Epson PhotoPC: The 1995 Digital Camera Experience

Unboxing and testing this 0.3 megapixel beast from the mid 90s! This is the Epson Photo PC, their first consumer digital camera. Not only does it take 640x480 photos, but it stores to internal flash memory!
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#LGR #Retro #Photography

[@geovani60624]

the pictures actually look pretty good for my taste

[@kartaloktay]

AmazinChannel Yeah me too, I was kinda surprised

[@xbst_]

They look way better than the digital cameras I used in early-mid 2000s. The fact that this is from the 90s but it shoots this good is incredible.

[@AstroTechGuy]

Same for me. I was expecting something like the quality of a gameboy-cam :P

[@Powerhouse1]

Especially for the time it looks amazing.

[@eddiespencer1]

It's very good for a mass-market digital camera from that time.

[@antman8746]

I was honestly pretty surprised by the quality of the photos this thing takes. I mean yeah they ARE crappy, but they're not as crappy as I thought they'd be!

[@ObsoleteVodka]

No shit, it looks way better than most digital cameras i saw in early 2000s.

[@twistedyogert]

It's better than the Gameboy Camera.

[@ObsoleteVodka]

Anything is better than the Gameboy Camera, lol.

[@l-l]

Diego Zuñiga BUT IT WAS ON YOUR GAMEBOY!

[@MSTRCMDR]

Well id might say its not the camera that made this photos interesting. Not by itself at least. I loved the idea to take photos that do not tell their age with an older camera and the pics were really nice i think

[@A_Player]

9:36 That actually looks like it was taken 20 years ago...

[@LGR]

Awesome, I certainly tried to make it look that way!

[@kilrahvp]

Those floppy boxes... Oh the memories 😆

[@Powerhouse1]

Looks like my Dad's old basement lol.

[@thedungeondelver]

Fun fact: photos taken with digital cameras from the early/mid 1990s all look like they're the last known photo of a person or thing.

[@Ropetupa]

thedungeondelver True, I have to give props for nostalgic RPG wizard as your profile pic aswell.

[@BollingHolt]

Imagine. It's 1995. Dave Matthews Band and Blues Traveler are toppin' the charts. "Seinfeld" and "Frasier" are in the full swing of prime time television. "Star Trek: Voyager" is brand new, and you're going to your first convention. What better way to commemorate the momentous occasion than to grab a brand new Epson PhotoPC camera! Pack up and put away your Mustek Paragon 600 flat bed scanner; you're passin' pictures at a glorious 57,600 baud, baby!

[@Blackadder75]

Bolling Holt you forgot Dilbert

[@BollingHolt]

Blackadder75 Lol!

[@Fuzy2K]

In 1995, my dad bought a Casio digital camera. He had to return it though, because the software didn't work properly on his laptop. BUT I do remember being in the store where he bought it and seeing a PlayStation for the first time. That was pretty cool... I was about 6 then.

[@sa_exploder]

"The quick easy way to bring pictures into your computer" had me cracking up. I especially liked that quick cut of the Zoolander scene. I appreciate your sense of humor, Clint. Lol

[@QuantumBraced]

I remember when people in my high school started buying digital cameras around 2003 or so. Guys would walk around with these cameras around their necks and take pictures of everyone and everything because it was suddenly free to take as many pictures as you wanted. And people thought they were cool, today it would be considered super creepy. There was no social media then, you just stored the pictures on your PC and invited people over to look at them. Or you put them on CDs or DVDs. The fact you didn't need to pay for film and to get it developed and could look at the photos in real time on a small LCD screen, and then offload everything to a computer almost instantly was mind blowing to me in 2003. In 1997 I wouldn't have even been familiar with the concept... I didn't get one until 2006. And then 2-3 years later everyone just started using their phones.

[@Tatsh2DX]

QuantumBraced I remember buying Kodak photo CDs when getting photos developed. Seeing myself on my computer screen in 99 was such a big deal.

