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On this episode of This Old Camera we take a look at the history of Kodak Disc film including the line of cameras, the tech, and the film itself. I'll ask "what killed Kodak Disc film??" and give some possible answers.
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I worked at a photo lab in the late 90's and these would occasionally come in. Usually they'd been sitting around for years. The development process was a pain. It had its own machine and by the time a roll would come in the chemicals had been sitting so long that they'd probably gone bad so we had to drain the machine, refill with new chemicals and go through the process. Most of the time the disk was blank.
Yeah not exactly high resolution.
Its funny to think Kodak spent 5 years developing the disk camera but were basically sitting on digital camera technology. Good call guys!
lol, yup.
Yeah, they also came out with APS film when digital was starting to become more mainstream.
Kinda late to the party but this video was dope. Learned so much. More like this please!
Charles Leonard awesome glad you liked it!
Your videos inspired me to pick up some basic chemicals to develop my own black and white film today! You're like the mythbusters of the darkroom.
lol, best compliment ever, thanks :)
Let me know how it goes!
@@MrCharlesLeonard His video inspired me to stick with Digital, lol
i had completely forgotten about this little 'beauty'! This, and the instamatic pocket 200 we had are the reason our family snaps were so crap during the 1980s!!!
LOL the negatives are super tiny.
I had one just like the Disc 3600 camera you had there. I got as a 11th birthday present January 1987, replacing my hand me down, late 60's Kodak Instamatic 126 camera which was becoming harder to find flashbulbs for. I would say that the built in flash was the only benefit to the Kodak Disc as the pictures were not anywhere as good as the 126 camera that was a much larger film size (close to 135, but a 1:1 ratio rather than a 2:3 ratio). I think I used the disc little over a year and found my negatives in a box somewhere and I did run quite a bit of film through it as a kid as it was a convenient camera to shoot. Soon after I did switch to 35mm when my grandfather gave me his old Argus C3 which was about as opposite as you could get to the disc both in image quality and in ease of use.
By the way, possibly the dis-colorization was due to the age of film, however I remember it being pretty grainy when it was new, so all in all, that 22 year old disc film did hold up pretty well (or at least looks as bad as it did back in the day, rather than worse) and, yes, those cameras were always that noisy. The 1980's were the beginning of the end for Kodak as not only was this camera a failure, but right before this they were dealing with Polaroid's lawsuit concerning Kodak's (far superior) Instant film and Instant film cameras.
I remember my family getting a disc camera in the early 80s. We only ever took one disc's worth of photos before going back to our trusty 35mm. Says it all!
lol, yup
Hey Azriel. I've just found your videos through dumb youtube luck but I'm so glad I did because they're great! I love the awesome pop culture references and the awesome 80s intros. Great cameras and information as well. Keep up the amazing work Mr. Knight!
Thanks Stuart! I really appreciate the compliment.
Thanks for making such a comprehensive video!
Thanks :)
Thank you 🙋♂️ great video and work 👌👍
Thanks for watching :)
The development stage is so spa, I love it!
I love the look of those photos!
Thanks very much :)
I had a disc camera when I was about 10 and loved it. A great camera for kids but definitely not for advanced photographers.
Agreed
I recently (a week ago?) bought one of these (Kodak Disc 3000) at a rummage sale, then I bought some film online. The winding motor is weak or something, it's loud, but won't advance the film. Oh well, the camera and film set me back less than $10. Now I have a retro...paperweight?
The built in batteries on most of these is really what kills it.
Super interesting. A bit before my time and recollection. Thanks for doing a video in it!
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
Hell yeah my father just gave me thr kodak disc 4000 cant wait to use this
Let me know how it goes!
Recommendations for next camera review. Nikon F or F2,Canon FT Or FTb & Canon F1 or New F1,Pentax Spotmatic,Olyumpus OM-1, OM-10.
Thanks for those ideas! I've added them to the request list!
