Intel Pocket PC Cam from 2000: Revisiting My First Digital Camera!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2024
- Revisiting this CS-630 from the year 2000! The Intel Pocket PC Camera is a glorified webcam with batteries when it comes down to it. But that simplicity made it an ideal introduction into shooting digital for 14-year-old me back in the day! So join me as I unbox a new one and revisit this toylike camera for the first time over two decades.
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00:00 My first digital camera
02:18 Some historical context
05:06 Unboxing the CS630
06:50 Camera features
09:50 Intel Create & Share software
13:41 Reality Fusion games
14:48 2024 photo examples
19:38 Pics from decades ago
27:29 Unforeseen consequences
#LGR #retro #photography #camera #digital - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
“Didn’t plan to use batteries older than the cast of stranger things” was certainly a dust turning sentence.
Ha! I actually spent a while thinking up a comparison that made me personally feel the most attacked, you're welcome 😄
@@LGRgloriously done dude 😂 makin me feel old here too
So ironic indeed. 😅
It's the sort of turn of phrase I really relish. My employer, for whatever reason, loves buying crappy old salvage-title vehicles and rebuilding them, rather than buying new or good-second-hand. I love using such turns of phrase to highlight what a piece-of-crap a company vehicle is. "This thing is older than some of our staff" or, "this thing is old enough to get a license and drive itself" or, "this thing has had more slap-dash work done on it than the Kardashians." 😂 Oh man, I could go on and on. "Crank windows? You might as well be asking these kids to use a rotary phone." "No CD player, let alone a USB or aux jack? You gonna give these kids some Reader's Digest to wile away the time or what?"
@@Dee_Just_Dee That thing is so old, Fred Flinstone was driving it!
The fact that the webcam still doesn't look that bad says a lot of the state of modern webcams
yeah webcams haven't been developed in the last 5+ years. Apart from some streamer cams. There's just no market for it, so any 50 dollar phone will make better video than a 50 dollar webcam.
It's weird, we know tiny cameras can be good because of phones, but even premium laptops usually come with absolute garbage, Y2K video quality cameras. I guess anything to save a buck or two.
@@StraightOuttaJarhois People will get a different phone for better pictures, but not a different laptop I think. So they don't put in the money. They've put so much money into phone camera software... Even high end camera's don't get that impressive software. If I want good lighting in difficult situations from my Fuji X-T3 I need to shoot raw and lift the shadows and bring down the highs. A phone just does it automatically. It's crazy, but only the phone market is big enough to warrant the expense.
@@OttosTheName i mean you can now use your android phone camera as a webcam on windows and you can do the same on mac with iphone
@@StraightOuttaJarhois why put a good webcam in there if a lot of it’s users are only going to use it for zoom? Pretty sensible corner to cut if you ask me. People like me that still shoots photos via webcam are extremely rare
I came for the camera reviews, I stayed for the memories.
Same here. Great video.
This really was a nice video!
Old shots from best buy really bring back memories. Crazy to think I experienced that and it's already so different.
All those 90s cars like the Viper and Prowler, hell even the boring beige Camrys, hit me right in the nostalgia.
The audible gag made me choke on some Coke Zero.
Yeah... just one of many things Jim Cramer was wrong about.
Yeah the Cramer roast and the audible gag got me too 😆
@@horusfalcon "And now, all of Jim Cramer's sound buttons, replaced with fart noises."
Is Audible even around anymore ?
@@retro8696 absolutely
I think this camera makes a perfect "liminal spaces" pictures, that tree pictures make me so nostalgic for some reason, and the others feel so dream like.
Dreamlike, ah that's a solid descriptor
@@LGRman, if I had to choose when to be born again, I’d choose 60s-70s USA, second choice would be 80s-90s
All this looks so nostalgic and familiar, almost like I’ve been there before, such great times
Also I had to say - how cool is that your uncle had his own plane back then!
it did indeed. those colors and everything. it was amazing
@@LGR Most likely exactly due to the blur and low res ;P
@@llMarvelous 60-70’s? Ha nice choice, the last years America was considered the gold standard. You should hope being white though…
Resolution aside, the webcam looks to be better quality than the cheap ones that flooded the market when everyone started working from home!