[@harshaare]

I had lot of digital pictures taken around that time along with some cool voice recordings on my 20 gb PC. When I formatted PC I transfered them to a CD and stored them in CD album. Those voice recordings where opera songs sung by my great grand parents who where in their 80s . I was a young teenager. First forward , all those CDs caught moisture and data is all lost.

[@leslie5202]

​@MAHABHARATH I mean, if some parts of the CD are still intact you could try one of that advanced data recovery software and try to see if you can recover something.

[@TheMailmanOfSteel]

At one time I remember these using 3.5" floppy discs as the photo storage medium, lol.

[@LGR]

Sony Mavica MVC-FD5 did that, although it actually came two years _after_ this Epson that used flash memory.

[@TheMailmanOfSteel]

Now that you mention it, yeah I'm pretty sure it was a Sony camera. It was a honking beast too, lol.

[@thedungeondelver]

I have a Mavica CD here that uses 3" mini-CDs! I love it.

[@Tigermoto]

I still have a Sony Mavica MVC-FD200. Beast of a floppy camera. Still love it for a laugh every now and again

[@hubzcaps]

Jaybee the mavica mmmm warm n fuzzy

[@wal]

Awesome vid! I bought my first digital camera in 1999, the Nikon Coolpix 800. It was 2.1 megapixel and had a 2x optical zoom. I found one for a "deal" for around $500 and really enjoyed getting into the world of digital photography and instant gratification. Kids these days with their Note 7's and iPhone 10's are SO spoiled with their awesome cameras. Retro tech is cool and seeing these old cameras in action is fun. Thanks for making this video, looking forward to the next!

[@thedungeondelver]

I'm glad you found this, and not me, Clint. I would obsessively try to track down the memory module for it, completely ignoring the fact that my phone has like 10x the camera and 1000x the storage space :P

[@simontay4851]

Would probably be easier to find a larger capacity flash chip to replace the existing one on the board than to find the module.

[@MrDuncl]

And completely break the thing. I do wonder if the modules were some kind of standard. Somewhere I have some full size DIMMs with Intel Flash Memory chips on them. No idea what they were used for.

[@PerfectAgent64]

But that A E S T H E T I C

[@thedungeondelver]

@@deadliestvice5356 Yes.

[@thedungeondelver]

@@deadliestvice5356 That's clearly exactly what I meant.

[@Zizzily]

I always loved the digital cameras with a floppy disk drive. My grandfather used to have one for work, and they used it for years, even after USB digital cameras became ubiquitous.

[@RockRedGenesis]

Should go and watch the 8 Bit Guys video on one of thise, the Sony Mavica, it good video on a interesting piece of retro tech.

[@Zizzily]

Hehe, yeah, I've seen it.

[@SG-bp4lg]

What did he do?

[@zosxavius]

I have a mavica sitting on my desk. Sadly it came without a battery charger. I keep meaning to pick one up on ebay for $10 which sadly, is about all a mavica is really worth these days. The early ones are becoming collectors items slowly. And yeah they all pretty much work forever. Floppy disk drives are extremely robust. Even the batteries were well built and can usually still take a charge.

[@UNSCPILOT]

Just found one of those Sony Mavica FD75 floppy disk camera, looking forward to getting the old fella working to join my odd mix of cameras

[@hind__]

A lot of stuff on your channel I didn't catch on to but this had me like "what? THIS is old now?!" and it's such a bittersweet feeling

[@moviesinclusive]

I am really fond of these early digital cameras, I still remember how my dad used to borrow a binocular-shaped digital camera from work to take family pictures!

[@MrJozza65]

I had one of those; it was a Kodak DC50, I managed to persuade my work to buy it, even though we didn't have a real business use for it, and then I used to take it home and on holiday with me. At the time it was an amazing bit of kit. Then I managed to get a Kodak DC280 at a bargain discount price (I think it was still about £200) by joining the Kodak developer program. I think I still have the DC280 in the back of a cupboard somewhere, but the DC50 is long gone sadly.