I have this leclic camera from the 80s that's never been used yet, it needs this 'odd looking' film, I thought films are always 'battery-shaped', like the 35mm film. Now that I've realized that its film is a disc one, I don't know where to buy disc films since the 35mm film is the only available on my country this time (I think). I would love to use my leclic camera because my digital camera's broken.
Disc film is hard to come by, your best bet is eBay.
I loved my disc I am sure it was a early 82 but I thought it was gold colored. I bought it for my always with me girlfriend & when we split I never seen as it again was a gift to her she should a kept it. Would enjoy having it though.
Hmm, I've never heard of that, good to know! Great video and presentation as usual Azriel ;)
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :)
My first camera was a Hanimex 120 disc camera. Not great quality but I remember taking it everywhere.
That's the most important part.
I still have my Minolta Disc 7 somewhere. My brother had the Kodak 8000...the Minolta was better quality (slighly), and we felt took better phots on Fuji Film. It also had the 1st selfie mode with its big mirror on front and has held up to this day. I might need to buy some old film and give it a go again. (The Minolta also had a stand built in and I think? it can mount to a standard tripod mount.)
I think the least expired film will be dated about 1999, just in case you hit up eBay, good luck!
Would you make a video of yourself taking apart one of the broken ones you bought? Got mine for cheap at a vintage shop and its totally broken so I wanted to take it apart but I can't find screws or anything on the outside so I'm not sure where to start?
I'm not a camera fixer. I tend to just sell them broken. Wish I could help.
@@AzrielKnight ah ok! thankyou anyway! loved the video :)
Ah, I remember when these came out. They were like a 110, only crappier.
Kodak messed up by not making it shoot transparencies that were compatible with a View-master (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View-Master)
Yeah the similarity is there and I think some of the technology was based on the idea. slide film would have been perfect!
May I ask how to replace the battery? Any tutorial? I just got from eBay but I have no idea how to replace the battery☹️☹️
Many of them had the battery built in. Some people have posted ways to swap them though.
@@AzrielKnight Do you have a site where they were able to swap them out? I have a 8000 model
Just got the 6000 in a grab bag auction from goodwill with 4 more cameras for $6 and shipping and hanlding.
I hope they work!
OMG, I'd forgotten about these.
lol, there's a reason for that ;)
Yeah, Alzheimer's or the fact that the camera only gave you half a frame.
I had a 4000 and at the time Polaroid was still huge so I had both. I remember one photo hut telling me they didn't like the disc cameras due to the manual developing. Everyone was evolving to automated systems and machines to do it for you. Why would they want to manually develop film if a machine can do it for you and faster? I Also remember the guy at the photo place saying they didn't really see the photos that much so THAT was a downer. They didn't get to see the nudes some guy took of his wife or GF. They said they'd flip through the sets when it was a slow day.
I'm feeling like a day with the Kodak disc. #Kodakdisc
I have a 8000 model, it still works, but Im worried the built in battery will erode eventually, anyone know how to take out battery?
I've seen a tutorial here and here but you're better off looking for a "challenger" model, which takes AA's
That's awesome, would you say that to achieve the same 35mm quality today the only possibility is through a Full Frame Canon or Sony a7R?
Not sure actually. The exact megapixel of a 35mm film frame is debatable but I have heard as high as 50MP depending on lens sharpness.
@@AzrielKnight The ultimate resolution for an ideal camera system is determined by the wavelength of light, which for the middle of the visible spectrum is about 520 nm. Unlike a camera, it is impossible to miniaturize this quantity. Thus, as a rule of thumb, the diameter of the diffraction spot measured in micrometres on the sensor or film, produced by a point source of light is about 1.3 times the f-ratio of the lens. For example, if the aperture is set to f/4, then a point source of light will make a spot that is never smaller than about 5.2 µm in diameter. In practice, imperfections and aberrations in a real lens spread out the spot size. Given this information, and applying the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem, it trivial to calculate the equivalent resolution of a film frame or sensor in terms of megapixels for any f-ratio under ideal conditions.
it"s back!!!!!