Yeah I was shocked at how good video still looks in full res!
Quick idea for a short @@LGR - is it still a viable webcam when connected to a modern PC?
I was hoping that you'd plug it in to a Windows 11 machine and that it'd still have driver support.
@@jmdarley It would make for a fun Blerb!
@@xenotiic8356 I had the Intel easy camera for PC back in the day, and tossed it when it no longer ran on modern OS's. I think I tried it on either Vista or Windows 10, can't recall. Video taken back around 2001-02 was dark, grainy and with at best 17FPS or so. I actually found some I had not lost over time.
@@jmdarley I doubt they have 64 bit Windows drivers. It might still work on Windows 10 32-bit. Of course if it ever worked on Linux it probably still does.
A 480p photo of a Chrysler Prowler parked outside of an Eckerd's.
Good lord, it's like my childhood hit me in the face.
Seeing Eckerd's was a trip within itself. Kinda wish he got a Wachovia too!
I love the lgr lore that you went to online high school
Early adopter
LGR mythos
LGR = Learning Grammar Remotely
Yeah and Pre-Covid too. When people think of online schooling like that they think of the lockdown era.
im shocked online school exists back then
good old days when HQ meant 640x480
bro. Childhood vibes 😂😂😂
mhmm. Now it's 3840x2160 (which most people still don't have yet)
Now we have a frame height that ranges from 144p to 4320p before this TH-cam had an optional hq button for anyone who had the bandwidth for it or for the masochists who wanted to sit and wait for the buffering/loading animation
@@ImproMooray 4320p? Now that's ridiculous. 2160p is more than enough.
That's 8k(although they should call it 16k)@@rommix0 I have to agree with you that is ridiculously high-res
My childhood 320x240 was HQ, lol.
You probably get this a lot. Your videos are soo good that makes me, and I belive all your audience, feel like we know you on a personal level. For years I watch and still can't get enough. Congrats in keeping it up for so long. This fan from Brazil is happy that you exist.
Thank you, I appreciate that :)
Wow... this is what I'm talking about... an answer this quick show how good and involved you are with what you do. Thank you. I feel honored. As a sample of your doing... I always loved quake. Got into liking and playing doom and duke nukem after your videos.
It's so true that just having a digital camera back then was a huge thing regardless of the image quality.
It really was. I've always been a tech geek, but because my family was absolutely lower-middle-class, until late 2003 or early 2004 the closest thing that I had to the instant gratification of a digicam was borrowing my sister's Polaroid and using a flatbed scanner. When I finally got my first digicam in late 2003 or early 2004, digicams were already in the ~3 megapixel range. I still keep the SD card that came packed in with my first digicam as a memento: It's just labeled "32". Not 32 gigabytes... 32 MEGAbytes. At 3 MP, it could hold _maybe_ 45 photos.
Before getting a Digital Camera I used a camcorder and a TV capture card to put a pictures into emails. When I finally bought a Digital Camera in 2002 I went for a £400 3MPixel Canon. The video was still "hot garbage" compared to VHS though.
@Dee_Just_Dee. Cameras always used to come with those really small cards. I think the main purpose was to give you something to test the camera before you realised you needed to spend another £85 on a 256MByte card like I did back then.
If it ain't translucent plastic, it ain't 90's-00's. Iconic.
Absolutely. The atomic purple Gameboy Color has led to an unhealthy obsession with modifying any modern tech I own with a shell to match.
I agree. We need more translucent plastic.
Bondi Blue baby!
I'm on a binge for them again. I did back then, and these days I re-shell my Switch (red translucent joycons with blue translucent console) and other consoles and computer accessories. My GBA shell arrives today which is going to be bondi-blue.
