Support this channel on Patreon: / 8bitguy1 In this episode I take a look at the original Sony Mavica and some of the floppy disk cameras that came after it.
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@The8BitGuy7 жыл бұрын
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The 8-Bit Guy Second
@ThePixelPolygon7 жыл бұрын
Hehe
@ryanlitzinger69357 жыл бұрын
The 8-Bit Guy 3rd 😂
@claira51927 жыл бұрын
The 8-Bit Guy fourth! Nice video
@Casey_Schmidt7 жыл бұрын
You got me!
@chugga7 жыл бұрын
I can't explain why, but it's just really charming how the video is edited when Brandon is explaining things and it cuts to 8-Bit Guy nodding with a big, awesome smile.
@emannuelmartinez7 жыл бұрын
Right?! While it completely breaks all of the rules for framing a shot reverse shot, seeing the 8-Bit Guy's smile made it all worth it! I seriously have to watch his videos whenever they come out...even if I have to wake up in like 4 hours for work haha
@theflourishcrisis7 жыл бұрын
never knew that you watch 8-bit guy.
@reket777pvl7 жыл бұрын
i would use word awkward for that
@TylerSteven97 жыл бұрын
I thought it was unneccessary but whatever, I'll still keep watching!!
@NostaIgiaJunkie7 жыл бұрын
As a film student I cringed, but as a fan of 8-Bit Guy I had to giggle. Great guy, great content
@WafflesASAP4 жыл бұрын
It cracks me up when he does the cutaways to himself, as if he's having the conversation with the dude in realtime, lol. Nice ;P
@respt464 жыл бұрын
I know right 10:38 :'D
@stephensnell13793 жыл бұрын
@@respt46 it's not cutaways at all the looks he makes ARE REAL
@JohnP5384 жыл бұрын
My Mavica saved our family trip to Europe. I took three film cameras and a Mavica. At some point our film got x-rayed and only one roll was not destroyed. But the Mavica pictures survived.
@KiwiClawDHA3 жыл бұрын
I took a film camera and a digital camera on a mission tip once. I had the film hand checked to avoid that problem. Only to have it lost on one of the last days there.
@EclipseAtDusk Жыл бұрын
@@KiwiClawDHAs’what you get for goin on a mission trip
@LuiCSings7 жыл бұрын
I love the footage of 8 Bit Guy randomly smiling and nodding.
@ChivesZander7 жыл бұрын
LuiC "8-Bit Guy (ODDLY SATISFYING COMPILATION)"
@GoldenAppleGuy7 жыл бұрын
Feels so out of place! xD
@GriffyGrizzly7 жыл бұрын
LuiC When your trying act like it's a interview with multiple cameras
@leoblo40447 жыл бұрын
yesss xD
@jmalmsten7 жыл бұрын
LuiC I'm guessing that it's to cover up a few edits so it doesn't make for jumpcuts... but nowadays with videobloggers having jumpcuts in their accepted rulebook, the random shots of a silent participant really jolts us as viewers out of the explanation far more than a jumpcut would. And considering that traditionally a production like this would only have one camera so any reaction cuts of a interviewer would have to be recorded after the subject has said all of their answers. I just find the thought funny to imagine him setting up the camera and lights to do a few nods and stuff afterwards. Another option would have been simple cutaways to the cameras in question or whatever b-roll would be shot at that situation. all in all... I commend the effort. But the choice of cutaway became a bit distracting.
@paulgascoigne53437 жыл бұрын
the strange thing.. when you use a camera from the 90s it actually looks like your in the 90s.
@WickedMuis7 жыл бұрын
yeah only need to use 90ies clothes and wayfarer sunglasses, set the date on the device in the 90ies and you can roleplay someone in the 90ies :D
@paulgascoigne53437 жыл бұрын
😀 haha
@pelgervampireduck7 жыл бұрын
I thought the same!!; the colors were "90s colors" not "today colors" hahahaha
@UrielX12127 жыл бұрын
You don`t have that problem with 35mm film, unless you are using Kodak Gold. The early digital cameras were just god awful.
@rinyzk7 жыл бұрын
Shooting in the 90s
@jasontv98494 жыл бұрын
I love my first digital camera. Imagine taking unlimited pictures without having to pay for film and cost of developing rolls of film. It was nothing short of revolutionary. In fact, I have more pictures taken with my first digital camera than all the digital cameras afterwards combined. In short, I went nuts with my first digital camera, using it so much that the camera fell apart. I had a lot of free time as a teenager.