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wish i watched this video first, im in the uk, just bought an 8000 kodak and cant find anyone to replace the soldered in batteries, in the uk.
The Disc camera was a solution looking for a problem. It offered nothing in ease of use that 126 and 110 format hadn't provided years earlier, with the added complication of dodgy electronics and a processing chain that required big investment from photo finishers. For all its advanced credentials, Disc was still a pushing film past a mediocre lens with little or no exposure variation, something box cameras were doing decades before. The cheapest 35mm point and shoot offered better images.
I can only guess Kodak saw a declining market share and wanted to monopolise consumer production and development with a format that was too silly for others to compete in.
Thanks for the comment! I also think they were trying to increase their margin on film profits by selling less film.
My dad received a disc camera for free from the bank he did business with. The pictures were absolutely terrible. It was complete garbage. It’s too bad that Kodak’s CEO’s ego caused their downfall. I can’t believe that Kodak skipped the 1984 Olympics. That’s total arrogance right there.😒
Not always the brightest crayon :)
that „german“ ad wasn’t german...
What was it.
I M G O N N A G E T Y O U A K O D A K D I S C
lol
You never showed how to take the film out from the cartridge ?
lol, well there's only one way ;)
@@AzrielKnight You literally rip it apart?
Today I got one with only 15$😂
Nice, does it work?
@@AzrielKnight sure, it’s so nice
They were just as loud as they are now. Not very discreet.
The Disc 4000 was my first camera and I used it through my entire elementary school years. For me, the cons were: only 15 exposures, and you couldn't get discs with more due to the geometry of the disc; grainy pictures, as you said; the cost per 15-exposure disc was high compared to the cost of a 110 film roll; and, the cost to get them developed was higher as well. That being said, my 4000 was reliable enough to last a long time in the hands of a child, and I got a lot of use out of it because it was so portable. And yes, it was loud - the shutter and the mechanism to advance the disc both were pretty noisy compared to the more popular 110 cameras that were contemporaneous to the disc format.
Thanks for sharing that story, and confirming my suspicions about things like how loud it was. :)
Rooting around in an old negative box, I found 6 disk negatives! My dad was a camera buff back in the day, so he must have been intrigued to own a disc camera. If I look hard enough, I bet I can find the developed pics from them, but I'd actually would like to have the negatives scanned and indexed - but I don't necessarily want to spend a lot of money doing this (as I don't think there are priceless pics on them). It was a walk down memory lane watching Azriel use this camera :)
Dude, you are simply awesome, I have no other words.
You did this video so well: professional talking, editing and filming; history of the format with commercials from the time; aquiring film from the last generation (that is likely to work); buying a proper camera, getting out there doing an actual field test; developing the film and showing properly done scans.
This is how i´ts done guys and fellow TH-camrs out there.
Most of the people would have either only talked about the history, or only shown the camera. If they would have gotten as far as taking pictures, they would have probably done it with long expired film which would not work without exposure compensation. They would most likely not have shown how you develop the film, and they for sure wouldn´t show proper scans or scans at all.
Those are the videos you get angry about, and there are many out there of that kind.
You proved that it can be done differently. Thank you!
Thanks for the compliments. It's nice to see my hard work appreciated :)
The real reason it failed was because the labs that would develop the discs was a very expensive different processing and labs did not want to invest in it and that was Kodak’s vault
Azriel, this is fantastic. Really appreciate the effort you go to. This episode was really interesting and informative.
Thanks brummer. I had a lot of fun with this one!
I have a disc 6000 that hasn't been used since the mid 80's , and when i opened and closed the front panel, the battery and motor still worked! I still can't figure out how to remove or replace the battery though!
battery is integrated. Look for a "challenger" that takes 2 AA's
Uggh--I think I still have one of these cameras with a disc jammed in it.
