Even "high end" camera brands like Leica participate in cross-branding shenanigans. The prestige of a manufacturer's brand sometimes stops right at the adhesive holding it on the camera.
My step dad is a big Leica aficionado and for YEARS wouldn't believe me that those Leica point and shoot digitals were Panasonics with a different logo
In an age where everything comes off the same conveyor belts in Shenzhen, or Bangladesh, or Mexico, or wherever, names such as Leica or Sony, etc. mean very little. You may as well buy Lidl own brand or whatever the American equivalent is.
@@LGR@LGR There's a camera I'd like to get to know your thoughts on. It's a Vivitar Vivicam 3750 from 2004. I have one myself and while it looks and functions like a cheap & slow camera (because it is one), the photos it takes are similarly unpredictable and look uncannily similar to slide film (only funnier). I mean, you have to try one out for yourself. I think you'll get a kick out of it with the absolutely barbarian CMOS sensor they put in it.
Also the idea of a disc holding 300+ photos still sounded HUGE back in the 90s. Most people used analog cameras with film that took 24 photos at a time.
Honestly Clik Disks just looked so cool. They really nailed the sci-fi looking storage device aesthetic with it, almost reminds me of seeing MiniDiscs used for data in The Matrix, just looked cool. Of course neither were sci-fi but that transition period when the floppy disk was stone age tech yet burning a CD was too much hassle had a bunch of products that seemed so cool despite their obvious flaws.
Hey, floppies where at least iron age, using punchcards and punched tape would be stone age, tape would be bronze age. And now suddenly i want a digicam using punched tape. 😅
Don't forget the IBM Microdrive. A tiny hard disk in a CompactFlash form factor which you use in any camera which accepted CF cards (and could cope with the insane amount of storage space, like 170MB or 340MB). Came out in 1998, price was $500 in 1999. Capacity continued to increased (4GB in 2004 for $500, dropping to $200 in 2005, then 6GB in 2006 for $130). Biggest drive had 16GB, but that was when comparable flash CF cards had become too cheap already. The iPod mini used 4GB and 6GB Microdrives. Thanks to the CF card compatibility, it was possible to replace the Microdrive with much larger (and enegery-efficient) flash CF cards when these became available many years later.
The picture quality is actually not bad! Despite its artifacts and compression, the colors are not odd. Still useful today for a 10 year old to run around.
I had the Polaroid PDC 1100 as a kid and I loved it. It ate batteries and took 20-30 minutes to transfer a dozen photos over serial, but it was magic. Emailing a photo or two on a trip, dialing up from a hotel landline on my Compaq laptop.
I love these old digital camera reviews. The photos gives me nostalgic vibes, as my mother used one of these digital cameras for Christmas at my grandpas place. So all our old album photos have the same early digital camera look to them.
My first digital camera was the HP version of the PDC1100 - it was virtually identical, with the transflective icon display above the color LCD display.
I had the photosmart as well, I remember it was over $500, below a megapixel and ate batteries. You could use the very expensive Rayovac rechargeables but they lasted even shorter than alkalines.
@@mrfrenzy. it was hellishly overpriced. There was the older C200 at 1MP with serial connectivity and the C215 boasting USB 1.0 and 1.3megapixels (1280x960). I paid an equally insane price for the power adapter and always used the camera while plugged in. Much was my joy when it was stolen in 2003 and I bought a Canon A40.
Compared to my other similarly-specced digital cameras from late 1999/early 2000 it's nothing too special! Definitely solid results for its price range at the time, but really on-par with others with similar specs. It's the lower-end 1999 cameras that look like garbage in comparison :)
The problem you're likely facing with these cameras is the same problem that plagued many early digital cameras: loose connectors. The one that takes vomit-colored pictures likely has a connection issue with the CCD; the other one likely the connector to the LCDs. They were selling cutting edge technology in cost-cutting enclosures for devices meant to be carried around, so many just wore out, but after a few years, they were already wildly out of date. I remember it only took a few years to go from 1MP to 20MP.
Yup I started with the digital cameras like Sony Cybershot in 1999, then got into getting a new one every few years ~3 because you could not beat the resolution and storage upgrades that you could buy into with the next model, made keeping up with cameras a has been even all my professional ones were done for by 2010.. then came the smartphone race and the cameras, storage, resolution.. on the fly filtering.. wow.. taking pic tech has not slowed down in the past 20 years.. that is for sure. LOL.
@@onetox6003 I was a Canon PowerShot guy. My 2MP was stolen, so I basically replaced it with the slightly newer version that had 8MP. Replaced that with a 16MP.
