techmoan has yet to cover?
Yep, seems the LGR was faster. Anyway, thanks LGR for this Techmoan-ish video. :-)
or even VWestLife for that matter.
never heard of techmoan before, just watched one of his videos jeez so bad and boring. LGR is so much better way more entertaining and interesting
+jonnysedge To all their own. You'd probably not like VWestLife's videos either as they are in more or less a similar vein.
@@rommix0 , or those "unfunny" puppets.
Very interesting to see the origins of that face we all make @1:42 when we're on some holiday with family and we've been asked to pose for the 18th time for a picture taken in the exact same spot as the previous 17 ones. Thanks Digital (and Still Video) cameras!!!
I still have my Canon XAPSHOT RC-250. I bought it new and got a real deal at the time because it was for medical use (it's white instead of black). I also bought a Canon Wide Converter WC-C2540 wide angle lens for it. It makes the pictures much larger without standing back so far. I still have a new box of disks for it as well. It was a really great camera in the day as the first (maybe?) digital camera. Thanks for the video!
Love your videos, brings back so many memories. And was waiting for this! we used to have this camera, was an ion (Living on the old continent) in white, have been tring to find some info... and here they are!!!!
Those floppy disks are so adorable..And those sounds, are amazing
I bought one of these at an auction in the early 90’s.. I was there to buy it cheap... but at the last minute they decided to bundle it with a Sony player to squeeze an extra 75 bucks out of me... honestly it was a steal at the time. Used them both for fun at the time
Thanks for this interesting, chill video. Needed it right now. Much love LGR
Making pics of old things with olf cameras is mindfuck
Wasn't expecting to get a blast of nostalgia and homesickness in this video, but that Ingles sign really takes me back.
This is really cool I never knew these types of cameras existed. I just remembered the early digital cameras in the 90's. I got a hand me down one that I took myspace pics with lol.
Another wonder gadget I was completely oblivious to at the time it was current, wow! My mother was always hugely into photography, an interest instilled in her by her dad at a young age, and if she too had known about this kind of camera, she would have been in seventh heaven with it. It's just such an amazing thing for 1988. Yet another alternative media format from Sony I didn't know about, those 2 inch floppies.
This has become one of my favourite channels. Keep up the good work.
It just amazes me there was such a market for these weird semi-digital cameras in the 80’s and 90’s. I was still shooting film exclusively into the late 2000’s!
Man you've really stepped up the b-roll work on this one. Good stuff
5:50 oh my, what an amazing sound
Why I read this in Clint voice?
it sounds like spaceship computer from Alien loading stuff from database
Tight countdown.
I was an early buyer. As a school librarian, I made illustrated newsletters with it. I took it on a trip to England and since the camera has long since died, the few floppies with the pics of that trip are just in a drawer.
I love your channel man, it's different & unique.
Cliff! Never stop making obscure retro tech videos! This stuff needs to be documented for posterity.
Retro camera reviews like this are always welcome :)
The photo's from the previous owner are so charming, a window into an era long past!
Watching the pictures scroll by on the TVs really got me for some reason.
Also was excited to see where the sandwich and the circus tiger would come in.
wow! I never make it to an LGR video this quick! Awesome! I thoroughly love your content!! Can we get a thrifts video soon? Thanks for all you do!
That beauty shot with the background graffiti was awesome !
Because Clint is awesome ;)
The same pictures as the mavica photos's thanks for the consistency clint!
Wow a lot of works were put into making this video, thanks!
"Vaporwave wet dream"
I'm gonna start using that term.
What an interesting camera from 1988. I also like the sounds it makes. Also, nice to see the sandwich again.
Super cool! When I was in 7th grade I used one of these to make a stop-motion animation in my multimedia class! I captured the video by mashing the FF button while connected to the video input of an all-in-one mac of some sort running Premiere. I dumped that out to VHS, and then I made a credit crawl with an Apple IIGS!
Heh. I came up with the name for that camera and created a commercial for it back in the day...
Videos are always relaxing, good for my lazy days off work.
I see a new LGR video in my feed and I become happy....even before watching.
I came for the sandwich, stayed for the camera, and was not disappointed :D
Great job Clint! Loved this episode, thanks man!
I applaud you for spending so much time and money just to show us this format.