There could be something on it!
LOL--but that means I'd have to look for the darn thing!!
Could be a million dollar photo in there you never know ;) Let me know if you need help developing.
Awww--THANKS!
Just picked-up a Kodak disc 3100 tonight. I didn't know anything about it. I paid less than $1 for it, so if it doesn't work, it'll just be part of my nostalgic 1980's collection, along with VHS tapes, audio cassettes, and old boom boxes.
I do want to find a disc and try taking some pictures. There is a certain charm to those old grainy pictures. I wouldn't document an important event with this thing, but I would love to have some fun with it.
Good luck I hope it works!
I remember when these were new. What a failure. Back in the 80's camera/film manufacturers obsessed about the "ease of use", I guess they saw the below IQ 80 crowd as a lost market segment :P
Many 35mm point'n'shoot cameras were actually physically smaller and people bought those by the bucketload instead.
smaller and quieter!
I just picked up a 6000 and some film at a estate sale today
Even the Plastic bodied Minoxs from the 80's were better than this. Same exposure size (well Minox is 8x11), but you could get 50 exposure cartridges. And the whole deal was just slightly larger than a USB flash drive. And you could slit down 35 mm film and reload the cartridges. And that gives you just tons of choices in film, which allows you to overcome the image quality issue somewhat (high contrast film, Kodak Surveillance etc). Just a superior mini camera all the way around!!
I agree. Kodak was trying to sell a gimmick.
I worked at Kodak in the early 1980's so I didn't see the cameras before anyone else, BUT I handled the film developing it months before it was launched.
Now I own one; a Minolta disc-7 with the support and attachment for the worlds first Selfie-stick!
No, it wasn't invented with the mobile phones, it was by a Minolta engineer for their disc cameras.
That was fun to watch thanks. I'm surprised you got so much dust if you developed right away. Maybe it was where you hung it to dry. I don't get the dust labs were giving me if I process at home and scan promptly.
I had one of those in 1983. It got stolen fairly soon after I got it, but I still got to see how badly the image quality absolutely sucked. A negative needs to at least bigger than a ladybug. Everything just looked marbled because the film grain was so bad. I'm surprised that it took so long for the format to lie in the grave.
I figure the profit margins were so high they could afford it.
I guess the jokes on the robber ;)
I bought a Disc 8000 in 1986 for a deeply discounted price - I think it was around $40. Clearly a dying format already, but it was very portable, which meant that you didn't have to make any extra effort to bring a camera wih you. Poor picture quality indeed, but the alternative in most cases was no pictures at all.
Thanks so much for the info on developing. I found a "Perry" brand with an exposed film disc inside. It also came with a new/old unopened disc. Got everything for about $1 at an estate sale. Thanks
I just watched your video. Very well done. I found 10 different types of cameras that belonged to my father. 4 of them had film in them. I took them to a camera shop. Waited excitedly for the call to say that they were developed. UGH!, what a disappointment. The film was so old. I can hardly make out who was is photo. Two rolls they couldn't develop. One was - process E-4 Kodak high speed Ektachrome color slide film daylight EH 135-20 ASA 160•23 DIN 20 exposures -24×36mm- the other was the Kodak disc film. They say they no longer process this. After watching this video, ( telling that only a few models had external batteries, cuz i tried to find them in this 4100 model) I put the disc in the camera and lo and behold it is making noise, like it is turning the disc around. O ly does it with the disc in. So, the camera works, and there's still a disc of film still in its package. BUT, where do I get these films developed? Camera shop suggested a place in Aurora, Colorado, but the reviews are horrible. Any suggestions? Do you develop other peoples film? I know there is little hope of seeing anything on the film. But I'm still curious
I like the imperfections of the Fmoldy Old Film failure$.
It still developed.
Cool!
It's still incidental/unexpected #Art!