@@ethanpschwartz I have about three digital cameras. Two canons powershot and ELPH, the other is fujifilm. The powershot has issues with AA cells (alkaline or NiMH, sees new batteries as "dead" at random), so I use lithium primary cells. Still great cameras regardless.
I still remember when my grandmother came to visit me for my highschool graduation. She took me to Best Buy the night before graduation to get my employee discount on a new printer and she bought me my first digital camera. What an incredible experience that was. It wasn't the greatest camera of all time, but I took so many pictures with it.
As a huge photography nerd, your videos on old cameras are always my favorite to watch. Another great one as always! Please keep doing these when you find more weird cameras.
@@Connie_TinuityError It may blow your mind to realise: It's literally always evening somewhere ... just like it's always 5 o'clock somewhere. Not everyone lives in your time zone.
Thanks to my dad I fell down the zip drive rabbit hole when it came out. Much like him, I thought they were the future. So of course I wanted one of these when they came out! Fun fact: dad also thought beta max was the future 😂
I still have the Kodak digital camera I have that takes floppy disks. It was their first digital camera. I found it at goodwill for $5. It originally retailed for something like $900 I think? Over $1,000? It's a goofy shape but it's not uncomfortable. It has the styling of an office projector, and you hold it like you're holding a pair of binoculars. lol
I have been rewatching a lot of lgr videos lately and when this one popped up I just thought it was an old video about a digital camera I've seen a few times already but decided to watch it again anyways. Then I realized all the comments are really recent, like within a few minutes recent lol.
Well, it's not that ridiculous coming from film -- a 36 roll was a 'big' one ... back in the bad ol' days we didn't have storage cards where you could just machine-gun thousands of exposures.
@@halfsourlizard9319 seeing the auto tracking indicator come up on old footage uploaded to TH-cam instantly reminds me of how far away from childhood I am 😂
I had a "semi professional" camera that stored the images and videos on mini-CDs (which was a pain, because once the laser broke and I could never find a repair shop that could fix it), but this is next-level lmao
One of the reasons I love the camera reviews is because I know all the places you're taking pictures of! I think it was the Gizmondo review where I saw the pics and said "wait a minute...!"
I had a job working at a Ritz Camera around '01, '02. I remember us stocking most of the cameras you've reviewed, but this was one that we never had (not that anyone ever asked). I was a big believer in Iomega at the time, lol, I thought they were gonna win the format wars.
Awesome episode. Your channel has been a favorite for years and never get bored. Your quality and production is top notch and creates a really immersive watching experience.
Can't believe I'm starting to feel nostalgic for the crunchy quality of early digital pictures but something about the washed out look of those photos reminded me of my youth.
I have asked around, you included many times. But i am dying for a Jaz drive episode. With good frigging audio of that magnificent machine. The spin up sound is amazing. And here is the twist. Can you, make it the OS drive? Back when you had ATA 1gb drives. That were on paper slower than the Jaz. What would it do? Come on Clint. Lets Rock!
Our first digital camera didn't even have a LCD preview screen on it. It had a maximum image resolution of 1024x768. It used Compact Flash to store pictures, used 4 AA batteries, had a tripod mount, used a 3.5mm to serial cable to transfer files off the camera, used a horizontal rotary wheel to move between modes. It came with a 4 MB CF card. I later bought a 32 MB, 64 MB, 128 MB CF card to see what its actual limits were. It took 13 seconds from the time I pressed the shutter button for it to capture and store the image. It also chewed through batteries. To conserve power I would turn it off between shots. I think I still have it somewhere. I know I still have the Compact Flash memory cards. At the time I bought those CF cards they were cutting edge technology. Even when the camera itself was probably an older generation or two. We loved using it. Over time it slowly became mine somehow. Oh and it had a 3.5 mm port to RCA video cable to allow us to see our photos on the CRT TV.
I worked at a tech store around that time and used to sell them. I always thought they were neat. I could see it was an outlier for tech however, as other media were catching on fast. Even back then Canon and HP were far ahead of the competition. Sony had come out with its memory-stick too, if I remember. So many different options to go with.
The first time I went to buy a Digital Camera the salesman in the camera store put me off by warning me that Smartmedia was about to be replaced by XD cards,
@@MrDunclXD cards were the worst. They were only really ever supported by Olympus and Kodak and maybe a handful of Fuji cameras? But all but the Olympus cameras absolute garbage. That sales man saved you for sure!