[@moviesinclusive]

That really must've been a bargain back then!

[@lubey111]

Ah yes, I vaguely remember a binocular shaped one as well, pretty sure it was the Apple Quicktake 100. We even had one at school in around '96.

[@NavidIsANoob]

Those are some awesome pictures, dude!

[@LGR]

Thanks!

[@Vordhosbn]

How did you make do without knowing if you had a good shot or not?

[@courtneythornton1003]

Either late 90's or ealy 2,000's my dad had a simular digital camera branded by Yahoo?

[@Therealguymins]

@LGR kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zpm8dZaViseNeqM I do the exact same thing with all my old digital cameras. Taking pictures that look 20 years old and convincing people that they are is just fun. Sometimes I edit them to have a 16 color palette with dithering so it looks like Win95 with no video drivers or something, too :0

[@chrisramsden9678]

Hi Clint, please tell me these "fauxback" photos are available to view somewhere online.

[@CarterGregg25]

The files are IN the computer

[@frowlinian8175]

Carter G *bam*

[@guppy360]

Inside the computer

[@jameslaidler4259]

Carter G Ya beat me too it!

[@jameslaidler4259]

Carter G "Get the Zip Disk and bring it here! No, the ZIP DISK! Oh for God's sake, just bring it!"

[@Natendowii]

Where'd all the files go?

[@Dorelaxen]

I always love finding old receipts for stuff I buy second hand. They sort of function as a snapshot of that person's life at that time. Last year I found a bunch of the SSI Gold Box D&D games at an estate sale. Each one had the receipt still in it, with notes and scribblings on many of the instruction manuals. I ain't even mad about that. The owner obviously loved and enjoyed those games. I will too.

[@wohlhabendermanager]

I bought some old DnD games for Amiga a few years ago. Inside the box where hand drawn maps of the game world. Because back then you had to draw your own maps to keep track of where you are and where you are supposed to go. I contacted the dude again and thanked him for including his own notes with the game. Not only did it save me a lot of time, but it's also proof that someone loved the games enough to draw maps for them.

[@gabegillette9647]

Oh man, seeing those batteries flooded me with nostalgia.

[@TheClaybones]

I remember having those exact AAs, probably for my Gameboy.

[@5roundsrapid263]

I found some in an old Game Boy recently. I had to explain to my son how the tester worked.

[@troytakesphotos]

I actually remember buying an Olympus digital camera from AOL back around 2002. If I remember right, it was because a) it was a hell of a bargain for the camera, and b) because I didn't have a credit card and they could just bill it to my account or some such like that.

[@TimmyJoePCTech]

Good video ! I have a folder of pics and pre 2002 they were all scanned and there's something awesome about going back and comparing the transition. The scanned photos have that "taping off the radio" kinda feel, bad film camera, bad scanner. I got a Kodak branded 1.3 MP digital camera for my birthday back in 2002 and those pics look so similar to the ones you were taking. You're the best dude, keep it up

[@penti8345]

i was 0-1 years old when you got that camera and now i’m old enough to sacrifice my life to the military or buy an assault rifle. feel old?

[@WaffleCake]

@@penti8345 Oof bro

[@MaskedGEEK]

Yup. You can tell the age of the camera and the software because, despite Clint running the software in Windows 98, the buttons in Camera Control comes from the 16bit Windows 3.1 era. My 1st digital camera was a cheap and tacky type that we would today call a throwaway camera. No LCD screen (except for only 1 showing battery life and pictures taken), no expandable memory, and to take a crisp picture you'd press the shutter button down for 2 seconds, then wait another 5 seconds before even moving the camera. That's right ladies and gents, the shutter remained OPEN while the camera was saving the image to memory meaning that if you moved it, you might get a cool time-lapse shot, but most other times you'd just get a blurry mess. And with no screen to review your pictures you wouldn't know until you'd download the images to your computer. Oh old tech. :D

[@scottcol23]

This was my father's first digital camera! He is a photography nut and purchased this around Christmas time. I remember him taking tons of photos. And he could look and see if they were good or not right away. It was the first Christmas where we got to see the photos of the morning that same day. it was really cool.