__shtag* Bravo
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i like the look on your face as your not willing to take any responsibility if the film development fails i wouldnt either when these came out they looked complicated i had one i never used it i did not like the change but in a way they saw the future photo mat lol great review i waited about 34 years to see how they worked and you have solved that riddle today thank you
Thanks! Glad I could help!
My first love!
Had a couple of these cameras as a kid. They were as loud even back then.
lol, good to know.
The movie “Invader” included scenes where Frank McCall used a disc camera. Most likely a Kodak disc camera but of course he remarked it was a lousy camera.
3:01 That's not German.
Hi I’m in the UK. I had a Dixon’s Disc Camera. Were there many other companies producing this type of camera system?
sir i have a kodakdisc8000 its vibrating when i click the captured button. but thr flash is not working. is it need to be have a film to work the flash or battery issue?
for 8$ I got a 4000 and 6000
the battery is dead in the 6000
but the 4000 works
came with a case and seven sealed packages of film.
antique shops are magic gold mines at times.
I love old antique shops, and you're right....they are also sometimes money pits ;)
I found a 6000 at my local Salvation Army for .99. I hope to find film for it, but where does the battery go?
The batteries are dead? Viva La batteria...!, change them with the new ones and see if the camera works.. :-D
Any luck on changing the battery in the 6000? I can't seem to find how.
10:30 yep very grainy quality makes it feel more like photos from the late 70s.
When Kodak announced the Disc camera in "Minox" 8X11mm size, I was shocked and dumbfounded. In spite of an upper class aura and film cassettes available at any camera store worthy of the name, Minox was not a household name. The Pocket Instamatic 110 format of 13X17mm was quite grainy and no match for even the 18X24mm half frame format. I didn't "drink the Kool Aid," staying as far away from this potential train wreck as possible, using my 35mm AF cameras, instead. Sure enough, The Disc "rode off into the sunset," a failed film format, just as the first digital cameras were arriving. Too bad Eastman Kodak preferred to "defend their film market" instead of investing in the in-need-of-development digital camera That They Invented. So Kodak is "circling the drain," propped up by what's left of the film market, while digital cameras rule the marketplace.
Every time I research Kodak, I get more and more disappointed.
This was the first episode I came in on, because I had just bought a disc camera. I've now got three discs, I'm just waiting for the right opportunity to use them...maybe a night out with friends.
I subscribed due to the fact you had done such a good job of this single vlog. Slowly catching up on others.
Had you been cutting your own hair in vlogs #WTFU through to #New in box $25 challenge, did you use the $500 proscribed scissors? ;-)
Be careful with those Kodak disc cameras, I had to buy nine to find one that worked for my review.
You should try a Minox subminiature camera. I carry one, loaded with either T-Max 100 or Adox HR-50 all of the time. The negatives are 8X11mm.
I think I have one somewhere. Where do I get fresh film?
It failed for the reason APS later failed*. It was a solution to a problem that didn't exist. There was nothing seriously wrong with 35mm film. 35mm cameras were already portable enough, there was loads of choice and it was the standard format that anywhere could develop. It was already simple enough, I had a 35mm camera when I was 6 and I've still got the pictures I took with it. If you needed a really simple format, Polaroid had you covered. Didn't even need to get it processed.
*I dunno if APS was a total failure. It lasted a fair while. My mother had one and I used it a few times back in its era. Most places I knew could process it, and still do.
I agree. Kodak was constantly trying to make their own format so you'd buy their cameras.
Aw man, this was cool...I used to work in photo retail in the 80's/90's - disc was always a complete fail. Awful quality. Minolta used to make one -it was expensive- called the Disc 7, and it had both a selfie mirror on the front, and came with its own selfie stick! A first, surely...
I did come across the Minolta Disc 7 during my research and almost bought one.
This brought back terrible memories of a terrible camera. I BEGGED for this sleek silver beauty - because who wants to use an Instamatic with towering flip-flash -- and somehow my parents came up with the cash to buy me one. Never got a decent photo of anything. Junk from day 1.
