Drum brakes should come with a camera, tbh.

I do the same thing but for vintage computer stuff. When I get a new thing to take apart, I take several pictures from many angles of each step, even if it's something that isn't that complicated. It sure saves time vs. making hand-drawn sketches and notes.

You could've made some dough by uploading them to the internet with a guide.

Right up the with SMPTE stood for don't join

TWAIN, thing without an interesting name.

SNMP: Security? Not My Problem

Who can for get the classic......CRAFT.....can't remember a fucking thing.....ooohhh I went there new year new speech rules

P.C. Manufacturers Cannot Invent Acronyms

Damn, seeing some Nissan Skylines with Minidisc players on them was already enough of an oddball to me, a PCMCIA MP3 player (is it?) seems extra wild.

Isn't 2005 a little late for pcmcia.

@@belstar1128 Not for a car manufacturer, where the time between the original concept to being rolled out on the production line is up to 10 years, so a lot of things are a generation or five behind the current state, plus add to that the likely original use was in the Japanese luxury market segment, and after 5 years in there the new hot idea came out, the old one was stopped, but the parts are still being made, so put them in the lower end vehicles as a mid range vehicle. Just like ABS was originally an option on luxury vehicles, then it became standard on them, then an option on mid range, then standard, and now it is standard on pretty much every vehicle, except the bottom of the range. After all you still got vehicles with a cassette player in the 2010's, brand new stock, while the top end had early versions of BT and plug in audio.

What car(s?) Did you see this in? I'm familiar with in-dash electronic toll collection systems in Japan but the only PCMCIA I've seen was for really old navigation systems. And they would have a card reader in them sometimes to update the maps...

I seem to remember most cars from the late '90s having a range of digital slots for different devices, mostly as chargers unless you had flatscreen displays, which were usually only an option or upgrade on most vehicles at the time

It was a common failure in ccds produced for a while in the late nineties and early 2000s. My recollection is that it was caused in the canon models by a manufacturing defect that allows moisture ingress to the CCD, more or less shorting the columns together and allowing charge bleed, but don't quote me. It's deeply unsettling; when I first saw it happen it scared the hell out of me. These ones don't do it, but I think I have a Sony somewhere that does.

@@CathodeRayDude I can easily imagine stories of possessed cameras with this defect indeed, I think I stored some pictures of that here just for fun.

wow, never heard of that, do you have any links to examples?

My family's A80 developed the same problem. Canon actually had a free replacement program for a few years but it naturally ended right before the problem occurred on mine. At first it would usually be OK but then it started happening more and more often, eventually happening all the time. Finally it stopped producing a picture at all.

@@aidanjarosgrilli Sorry for not replying, couldn't find the image I had here, probably on some backup external drive or such, it's hella funny but the most demonic, non-edited picture I've ever taken, all by accident. Here's a similar example: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/F717_CCD_fault.jpg (if KZfaq allows the link...)

"Can neither confirm nor deny". 👍 love it. Same here.

Yea, I got a very good flatbed scanner -- with PhotoShop included -- on the discount parade at MicroCenter. The salesguy said that it's probably just the included SCSI card, which many people can't get to work. I had a good SCSI card in the computer so didn't need their cheap card, anyway.

Also, happy new year! (I hope we can get the raw files of the cat pics that came with the camera, those are such a vibe.)

I'd very much like to!

@@CathodeRayDude I'll keep an eye out for one at my thrift store. If I come across one for cheap I'll send it your way!

I've had the same serial cord for one of my Casio pocket computers (not the Pocket PC ones, the ones that are a weird mishmash of a calculator, a QWERTY-keyboard and a fake C and fake assembler language in it alongside basic), as well as one of the Casio pocket memo thingies - I wonder if the pinouts are the same

My Sony Clie NV80 has a built in camera that swivels, its a strange beast. Might be up your alley!

Same here. Design school. Quicktake 100. I was the student aid for the computer lab, so I got to play with everything.

Agreed, it gives a nice backdrop, and the use of chroma key works very well

Even more geius.. would be.. to just put the memory in a CF card... like everyone else did... and well, just put the card in the reader.

@@matsv201 ok Corporal Buzzkill

@cathoderaydude You've gotten successful enough for the scam bots to start targeting your videos! Congrats! 😂😅

Yeah I mean you could also add it to your PC for $40 but nobody was going to design anything with those add-ons or rare standouts in mind, so functionally it was exclusive

There were also PCMCIA drive bays that were available for desktop computers.

That cat picture on the Minolta's storage reminds me of a picture I made with my webcam of a cat around 2005. (back then webcams were limited to 240p/288p/480p and could only take photos in at most 1024x768)

I wonder if that was a rebranded version of the Kodak MC3? A friend sent me theirs, and yeah, it's a terrible camera and a terrible mp3 player

@@CathodeRayDude I'm not sure. But you're right. It is terrible at both but I loved it. It is quintessential 2000s.