Honestly those photos came out better than I expected. I'm kinda impressed.

[@EposVox]

Ah man, I picked up a 90s camera w/ a Duke Nukem demo disk (was missing, sadly) advertised on the front. Hope to cover it soon. This stuff is pretty neat.

[@Alex-oz9eh]

Just saw your video, both cameras performed fairly well figuring their age.

[@matthewpaulargall9102]

Beautiful looking camera! I collect vintage film cameras, but I wouldn't mind getting a vintage 1990s digital camera for my collection.

[@RodrigoBadin]

I don't understand why is so pleasuring watching these videos of obsolete things, but it is.

[@HazmanFTW]

Man 1MB memory card in it, the photos I take on my phone are over 5MB

[@HazmanFTW]

I was saying how times have changed with data capacity

[@RandomNJ]

The resolution of this camera is not even 1 megapixel.

[@DriveCancelDC]

It's 22 years old, my camera's RAW files are upwards of 80MB each.

[@Yukatoshi]

We're spoiled lol.

[@computethis7128]

The photos I take on mine are 16MB each.

[@ProtoMario]

4 MB $600 LMAO, just a life lesson in patience...

[@Destron5683]

ProtoMario pretty standard prices in ‘95, a typical PC only had 4 MB of ram and a 4 MB upgrade to 8 would cost a few hundred as well.

[@CanuckGod]

Don't I know it... had 4 MB forever, jump to 16 MB in '97 was quite a few bucks as I recall...

[@rollingtroll]

My 1997 Dell PC had 32mb as standard. Must've been quite impressive back then ;).

[@Destron5683]

The Rolling Troll I can’t recall when higher sizes became more common, but I paid over 3K for a 486 DX/2 66 MHz with 16 MB of RAM and a 300 MB HDD.

[@GamingHistorySource]

And that's not adjusted for inflation !! 0_0

[@cfjruth]

I didn't expect the photos this thing produced to look that good. Impressive for mid-90's digital camera tech!

[@MonsterMatt095]

9:56 "There's something about its particular noisey, low-res, washed out style that I quite enjoy" Funny you should say that, for the longest time I've thought the same about digicams from the 90s and even early 00s. There's something fun and nostalgic about photographs mimicking that era. Personally Iv'e been using different filter programs and apps lately to achieve the effect, though keeping an eye out for an oldie digital camera. Love the content, keep it up!

[@chartle1]

6:50 that looks like laptop memory form factor but yes back in the day memory was very expensive. I remember when it was a big deal when 1 meg was less than $100.

[@poolboyinla]

I really enjoyed this video.

[@LGR]

Thank you!

[@greygoose3936]

Great. Not only did you get me to collect old computers and Boxed PC games, but now you have me wanting to get an old digital camera so I can take retro photos. Love ya LGR

[@Markimark151]

I love these old digital cameras, even the floppy disk camera my elementary school teacher once had, they were so fun to use!

[@MimouFirst]

Oh those old cameras. They slurped batteries, woosh. I remember we always needed to take spare sets when going out a day hahaha.

[@PileOfEmptyTapes]

People who were serious about their cameras would generally use rechargeables (with far lower internal resistance), even if it meant that you better top them up before use, as high capacity types tended to have high self discharge. Eneloops were a godsend when they came out in 2006.

[@luzten]

exactly, i had this one exactly in 1997 and the batteries were draining like crazy

[@Privatex112]

I was expecting Gameboy camera quality. I am surprised! great vid :)

[@TheRedneckPreppy]

This brought back some memories, I had this same camera back in 1997 -- used it at work.

[@LightTheUnicorn]

I absolutely love the pictures that thing takes. I'm with you that it's such a satisfying, gorgeous style. The first digital camera I had was a 0.3 megapixel Fujifilm, so that really takes me back!

