My grandmother was in this commercial, she was 87 at the time, you can only see her for 2 seconds (30 sec in). I think she made $10,000 for her work because the commercial went national. ( A lot of money in 1987 ).
My daughter was the baby taking 1st steps in the commercial and those earnings of $10k must have gotten inflated over the decades of your family reminiscing. :)
These were a "must have" Christmas gift but as I remember, they were wildly popular in general. I loved mine and in truth never noticed the grainy images until comparing them side-by-side with regular film.
Oscar In Asia Lol drop an iPhone X into a time machine and The World is a much different place today. These guys did good they laid the foundation for the digital camera we owe them some respect.
I WAS NOT BORN WHEN THIS CAME OUT, MY MOM HAD ONE, I GUESS, THIS WAS BACK WHEN PEOPLE USE REAL CAMERAS NOT THERE CELL PHONES, I WANT TO GO BACK TO THE 1990's and use real camera again and I miss my childhood too to have a different outcome in life and retake my high school photos.
The negatives were tiny & final prints/enlargements were poor. There was a special lens that Kodak made to use to enlarge the pictures and minimize the graininess, but majority of all labs didn’t want to spend the extra money 💰 for it so they continued to enlarge with the lenses for 35mm. As a result the quality of prints were bad. Thus hastening the demise of the format.
Back in the day, yes images were poor, mainly due to scanning tech. I've seen some modern scans (file size 40 MB for each frame) and they look 100 times better!
I see Kodak Discs filling in the same market that cell phone cameras do today: they're easy to use, so people with little to no knowledge of photography rely on them, while people with a better knowledge of the subject know to use an SLR instead.
SLR: "Single Lens Reflex." It's basically the average camera loaded with film that people used. DSLR is a digital one, like what everyone carried around before camera phone dominance. I agree with both. When digital cameras were conquering the market, people looked for an array of features and suddenly stopped caring when they could simply take pictures with phones. Now the phones have excellent resolution, and while they shake and can't zoom far, they are can be pocketed and recharged easily. Also, I had a Kodak Disc. I was in elementary school, so it was convenient for me, but I would have liked to have learned photography with a regular camera at that time. The thing only had 15 exposures per disc.
TOLL BOSS Like the previous reply said, an SLR is a single-lens reflex camera. The design is far more accurate than a simple cameras, as the image is projected into the viewfinder by a mirror on the shutter. Before phone decent phone cameras became common, they were the most popular, and are still the most common behind cell phones. A good SLR is a bit pricy (my Canon T5, which was their lowest model and was discontinued a few months after I bought it, since there's 2 newer models available, cost $450, although the package included a bag, 18-55mm lens, and 75-300mm lens), but it's definitely worth it. There's hardly any ground to compare shots taken on my iPhone 6 to the ones from my Canon.
If Kodak had only spent more time developing the first digital camera which they invented in 1975, they might still be around. They should have realized film was on its way out and the newer, cheaper and better medium would be digital cameras with digital data storage.
Audio CD manufacturers were saying CD was done in the early 2000's - but here we are, and you can still purchase lots of music on audio CD. They'll keep on with the format until the last collector dies - much like camera film! 😆
Biggest POS ever made... I had one. I ended up going right back to my old Sears 35mm and never looked back. That damn Sears took great pics for as cheap as it was...
They were shockingly shite. You only go 15 shots as opposed to up to 38 with a 35mm camera. The negative had about a quarter of the surface area so you couldn't blow up to anything past a 7x5 or it looked really grainy. I had a 50p Bazooka Joe camera that used old school roll film and it took better pictures than the disc camera that my elder brother had.
They were selling these up until 1998 (or at least the film was still available). IMO the idea was a good novelty item, much like we have 'fun' film cameras today, but the disc cameras were WAY overpriced.
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Thank you so much for this! She is my baby taking her 1st steps and I haven’t seen this commercial for 40 years!
oh wow!
My boyfriend now was the first skateboarder in the commercial. He was 14 at the time. He's 57 now! Wow! Amazed we found the commercial!
My grandmother was in this commercial, she was 87 at the time, you can only see her for 2 seconds (30 sec in). I think
she made $10,000 for her work because the commercial went national. ( A lot of money in 1987 ).
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wow
Cool story!
My daughter was the baby taking 1st steps in the commercial and those earnings of $10k must have gotten inflated over the decades of your family reminiscing. :)
@@lindasargent-eder3163 why? Because you got didn’t get that much?
My mom had one. We can pretty much tell which years she had it by all the grainy photos it took.
The prints were also square, or just not as wide as 35mm.
These were a "must have" Christmas gift but as I remember, they were wildly popular in general. I loved mine and in truth never noticed the grainy images until comparing them side-by-side with regular film.
Looked this up because that song was stuck in my head for no reason yesterday.
I remember when these came out. I thought wow... this is the future. Apparently not....
Oscar In Asia
Lol drop an iPhone X into a time machine and The World is a much different place today.
These guys did good they laid the foundation for the digital camera we owe them some respect.
I like that it solves a problem of action photography instead of just being another product.
It didn’t. The photos were terrible because the film was so small.
I had a disk film camera when I was young. It was nice and reminded me of computer floppy disks.
Rest in Peace Kodak cameras.
I bought one this summer for $2. I just thought it looked neat. Glad to see everyone who bought it has such fond memories.
I remember seeing this camera advertised at the local supermarket, complete with a video presentation, around spring of 1982.