@@caodesignworks2407 Yes it was an Olympus I was looking at after being impressed by my Olympus 35mm compact (although it did cost £200 back in about 1994). I ended up buying a 3MPixel Canon Ixus that took Compact Flash cards. That was £400 !
I started my Tech Sunday with This Week in Retro in the morning, then Ctrl-Alt-Reese's interview with Clint in the afternoon, followed by the Dutch Grand Prix, and am wrapping up with this little nugget. A day well spent I'd say.
It’s 11pm on a Saturday night. Of course I have nothing better to do than watch this. But, seriously, love LGR. Thanks for your videos Clint! ETA: since we're taking world roll call, good evening from Sydney
I just realized i live 30mins from Clint! That's awesome! One of these days i'll probably see him rummaging through the electronics isle at the Goodwill's i occasionally go to. Greetings from Hendersonville!
Reminds me of when I first realized Clint lives in my town. I was watching a Thrifts episode and recognized a Goodwill as one within walking distance of my home. Small world! I was subscribed for like a few months before realizing. Nice to see the great photos from our town!
It is really interesting how you went with a different style of music at the end of the video. It really gave my 2000s vibes instead of what I usually came here to experience. Very well done!
The screens being dead you always need to unseat and reseat every cable that unplugs inside the camera first. These cameras are not built with tolerances so every bump, bang, and jostle can unseat wires. Failing that it was likely left somewhere hot or damp and one of the capacitors fried, which is common.
So here's a weird personal experience... I'm visually impaired, and I often find that modern photography and videography looks nothing like the real world its capturing. The pictures from this camera are 100% how I see the world. This video is the first time in a very long time I've looked at digital media and thought "That's the most realistic photo I've seen, it's like I'm there!" So in an odd way, thank you for making this video. It's given me some comfort to know that while my vision is in fact continuing to degrade, a majority of the struggles I have with digital devices are the result of the presentation of modern media capture, rather than the state of my eyeballs.
It’s so funny, I just came across a CL30 in the box at the thrift store and picked it up after not being able to find much info on it. Then I randomly see what LGR has been up to and this extremely detailed video is the first thing I see. Thanks!
Love that chromatic separation. If you set up a booth with a TV hooked up to that video from this camera, you'd have people clowning around in front of it.
i seriously love the results. quirky, rough but also true. the motive ist the main driver of a picture, not the post-pro of an iphone. the odd coloring and technical flaws of back-then-cams provide their own thrill!
That is so cool! You’re what inspired me to start collecting retro technology and starting my very own TH-cam channel so thank you so much LGR for all the inspiration and I think this is really cool. Keep up the good work.
10:56 not only do I get the pleasant surprise of a Saturday morning LGR drop, but I get a glimpse of a 4th gen Accord, too? Cars are like computers, in that there's always a special place in your heart for your first.
This was my 2nd digital camera when I started in photograsphy. I had 2 of the discs at the time. No extra add-ons just 4 sets of rechargeable batteries to go with it. The big selling point for me was moving up from 640x480 and 64 max photos before offloading. if I remember correctly wbetween the 2 discs i could take 240 photos. Then moved to the Panasonic Super Disc 1.3MP camera..... Now I shoot with 512GB and 1TB memory cards that fill in a single day.
Interestingly enough, the first digital camera I ever saw was an Agfa. We were on a cruise in 1999 and one of the guests at dinner had one. We were all amazed.
NOOOOOOO Im so sad the circus ringleader and tiger are gone! Those were perfect for image comparison and they were just super fun! Overall though if the camera worked as it should, I wouldn't mind using one today, granted knowing its not a Pixel phone camera but I love these old style digital cams. Great stuff as always Clint!
The dynamic range of that camera is actually excellent fot the time, quality in general is way better than I'd expect. I'd love to do street photography with it
A 2.8f is actually pretty impressive for a near antique digital point and shoot camera camera. Fastest prime I have for my dslr is a 50mm 1.7f, i also have a 2.8f 28mm prime that is quite capable.
I still have my Iomega Click drive, its a PCMCIA model with a USB dock. It still works, on Windows 10 and on Linux. I have to say, I really liked it back then as USB memory sticks were not yet available and when they started to become available they were crazy expensive. The Click disks were small and easy to carry and, for the time, held a lot of data. At this time 3.5" floppies were still king for portable storage.
It brought some memories about my Mustek camera from that days. It was crappy and expensive, too, but the photos make me smile. And this is priceless 🙂
I remember having about a dozen Zip disks at work during this period, and even several of the even shorter lived Jazz disks and drive. That Jazz media type feels like it lasted only a few months.