[@ComandanteJ]

0.3 Mpx goodness.

[@JoystickTuggers]

You mean 300 kilopixels

[@ComandanteJ]

I meant 0.0003 gigapixels.

[@ComandanteJ]

Tong Zou True that, i remember my first 1.3Mpx phone, a Nokia 6630 i belive, i probably took more photos with that thing than with any other phone... or camera.

[@guigs4467]

Didn't the n95 have a 5MP camera? (it was avaliable in 2007 but still)

[@ComandanteJ]

Yeah, it did, it had LED flash, auto-focus, and all the components modern phone cameras have. It did wonderful photos. Of course, that phone costed more than a regular digital camera when it came out, so it better had a good friggin' camera, haha.

[@chedarmentosbrown5922]

Did it have any photos on it when you first fired it up.

[@LGR]

It did! Just a few pics of some guy's unfinished carpentry work.

[@lucidity1353]

I guess you could say the previous owner liked to take pictures of his wood.

[@SpearM3064]

Lucidity13 *Rimshot* That was a horrible pun. *Funny* but horrible. ;^)

[@shantolion1576]

@@lucidity1353 😂😂😂😂

[@tynanconnors]

Epson has made some of the coolest digital cameras ever. They certainly know imaging!

[@averageenthusiast5689]

WOW! This was my very first digital camera. I bought in early '98 for around $200 or so. Everyone was completely blown away that you could take a picture without film. No one could wrap their head around that. For that time in history and cost, it did not do that bad of a job as you can see. But it was mostly a toy and you still needed a film camera for anything serious. What was really amazing was how fast digital cameras improved. My second digital camera was a Fuji MX-2900 that I bought Dec of 2000. The Fuji was light years ahead of the Epson. The Epson did serve one purpose, it got me interested in digital photography. Thanks for the blast from the past (well....that is what your channel is about...but you know, thanks)!

[@adey88splace]

I remember those batteries too!!! Back in my walkman days.

[@McIntec]

A NEW VIDEO from LGR! :D

[@gvfc]

My grandfather used to have one of these, or a similar model. He also had this tiny LCD screen that would plug into some kind of expansion port on the camera itself which could be used as viewfinder (and possibly to see the stored pictures). Good memories.

[@AltimaNEO]

I have a J@m Cam that I bought back in 1998 or so. Very, very primitive digital camera. No flash, 640x480 max res. It was a hundred bucks when I bought it. Man were the photos grainy and dark, but funnily enough, some of the photos I took with it are irreplaceable. A snapshot back in time. Too bad I cant use it now. None of my PCs have a serial port.

[@electronash]

Altima NEO We still had one of those cams collecting dust in the loft until about 7 years ago. It was pretty crappy even when it was released, but yeah, it had its own character too. lol It's possible you could still retrieve the photos from your cam on a modern PC (if there were any on it), via a USB to serial cable. You might need to install Windows XP and the drivers under a VM, but obviously only worthwhile if you think there could be something on the cam that you hadn't previously copied off.

[@electronash]

Altima NEO If we still had our J@m Cam, I would have happily sent it to Clint. Something tells me he probably already has at least one of them already. lol

[@AltimaNEO]

Oh yeah, I remember thinking it was pretty bad quality back then, but the cool factor was undeniable. No film, no need to develop anything! As for mine, I managed to get the pictures I had on it maybe 10 years ago, or so, when I last booted up my old Athlon PC.

[@RickinBaltimore]

That was my first digital camera I had too. I got it a few years after it was released (1999)

[@johnathin0061892]

A friend of mine bought a Casio digital camera back in late 1995... compared to that, the pictures this thing takes look like something from Ansel Adams. If you want to do a video about a horrible early digital camera, that would be one to get.

[@NightMotorcyclist]

I had one of those... well my dad did anyway as he was into tech and cameras. He would take it along with the SLR (yup classic old SLR) and snap photos of things side by side and hook it up to our Packard Bell once back home.

