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@MyFriendlyPup

10 ай бұрын

Bro I was in highschool in 99. I used this type of camera. 1.3mp Sony Mavica with a hard disk. It was amazing.

@Gmastergun

10 ай бұрын

Hi

@yesdear9453

10 ай бұрын

its cool how now you can buy a smart phone as low as $15usd network locked with 32gb storage and 3gb ram with a 13mp camera i bought one off amazon at the start of the year shipped to new zealand and i am shocked how good photos look using it even better when i installed open camera it also films in 1080p and video is decent too

@jjjajajajajajjajajaja

10 ай бұрын

@@yesdear9453 sounds like the phone i bought on sale off amazon that was $15 we have come so far in tech now its amazing what you can get for just a couple of bucks

@BilisNegra

10 ай бұрын

​@@yesdear9453 The sad thing is that yes, you get that much for so little, but since you always have your daily driver phone on you anyway, it's hard to find a use case where you could put that bargain to use as a camera instead of your main phone. Maybe some rough use situation in which you don't mind if the old device gets knocked down?

I can't really get over how a floppy disk only held 1mb of information, but at the time it seemed like a decent amount. I definitely remember using a camera like this at college though, it was fairly revolutionary at the time even though the photos looked like they were taken on a potato.

@vanCaldenborgh

10 ай бұрын

Yes, that is why digital cameras fell under the department of agriculture those days.

@utterlee

10 ай бұрын

@@vanCaldenborgh 😂

Back in 2000 I was in the Navy stationed on an aircraft carrier and I bought one of these as soon as they became available in the ship's store. It was worth every penny. Being able to take pictures and email them back to my wife the same day was huge.

@no1DdC

9 ай бұрын

How good was Internet access on the carrier? I'm assuming it was satellite-based, with speeds equivalent to dial-up. Was there are a limited amount of online-time per sailor? How did they deal with security?

quality was bad, but at its time it was good, the main good thing about it was no more waiting 1 week for getting film developed, you get instant photos.

Some of my fondest memories were taken with the FD73 back in 2001. Still hang on to those files to this day.

Never used one of these, but in the early 2000’s I got one of Sony’s Memory Stick cameras that came with a stick that held a whopping 16 megabytes (enough for a film roll’s worth of pictures at the max resolution of two megapixels). A far cry from the 20-megapixel camera I use today that has space for hundreds of photos.

I love videos on these old digital cameras. Very nostalgic. It's hard to believe floppy discs could fit that many pictures!

Bros finally posted

@psivewri

10 ай бұрын

I'm still alive

@cooperschwartz318

10 ай бұрын

@@psivewriyippee

@Techlevel1534.

10 ай бұрын

@@psivewriI’m glad that you are alive. I’m a big fan by the way

@AviationRatings

10 ай бұрын

@@cooperschwartz318bro don’t be rude

@laundromast

10 ай бұрын

@@AviationRatingswhat he say

I found a floppy with some images from 2002 taken with a Mavica a few days ago in my storage. Luckily I also have a USB floppy drive in the same box.

Never in a million years did we think we'd one day be able to take better quality photos on a phone back in 1999.

My school used this camera in 2002-03 when they took photos of us students at the IT lab. Even then I found it strange to use floppies.

@hsimpson7267

10 ай бұрын

We had them in middle school/ 99-00 and it seemed normal. Had never seen anything else close to a digital camera besides a flatbed scanner. and that was impressive too

I always wanted one of those when i was a teen back then, my only piece of vintage tech i have left from the 90's is one of those mini cassette recorders.

Great review love your work true legend never forgot ❤

Thanks for traveling all over with this one! I love your videos mate from Connecticut USA

Loved the PowerShot 350 surprise appearance! I bought one about 10 years ago randomly for the collection, it had the same 2MB CF card and had previous owner's photos on it too.

Great video as always mate. Keep it up! Keen to see you doing another old XP era system soon :D

I used one of these to take pictures before I had a phone and nobody ever questioned the quality of the images on social media, it's definitely still usable today if you have a floppy to usb drive

This is by far the most enjoyable video you’ve ever made.

I love Mavica cameras and with 7 units in total. Only 3 I used daily namely the FD7, FD73 and FD200.

I used the particular model in my first job back in 2003 to photograph engineering projects and for a while my dream was to own one but now I've in my pocket much better camera in my phone. Thanks for this journey down in memory lane.👍

Love this channel!

You know what, I was just looking up Sony Mavicas on eBay. I used one of them a heap back in high school and I still love a lot of the photos I took with them. Thanks for the video!

My brother had one for work, first digital camera I had used. I have some many photos of my youth thanks to it.

We had some of these floppy disk cameras when I was an intern in college. It was a more convenient option than the apple quickshot cams that required a Mac to get the photos off. It was an odd time in digital photography. I still had a film camera for years after that.

It's always nice seeing camera tests in locations I've been to

9:10 He literally "burnt" it to the disk that was kind of funny

Thanks for a great video on an early digital camera. One thing I'd love to know more about is what came before: the still video camera. How does it work? How do the images look?