The first digital camera I bought was an HP Photosmart 315 2.1MP digital camera back around 2000-2001. It was $299 new when it came out in 2000. It had a 2.1MP CCD with maximum pixels at 1600x1200, 38mm equivalent lens, 30 bit color depth, 2.5x digital zoom, 1.8" rear color LCD screen. It used Type I Compact Flash cards for the storage and it came with a 8MB CF card. It also came with two software CDs. One disc was the Photosmart drivers and the other disc was Arcsoft PhotoImpressions and Arcsoft PhotoMontage.
Even "high end" camera brands like Leica participate in cross-branding shenanigans. The prestige of a manufacturer's brand sometimes stops right at the adhesive holding it on the camera.
My step dad is a big Leica aficionado and for YEARS wouldn't believe me that those Leica point and shoot digitals were Panasonics with a different logo
@@reginalb124 It's one of those important 'loss of innocence' teachable moments, eh?
@@zippydastrange Mo' white labelling == mo' profits! Stonks go 📈
In an age where everything comes off the same conveyor belts in Shenzhen, or Bangladesh, or Mexico, or wherever, names such as Leica or Sony, etc. mean very little. You may as well buy Lidl own brand or whatever the American equivalent is.
I lost all respect to brands Leica, Hasselblad when they decide to collaborate with Chinese.
Please don’t ever stop reviewing weird cameras
I hope to keep finding fascinating ones to review! These really are a lotta fun to cover.
@@LGR been an avid fan for nearly ten years and the camera reviews scratch a special itch for me 🙏
@@LGR Does changing to full resolution "blindly" work?
@@LGR@LGR There's a camera I'd like to get to know your thoughts on. It's a Vivitar Vivicam 3750 from 2004. I have one myself and while it looks and functions like a cheap & slow camera (because it is one), the photos it takes are similarly unpredictable and look uncannily similar to slide film (only funnier). I mean, you have to try one out for yourself. I think you'll get a kick out of it with the absolutely barbarian CMOS sensor they put in it.
@@LGRhow do I get in touch with you if I want to send you a tape drive with two tapes that I found at my grandma's attic?
R.I.P Smiling dude and tiger 😢, we will all miss you seeing in questionable resolutions
Also the idea of a disc holding 300+ photos still sounded HUGE back in the 90s. Most people used analog cameras with film that took 24 photos at a time.
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Would love to see this camera make its way to one of the many YT repair channels.
I'd be happy to send it off to one willing to tackle the project!
@@LGRMaybe The 8-Bit Guy could be the one to do it?
@@teh_supar_hackr not with how he handled that IBM prototype
@@newrecs4969 Maybe Adrian can fix it in his digital basement. Or Shelby from Tech Tangents.
@@needfuldoer4531 oh adrian would get that thing fixed up in no time!
Honestly Clik Disks just looked so cool. They really nailed the sci-fi looking storage device aesthetic with it, almost reminds me of seeing MiniDiscs used for data in The Matrix, just looked cool. Of course neither were sci-fi but that transition period when the floppy disk was stone age tech yet burning a CD was too much hassle had a bunch of products that seemed so cool despite their obvious flaws.
Check out the Sony DCM-M1. A camcorder that recorded on MiniDisc.
I loved the idea of clik, but never bought one. And I owned things like LS-120. Ah well.
Hey, floppies where at least iron age, using punchcards and punched tape would be stone age, tape would be bronze age.
And now suddenly i want a digicam using punched tape. 😅
Don't forget the IBM Microdrive. A tiny hard disk in a CompactFlash form factor which you use in any camera which accepted CF cards (and could cope with the insane amount of storage space, like 170MB or 340MB). Came out in 1998, price was $500 in 1999. Capacity continued to increased (4GB in 2004 for $500, dropping to $200 in 2005, then 6GB in 2006 for $130). Biggest drive had 16GB, but that was when comparable flash CF cards had become too cheap already.
The iPod mini used 4GB and 6GB Microdrives. Thanks to the CF card compatibility, it was possible to replace the Microdrive with much larger (and enegery-efficient) flash CF cards when these became available many years later.
Reminds me of old 90s animé!
Can we appreciate how much Clint improved his photography work? Also this camera aesthetic is amazing
Well thanks, I try my best 😊
I was coming to say the exact same thing. This video looks great Clint.
The photos looked surprisingly good! There is something aesthetically pleasing about the wonky images from early digital cameras.