@s34nvideos3 жыл бұрын
Back in 2000, I had one of those 0.5MP cameras from China where if you bumped the camera too much, the AA batteries would jar, and you would lose all your photos. I guess because the memory chip didn't have a battery backup haha
@s34nvideos2 жыл бұрын
@@andyk192 yeh I know
@stephensnell13792 жыл бұрын
@@andyk192 in other words it would not hold data without power whereas modern SD CARDS will hold data even without power
@neotheapplefan3322 жыл бұрын
@@stephensnell1379 so it’s basically RAM?
@jacobeii2 жыл бұрын
@@neotheapplefan332 ram is considered volatile ye
@dbingamon6 жыл бұрын
Back then there was nothing available for USB, for a couple of years it was even nicknamed the "Useless Serial Bus"
@limemyth5 жыл бұрын
GamingGuy800 Wasn’t it technically popular by USB 2.0?
@keselekbakiak5 жыл бұрын
Indeed. In my country usb has exist since erly 2000, but people started using it around 2003-2004
@dankbonkripper28455 жыл бұрын
@@limemyth While yes it became popular with 2.0, it was still objectively inferior to firewire until 3.0. The main downfall of firewire was that Intel simply dominated the computer field and through their weight behind usb. It's not that USB is bad, and I'm glad we finally have a standard. But firewire was just better in literally ever way, but thanks to Intel's business practices we simply got "good enough" with usb
@xishootstuffx5 жыл бұрын
I wish USB wasn't shaped like a rectangle. Universal Stupid Bus
@killerbee25625 жыл бұрын
The windows 98 compaq I grew up with had USB, but you're right I don't remember using them for a few years. And then it was only for a gravis gamepad pro.
@taekilkim4 жыл бұрын
The photo quality is still very impressive!
@stephensnell13792 жыл бұрын
But still not as great as modern devices
@andrive2 жыл бұрын
@@stephensnell1379 yes remember these are the late 90s
@ilovetacos2105 жыл бұрын
I remember buying a computer with a SuperDisk drive and the salesman kept talking about the USB drives the computer had being the future, but I was stuck on 128mb floppies thinking that was the selling point. Important life lesson I guess lol.
@castirondude4 жыл бұрын
Haha, I was a teenager saving up for those 120MB floppy drives , then when I had the money together they had already disappeared. I don't quite understand why though , the USB flash drives really weren't very competitive then, and a 120MB floppy drive would have been a logical upgrade path.
@indridcold84334 жыл бұрын
It was the Iomega 100mb and 250mb disks for me.
@bighands694 жыл бұрын
Do any of you remember the PS2 emotion engine that was going to revolutionize the home entertainment space.
@fargeeks4 жыл бұрын
Those 128mb floppies were ZIP disks
@alexandruianu84323 жыл бұрын
@@fargeeks No, those were 100/250MB. The 126MB was the LS120.
@twintwix1234567892 жыл бұрын
9:20 those buttons on those old pay phones are supreme. Just the feel of them are so awesome, I always wanted to press on them as a kid, even tho I had no one to call. 10:06 this is probably going to be a new art. Using first ever camera created to take pictures of quantum computer installations, latest gen spaceships, and sending the footage through a sophisticated process of aging... lol.
@stephensnell570711 ай бұрын
Pay phones NO longer even exist and are no longer even used,all those that would exist outside in Public will not even work even if a person tried nowadays as the cable running to it is as you are aware is disconnected entirely and anyway they no longer exist as everyone these days has a Smartphone and uses that for calls,texts,social media etc
@DijaVlogsGames7 жыл бұрын
Love those awkward cutaways to you listening!
@UstazFarhanBD5 жыл бұрын
Sounds wierd but I was so amazed when he said 480p
@vittosphonecollection41344 жыл бұрын
Same as a Wii
@castirondude4 жыл бұрын
We had one of those cameras at work in ~ 2001 and I used it a fair amount. The optics and image quality were really good. I wished it had a write buffer so you could keep taking pictures without waiting each time for the file to be written to the disk.
@Crazy-qi1gw4 жыл бұрын
@@vittosphonecollection4134 Only with component cables though.
@simonp374 жыл бұрын
480p is still better resolution than what KZfaq offered, when it was created.
@indridcold84334 жыл бұрын
480p was maximum resolution. It would make it where a disk only held about three photographs. The lower resolutions were grainy and ugly but a disk could hold more pictures.
@JoeR2033 жыл бұрын
June 2021: I still have my Mavica FD-7, some 3.5" floppy discs and an external 3.5" floppy drive. The Mavica took some real good quality pics at a pro wrestling (ECW) event I went to at a local college.
@hoedenbesteller4 жыл бұрын
That was a really cool period, I worked at Sony when these were introduced. It was the bees knees
@Evan27 жыл бұрын
You know it's gonna be a good day when David uploads a 20 minute video.