@@CathodeRayDude I looked up the MC3 and it looks totally different from the Polaroid MP3.

@@CathodeRayDude I tweeted a photo at you. :)

It's not "planned obsolescence", it's simply a waste of time and money getting developers to update specialist drivers for long-obsolete hardware that barely anybody will ever want to use on a modern OS.

​@@dunebasher1971 you're right, it's not "planned obsolescence" more like "changing the design too often, no backwards compatibility and a hidden agenda". Drivers subsystem in Windows got drastically changed several times (remember non-WDM drivers, anyone? then XP/Vista/Win8-10 incompatibilities?), and building them was not easy to learn, unless you probably partnered with M$ to babysit you through shitty documentation and SDKs - which explains why only expensive products had good drivers or still have up-to-date drivers. As for "planned obsolescence" - I have a network HP office printer/scanner/copier which was acquired as e-waste because it doesn't work with any newer Windows and the website claims "it should work with any Windows later than Vista", but it doesn't. What do you say about it, isn't it HP pushing new printers? Guess what, it still does the job - prints papers, and even graphics like charts and logos; that's the only things I need it for anyway, like once or twice a year. Linux distros also have drivers disabled for really obsolete hardware, but take any kernel version old or new - and all of them can be built (enabled in configuration) and would work like charm. And not because driver coding model hasn't evolved, but because it was built right from the start and then only improved through mostly non-breaking changes. And it wasn't hard to learn, because it's open-source. Imagine, you have a super-rare PC or a fancy Mac G5 or even something like DEC Alpha or POWER or Sun Sparc (those are beefy even by today's standards - I mean 32GB RAM server for $100? and later, Sun/Oracle they had 512GB and 1/2/4TB RAM models too, but those aren't dirt-cheap yet, but they will be). Imagine, you want to run it with newest software and to its power limit - you can do all that with Linux! Btw, I did see something about "old Minolta cameras" in the kernel config, so it might actually work. To be completely honest, there's also quirks to it; for example, while you can get e.g. an old Creative Labs shitty 640x480 webcam to work, you'll need more than just drivers to use it, because introduction of UVC changed a lot in software too. That probably applies to this weird PCMCIA camera, you might need to find some odd software which could be incompatible with your current desktop environment (or would take some work to integrate) and would not show up as a normal camera.

​@@artempylypchuk4140so, in other words, they're there in the Linux kernel because there was never a reason to remove them, because drivers on Linux have been the same since basically forever.

Linux plans on trashing PC Card

Later pre-builts definitely did, though. My 2007 and 2012 PC towers both had memory card readers for SD/MMC, Sony Memory Stick, Compact Flash, and xD/Smart Media.

@@AaronOfMpls I think by the time SD and microSD were becoming standard, so too were built in readers. It's that liminal space between early adopters and mass usage that I think most of these early digicams fell into.

Oh, the GoPro... should've known

Oh, huh! I swear steadicam usage came up as a bullet point when I was investigating the system but I can't find it now. I must have been looking at the specs for the Venice itself?

If you're ever curious on how steadicam operators like their builds a buddy of mine, Myles Shank, did a video on how 1st assistant camera should design their builds. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y61me9d1s9y9l4E.html

The standard Venice is pretty common to see on set and often goes up on steadicam. Used it on a job a few weeks ago and it's for sure a chonker. You pair that up with a Cinema zoom and you can end up with over 40 lbs of camera. I've seen steadicam ops move with it like it was light as a feather, those people have some serious core strength.

I believe Hardcore Henry was shot on the Venice Rialto. That's like it's perfect use case.

@@CathodeRayDude Wanted to circle back again here. Frame Voyager just released a video on the Rialto that is a great watch. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y7-RlqR8sNfRc6s.html

linus?????

Booo

What bugs me though is, sure, maybe it's picking up the UV, but that doesn't explain where the green went. The green in reality is so intense, I can't figure out why I'm not seeing a mix of green and blue.

@@CathodeRayDude The camera adjusted it's exposure for the high amount of UV light. Since the green light is just a small fraction it gets overshadowed by the UV and lacks from the image. That must also mean the green you can see was pretty intense. There's nothing weird going on because fluorescence of the uranium glass is at around 530nm, it should be very similar in every piece but the amount can vary. the way i know this stuff is: I'm a photographer and educated in chemistry and physics (and other scientific topics that don't apply here). Meaning, I understand the underlying physics and how the camera picks up the varying amounts of light. Although I cannot 100% exclude the possibility of the camera's software being weird, I'm highly certain this result is because the camera is picking up way more UV light than the fluorescence is providing. if you are still not sure, think about it in this way: You point your camera to the sun and expose for it, the surrounding sky doesn't just disappear, it is just very underrepresented in the final picture.