The picture quality is actually not bad! Despite its artifacts and compression, the colors are not odd. Still useful today for a 10 year old to run around.
CCD sensors generally have better colours than CMOS sensors, they just had really bad low light performance as the sensors are so tiny
Would have been handy. I let my 4 year old run around with a nice canon point and shoot. It is in pieces now. 😊
If it didn't take nearly a minute to turn on, that is
@@danielanderson9400 Additionally they suffer horrifically if there is bright light in screen.
I remember on your clik drive review you mentioned cameras that took it. I’m so happy to see you finally review it!
Heck yeah, this has been on my Want-To-Cover list for a very long time :)
honestly the photos that camera took are amazing, especially since its all default settings
I had the Polaroid PDC 1100 as a kid and I loved it. It ate batteries and took 20-30 minutes to transfer a dozen photos over serial, but it was magic. Emailing a photo or two on a trip, dialing up from a hotel landline on my Compaq laptop.
Even with those slow speeds it was Sci-Fi stuff compared to film cameras that were still around
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I love these old digital camera reviews. The photos gives me nostalgic vibes, as my mother used one of these digital cameras for Christmas at my grandpas place. So all our old album photos have the same early digital camera look to them.
My first digital camera was the HP version of the PDC1100 - it was virtually identical, with the transflective icon display above the color LCD display.
Same - Photosmart C215 it would eat batteries. So glad mine got stolen.
That's one I didn't run across, but yeah it's the same thing indeed! Fascinating how many companies ended up licensing the same Taiwanese OEM design.
I had the photosmart as well, I remember it was over $500, below a megapixel and ate batteries. You could use the very expensive Rayovac rechargeables but they lasted even shorter than alkalines.
@@mrfrenzy. I ran mine on rechargeables and they lasted much longer than alkalines
@@mrfrenzy. it was hellishly overpriced. There was the older C200 at 1MP with serial connectivity and the C215 boasting USB 1.0 and 1.3megapixels (1280x960). I paid an equally insane price for the power adapter and always used the camera while plugged in. Much was my joy when it was stolen in 2003 and I bought a Canon A40.
You must be crazy to say this is "ok digital photos from 99", it's the best photos I seen from a consumer camera from that era!
Compared to my other similarly-specced digital cameras from late 1999/early 2000 it's nothing too special! Definitely solid results for its price range at the time, but really on-par with others with similar specs. It's the lower-end 1999 cameras that look like garbage in comparison :)
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i'm obsessed with "almost good" CCD sensors and this camera is squarely in that realm. loved all the pics, and such a neat camera for 1999
The problem you're likely facing with these cameras is the same problem that plagued many early digital cameras: loose connectors. The one that takes vomit-colored pictures likely has a connection issue with the CCD; the other one likely the connector to the LCDs. They were selling cutting edge technology in cost-cutting enclosures for devices meant to be carried around, so many just wore out, but after a few years, they were already wildly out of date. I remember it only took a few years to go from 1MP to 20MP.
Yup I started with the digital cameras like Sony Cybershot in 1999, then got into getting a new one every few years ~3 because you could not beat the resolution and storage upgrades that you could buy into with the next model, made keeping up with cameras a has been even all my professional ones were done for by 2010.. then came the smartphone race and the cameras, storage, resolution.. on the fly filtering.. wow.. taking pic tech has not slowed down in the past 20 years.. that is for sure. LOL.
@@onetox6003 I was a Canon PowerShot guy. My 2MP was stolen, so I basically replaced it with the slightly newer version that had 8MP. Replaced that with a 16MP.
@@ethanpschwartz I have about three digital cameras. Two canons powershot and ELPH, the other is fujifilm. The powershot has issues with AA cells (alkaline or NiMH, sees new batteries as "dead" at random), so I use lithium primary cells. Still great cameras regardless.
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I always forget that you're a very talented photographer. Keep em coming Clint we love ya
I'm sure he has learned a lot from his younger brother. He's a photographer iirc.
Great video Clint. This one felt to have a much higher production value, from the B Roll to the music, it felt really fresh.
Thanks, I appreciate that!
I still remember when my grandmother came to visit me for my highschool graduation. She took me to Best Buy the night before graduation to get my employee discount on a new printer and she bought me my first digital camera. What an incredible experience that was. It wasn't the greatest camera of all time, but I took so many pictures with it.
What year was that?
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As a huge photography nerd, your videos on old cameras are always my favorite to watch. Another great one as always! Please keep doing these when you find more weird cameras.