Of course, still got my Handspring Visor which is also translucent blue (but what can I do with that these days? I can never find the wireless springboard module to make use of it on the network.
@@_MasterLink_ Lol, I was just thinking about that. I have my handspring translucent blue with the little charging stand but what am I gonna do with it? 🙂 I think I still have a d-link wireless module for it too.
There is nothing more 90's than the seeing the Moon with an electric guitar lonely street vibe sound. I LOVE IT!!
Aw, seeing the long-gone pets always gets me too when going through or rediscovering long forgotten pics. It makes me grateful to have the pic but miss them like crazy
One of my first pictures I took with a digital camera was of my first cat, Puppets. I was very lucky that he only died last year at the age of 21.
@@seanmcbay RIP Puppets
advice to people out there: take more pictures of your pets. Especially if you aren't really into doing that. You will regret it later when you don't have enough.
@@notarabbit1752 great advice, I totally agree
@@dab88 His name is Puppets.
His name is Puppets.
His name is Puppets.
The fact you were memeing about how audible is sponsoring countless TH-camrs is still a slap-in-the-face retrospective against jim's opinion. Just cant predict how future's gonna go, huh?
Jim is a known clown. Just look at his segments on Last Week Tonight
It's hard to explain to people just how exciting it was to be able to take potentially hundreds of photos on a camera.
Before digital photos you always had to keep the limitation of only 24 photos for each roll of film.
Yep, and knowing you could "waste" pictures with the digital camera since it didn't cost in film and development.
There were cameras designed to only shoot half the film, then moved onto the other half with the next shot, so a roll of 48 did 96 photos, but yeah, digital changed everything in photography for the better in general!
The main reason I first bought a Digital camera was that I wanted to start selling on eBay. Can you imagine eBay without photos ?
@@PippetWhippet The original Olympus Pen was precisely that: a half-frame camera.
Back in this era of digital cameras I was working as a marketing manager for a real estate company, meaning I handled their print, online, and mail marketing. Agents were always some of the earliest adopters of digital photography, for the obvious reasons. This video brings back nightmares of importing 320p LQ, out of focus photos from agents who wanted to use it for half-page spreads in tomorrow's local paper.
I'm sure it wasn't easy getting them to spend the money on a fancy Cybershot, which at the time was phenomenal for a point-and-click. I know an agent who used his dreadful Mavica until 2009. I tried to sell agents on the benefits of SLRs for years, but only persuaded one. And of course most have moved to Apple/Samsung phones now.
My mother got hers back then to use as a tax assessor. It used floppy disks,so she could stop using polaroids.
@@neuronic85 Absolutely. We had one agent who ended up making more money shooting properties for other agents with his early digital SLR than he made selling houses. There was also the awkward film to digital transition where it was still easier and better to send actual photos to the ads than upload. To be sure, this was still the era where agents were printing emails to take home to read, and people used to tag their emails "consider the trees before printing this email"
I don't live in America. I didn't have a digital camera in those days. Yet, the nostalgia this video brings is powerful!
"batteries older than the main cast of stranger things" lmao
Its Sadly True lol.
The Audible joke was pretty funny xD
I just wonder how many stopped watching when he said that.
You hit the nail on the head at the end there. We took all that footage and photos not to enjoy then, right after, but years in the future to look back on. And it doesn't matter that the quality is so crumby compared to today's hardware. In a way there hardware isn't the point- it's a real window on the past. A treasure of memories. And we're so glad we have it!
Look forward to vintage webcam stream week on LGR Birds 😅🐦🕊️
I'm honestly tempted to give that a shot, hehe
Those old pet photos were so touching, I know those feels. Thank you for sharing those.
So cool! I couldn’t afford that in 2001. I bought a rite-aid one time use digital camera for $20 and I soldered a usb to it so I could pull the photos off myself 😂
That's badass though
No way. YOU uploaded that photo helping people to remember the neck pain of looking up at the gamecube kiosk! I humble demand reparation of traumatic neck gaming memories! lol
There's something special and exciting I feel when LRG looks at early digital cameras. Things changed so quickly in those days, it's wild to remember.