@djpeterabreu7 жыл бұрын
Arc I even get a snack before I start watching, one of my favorite channels
@Fruitarian.7 жыл бұрын
imagine that falling to your face while browsing your photos in the bed
@rhiannon1756 жыл бұрын
Fruitarian ouch
@DanielLopez-lg3jr5 жыл бұрын
Ouchh
@EveryDayTrucker5 жыл бұрын
Been there, done that!!!
@tonywoods12265 жыл бұрын
Mega Ouch
@protheu55 жыл бұрын
Imagine not using electronics in bed.
@johnwohlheter6014 жыл бұрын
11:35 - That was the first digital camera I ever got to play with. My mother would bring it home from work all the time. I can remember making 20 seconds videos on it and being amazed :-)
@Twobarpsi4 жыл бұрын
LOL one picture from today's smartphone, wouldn't even fit on ONE disk.
@Twobarpsi4 жыл бұрын
@@0xbenedikt and if you were using the real single side floppy disks, the 5.25" ones, they only held like 250KB 😃
@worker83074 жыл бұрын
Leave
@Dimondminer114 жыл бұрын
It's pretty funny. My 16mp wide angle camera takes like 6 mb photos
@heavy01193 жыл бұрын
i tried it and used a blank double density disk and... yes, it fit 3 images as a double density floppy disk holds 1.44 MB
@notsosunshiny45573 жыл бұрын
Imagine trying to cram a 10 second video on one
@NinjaKurosai5 жыл бұрын
As much as I love digital and how far it's come in terms of quality, I still love film. The look, the whole darkroom experience...it's magical! I went out of my way to even buy a Krasnogorsk 16mm movie camera to try my hand at motion film. Love it.
@bighands694 жыл бұрын
It is ease of use vs qaulity.
@alainportant64123 жыл бұрын
@@bighands69 darkroom experience
@shurdi37 жыл бұрын
Was anyone else reminded of early 2006-08 youtube videos when he showed the video footage from the camera?
@CoTeCiOtm7 жыл бұрын
Aaaah yeah! And those extremely low-res webcam videos! I also remember that videos back in 2006 and 2007 were in mono, stereo was not introduced until 2008 or something like that.
@shurdi37 жыл бұрын
When stereo was introduced, you'd sometimes find a video that was entirely on the right channel only
@JCole787 жыл бұрын
It was actually the first thing that came to my mind.
@LilPolemistisXL7 жыл бұрын
me at the zoo XDDDD
@moosemaimer7 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of trying to get early webcams working. "160x120 are you kidding me?"
@zaneaguilar52742 жыл бұрын
I love the fact that you provided a professional's experience with this piece of technology for the video. It really helps give a well-rounded sense of how the hardware was used.
@johnwhite7882 жыл бұрын
Hey! I just found this channel about 2 months ago and am really enjoying it all. Good job 8-Bit Guy
@obsoletegeek7 жыл бұрын
I had a Mavica for years! FD85. From 2000-2005. Loved that camera.
@AtomicBoo7 жыл бұрын
I would kill for that mavika 85 model, the Photos look really good for a really old digital camera
@ninjamaster34537 жыл бұрын
The Obsolete Geek people still this camera. During the 1990s ebay and internet antique dealers and vintage sellers bought these and made a good living with their new venture online. some of the older people 50s 60s yo still use this camera for work because they have a don't change what works mentality.
@MindGem5 жыл бұрын
funny to see you do those fake cut aways of you listening to the guy talking, suberb acting :)
@av_oid5 жыл бұрын
I’ve heard the cut aways called “noddies” for obvious reasons. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noddy_(TV_interview_technique)
@PascalvandenBos5 жыл бұрын
MindGem exactly lol
@realmadstupid5 жыл бұрын
Makes me feel awkward and wierd and I'm not even there
@ChintanPandya014 жыл бұрын
I came down looking for this, exactly. Lol
@fazemills6634 жыл бұрын
@@ChintanPandya01 snap lol
@paulbarber48594 жыл бұрын
My 2019 Macbook Pro still doesn't have a USB.
@snopsnopy76214 жыл бұрын
Apple don't put usp in there phone or pc If you like to have one use windows. Not ios or android
@marcel1514 жыл бұрын
It does. It has USB-C.
@peterwmdavis4 жыл бұрын
USB-C is better in every way, and compatible.
@ZaHandle4 жыл бұрын
Peter Davis but lightning is *SEXIER*
@fargeeks4 жыл бұрын
@@ZaHandle whats a lightning?
