The 1st ever webcam - Connectix Quickcam

[@urdnal]

The pictures of you and your wife (and cat!) are really heartwarming

[@a-1b-2c-37]

Ok

[@radleyjabilona3806]

NolimoDK lol

[@pierreuntel1970]

and then you realize that cat is long dead

[@radleyjabilona3806]

SandPox 😂😂😂

[@John-p9m2c]

urdnal nou

[@LGR]

Loved this episode. Having experience and photos from the nineties makes all the difference with a video like this!

[@stonent]

I seem to remember back in the early 1990s at Computer City, seeing some logitech cameras that predated the connectix one. They had a display at the time I believe with one of those logitech cameras and a Deskjet 500 so you could print a small postage stamp sized picture of yourself. The camera I remember was sort of a white slab with rounded edges and used a DIN style connector that strongly resembled the connector they used on their old handheld scanners. Looking up the DJ500, that came out in 1992, so it certainly could predate the connectix one. I had a newer DJ550C that I purchased not long after that.

[@stonent]

Ha! I found it. The Logitech Fotoman! Now lets see if LGR or 8BitGuy finds one :) What an interesting history Connectix had. Parts sold to Logitech, parts told to Microsoft. Might make a good LGR Tech Tale.

[@Paiste402]

LGR! No kidding man your channel got me onto this one, and I thank you for it.

[@humanesque]

Yep, I had a Brooktree BT878 back in 1996 that I had hooked up to a Signature 2000 VHS camcorder. Used to use it to make GIFs for my highschool and pirate movie nights on Netmeeting. Even with that gear, I was a little jealous of the guys with a "tiny" camera like that.

[@Rowsdow3r]

I'm officially demanding an 8bitguy/LGR collab

[@CocaColaDE]

WOW! The Quality from the Photos aren't too bad!

[@alexanderthomas2660]

Indeed, pretty good for a 320x240 6-bit monochrome camera.

[@Windows98R]

Latif11 honestly, i think it’s better then some modern potatos in terms of sharpness

[@CocaColaDE]

@@Windows98R haha yes xD

[@DarkChasmGamers]

@@Windows98R it's a really controlled environment with a camera on a tripod. That, and the fact that it's got a lot of digital processing involved to combine the images.

[@DarkChasmGamers]

@@Windows98R see 3:30 for how it would actually look if you used it.

[@JosephByrne]

Even at 0.08 Megapixels the 90s still look great.

[@huseyinuguralacatli5064]

my webcam have a 0.01mp mode and resolution is lower than grandpa webcam

[@MistahHeffo]

There is a video floating around of a camera guy driving around New York in the 90's with this bleeding edge video camera that could do this InSaNe resolution of 1080i It's nuts to see the 90's in HD

[@minekid4624]

@@MistahHeffo what’s It called

[@MistahHeffo]

@@minekid4624 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIWXnXeLYrZ_i7s

[@dorjsuren0214]

okay thats way better than bank cam xD

[@MaxKoschuh]

the amazing thing is that you still have these old digital pictures, while IRL people loosing their stored pictures like every two years. Tells me something about storage and backup. You did eveything right.

[@MajorMoron]

Redundant backups are key in the digital age. I still have photos from my old ass Razor phone from almost 10 years ago now.

[@Lauren_C]

@@MajorMoron I've my pictures from my old Samsung Gravity and BlackBerry Pearl flip phones as well. Plenty of pictures from my Kyocera Finecam lv3 though, which wallops the phones. I also have pictures from my very first camera which was a happy meal toy which used 110 film. The toy camera was from about 1999-2000-ish and I was 8-9 years old.

[@JuanHerrero]

Anything important i want to keep, I just mail to myself (gmail).

[@danfuerthgillis4483]

Ing. Max Koschuh I used to be in the "scene" back in the early 2000's I have seen CD listings from 1992-2004 that are no longer made and the companies have been sold or gone away. Many of these applications still work even in Windows 10 lol, Kai's Power tools, Macromedia Freehand, Metacreations 3D painter, Metacreations Painter 6, KPT painter 7 ( last version before the Corel Morons took over). All the Softimage versions from the first NT version, all the Discreet 3d max versions , Maya versions, Adobe etc lol. Amazing that Photoshop 5 runs circles around Photoshop cc in terms of speed lol.

[@Sb129]

indeed, I have almost 10,000 pictures from all kinds of digital cameras I have had through the years, from my Palm PDAs to my S7 Edge I have kept them all for the most part (approx 80% of any pictures I've taken digitally I still have)

[@gavin5861]

64 shades of grey sounds like a super nerdy version I would totally read.

[@Operational117]

Momento Mori But that doesn’t fit into a power of two. But I understand where your pun comes from...

[@maximthemagnificent]

"Eight Bits of Grey" would be my preference for such a title these days.

[@brycearchambault6260]

HOLY SHIT GUYS I FOUND HIS FRIEND GAVIN

[@gdisle7691]

Nah it's just the pop up version of the original

[@buildingchannel9314]

Me an intellectual: a stack of gray

[@genericrandom64]

3:28 *Color video of person carrying black and white camera* ok, fair enough

[@squidiskool]

My video just glitches out

[@kuolettavaVids]

Probably was a VHS recording.

[@puekai]

: he was technically advanced back then.

[@mrkenz7566]

Must be an alien recording#!

[@beamboi2775]

It was a old vhs Camcorder rec

[@rachie]

This is so wholesome ahhhh

[@swagmankayearIQ]

please read the Bible

[@missimperfectlyfine7]

aaah rachie!!