Had a one megapixel Kodak one. Strange thing is: Back in the day they said, that digital pictures would be volatile and soon be gone. And today, all the old paper pictures are gone and the digital ones I still have stored and can watch them, even if they are twenty years old 🙂
Can’t explain how touched I was watching this video. Have really come to “know” you over the years, and it was super sweet to see you get a little choked up over seeing your pets, and seeing how even as a kid you somehow knew you were going to become a “historian” ❤
Watching you enjoy the nostalgia in the old photos was better than the camera itself. 😊
Millennium era car photos take me back like a time machine. I was always tasked with getting super car pictures at Corsa Rosa in Charlotte using my dad's Mavica with the floppy drive. It's impressive you still have all your photos!
Learning LGR was doing remote learning 20 years before Covid was something I was not expecting to learn today. LOL
I had no idea that was even a thing where I live my town did not get DSL until 2003 and cable came around in 2005.
I would love to see you cover more retro tech that you extensively used when it was new. I really enjoyed the more personal aspect of this one.
Those lake photos are beautiful; dreamy and nostalgic.
Damn, I wasn't expecting this one to be such a pure gem of an upload
The picture quality is pretty dang good for a digital camera/webcam from such an early part of that era.
I only noticed this time that the Walmart had their GC games sideways in the kiosk to fit like the N64 game boxes. (I typed this comment around the two minute mark before getting to the second look at 25 minutes.)
If there's one thing I really wasn't expecting, it was for this dinky little budget cameras limitations to inadvertently create a striking visual aesthetic. Some of those landscape shots look really nice
That intel Pro PC camera was awesome! It had a composite video in. I remember plugging a game console into it and being amazed to see the game on the intel software.
Oh WOW that Gulf-Porsche 917 photo is absolute nostalgia, and triggering my car nerdiness heavily.
Thank you for sharing these blasts from the past with us Clint. They are thoroughly enjoyable.
2:00 Every time I see a photo of a gaming station in McDonald's or Walmart, I get a jolt of nostalgia straight through the heart. Those were the best days lol.
Man this video was special. I wish I had so many photos from back in the day. Also some of those nature shots looked like paintings.
I didn't even know online high school was a thing yet in 2000, wow.
Yeah, you'd think internet was so uncommon at that point nobody would think to offer it.
I had a Cisco class back in 2002 that had a study course online. So in HS I would take the class then go home afterschool and do modules.
I was on the team that developed that camera. Thanks for the walk through memory lane.
I've been watching for about 5 years, maybe more. This is one of my favorite episodes of LGR. It was so awesome sitting and watching you share photos of your life before LGR.
Finding out Clint's and his brother's "origin" story of how they became youtuber and a photographer was through this camera was pretty cool. I really like it!
The best camera is the one that's with you.
In the early 2000s, I was a kid and I only had a 35mm camera. Pictures were a real luxury considering I had no allowance and I was too young to work. What you said about being able to take pictures of "all the stupid stuff" with your first digital camera is bang on.
20:23 Eckerd was where we got all our rolls of film developed back in the 90s. It was the CVS of the early and mid 90s, at least here in Florida. They were _everywhere._ And they had the little one hour photo stand where you stick your roll of film into an envelope, fill it out, drop it through the slot. Come back an hour later and your photos would be ready.
And wow. My mom had an all grey Ford Aerostar, also. She had a No Fear decal on the back window. Remember _that_ brand? lol. Yeah, nice trip down 90s memory lane.
Heck yeah, still have lots of Eckerd film print sleeves lying around.
You can always tell an old Eckerd store by the distinct pill shaped signs that are usually still being used by whoever took over the building.
It's so cool seeing and hearing the stories behind the photos from decades ago! Adds a lot of context and history to the video, especially seeing what was in stores back then
ngl the current vintage camera crowd would love this one.