A sad but typical story of this format :P Thanks for commenting :)
do you know where I can get a manual for a kodak disc 6000 camera or can you tell me how to replace the battery.. I just found it my shed..have NO idea how it got there-but it look almost new..THNXX
Manuals on Google. Most models did not have replaceable batteries and require modification. Some wot fire unless they have film in them as well.
I just got the Kodak disc 4000 and a Kodak Instamatic x-15 at a yardsale for a $1..lol I probably won't ever try to use them but they was only a dollar for both :)
Yeah don't pass that up. :)
Hi, thanks for that awesome video, but I have still a question. What about the batteries? Can I change it?
Mostly, no, a few models have batteries you can change.
I just got a mint Konica disc camera for $.99 on ebay lol I found a bunch of disc film for cheap so Im hoping I only need to buy the one camera 😂
Good luck let me know how it goes!
Hi there great video, I have several disc negative's but i want to get a digital copy of them. What is the best way to get them scanned, I have seen video where u have to cut them, but dont wanna do that if I damage the negative they are the only ones that exist. I dont have original photo's to scan. Thank you and hope you can help me out
Have you checked your lab to see if they can handle it? Slim chance but who knows. Otherwise a flatbed film scanner, and "cut" in photoshop.
The second ad clip is not german :-)
Nice vid - I would've liked mention of how many various models Kodak released. On top of those mentioned in the video, there were the 460, 470, 2500, 3000, 3100, 3500, 3550, 3600. 4100, 6100 and Hawkeye 7000 models plus Medalist I, Medalist II and Medalist Tele. Probably a couple more as well.
3:02 - Not very convinced that is German...
Great video, just got a 6000 at a house clearance anybody know where the batteries go? Or are there any?
Usually they are built into the camera, unfortunately.
I had one of these back in the 1980's; received as a Christmas present I think it was the base model (4000?). By the time I received it I was heavily into 35 mm film photography and the disk camera was intended as a replacement for a Kodak Instamatic X-15 126-format camera I had since my teens as a simple pocketable 'point and shoot and not think about anything' camera and in that regard it was fine. However the major issue for me was the poor print quality: even 'snapshots' were noticeably grainier than what I obtained with the 126 film format X-15 camera. The 'disk camera' was simply pointless for me; if I wanted a truly miniature 'snapshot' camera and didn't care so much about print quality I stuck with the little pocket 110 Instamatic I also had at the time. The 110-format hung on for a while longer than the disk format..good luck finding the 'disk format' cartridges now.
I bought my girlfriend one for Xmas in 1983 and left it in my car at a city centre car park, the drivers window was smashed and the ticket taken, the car parked next to me stolen but the thief left the boxed Kodak disc camera behind. I brought my Canon A1 on holiday (my only foreign one) to the Canary Islands, my GF brought the Disc Camera, the A1 broke down so I used the Disc for the remainder of the trip, only for that Disc camera we would not have any photos of that holiday, our 30th anniversary is on the 20th of this month.
Thanks for sharing that story! Do you still have the pictures taken from that time? How have they aged?
Yes, I do have them, I will look them up over the next few days. On a side note, I was taking some photos on a street in my town last Sunday when a man came out of a house and asked me was I interested in old photographic stuff, I replied that I was and he invited me in. I knew that the house was once belonging to a deceased photographer from the 40's, 50's and 60's but I thought that it was cleared out years ago by his family, it was not. There were thousands of prints, negatives, slides and glass negatives there but in poor condition as dampness got in as well as local thieves. Boxes of paper, the odd unexposed roll of film as well as enlargers, timers trays, tanks and other processing equipment. The galling thing about this is, that the new owner, a man that I know quite well gave all of this stuff free to an old man from another town who will do nothing with it, While this is not another Vivian Maier type find there is enough left for a person like to get very interested in and maybe have an exhibition but I did not get them. While there I was able to identify three people that I knew very well, one was a local amateur photographer himself as a very young man.