@ominousvirus52783 жыл бұрын
If I saw those pictures without context, I’d be convinced that they were taken in the 90s or 2000s
@teknoman1172 жыл бұрын
It's a fairly good demonstration of how our mental images of those time periods, even having lived through them, are heavily influenced by the media recorded of them that you can view today. I can remember being a very young child thinking that color only existed after 1950 because of all the black and white pictures my grandparents showed me. I recently unearthed my collection of film negatives for pictures I took in the late 90's / early 00's with my first camera (I didn't get a digital camera until ~2006). I paid to have them scanned in and wow, they look so different than the pictures of the period I see the most (mostly from my dad's first DSLR post 2002).
@JAFOpty7 жыл бұрын
10:36 love those reaction shots. They remind me of Samurai Cop!
@GouStoulos6 жыл бұрын
HAHHAHAHHAHAHAHA
@glacioofficial26986 жыл бұрын
JAFO-PTY I
@realdiamondplays6 жыл бұрын
JAFO-PTY they were funny
@SpenserRoger7 жыл бұрын
lol is that just one take of u nodding over and over? either way love it lmao
@davidsgardell6 жыл бұрын
SpenserRoger Hahahaaa I was thinking about that too!! 😂😂 Handheld on the guy talking, cuts to static cam of him nodding and smiling! Lmao
@dylanreilly68884 жыл бұрын
Excellent video on these vintage cameras! Makes me nostalgic and thankful for the modern digital cameras Thank you!
@oldtwinsna83473 жыл бұрын
Wow it's already been 4 years since this was posted up and I remember viewing this only hours after it was posted. Time sure goes by quickly.
@radegast23462 жыл бұрын
Wow its been eight months since you said you saw it four year before.
@Monosekist5 жыл бұрын
I can imagine Linus Tech Tips in 1997: We Got a DIGITAL Camera!
@Fifulek_5 жыл бұрын
Speaking of digital, the Tunnelbear lets you safely browse the digital world
@memmoman5 жыл бұрын
@@Fifulek_ What if he eats me
@gustavgnoettgen4 жыл бұрын
Thumbnail: 😲??? 💾 📷
@Magisq4 жыл бұрын
The Automaticist wtf you say about me
@BenState4 жыл бұрын
was he born?
@FSXNOOB7 жыл бұрын
Good old floppys.. when i was running around from the store with a bunch of them in my back pocket :D
@wildbill23c6 жыл бұрын
A disk/cd case full of them when doing computer repair LOL. Now you can fit all that stuff on a USB flash drive that easily fits in your pocket. My how times have changed.
@kennyj43664 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the Dallas tour, been many years since I was there, man has it grown lol. Thanks again.
@mialemon61862 жыл бұрын
The common cold plush is perfect! I bought a giant mono one and always wanted the cold but never bought it. It's still so cute!
@A_Player7 жыл бұрын
Those photos look like they were taken in 1997! Gotta love that vintage look.
@gluGPU7 жыл бұрын
jontron
@JamesPawson7 жыл бұрын
2:26 IRQ conflicts-- oh gawd, I need a trigger warning before you mention that, it brings up traumatic memories. What a nightmare it was dealing with that crap.
@saintfisuto10725 жыл бұрын
1% I get better quality photos from my current camera. 99% Wait your telling me I can take as many pictures as my computer can hold!
@McRocket3 жыл бұрын
Fascinating. I did not know of these cameras. And you certainly seemed to cover them ENTIRELY. Thank you for this video.
@JonathanWJ7 жыл бұрын
Who needs to do drugs when you have The 8-Bit Guy?
@mookie7147 жыл бұрын
WOAH!! can we talk about Brandon's synth collection? it's looks like he's got some seriously cool stuff.
@zibbybone7 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Check out my channel to hear some of them.
@mookie7147 жыл бұрын
zibbybone oohhh! Subscribed!
@SVOCRAZY5 жыл бұрын
Great video, I still have my Mavica FD95, with Sony add on wide angle lens and filters, extra batteries and the original box it came in. Having a real lens really allows this camera to take some fantastic pictures .
@joshualaw3753 жыл бұрын
Just picked up an old Mavica FD-90 at an estate sale for $15 (he totally nailed the price lol), I can't get over just how fun it is to take photos with. The feeling of taking a photo and instantly feeling the disk spin up and write is just superb, and the images have a dated yet perfectly acceptable quality to them, especially when it comes to color depth. Couldn't be happier with it!
@WolfHeroEX6 жыл бұрын
[Edits footage of myself standing on the other side of the room into the video] *nods in agreement* [Original footage resumes]
@fsphil7 жыл бұрын
Reaction shots. Someone's getting fancy with their videos :-)
@cringevideos92357 жыл бұрын
EveryThingOld
@CallanChristensen7 жыл бұрын
I hope he didn't have a 2nd camera, so all those reaction shots were shot separate. XD I appreciate the effort though, this channel keeps getting better and better!