Unfortunately there's no way I'm aware of to get it working on a modern PC, short of using a virtual machine running a 32-bit OS. No 64-bit drivers are available.
So while the aesthetic and design is fitting, I'd recommend some other 2000s cam with a removable Compact Flash or MMC/SD card for the current vintage camera folks :)
@@LGR Well, since you archived the drivers if there is demand they can be reverse engineered and an open source driver written for pretty much any operating system under the sun.
@@LGR I take it it _can't_ just show up as a generic USB webcam and a generic USB mass storage device, then? Though I suppose given the date, were generic drivers for _either_ a thing in Windows 98 yet?
Still, cool to look back on your first digital camera like that! And also an excellent case of "the best camera is the one you have with you". 😎
@@TheRagingSerpent Sad thing is it won't be in demand enough given there's like, 3 listed on the whole ebay rn. You might can count on someone writing the driver for it along with similar cameras(like that one time VueScan wrote modern driver for a ton of old film scanner accidentally making all of them useable for free with their own official software as long you installed the trial version of Vuescan), which is a one time off thing.
This was absolutely delightful - thank you for sharing, especially the pics from your archive!
Such an aesthetic in both the photos taken and the videos from the software. Amazing. I think both now and then you have really good taste in photos to take on these old cameras. They play to their strengths - I particularly love the shop aisle with the window in the background
That's amazing you have all those original pictures to look back on. Thanks for sharing your memories of thus camera. ❤
My Dad had this digital camera! He soon moved on to Sony style cameras. Dad used to always have a small camera with him to document everything and anything. He was proud when the local news station would show his photos on the evening news. Thanks for the memories!
Oh man, the pictures of your pets long gone reminded me of the photos that google constantly reminds me I have of my pets that recently passed. It never gets easier to see them. Been nearly 2 years since my two 19 year old cats passed away and we have two new ones, but it's just different now. Anyway, excellent video. I loved seeing the pictures of the Best Buy and Wal-Mart Computer games shelves. It's been so long since they were like that I couldn't tell if my memory was accurate or not, but they really were filled to the brim with all kinds of games. Really nice. Keep up the great work and have a wonderful weekend!
Helped mom make Google photos stop reminding her of the last pic of her previous dog. Not sure why anybody thought that was a good idea - at least the cover picture from "Pet friends over the years" on my iPhone is some random zoo animal....
Sorry I can't remember how we turned them of - but at least it is possible.
It's cool that you still have your photos from your first digi cam...
I lost mine by accidentally fdisking a hard drive back in 02, back before I knew it could have been recovered.
This one was great. Always nice to look back at good memories
Thanks for this, what a trip! I'm about the same age as you I think, so crazy how much tech has changed in our lifetime.
Excellent. A new LGR video is always a great thing 🤗👍
"photogenic jazz music plays" i love it 🤣
This was a real treat to see some captured nostalgia in addition to the device itself. I, too, wish there were more digital photos out there of the big box PC sections of big box stores.
I had one of these. Thank you for the awesome nostalgia.
Man, those old photos really bring back memories of a MUCH better time. I mean in terms of the social climate, economy, just everything. It's really hard to accept just how far down this dark path we've already gone over the past couple years.
Just hard true now, working till 70.
Great video with a touching and nostalgic look back.
Great video! Thanks for all the testing and these personal memories from back then! Indeed, the best camera is the one you have at the moment.
This has to be my new favorite LGR review!! Thank you for all the amazing videos I find them all fascinating and have been a huge fan for a long time!!!
such a specific vibe from this camera.
What were the circumstances around your online high school back in 2000? It seems like that sort of thing would NOT have been common back then. I think we're desensitized to the concept of online school nowadays, but I feel like even that is mostly due to... You know... 2020.
It was basically an extension of the Christian homeschooling I went through all throughout my elementary years, but instead of my parents as teachers I had teachers from across the country.