Seeing these photos taken with these older cameras is always a treat! Especially with all the older buildings and shops in Hendersonville.
Ok I need this. The color separation would be a LOT of fun, holy cow
Just the joyous meaningless i needed on a Saturday evening.
Thanks for excellent content! Love your videos, brining me so much nostalgia...
evening? it's just afternoon
@@Connie_TinuityError It may blow your mind to realise: It's literally always evening somewhere ... just like it's always 5 o'clock somewhere. Not everyone lives in your time zone.
@@halfsourlizard9319Yeah, it's technicly morning where I live right now...
@@Connie_TinuityError afternoon? It's mid morning!
Thanks to my dad I fell down the zip drive rabbit hole when it came out. Much like him, I thought they were the future. So of course I wanted one of these when they came out!
Fun fact: dad also thought beta max was the future 😂
I still have the Kodak digital camera I have that takes floppy disks. It was their first digital camera. I found it at goodwill for $5. It originally retailed for something like $900 I think? Over $1,000? It's a goofy shape but it's not uncomfortable. It has the styling of an office projector, and you hold it like you're holding a pair of binoculars. lol
Always happy to see a new camera thing drop, love that you make these every now and then.
I have been rewatching a lot of lgr videos lately and when this one popped up I just thought it was an old video about a digital camera I've seen a few times already but decided to watch it again anyways. Then I realized all the comments are really recent, like within a few minutes recent lol.
Rip Circus Man, you shall not be forgotten.
I love these weird old cameras, the 90s really were wild in terms of tech
My school's computer lab in south west Zimbabwe had one of these babies in the early 00s. Fun times!!
So glad we're back to the digital cam reviews.
Straight up nostalgic for me. 40mb? Gah damn🤣
Thanks for excellent content! Love your videos, brining me so much nostalgia...
Well, it's not that ridiculous coming from film -- a 36 roll was a 'big' one ... back in the bad ol' days we didn't have storage cards where you could just machine-gun thousands of exposures.
@@halfsourlizard9319 oh, I was there. My early life was documented on VHS dinosaur cams and single use, wind up cameras. Lol
@@macpatten9249 Ah, good ol' VHS ... Can somebody go fix the tracking?! Ha, good times with primitive tech!
@@halfsourlizard9319 seeing the auto tracking indicator come up on old footage uploaded to TH-cam instantly reminds me of how far away from childhood I am 😂
I had a "semi professional" camera that stored the images and videos on mini-CDs (which was a pain, because once the laser broke and I could never find a repair shop that could fix it), but this is next-level lmao
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every photo you took instantly look like it was taken back in time
Missed the camera videos glad to see another one
One of the reasons I love the camera reviews is because I know all the places you're taking pictures of! I think it was the Gizmondo review where I saw the pics and said "wait a minute...!"
ahhh seeing that old crown vic ltd brought back memories i used to have a 91 vic with the 5.0l v8 that thing was a joy to drive
I had a job working at a Ritz Camera around '01, '02. I remember us stocking most of the cameras you've reviewed, but this was one that we never had (not that anyone ever asked). I was a big believer in Iomega at the time, lol, I thought they were gonna win the format wars.
Awesome episode. Your channel has been a favorite for years and never get bored. Your quality and production is top notch and creates a really immersive watching experience.
Thank you, I appreciate that!
Can't believe I'm starting to feel nostalgic for the crunchy quality of early digital pictures but something about the washed out look of those photos reminded me of my youth.
the shot of the drive with the mic right up close was so good that classic sound was captured perfectly
I have asked around, you included many times. But i am dying for a Jaz drive episode. With good frigging audio of that magnificent machine. The spin up sound is amazing. And here is the twist. Can you, make it the OS drive? Back when you had ATA 1gb drives. That were on paper slower than the Jaz. What would it do? Come on Clint. Lets Rock!
The sequential color live view mode is deliciously trippy. That alone justifies the purchase IMO.
I was having a rough morning and then I see a new LGR. You've brightened my day.
awwwww
Rip to the circus statues
Our first digital camera didn't even have a LCD preview screen on it. It had a maximum image resolution of 1024x768. It used Compact Flash to store pictures, used 4 AA batteries, had a tripod mount, used a 3.5mm to serial cable to transfer files off the camera, used a horizontal rotary wheel to move between modes. It came with a 4 MB CF card. I later bought a 32 MB, 64 MB, 128 MB CF card to see what its actual limits were. It took 13 seconds from the time I pressed the shutter button for it to capture and store the image. It also chewed through batteries. To conserve power I would turn it off between shots. I think I still have it somewhere. I know I still have the Compact Flash memory cards. At the time I bought those CF cards they were cutting edge technology. Even when the camera itself was probably an older generation or two. We loved using it. Over time it slowly became mine somehow. Oh and it had a 3.5 mm port to RCA video cable to allow us to see our photos on the CRT TV.