I used to work in a shop and the guys took pictures of their jobs for reference with a Mavica FD-73 up until like 2010!!

Incredible! I never remember hearing about these, suppose I was too young when they released.

This camera reminds me of the Val Kilmer movie "The Saint". I had totally forgotten where digital photos were originally from until rewatching The Saint about a week ago and this video.

The picture with the bridge. The sky in the Cannon image was completely blown out. it was just a field of dirty white. The Sony had colors and clouds. Back in the 90's when comparing these two cameras in the store unless you read a magazine article you may not have known which had the superior image quality. Weighing them on price you would have to consider while the Canon cost hundreds less, it's CF card media was expensive and floppies were like $0.50 each when bought in a something like a 50 pack. (Which was common and I even still have an unopened 50 pack today.) When you were out shooting photos you could easily fill that 2meg CF card and then unless you wanted to spend a lot more on extra cards to carry with you having floppies was a compelling option. Some quick research shows that back in 1997 CF pricing here in the US was about $7.00 per megabyte. Common sizes of 4, 8, 16 and 24 meg cards were available. (There were larger but they were insanely expensive.) So even if you bought only one extra 4 meg card you were spending near $30.00 and for that price you could have about 30 floppies. When on a one week vacation where you can't easily dump your photos to a hard drive and start again (this was the 90's) the floppies would allow you to take 100's more pictures for the price and bring a lot more photos home from your trip. Read on if you want an example of how the Mavica saved the company I worked for thousands of dollars per year back in the '90s. In 1997 I was working doing flooring estimates for a large floor covering store. I would typically do 4 to 6 estimates per day. Having a Mavica allowed me to pop in a fresh floppy and take photos of the clients home and attach them to the estimate file. I would attach them right to the file folder with a clip. Each customer would have their own floppy because they were so cheap. They could just stay attached in the file and filed away. Then even if the customer decided months down the road to have the work done we would still have the necessary photos of the job site in their file. When they came into the store to select their materials this allowed us to be more accurate with pricing out wall edging materials, transition pieces between rooms and any other odd materials we would need to complete the work. Before having photos attached to each estimate folder items like this were often missed in the estimate. Once pricing was agreed and work started we would discover missed pieces needed to complete the work and just eat it into the job cost. In each job we could end up eating between $5 to upwards of over $100 in items that were missed in the original estimate. If this could be saved with the cost of one floppy disk we ended up making more money on each job in the long run and over the course of a year saving and making $1000's of dollars.

i like how you segued to the sponsor w the mystery floppies showing you so congrats 🎉😁 jokes aside… this would be a perfect camera for shooting your next vaporwave album artwork… it’s authentic w period accurate hardware 👍

Was not prepared for the ending and love the octopus!

We still have one of these at home! I love these.

Still the best tech KZreadr! Keep going, Nathan!!

I still use mine. It's crazy fun to carry it around and use.

I used these in primary school and its honestly a memory, and have nostalgia for them They honestly had a foot in education as the cost to access the media was $0, compared to the firewire cameras that kept blowing up the camera/firewire ports due to the abuse (eg. forcing the plug in backwards)

You did a really good job

what a place is like in your memories vs in reality

I've still got a Panasonic DV Camcorder I paid a grand (sterling) for in 2001. I did consider selling it a while ago, but honestly, it still takes really good video! Sometimes old tech can still serve its purpose if you're not one of those people who have to upgrade everything every few months. I'm not, waste of money if you ask me! I'm glad you found some value in this nifty piece of kit!

His voice is just so relaxing I keep black out for 10sec

I used to sell these when I worked at Jessops. Used to sell them to a lot of Property Agents, Builders, Surveyor everyone where instant photos were needed.

More Camera content please!

I watched the 8-bit guy video about it a few years ago, and what a good thing it is.

Awesome video

Man, the look of those fotos is so nostalgic to me. Had one of those back in 2006/7 as a kid, my grandfather gave it to me. Good times.

Play around with a polaroid. They're a ton of fun.

I still have a FD-92 lying around in my house, has a whole 1.6 megapixels, and can also shoot to memory stick. Mine also has the extended capacity battery, and it still works fine

My dad got us the FD 200 when he went on a Sabbatical leave to Malaysia. It was great! We have a lot of fond memories with it from 2004 and up. Sadly it was stolen when we got displaced in 2020.

i had a computer class in high school that at times we had to get used to photography and use these (not this *EXACT* model, as the one i remember using had MagicGate support.)

for an early 2000s digital camera, that's really great photo quality. colors aren't too messy, even!

i do remember those camera in early 2000 or 1999 but i enjoy your content as always

oooh i remember using these at school

Sure, do more of that! That was entertaining. You also might like the channel Dino Bytes by Gordon Laing who covers old cameras and other old tech there.

Hi Psivewri, were watching you also in Switzerland... How about making an Video about Vista Extended Kernel and talking about switzerland... We dont have Eucalyptos oil but cheese (Chääs) Greetings

Long time ago it was a camera video!😮😮😮

psivewri: oh, it's made in italy because it says so the bag: probably made in china

I had one , and it was great :))

Personally always into old digicam videos from tech KZreadrs

G'day Psivewri! I think you should do a video on the Dell Dimension 3100 or similar, everyone had these computers growing up so would be a great nostalgia trip!