Great share - thanks! Just found a disc of negatives from when I went to camp in the early 80s. I had 1 of these cameras :)
I WAS NOT BORN WHEN THIS CAME OUT, MY MOM HAD ONE, I GUESS, THIS WAS BACK WHEN PEOPLE USE REAL CAMERAS NOT THERE CELL PHONES, I WANT TO GO BACK TO THE 1990's and use real camera again and I miss my childhood too to have a different outcome in life and retake my high school photos.
LMFAO, phones are not real cameras? Pretty sure new phones now take pictures that are a million times better than the disc camera ever took.
They were popular, even with their small negatives and fixed-focus lenses, that brought you grainy and out-of-focus pictures. :/
I love cool old technology that never caught on much at the time. :)
This fantastic new features than my camera in 2012
The 80's... ahhhh...
I love this!!!
I LOVED mine but they took TERRIBLE pictures LOL
Got one at a thrift store for like $7. I've seen film for it before but it wasn't cheap but yes you can get it developed.
The negatives were tiny & final prints/enlargements were poor. There was a special lens that Kodak made to use to enlarge the pictures and minimize the graininess, but majority of all labs didn’t want to spend the extra money 💰 for it so they continued to enlarge with the lenses for 35mm. As a result the quality of prints were bad. Thus hastening the demise of the format.
Back in the day, yes images were poor, mainly due to scanning tech.
I've seen some modern scans (file size 40 MB for each frame) and they look 100 times better!
I see Kodak Discs filling in the same market that cell phone cameras do today: they're easy to use, so people with little to no knowledge of photography rely on them, while people with a better knowledge of the subject know to use an SLR instead.
I don't know what an SLR is, but it probably costs more than I make in a month. That's why people use cell phones. Oh, and they fit in your pocket.
SLR: "Single Lens Reflex." It's basically the average camera loaded with film that people used. DSLR is a digital one, like what everyone carried around before camera phone dominance. I agree with both. When digital cameras were conquering the market, people looked for an array of features and suddenly stopped caring when they could simply take pictures with phones. Now the phones have excellent resolution, and while they shake and can't zoom far, they are can be pocketed and recharged easily.
Also, I had a Kodak Disc. I was in elementary school, so it was convenient for me, but I would have liked to have learned photography with a regular camera at that time. The thing only had 15 exposures per disc.
TOLL BOSS
Like the previous reply said, an SLR is a single-lens reflex camera. The design is far more accurate than a simple cameras, as the image is projected into the viewfinder by a mirror on the shutter. Before phone decent phone cameras became common, they were the most popular, and are still the most common behind cell phones. A good SLR is a bit pricy (my Canon T5, which was their lowest model and was discontinued a few months after I bought it, since there's 2 newer models available, cost $450, although the package included a bag, 18-55mm lens, and 75-300mm lens), but it's definitely worth it. There's hardly any ground to compare shots taken on my iPhone 6 to the ones from my Canon.
What will they think of next ?
Voiceover was Hal Douglas.
Oh, God's gonna getcha with a kodak disc!
i had one too, but my 110 film camera took better pictures..
Featuring R2-D2 at 00:37 !!!
If Kodak had only spent more time developing the first digital camera which they invented in 1975, they might still be around. They should have realized film was on its way out and the newer, cheaper and better medium would be digital cameras with digital data storage.
Audio CD manufacturers were saying CD was done in the early 2000's - but here we are, and you can still purchase lots of music on audio CD.
They'll keep on with the format until the last collector dies - much like camera film! 😆
"A unique film disc...A DISC!!!"
If they only knew....
Remember tearing open the foil package?
What happened to kodak? ?? When I was a kid see lots of kodak names now I cant find them?
They are about to release a analog/digital Super 8 camera.
@@Tails92Halcmm kodak like every company that fails .. played it safe for the stock holders instead of making new devices.
Bankrupt
I got one ! It’s hanging on wall
I got one of these stupid things as a HS graduation gift (and nothing else). I think I used it once. Don't know what ever happened to it.
Biggest POS ever made... I had one. I ended up going right back to my old Sears 35mm and never looked back. That damn Sears took great pics for as cheap as it was...
The pictures developed from the film is grainy, though.
I have on in my channel
Lol I had one
It is confusing to call it a disc camera when the Compact Disc was release in 1982
Kodak was photography now there gone wow
No they are back now, and still make great film.
I thought this was incredible at first..but that tiny negative having to be enlarged
Fail.
The mechanics of the camera weren't a bad idea thou.
They were shockingly shite.
You only go 15 shots as opposed to up to 38 with a 35mm camera. The negative had about a quarter of the surface area so you couldn't blow up to anything past a 7x5 or it looked really grainy.
I had a 50p Bazooka Joe camera that used old school roll film and it took better pictures than the disc camera that my elder brother had.
Slapped ham brought me here
So was this some kind of disk memory card?
Nope
Just analog film.
Family guy brought me here.
hey, me too!
same, but it didn't sing the jingle that peter did :/
DRAGNET
I bought a Disc 8000. It was tech wonder a the time. The pics pretty much sucked.
A goddamn potato takes better photos
Rock! They were horrible....
Yeah those things were definitely junk,
The pictures were awful
Wow, what a terrible camera, lol. Such grandiose advertising. "Picture a brand new world" (???) Geez.
They flopped
They were selling these up until 1998 (or at least the film was still available).
IMO the idea was a good novelty item, much like we have 'fun' film cameras today, but the disc cameras were WAY overpriced.