[@luke213gmail]

I used one of this exact model in high school for graduation presentations. I took well over 4000 pictures with it over several years. Man I remember that thing well;) Then I upgraded to a Sony Mavica and man was I riding in style with my floppy camera ;) Trip down memory lane;)

[@mudlark4099]

The first digital camera I ever used took floppy discs. It was huge!

[@iGuidoARG]

Sony Mavica?

[@nilswegner2881]

Heather Deer no it cannot have used floppy discs, these don't exist. It might have used floppy disks though

[@drift180x]

That thing took nice pictures given it’s release. My digital camera from 2003 took way worse looking pictures than that.

[@benjamingale]

Clive, you really need to upload them pictures so we can all download them and see the full glorious HQ quality - really loved this review, gosh the magic of digital photographs then!!!

[@TheUmart]

dude,you have real talent for that lofi 90's photos...do a blog or something with them!

[@metfan4l]

neat

[@yoc_4386]

Have you ever thought about doing a video on one of the old Sony Mavica floppy disk cameras?

[@MrJozza65]

The 8 Bit Guy has a nice review of some of those - kzbin.info/www/bejne/anuTcqpoj5JrY80

[@HKSkansei]

Loved this, as more of a camera geek than a computer geek this bought back many memories. Actually, one that I imagine would be right up your alley, the Sony Mavica was another 90s digital camera, but it used 1.44mb floppies for storage. Compact it was not.

[@erbake]

I remember that I had one, an Epson PhotoPC 500. And I also had a screen for it, that you could plug in on the side. With the screen attached, new batteries were good for 30 minutes.

[@dieterreinert]

1440p? new camera?

[@MrGrombie]

Look kids, those were manuals back in our days. Lol

[@Scottie_S]

I love the "Deer in the Headlights" photos you took. Very natural....

[@Scerttle]

Digital cameras amazed me back in the day, yeah. I was so chuffed to play with one for the first time.

[@PixelSprixie]

I love using outdated technology, especially cameras, to give the illusion that what I've taken is from years ago. It's like walking into the past ^_^ would you ever go around in public using that camera?

[@LGR]

As you can see from the photos I took, I very much used it in public places :)

[@PixelSprixie]

LGR Haha that's amazing, I was thinking more like when other people are around, it would be funny to get them to dress like they were from the 90s. :)

[@ninjamaster3453]

Wow. There wasn't a worthwhile digital camera until 2000.

[@TheMailmanOfSteel]

Pretty much. I still have an old Olympus from the early '00s, lol.

[@ninjamaster3453]

Jaybee yup, it was probably a DSL like type that took the smart media, those flat little cards. Did the job. Anything mid 90s was like a toy.

[@chartle1]

Early 90's is probably when I bought my $200 Sony 2.1M camera.

[@TheTurnipKing]

even the crappy ones were somewhat worthwhile because of the ease of getting data into the machine: Otherwise you'd need to develop and then scan

[@TheMailmanOfSteel]

Oh no, I still have that camera, it's a little point and shoot job, about the size of a 35mm camera. The same camera was used on an episode of Pimp My Ride once, lol.

[@SaarN1337]

Cameras aren't my thing, I don't even use my smartphone's camera, so you did a very GJ with this vid as it really made me admire this old piece of tech. Loved the "nostalgia" flavored pics at the end, my mind still refuses to believe that they're actually recent.

[@HughesEnterprises]

Man, for 1995 this was pretty ahead of its time. I was still using a Canon AE-1 film SLR up until 2009 when I upgraded to digital.

[@Retromicky82]

Not bad for what it is and when it came out . Guess love of cameras run in the family .

[@thomashobbs7066]

you should do a video on the Apple QuickTake series (yes apple made digital cameras!!)

[@LGR]

I have one that I plan to cover, if people wanna see it

[@etherealenigma9688]

+LGR Trust me, we do!