@ktutubechild4 жыл бұрын
I love your channel! Thank you for sharing with us!
@DevinBauer4 жыл бұрын
Pretty cool, I distinctly remember my teacher back in 2001 having a camera using 3.5" floppies that looked distinctly like the Mavica as it was used for some class photos and field trips.
@Michirin98017 жыл бұрын
640 x 480 is still plenty good enough to me
@UrielX12127 жыл бұрын
Yes to a point. 640x480 just isn`t up to modern standards at all. Heck, I can get 3000x2000 out of scanned 35mm film. Digital cameras back then were awful as the sensors and lens were just not up to the task at all. 35mm blew it out of the water in quality.
@MattExzy7 жыл бұрын
640 x 480 oughta be enough for anyone.
@UrielX12127 жыл бұрын
untseac Except with that early of a digital camera you get poor quality 640x480 images so the point is moot.
@UrielX12127 жыл бұрын
MattExzy Disagree especially with native screen resolutions only increasing. 640x480 is also not the best for print either.
@WAQWBrentwood7 жыл бұрын
untseac When I was making home videos for DVD, I shot all the stills to be used in my "movies" in 640x480 because that was close to the destination display (Standard definition CRT TV set.) For that it was fine. (I still use it when I need a Pre HDTV look).
@cujoedaman6 жыл бұрын
When I was a senior in high school in '99, I went to a vocational school for computer classes, they had much larger budgets for it than my school (although my school had one of the first AutoCAD classes ever). They had the Mavica and my teacher even let me borrow it for a project, I took pics of EVERYTHING with that camera, still have a few that haven't been destroyed, but man we were so elated at the technology at the time :D
@randomrfkov3 жыл бұрын
90s was an amazing moment for computer technologies.
@debrajpaul44483 жыл бұрын
Lots of information and research you made . Thank you to make me know about Sony Mavica floppy driver.
@SeraphinaPZ4 жыл бұрын
I love the sound of the floppy drive when it changes tracks. That sound really takes me back to being a kid.
@GoldenKingStudio7 жыл бұрын
That chair you were sitting in was wonderful. All of your videos should be narrated from you sitting in that chair now.
@zibbybone7 жыл бұрын
My son, Comic Drake, uses one of my thrones in his videos.
@etunimi42067 жыл бұрын
I can hear "You kids have it easy" already...
@kurtfrancis46213 жыл бұрын
I remember these very well. I used the Mavica a few times myself at work. I still have work photos saved on my computer from '98-'99 using that camera at job sites.
@aquilesbarista2 жыл бұрын
Obrigado 8 bit guy, eu nunca tinha visto câmeras assim antes, não sabia que isso existiu um dia. A câmera com CD me surpreendeu de verdade.
@philscomputerlab7 жыл бұрын
My current camera also creates a DCIM folder on the memory card :D Some things don't change :P
@TheLoveMario7 жыл бұрын
I have an old Canon camera which uses CF cards and it also creates a DCIM folder too. Funny thing, the Nintendo DSi and the Nintendo 3DS also create a DCIM folder when taking photos
@girlsdrinkfeck7 жыл бұрын
most devices that captures media will use DCIM folder since its a universal generic root name for computers to read and recognise from it ( dunno about iphones since apple are backwards )
@Trident_Euclid7 жыл бұрын
All my android devices has a DCIM folder
@girlsdrinkfeck7 жыл бұрын
***** thats a suprise ,id have assumed apple will use some bullshit named secret folder no one can access and only accesible via icrap tunes
@OMA2k7 жыл бұрын
DCIM is a standard nomenclature for any device which creates digital pictures which stands for "Digital Camera IMages"
@xalataf33656 жыл бұрын
8:23 Somebody's needing a new bed door...
@mcmahon316195 жыл бұрын
Some people actually take the door off on purpose. They think is helps fuel efficiency. But it doesn't really
@bbsonjohn4 жыл бұрын
back in the days, you packed up your floppy disks when you went for a vacation
@JACKHARRINGTON4 жыл бұрын
Oh, one million subscribers. Congratualations! 2019/11/12
@andymoran80077 жыл бұрын
You should do a video on the history of the CD and CD drives!
@Grafhun7 жыл бұрын
Andy Moran Better - Complete History of Data Storage. That will be a great video.
@andymoran80077 жыл бұрын
Radu Cismaru Totally! I'd even watch it in multiple parts if it took up that much time. Loves me some 8-bit guy vids
@Grafhun7 жыл бұрын
Andy Moran I'd wait months for this!