So, basically Kodak invented overengineered lomography?
More like millennials looked at old shitty Disc photos and said "neat!"
I have a negative disc and I'm curipus about your scanning process for these
I just lay the whole thing on the scanning bed then crop in post.
They were loud! I wasn't a fan, but as a gift, what can you do?
lol, very true
Great Video i had Disc and APS at different times
APS Much better but sad about disc non camera had lots of missed shots due to misloading so the phone camera is a god send for aunties at christenings etc as you get fair shot and can send to family
Have you ever tested the Agfa Rapid System like 35mm with film cassette but no spool if i remenber correctly.
I wentva distant relatuves wedding and ohotographer didnt show i had bought along my old Rollei B35 i remember the shock when i iffered to take a few shots as photogrspher hadnt arrived and to to locsl photo shop which did a 2 hour service they came out well not progfesiinal
But everyone surprised how good from such a small camera....
As they only had a little Triotar lens but Rollei knew how to make em...
Anyone tried to open the cartridge and load a self cut film?
Not that I am aware of, good idea though.
My mum had the Disc 4000. Yes, they were loud, but that was acceptable back then. The great thing was she could reliably take photos in situations that previously weren't easy or cheap to do in NZ in the early 80's, such as indoor or night scenes.
I’m a bit later but I picked up a 3600 model for $4 at my local goodwill. I had no idea what it was other than it obviously being a camera and this was the first video I’ve seen about it. Knew buying it was a good idea
Popped into an antique store for fun and picked one of these up for fun, still had a disk in it but the batteries were corroded, paid $5 USD for it, not sure if it works yet but the condition is poor as the plastic components have broken in a few places. Not sure why I felt compelled to get it but if nothing else looks great on a shelf.
You should develop that disk and see if anything comes of it!
I did but the pictures were too grainy to see much and the camera itself is broken, on the brightside people ask me about the odd camera propped up on a shelf.
This was far away from german. 😅 But it sounded funny.
What was it?
I had one, a ''hanimex'' one, low price i bought in my country. The quality depended a lot of the lab. In fact, with a good lab, it was not so grainy and i could take almost good photos.
What a great review! I owned the 4000, silver one. Ohhhh how I thought I was a bad bitch with my flashy new camera!
It took decent, grainy shots, but I loved it ever so much!
Thank you for taking me back down memory lane..
Thanks for the kind comment :)
For easy use, I'd just get a point and shoot 35mm.
yup
7:18 "no hiss"
why failed? reason1: the battery only could be replaced at a Kodak dealer
Expensive for most people.
In France, the advertising was : '' Si tu as un oeil et un doigt...'' means you only need an eye and a finger to take a pic.
Had one of these in the 80s and took many discs worth of pics at concerts since it fit in my pocket, crappy quality, but a nice document of a special time
can you show us results of setting a camera wrong say a pentax 1000 with an incorrect aperture setting this may go against your professional side but with your experience if you could i would like to see the results i am dyslexic if this is a bad idea please disregard have a great day
Thanks for the question Paul. Setting the wrong aperture really depends on what you are shooting and personal opinion. Have you seen my videos on agitation? I purposely screw up there to show the different results.
thankyou
Great video, I'm going to subscribe later when I have a chance to watch more. Stumbled on this while trying to research how to scan the discs (A different issue than this video.) My brother actually had one of these and I was jealous and he did love using his back in the day (He no longer has it but will probably kick himself knowing how much these go for now on ebay!). As a photographer I love developing film but haven't done so in years. Did you get the film from ebay as well as I don't know who or where you'd be able to get it with it being a discontinued camera?! Anyway, just wanted to say great video!!
For my scans I just laid the disc right on the glass, no holder. Can't say how sharp they are but if you're concerned about sharpness the disc probably isn't your film anyway ;)
I think I got the film as part of a lot at garage sale.
Thanks for the comment :)