I worked at a tech store around that time and used to sell them. I always thought they were neat. I could see it was an outlier for tech however, as other media were catching on fast.
Even back then Canon and HP were far ahead of the competition. Sony had come out with its memory-stick too, if I remember. So many different options to go with.
The first time I went to buy a Digital Camera the salesman in the camera store put me off by warning me that Smartmedia was about to be replaced by XD cards,
@@MrDunclXD cards were the worst. They were only really ever supported by Olympus and Kodak and maybe a handful of Fuji cameras? But all but the Olympus cameras absolute garbage. That sales man saved you for sure!
@@caodesignworks2407 Yes it was an Olympus I was looking at after being impressed by my Olympus 35mm compact (although it did cost £200 back in about 1994). I ended up buying a 3MPixel Canon Ixus that took Compact Flash cards. That was £400 !
I started my Tech Sunday with This Week in Retro in the morning, then Ctrl-Alt-Reese's interview with Clint in the afternoon, followed by the Dutch Grand Prix, and am wrapping up with this little nugget. A day well spent I'd say.
It’s 11pm on a Saturday night. Of course I have nothing better to do than watch this.
But, seriously, love LGR. Thanks for your videos Clint!
ETA: since we're taking world roll call, good evening from Sydney
9AM here 😊 Hello from the other side of the world 🙋🏻♂️🇨🇦
9 pm here in Perth.
3 pm here in Belgium.
5 o'clock here in somewhere.
@@halfsourlizard9319 I'd say you're somewhere near Margaritaville 🍸🍹
my favorite youtuber! I love LGR!!🥰
Always love these looks at "almost there, but not quite" transitory forerunners to things we now take for granted.
I just realized i live 30mins from Clint! That's awesome! One of these days i'll probably see him rummaging through the electronics isle at the Goodwill's i occasionally go to. Greetings from Hendersonville!
Reminds me of when I first realized Clint lives in my town. I was watching a Thrifts episode and recognized a Goodwill as one within walking distance of my home. Small world! I was subscribed for like a few months before realizing. Nice to see the great photos from our town!
It is really interesting how you went with a different style of music at the end of the video. It really gave my 2000s vibes instead of what I usually came here to experience. Very well done!
The screens being dead you always need to unseat and reseat every cable that unplugs inside the camera first. These cameras are not built with tolerances so every bump, bang, and jostle can unseat wires. Failing that it was likely left somewhere hot or damp and one of the capacitors fried, which is common.
So here's a weird personal experience... I'm visually impaired, and I often find that modern photography and videography looks nothing like the real world its capturing.
The pictures from this camera are 100% how I see the world. This video is the first time in a very long time I've looked at digital media and thought "That's the most realistic photo I've seen, it's like I'm there!"
So in an odd way, thank you for making this video. It's given me some comfort to know that while my vision is in fact continuing to degrade, a majority of the struggles I have with digital devices are the result of the presentation of modern media capture, rather than the state of my eyeballs.
Great job covering an odd camera! I vaguely remember that media format. 😄
8:14 Oh man, the way that image loaded up from top to bottom took me back to my childhood
It’s so funny, I just came across a CL30 in the box at the thrift store and picked it up after not being able to find much info on it. Then I randomly see what LGR has been up to and this extremely detailed video is the first thing I see. Thanks!
I love old digicams, especially I get a chance to use them for fun as you have.
I'm a sucker for little discs, so cool.
My first digital camera was the 780!!! BRINGS BACK SO MANY GOOD MEMORIES!!!
Great video, I love old digital cameras and Iomega disks so this was great!
Love that chromatic separation. If you set up a booth with a TV hooked up to that video from this camera, you'd have people clowning around in front of it.
Nice one Mr LGR! I like how you got out and about a bit with some urban footage. Keep it up.
Sir this video format is top notch
i seriously love the results. quirky, rough but also true. the motive ist the main driver of a picture, not the post-pro of an iphone. the odd coloring and technical flaws of back-then-cams provide their own thrill!
That is so cool! You’re what inspired me to start collecting retro technology and starting my very own TH-cam channel so thank you so much LGR for all the inspiration and I think this is really cool. Keep up the good work.