@tonyd94555 жыл бұрын
Sony Mavica was my first digital camera!!! Loved that thing so much!
@justinbauer77233 жыл бұрын
You're one of my favorite Channel. Nice job
@gerryroberts6624 жыл бұрын
Great bloopers 8 bit guy..
@RetroAmateur19897 жыл бұрын
Whats up with the random shots of you when your friend is speaking?
@themaritimegirl7 жыл бұрын
That's kind of the standard filmmaking style of an interview.
@vwestlife7 жыл бұрын
It's called a "noddy": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noddy_%28TV_interview_technique%29
@demppa83237 жыл бұрын
In continuity editing you have to take into account the 180 degree rule. This video does not.
@onecircuit7 жыл бұрын
I think it adds to the 80's style to be honest :)
@Landrew07 жыл бұрын
Never seen a noddy that didn't look cringey.
@Refugeefromcalif5 жыл бұрын
My first digital camera was a Mavica CD. I still have all those 3" CD's sitting around that I can view....
@rcdude863 жыл бұрын
So far ahead of its time, so memory comes back from my 4th or 5th grade elementary computer class, we used these! Was awesome! We were working on publisher or word if i remember right. So cool though. Looking back as a photographer now and using a sony a7ii and canon 5d mark ii both full frame. It’s just so neat! Thanks for sharing and giving so much info on it.
@JViello4 жыл бұрын
I can't believe I found this video! I was a self employed web designer/developer back in 97 - 01. The biggest PITA was digitizing analog pics. The Mavica changed my world, I loved that thing! Most reactions were like: "What........is.........THAT!?" As good as it was, the Olympus Camedia C550 made digital cameras go mainstream. I still have my Camedia and I'm telling you it takes better pictures than many modern digital units. The way it captures light is just other worldly. When I want to take some serious photography, I still pull out the C550 all these years later.
@BananaPoodle25 жыл бұрын
I just picked up a Mavica for $2 at a thrift store, I'm going to go and restore it soon. Great video! (Also, I happened to find the FD88, so... 😏)
@lamelane27625 жыл бұрын
I got an fd73 for a dollar
@BananaPoodle25 жыл бұрын
uliek potato I bought a new battery for it, and it turns out it doesnt work, so...
@GAIUSJAKE5 жыл бұрын
You should make a video about.
@Omnia_Sol5 жыл бұрын
I still have my FDC-95!!
@geometrikselfelsefesi4 жыл бұрын
But too good camera
@gonezoemedia63527 жыл бұрын
I had one of these cameras. I bought it new for $700. The camera was under 1 MegaPixel if I remember correctly.
@jimbeckert79464 жыл бұрын
The Mavica was AWESOME! Back in the 90s. I worked in a test lab and I convinced the boss to buy one. It was really great for making test reports with pictures of our setups.
@EMantraOfficial12 жыл бұрын
Today it's my bday.. And I'm watching your videos.. Damn.. I had 17 years back then.. Nice memories.. Cheers
@Hexauslion5 жыл бұрын
Goes online to buy mavica, price has skyrocketed beyond $1500. Dangit.
@BigBSTRDnl0505 жыл бұрын
i found one in my city thriftshop for 25 bucks. don't give up yo
@jacoblott16174 жыл бұрын
What??? I might be able to hook you up bro
@Damaniel34 жыл бұрын
The later models can be had pretty cheap if you look around - I found a working FD87 at a thrift store a couple months ago for $5.
@cs512tr3 жыл бұрын
was lucky to get one for free (FD92) ebay battery $20 , i am happy with it, a great trip down memory lane. what i would have been able to capture during that time it came out (2001)
@RustyX20103 жыл бұрын
Thanks to these videos for making prices skyrocket on eBay!
@impr3subie5 жыл бұрын
Holy cow what am i doing with my life? Ive been bench watching ur vids for days straight. Good job sir
@LORDMEMESTER4204 жыл бұрын
4:23 sitting here quarantined in 2020 reminiscing about Emilio
@Lukeade8152 жыл бұрын
I’m a younger man and many of my early family photos were taken on an MVC-CD1000, so I really enjoy you covering this line of camera.
@AliYassinToma6 жыл бұрын
Thst last cam takes better photos than my iphone 8 plus
@wildbill23c6 жыл бұрын
I've found most smart phone cameras well...suck. Course its supposed to be a phone not a professional studio camera in the first place LOL. My $150 Canon Powershot A510 takes far better photos than any cell phone camera I've had...cell phone camera is great for an emergency but if you are taking pictures to use professionally you should be using a professional camera LOL.