[@DvdXploitr]

Yes, I am sure PLENTY of people would like to see that! (speaking of odd Apple hardware, how about that Apple CD-ROM drive that doubles as a "portable" CD player? Got one of those? Called the PowerCD)

[@vwestlife]

Sold, not made. The Apple QuickTake cameras were made by either Kodak or Fuji, depending on the model.

[@LeeDee5]

I love those photos! That washed-out look pleases my eyes.

[@Chris_WG]

I still own mine! Haven't used it in about 15 years but I may have to pull it out of the closet now. :) Very cool to see you review it! :)

[@antraxbeta23]

there are phones after year 2000 that do worse then this when it comes to taking a picture so i for one am amazed :)

[@rudi_sucks_eggs]

Hey LGR. I noticed from one of your old LGRThrifts videos you found a Sony Mavica camera, the ones that write directly to floppy disks. I have two and would be willing to package and send you one to review and try out. How would I do that?

[@josephcote6120]

I had an Olympus camera that was very similar. The one big difference that made it tolerable was that the big flash memory card could pop out and I could use a USB external card reader to download the pics into my PC. Ended up giving it to a teacher friend for her special needs kids. A camera you just turn on and take pictures is great for them, and they have a lot of fun with it.

[@sburton015]

I remember the first digital camera I had was a kodac 1 mp camera that I took pictures of around my highschool back in 2000 to 2001.

[@joechaos13]

Are you one of those people who actually thinks "$499.99" doesn't mean "$500"?

[@loganiushere]

Joseph Seems like it.

[@und4287]

Marketing departments of every company: Well yes, but actually no

[@DDRFreak410]

Damn I'd buy that camera just to take pics of and upload onto instagram.

[@eusouumcesar]

Clint, or someone else, should definitely do this.

[@dubbleawesome3982]

The only digital camera I had back in the day was the yellow and black toy looking JamCam. It was so exciting just the idea of being able to take photos and plop them onto my PC and mess around with them a little bit. You do indeed get a nice vintage-style look to old digital cam photos though, I'd love to bust one out again.

[@spunkmire2664]

Such relaxing goodness, thank you LGR.

[@daisyrushton1574]

wow, that's a lot of chromatic aberration!

[@LGR]

Sure is! Really adds to the mid-90s digicam aesthetic.

[@user-po6hn9id1t]

LGR is there a serial port to USB port adapter?

[@Eletronicafg]

yes

[@JasonZakrajsek]

ΑΡΗΣ ΚΟΡΝΑΡΑΚΗΣ Google is your friend.

[@rasz]

almost looks like 3CCD with misaligned optics, but that cant be right(too expensive).

[@creamthelapin]

0.3MP? At that rate wouldn't it be better to have used a disposable/instant camera and scan the photos in later? (On modern hardware.)

[@LGR]

Absolutely! Probably still would've been cheaper, too. But hey, consumer digital cameras had to start somewhere :)

[@creamthelapin]

I suppose it's also the quality of the image as well as the overall resolution in terms of pixel count. Scanning could have introduced other issues with the image quality had it been intended to be reproduced or viewed by digital means. I would be interested to hear your elaborations on image/print quality as an ex-picture framer in particular.

[@no1DdC]

The advantage of these early digital cameras was simply their speed. You could take a photo and instantly (well, as instantly as your serial port allowed at least) you had it on your PC and could use it, e.g., for your pioneering early online shop, to send photos of things you want to sell to potential buyers via that newfangled email thing (or via fax - I've heard of people doing this back then), etc. Normal photos need to be developed, which either involves waiting a few hours for the photo store to do it for you or handling nasty chemicals in your own darkroom, which isn't much fun.

[@ninjamaster3453]

Yeah until 2000-2001 it was better quality and more economical to use a 35mm quality camera, develop the film, then scan it into the computer.

[@chartle1]

Color scanners were maybe $2,000 at the time. Heck that may have been the price for a B&W scanner.

[@mitokyo3679]

6:27 That flash memory makes me nostalgic. When I was working in some company my job was to kinda play with such. I think the particular one is among the ones in there. And sometimes I actually painted dots like seen red on the one shown in the video.