@psivewri

9 ай бұрын

Now that's a computer I haven't seen in many years! A friend's family back in primary school had one, I was envious of it 😄

@CyrusSimmons

9 ай бұрын

@@psivewri I just bought one off EBay, complete with the mouse and keyboard! 1GB of RAM, I also bought a PCI GPU to put in it, a GeForce FX5500

I used to love my Mavica, but I'm still looking for a Pro Duo to SD adapter. That's the biggest thing holding me back from using it as a full time camera

If you put a flash path or similar on one of these, would it be quicker?

i like it when a camera shoots pictures and can be used as a cutting board.

Im impressed, a 2023 phone with a headphone jadk, kudos to you Redmagic

first, keep up the great work Nathan!!

I have a Mavica and love it

I was an early adopter with digital cameras, my first was a Kodak (don't remember the model number) and it used an SD card. The image quality was just so so but I enjoyed using it regardless.

honestly if you make a 4k image of that desktop background you made at the end of the video, i would download it and use it!

That VGA resolution really makes me want to try an old Nokia 7650 which was my first phone with a built in camera with the same resolution. Just to see how they compare in overall quality.

Never used one of these, I was born into the 2000's already. But for some reason, I feel... nostalgic?

I just unearthed one in the warehouse at my office, now where the hell do a get a diskette these days!? I used to have 2 Mavicas and they were used at my first job at an advertising agency to take printed catalog pictures. it made sense to use these as the ease to transfer the files to the computer was a lot better compared to the alternative (usb was not a thing yet).

Can I ask - is your watch a Seiko Automatic X Series? I think I have the exact same watch! 😀

I had once found an Olympus camera with one of those. Somebody had wrote on the floppy though.

We had this in school for school projects

Shout thousands of photos with my FD-71. Graduated to a CD-1000 and I probably shot at least 10000 pics on it before moving to a Canon dSLR. Fantastic cameras.

@psivewri

10 ай бұрын

I'm still yet to come across one of the optical disk based cameras Sony made!

Try an Olympus camera

even though the quality is terrible, i still like it because its old

pls can you make a video about that red sony laptop with the ssd from the factory that you showed months ago?

Crazy how far phones like the s23U and the max pro 14 have come in these years.

I got a model with the zoom lens and memory stick. Works great but I'm having trouble finding software to connect it to my computer. I know it's not necessary but it would be nice

the redmagic has a headphone jack? that means its more advanced than modern smartphon- wait, it is a modern smartphone!

Oh yes, I saw the pic on twitter too.

I uploaded my first myspace photos with one of these. Good times lolol

It would be interesting to see if you could mod a mavica with a gotek floppy drive emulator and mod new optics to it just for a project.

Can't you plug the camera into the pc and it'll read the disk? That's what I do with my mavica fd200

These cameras were fantastic for industrial applications. I used them in investigations where I needed to get something back to the boss quick, with detailed photos taken with 35mm film. Several times I rented a helicopter at a cost of thousands to get maniac photos of an accident site that I could quickly email.

i like mine got it at good will about 3 years ago had to get a retro pc set up to use it just right

Please make more❤

hey man are you planning of a another video of answering your questions when you get 300k subs?

Having a digital camera that used cheap reusable floppy discs for storage at the time was amazing. With Film every photo is expensive, and you can't see them until developed. With CF cards of the time, you couldn't afford to carry a bunch of large CF cards, it just wasn't feasible. They were horrendously expensive. But floppy discs were cheap and plentiful and you could realistically take as many photos as you want, just like you can today. That was the big advantage then I think.

it was your only external floppy drive ever had!

I was able to test this camera at the CeBIT in Hannover, Germany. I was impressed how good it worked with a cheap floppy-disc. Memorycards were very expensive in this days, so a cheap floppy was a way to use a camera like a modern smartphone: don't think about the memory, just take pictures.

The printer you printed the images with only prints at about 300dpi so realistically the resolution of these cameras is almost enough to meet the needs of a 6x4 image.

Great video, but that's the same camera quality as some like 40 dollar phones, ngl

This camera is 100% proof why I waited 7-8 more years to move over from film photography to digital photography. The quality of photos from a similar-priced SLR was just ten or so leagues ahead, with the only side effect being the time taken to develop your photos and the cost of materials (film).

would you mind uploading the wallpaper somewhere mate? i want to use it on one of my old computers for the lolz and screenshots are just not the same xd

I have been cursed enough to have 2 of these goobers in my possession.

I bought this camera back in my 20's, it cost 1 months rent at the time. It was SO NOT worth it. The idea was to take the camera to Night Clubs here in Las Vegas, take photos and sell the disks to Tourists. It does terrible in low light, aka, lighting in any Night Club. You are a solid Content Creator.

I found one of those at my local second hand flea market

Anyone know the intro music please? Thanks