@jacklewis82585 жыл бұрын
The last camera just beats my modern digital camera and completely thrashes my phones camera.
@GAIUSJAKE5 жыл бұрын
This os the first time i have heard of someone with an iphone 8, how is it?
@eaproductions34745 жыл бұрын
@@wildbill23c Thar Galaxy Note 9 is one of the most beautiful phone cameras I have ever seen.
@sparky47475 жыл бұрын
Hahaha There’s actually some truth to this. The picture quality in less than perfect conditions (low light, moving subjects, etc) requires a larger sensor and a bigger lens to excel. It is literally a constraint of how much light your camera can collect in time. Phone cameras have tiny sensors and tiny lenses and will produce shit low light shots no matter how advanced the technology gets. An old DSLR camera or even dedicated point and shoot will outperform the tiny phone camera in less than perfect light conditions.
@DrVVVinK4 жыл бұрын
This is the first digital camera I had. And I remember taking it to a an auto show, people were stopping me thinking it was the coolest thing. I still have it, and it still works.
@shibolinemress89133 жыл бұрын
I remember sitting in coffee shops in 1997, flipping through the newest issue of Chip or PC-World magazine and drooling over those Mavicas! Back then I could barely afford the coffee, let alone the cameras! Thanks for the memories! 😊
@RHelenius2 жыл бұрын
We had a Mavica FD71 in my school back in 98. Loved using it
@boogiestreet5945 жыл бұрын
11:04 thats weird that he filmed himself smiling and nodding when the guys was taliking to the camera, and if the guy was still talking when he was nodding and smiling, the camera would have been right were the guy was standing lol
@Super2Donny4 жыл бұрын
Anthony Quigley It’s probably two cameras, b-rolls are a thing yo
@mr.x83823 жыл бұрын
I noticed that too! It really does look funny!
@VerticalGamer7 жыл бұрын
OMG IM WEARING THE EXACT SAME TAKE ME BACK SHIRT RIGHT NOW 8-BIT GUY!!!!
@andrelange98774 жыл бұрын
I'm glad to see none of these used the PC parallel/printer port like many devices did before USB became widely available.
@mmacphersonn4 жыл бұрын
So I watched this video a couple years ago and went rummaging through my house the other day and found my moms old mavica! The videos were honestly really good for 1997 very cool to see.
@newagederpderp5 жыл бұрын
9:10 "...without *any fear of being attacked* by a giant robot." *Proceeds to be attacked by a giant robot*
@Diggnuts7 жыл бұрын
LS-120 was awesome. Never knew that this camera existed. To bad ZIP-drive won out.
@CommodoreFan647 жыл бұрын
I had a portable parallel zip drive back in the late 90's mainly because it was cheaper then the LS-120 for both the drives, and media, plus the overall software drivers where better on Windows 98, but then again even with 200MB, zip disc and 1GB Jazz drives none of it lasted much longer once CD Burners became common place shortly afterwards.
@Diggnuts7 жыл бұрын
The cool thing about having a ls-120 was that it could also rescue bad 1.44 and 2.88 disks that could not be read by new drives
@shawn27807 жыл бұрын
It's funny that David said that no one ever tried to make the floppy drive faster... but the LS-120 drives read standard floppy disks a lot faster than a standard floppy drive. The original drives were super flaky though, and read 1.44's poorly. I still have dozens of superdisks in a box somewhere....
@CommodoreFan647 жыл бұрын
Diggnuts True that, and I remember the commericals somewhat making that a selling point, but like i said price was a big factor for the ZIP drive, and should have also mentioned some computers even came preinstalled with internal 100MB zip drive by default like some Gateway, and Compaq models if I remember correctly.
@ACRPC-dot-NET7 жыл бұрын
Commodorefan64 Compaq backed both horses in the media race, they also preinstalled LS120 drives in some of their machines. I owned both Zip and LS120 back in the late 90's but by far preferred the LS120. I actually still use a LS120 today to read/write floppy disks in my modern PC.
@maybepolly_4 жыл бұрын
Wow, my dad had one of those and still used it well into the late 2000's. I always thought it was so weird but oddly convenient, especially in a country where you could still see floppy discs being used in 2010.
@saturniiina4 жыл бұрын
I don't know I got here, but this video is soo cool! Regards from Buenos Aires!
@davidhunter58027 жыл бұрын
Nobody beats the 8 bit guy :D
@meganswaine41356 жыл бұрын
Haha my husband had one of these when I first met him. I screwed around with it for a while. The resolution was okay...certainly better than my own first digital camera. I think he used it to take pics of his artwork.
@Q_QQ_Q4 жыл бұрын
how old are you ?