[@jon5605]

Yes! We had one of these at School to take photos of woodwork projects!

[@Phenom98]

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[@alexander_mejia]

The quality in these photos is quite good for the time. My first digital camera was a Sony Mavica and I have some photos which are not as great. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Keep producing!

[@presidentkiller]

I didn't even know digital cameras existed before 1999. I vaguely remember an ad for the Sony Mavica and the Nintendo GameBoy Camera and that's it. My first digital camera was actually a crappy Logitech webcam in 2000 that came with a "new" (because it was brand new, but a slightly older model) HP Pavilion PC I got that year. It took terrible pictures and even worse video, but I was in awe that such a thing was even possible, the "live" feed to the PC was just an amazing sight back then. My proper first digital camera was a Sony Cybershot I got in 2005, and again, I was pretty excited that you could just take pictures and delete them as you wished right from the camera itself because it had a tiny color LCD screen. I literally took pictures of everything, and I still have some of them. After cellphone cameras caught on, the novelty and excitement wore off.

[@Kyntteri]

It's so nice of you to suffer through this nuisance again while filming it, rather than us goin' through this cappy hardware all over again. I see you as my personal old hardware J3sus.

[@Jena-cc6os]

Man those pictures you showed at the end brought back so much 90’s nostalgia! So freakin’ cool!

[@russiangoose7053]

I love the box and packaging as much as the device itself sometimes. It really adds to the immersion

[@TylerRich]

Love your channel my friend! I’d forgotten that my dad had one of these back in the day. I too was mesmerized by the technology. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@jensharbers6702]

Dang, at that Time myself was one Year old. Thanks for the Videos, now i know what was "State of the Art" at Digital Cameras.

[@unfa00]

Wow, the chromatic aberration of that lens is beautiful!

[@edrice2621]

I remember buying my first digital camera some time around 1999 or 2000. It was a Toshiba PDR-M4, if I recall. It had a metal body, optical viewfinder, a color LCD display for previews and menus, among other things. It cost me around $500. Bought a 32 Megabyte SmartMedia card for it, and that cost $100! I think I might still have it in storage somewhere.

[@Waldimart]

The pictures look better than I expected. That software reminds me of an early PlayMemories Home pre-alpha for modern Sony cameras like the DSC-HX60.

[@VSigma725]

I found one of those Mini-DIN8 to DE-9 cables at a thrift store and got it for managing my SGI systems and stuff...didn't realize they were used with digital cameras!

[@BruceChastain]

love these old cameras. I had .3mp canon from like 1998

[@chuapeiyuan8293]

Battery with tester. Wow, that's my childhood memories too. Well a kids memories for a person in his 20s.

[@JESSEQUEST]

So cool. I love all the pictures taken that could have been straight outta the mid 90s. I remember seeing stuff like that all the time, and we have stuff like that in our house still, because we were primarily an 80s/90s family. Good stuff, LGR. Good stuff.

[@thomasbanks1133]

My grandfather had the PC600 version of this camera which had a CF card slot! It was handed down to me when I was younger but have since lost it which saddens me to this day. Also, it had the same 1MB flash/16 photo limit in the high res setting as your original version.

[@NetworkXIII]

This was a nice camera for 1995, I wish I had one then. My first digital camera was a webcam that plugged into the parallel port of my PC, circa 1998 vintage. I bought it for photographing merchandise (mostly yard sale finds) that I was selling on eBay. The camera was absolutely awful to use, but it served its purpose. Those were the great old days, I miss them.

[@alexriesenbeck]

Very nice use for this old camera. Great shots!

[@tomtalk24]

1:20 The timer logo on the front of this camera from 1995 is exactly the same logo use in the camera settings > "Self-timer" on my 2017 Sony XZ! I presume other brands too... Trademark, universal standard or what? Kinda cool!

[@pinkpuff_sfc]

those pictures look amazing i really really like the way they look man i wish i had one of those now