Curious, did you grow up during this time period or was it after your time?
@@leeartlee915 no I was born in the early 2000s but I have a heart for retro tech
@@Micro486official That’s awesome. Hope more of your type are out there :-)
10:56 not only do I get the pleasant surprise of a Saturday morning LGR drop, but I get a glimpse of a 4th gen Accord, too?
Cars are like computers, in that there's always a special place in your heart for your first.
This was my 2nd digital camera when I started in photograsphy. I had 2 of the discs at the time. No extra add-ons just 4 sets of rechargeable batteries to go with it. The big selling point for me was moving up from 640x480 and 64 max photos before offloading. if I remember correctly wbetween the 2 discs i could take 240 photos. Then moved to the Panasonic Super Disc 1.3MP camera..... Now I shoot with 512GB and 1TB memory cards that fill in a single day.
Dan's Data is a delightful, period correct reference.
Interestingly enough, the first digital camera I ever saw was an Agfa. We were on a cruise in 1999 and one of the guests at dinner had one. We were all amazed.
Your video made me smile, thank you
@7:50 What a great effect. I need a whole music video shot on this thing 😂
After a long time finally I can watch my favorite channel😁
speaking of cameras, your camera you use for your videos is outstanding. one of the best ive seen.
Glad to hear! I’ve had it for a number of years now but haven’t yet found a reason to move to another one.
Such a cool style to the click disks.
This was a fun time in digital cameras. It was also really fun trying to predict what was going to happen in their future.
NOOOOOOO Im so sad the circus ringleader and tiger are gone! Those were perfect for image comparison and they were just super fun! Overall though if the camera worked as it should, I wouldn't mind using one today, granted knowing its not a Pixel phone camera but I love these old style digital cams. Great stuff as always Clint!
The pics you took made feel like i travelled back in time to the early 2000s, so cool
Thanks for excellent content! Love your videos, brining me so much nostalgia...
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The dynamic range of that camera is actually excellent fot the time, quality in general is way better than I'd expect. I'd love to do street photography with it
Coincidentally I was just done rewatching some older Oddware vids about storage from you, wow.
A 2.8f is actually pretty impressive for a near antique digital point and shoot camera camera. Fastest prime I have for my dslr is a 50mm 1.7f, i also have a 2.8f 28mm prime that is quite capable.
I still have my Iomega Click drive, its a PCMCIA model with a USB dock. It still works, on Windows 10 and on Linux. I have to say, I really liked it back then as USB memory sticks were not yet available and when they started to become available they were crazy expensive. The Click disks were small and easy to carry and, for the time, held a lot of data. At this time 3.5" floppies were still king for portable storage.
That camera actuall renders colours beautifully and does very well with contrast! I am impressed.
It brought some memories about my Mustek camera from that days. It was crappy and expensive, too, but the photos make me smile. And this is priceless 🙂
Great review, some great photography down town!
I think I'm most impressed that the rubby bits of the camera are still rubbery bits and not slime.
LGR Camera Things are among my favorite types of videos on this channel.
It’s strange to see my hometown up to date shot on old cameras lol.
Never ceases to be wild seeing pictures of where I live on a big TH-cam lol
Zip Drives take me back to great days of my life. Ahhh! The good old days.
Thanks for excellent content! Love your videos, brining me so much nostalgia...
Thanks for excellent content! Love your videos, brining me so much nostalgia...
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Worked at iomega in both zip and jazz cartridge. Loved the job till they moved manufacturing to Malaysia!!! Keep up the great vids!!!
In like the pictures it takes. It has a pretty neat aesthetic. Old digital cameras are fun.
Dude I love your pictures
I remember having about a dozen Zip disks at work during this period, and even several of the even shorter lived Jazz disks and drive. That Jazz media type feels like it lasted only a few months.
I honestly like the photos with the camera a lot more than with the phone. That late 90s / early 2000s look that gets added is really nice.
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The first digital camera I bought was an HP Photosmart 315 2.1MP digital camera back around 2000-2001. It was $299 new when it came out in 2000. It had a 2.1MP CCD with maximum pixels at 1600x1200, 38mm equivalent lens, 30 bit color depth, 2.5x digital zoom, 1.8" rear color LCD screen. It used Type I Compact Flash cards for the storage and it came with a 8MB CF card. It also came with two software CDs. One disc was the Photosmart drivers and the other disc was Arcsoft PhotoImpressions and Arcsoft PhotoMontage.
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Now I see why film photos were still big in the early 00s, it wasn't just weird economy of the place I grew up in after all