@The_A_Cast4 жыл бұрын
I remember having the Mavica FD7 in elementary school and we used them to make old fashioned stop motion videos. So nostalgic!
@inevitable29004 жыл бұрын
i always wanted to see 80's 90's things on internet and i'm happy to find your channel i will buy all previous techs to re live the moments you guys enjoyed back in 90's let me earn good cash to buy all these whenever listen to old songs and watch tech i cant get enough of these masterpieces people of my age are interested in new techs and im here watching 90s life and listening to john lennon,johnny cash, Bruce Springsteen,summer of 69...
@misterosc7 жыл бұрын
11:28 enough with that cut! that does not go well together and you clearly recorded it separately!
@spritefun93627 жыл бұрын
It was bad, but funny!
@florascent9ts7 жыл бұрын
exactly what I was thinking. i feel like they weren't ever even in the same room
@The8BitGuy7 жыл бұрын
I don't understand why I have gotten so much hate on this. I literally just turned the camera 180 degrees after he got finished talking and filmed my reactions, which is more or less the exact same reactions I was making while he was talking. I only had one camera on location. It's a normal thing to do. I don't understand why everyone says it looks so fake. That's exactly where I was standing while he was talking.
@florascent9ts7 жыл бұрын
The 8-Bit Guy well, I do love your videos, but consider that A) you're acting in those reaction parts and it's pretty easy to tell when people aren't genuinely reacting and B) it distracts from the story he's telling without adding real input. it feels much less like a conversation and more like unnecessary screen time. no one's saying to stop, it's just something quirky about your videos--which like I said, everybody loves. heed our criticism, or don't we'll keep watching either way, honestly
@The8BitGuy7 жыл бұрын
Well, I'm always trying to learn and improve for the next episode. But the reason I added them is because I felt like I needed something to break up the section some so that it didn't seem like he was talking so long.
@niklaspilot7 жыл бұрын
Professional photographers still use film! Film isn't dead!
@niklaspilot7 жыл бұрын
Tommy Whitaker No it should not. Digital images are soulless, plain representations of the real world without any appeal of ever being looked at again. Opposing that analog images DO have soul, they are timeless and will more likely be looked at again. Ask almost any wedding or portrait photographer they will tell you just that.
@technologyproductions-ye3px7 жыл бұрын
NiklasStøterau but they don't last long
@niklaspilot7 жыл бұрын
Tommy Whitaker Well ok, but of what use is that? Nobody will live long enough to make use of those longer lasting digital images. It's only of use for future generations because they can access our images more easily.
@pifci7 жыл бұрын
Stop with the poetic bullshit! Photos have souls? That is just meaningless pretentious gibberish. Im pretty sure people in the late 1800s would say that paintings "have soul" as opposed to those technical artificial machine-made photographs. Some people think that being stuck in the past is wise and everytime a new technology replaces the old one, these people complain like little kids about "souls" and similar crap, but their emotional arguments never stand the test of time.
@WalnutSpice7 жыл бұрын
Did you just say film doesn't last long? You know what a negative is? They can last for hundreds of years with proper care. But oh, you probably also believe an 800x600 image is better than film quality. Film is and always will be better than digital, digital just offers more convenience. If digital was better why are most movies still shot on 35mm? Because, short and simple, film looks better.
@michaelbuckley8986 Жыл бұрын
I still have my FD 73 and FD 88.Both working.Enjoyed your review👍
@MCJosiah3 жыл бұрын
My main AIM teacher back in late 4th to 5th grade(2009 to 2010) had a floppy disk camera that she had us use for multiple projects & would use the camera to photograph events. It had incredible image quality & could take quite amount of photos. Still impressive for a digital camera that stores to floppy disk.
@timothystevenhoward6 жыл бұрын
+1 for the music, UT music rocks. also, more brandon sharing his expertise pls!
@timothystevenhoward6 жыл бұрын
oh and your audio is a lot better now. still fun to watch the old episodes!
@nige81617 жыл бұрын
Just gave my smartphone a big hug Lol!
@Galactipod7 жыл бұрын
You need some friends.
@nige81617 жыл бұрын
Galactipod Lol!!
@flyingninja12347 жыл бұрын
Nige Turner - Can you imagine putting floppy discs in your smartphone?
@nige81617 жыл бұрын
Z M I know right!!
@freakstate7 жыл бұрын
Z M to be fair some people still do, just just Micro SD cards now and 1000 times bigger
@billybbob183 жыл бұрын
We had one of those in my computer class. It was bad, but good for the time. It was hilarious to hear that floppy disk sound every time a pic was taken.
@handlebarfox23664 жыл бұрын
brings back memories. My sister had a Mavica that she used at her job back around 2000.