Childhood was a tad odd in retrospect, heh
@@LGR Still a pretty interesting and somewhat unique experience though, at least looking at it from the outside. Interacting with teachers across the country is something the me of today would probably be more interested in than me in high school.
That's a rush of memory's that was my first digital camera my senior year in high school. I'll never forget the shutter sound it made
Thank you for sharing your older photos!! It's so fun to see just the old world. I highly recommend everyone to always upload their old photos from so long ago they're just so refreshing and relaxing to look at.
Of course this was your first digital camera!! It was mine as well. Truly remarkable how much we have in common when it comes to tech and games.
I do like the whole 'retrospective' part of the video Clint! It's always nice just to look at old photos and go "Wow... how things where/how things have become" espically for photos with vivid memories. Espically owning a camera which you had 24 years ago. Make me want to seek out some old cameras now (well OK I had more or less cell phones with cameras, never really bought dedicated camera until 2017) and just have a play.
That was wholesomely personal. Great camera and great memories. ♥
Loved the personal touch in the latter part of the video, thanks for sharing that with us!
I appreciate the high saturation. The 90s were a more saturated IRL so these pics look incredibly nostalgic!
Amazing you have your old photos, I had several HDD die on me and lost a lot of memories on them. Cheers, you have great content. Thank you.
Same, I lost all my photos from my first camera when I accidentally fdisk'd the wrong drive back in 02... Wasn't really paying attention and selected my 20gb drive when I meant to select a 2gb drive I was messing around with.
That was before I knew of any recovery method.
Those 90s vibes were truly phenomenal.
You put out the best tech nostalgia on youtube LGR. thanks for all the years of great contet!
Gotta say, I’m pretty jealous that you still have all the photos you took. I had a ton of digital camera pics from the same time period, but it was before I knew the importance of backing stuff up :(
That 917 replica at 20:33 is insane!
Thanks for showing those nostalgic pictures Clint, great overview of the camera!
Your joy in this one is infectious! Really cool that you still have all the photos!
Somewhere, the Ingles staff: "Hey, the dude who keeps taking pictures of our sign is back _again_ "
Hey this was my first camera too!
I was so excited about that shit video, recording ten second videos and stitching them together into "music videos" with my friends was a favorite pastime. You're right, who cared about the quality back then, it was just so cool.
Thank you for sharing the nostalgia trip! Those pictures do have a lot of 90s charm in all the best ways.
LGR Nostalgia Time! I loved this dive into your early shutter-bug experiences.
1:18 Aww cute Clint 💕
Nice Critical Role shirt 😁👍
24:34 - I can smell that photo. Bookstore + coffee is the best retail aroma, but 90s-00s big box software / computer / office supply store was nice, too.
Clint, you have a great eye for photos! I loved looking through these
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10:49 feels like im watching the start of an old Baywatch episode
I really enjoyed this look back. Thank you!
Got mine as a gift sometime around 2002-03, constantly brought it to my high school, and still have it to this day--the stand too!
I've been thinking about sharing the photos with my former classmates who were annoyed by my frequent picture-taking. I have a feeling more than a few of those folks will be pretty thankful to see those (crappy, low-res, and very small) photos more than twenty years later. Should be a fun trip down memory lane.
I'm thrilled you chose this classic chunk of retro-tech to review. Thanks for the memories!
Honestly? The image and video quality is not as bad as I expected.
11:00 Those riffs! I love it.
love the passion, when you are talking about the cam, the video shoots, the plane - love it clint, thanks for sharing that insight. another great vid
such a sweet video!! those hazy, high contrast nature pictures you took back in the day are so lovely
Great lens flare at 22:22.
You're ready for Hollywood, Mr. LGR!
Clint's looking at cars and I'm like, OMG Eckerd's!
First thing I noticed too. Also, the classic Arby's logo. Man we are old.
The old pictures you shared with us are incredible Clint, thank you for that. Awesome to look through
Love seeing the joy so clearly coming off you during this.