Camera Number Nine!

[mbarrick]

Harnessing the Awesome Power of Floppies!

Behold my "new" and wholly awesome camera. The cheese-factor on this is positively lunar. There is no memory card, images are stored on 3½" floppies. I scored. I mean really - these things go for over $10 on eBay ;-p

The CCD is a whopping 850,000 pixels of glory.

Features include the blindingly awful flash common to early digital cameras and such amazingly useless "artistic" modes like "Negative" - because pressing CTRL-I in Photoshop is HARD. So what possible use could I have for this lovely bit of 90's fromage? My first thoughts mostly revolved around dissecting it for various purposes, but it turns out that there is a niche where this camera excels. It can focus on things less than a centimetre from the lens. Behold a circuit-board landscape:

With the right lighting the ability of this thing to get up close is stunning.

Comments

[donnaidh-sidhe.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not the only person who would look at a circuit board and instantly think "bird's-eye view of a city."

That is beyond spiffy. Why is this particular camera able to focus up close when most modern point-and-shoot digitals need at least 40 or so cm?

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

I have no idea why Sony decided to make the macro so extreme on this camera. As a WAG I'd speculate that the lens was designed for some other product, probably a camcorder with a larger analogue CCD, and the feature is an accidental bonus when combined at the appropriate focal length for the CCD in this camera.

[donnaidh-sidhe.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I don't know enough to decode those acronyms properly (translation and meaning)!

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

WAG = Wild-Ass Guess
CCD = Charge Coupled Device, i.e. the image sensor.

[donnaidh-sidhe.livejournal.com]

Heh, thanks.

[evilyn13.livejournal.com]

Hahaha!! We still have some accessories for that camera at work for super cheap cuz no one is buying them, so if yo ever need anything let me know!

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what I would need - I don't even need the camera, but like my Polaroid, it was dumpster-bound so I rescued it to play with. Although, if you have anything that will increace either the toy-factor or cheese-factor...

[evilyn13.livejournal.com]

Let me know the exact model number of the camera, cuz Sony has started a green project, so a lot of our older stuff has to be sold or dumped because it contains things harmful to the environment so I can probably get some things for about $0.01.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Mavica MVC-FD83

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

I used to have one of those to use. I remember taking photos the night of my highschool grad dinner/dance and the aftergrad party. I brought two boxes of 1.44Mb floppies with me :-).

[tnkgrl.livejournal.com]

Excellent! You're like me, except that instead of collecting mobile phones you collect cameras :)

I now have 3 (soon 4) devices in daily use (all GSM, ie. SIM card based and unlocked) with 2 SIM cards (2 accounts/2 carriers/2 numbers) - I also have 5 (maybe 6?) older devices floating around...

[magiknat.livejournal.com]

This is fantastic! Almost as good as my talking polaroid camera. Although the Macro is better on your new camera. The best thing about my talking polaroid is that it's fucking stupid :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_disdain_/]

I used one of those cameras at a past job... the storage medium is now pretty entertaining.