[@itsyaboiwan6416]

@@swagmankayearIQ ok

[@damorin2154]

@@swagmankayearIQ I'm a muslim

[@swagmankayearIQ]

@@damorin2154 do you follows qurans word on lgbt?

[@rockymm10]

the moment when you run out of stuff to watch then your favorite KZbinr uploads a video

[@AidanTschantre]

BobbyMart lol yup

[@crustyHO]

Always better content than any of the trash on TV, unless it's like game of thrones or walking dead. I would mention stranger things but that's a netflix kinda thing. I do miss me some How it's made and the original Mcgyver.

[@deelan_]

BobbyMart So true

[@edmundohernandez8464]

damn thats how i feel right now,. I ran out of shit to watch so i was like fuck it time to fap but let me refresh youtube one more time.

[@0mchen221]

Same with me

[@cleitonfelipe2092]

I don't know what shocks me more, the guy having a working 1994 webcam, or he still having the photos taken with it

[@riflemanm16a2]

It is amazing that those files haven't been corrupted or destroyed after all this time. I seem to remember losing everything on the family computer two or three times from hard drive failure in the '90s (somehow a few files have managed to survive, but I don't remember having a backup). Even some school pictures from 2001-2003 are corrupted and can't be opened now :(

[@ToTheGAMES]

Backups.

[@riflemanm16a2]

'90s. Child.

[@biolinkstudios]

No file is ever really corrupted, its just trying to fined how to reorder the 1s and 0s

[@red__guy]

Never doubt a hard copy

[@SatoshiMatrix1]

The color photo trick is beyond awesome. So nerdy and so amazing. Thanks for sharing this after all these years. It's almost as if you knew in 20 years you'd be doing a video on this webcam!

[@tziuriky86]

So nerdy? That's how the first colour pictures were taken at the begin of the previous century :D

[@SatoshiMatrix1]

It's awesome.

[@ballersforlife1674]

Seeing windows 95 operating brings tears in my eyes

[@N._99]

If you have an android there's a windows 98 sim you can download :) turns your phone into a legit pc from the late 90s.

[@coffeedvdrw]

@@N._99 I know what you are talking about but there's a better alternative to that, Install Windows 95/98 on a virtual machine

[@N._99]

@@coffeedvdrw goddamn, I haven't screwed with that in a minute. Shit I gotta refresh myself on it..

[@mixazizu]

Starting Progressbar 95...

[@paulgascoigne5343]

awwww you and your wife looked so sweet

[@ian_b]

I thought that too!

[@justin-3985]

Paul Gascoigne and the Cat?

[@paulgascoigne5343]

The cat would not be impressed with my lack of feline compliments

[@justin-3985]

Typical Nerd xD

[@sheikhabdullah5171]

Paul Gascoigne by the way you are broke and shit

[@JoelElRican]

The pics of you and your wife are so wholesome :-D

[@LivingWithTheGuzmans]

I had the color one. Thanks for the video.

[@dwyaneingente2899]

Yes

[@balticseaships476]

Yes

[@tanzeemroks9344]

yes

[@TheAsrielDeal]

No

[@orgeszeneli]

no

[@cris8627]

It's funny how the first webcam still has the same resolution as most modern webcams

[@gavinthecrafter]

What kind of trash webcam are you using lol, mine is 0.9 MP which still isn't _good_ , but is way better than 0.08 MP

[@vincentforonda7381]

lmao

[@sharko_tv_be]

that's what you get for trying to squeeze a camera in the depth of an LCD screen

[@SkeleCrafteronYT]

"Even the Gimp will do it" -The8BitGuy 2016

[@txd]

Hahaha I thought this was funny as well :D

[@edmundohernandez8464]

Need to get me a gimp

[@RMJ1984]

I'm totally going down to the local pimp right now to get it done. In Red, Green and Blue.

[@weeknightwarrior]

gimp's sleeping

[@DalekTurtle]

Well, I guess you're gonna have to go wake him up now, won't you?

[@Michirin9801]

320 x 240 is actually pretty good for a 1994 webcam! Oh and, that trick of taking colour pictures with a black and white camera is actually pretty amazing! I didn't even know that was possible!

[@emko333]

that's what many NASA cameras do they have filter wheel with many different colors to capture different wavelengths this rotates over the sensor then they just combine them in software to get color images. www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16799.html

[@garylcroxford]

Many medical imagining devices use it as well - for surgery, endoscopy etc.

[@TehBurek]

That's essentially how digital color images are taken today, only the filters are pixel-sized and already in-place over the sensor.

[@brys555]

This trick was used by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in 1909-1912, so it's pretty old technique. Search for "russia in color a century ago".

[@John_Ridley]

In fact all image sensors are black and white sensors. They just have R/G/B filters in front of individual pixels instead of the whole sensor at a time.

[@yasirsaheed]

It's great that you still have those photos, I really regret deleting pics I took in the early 2000's

[@KokoRicky]

That was really sweet seeing you and your wife from back in the day, and ya'll are still together! Cool that you saved that media. Makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

[@ryuzakikun96]

It's so awesome that you and your wife were able to hold onto those memories from over 20 years ago. I'm sure filming this was very nostalgic for you.

[@JoelTena]

Years ago I asked a photographer friend of mine what he thought of the proliferation of camera phones. His simple yet profound response: "The picture taken is infinitely better than the picture not taken." Personally, I envy your digital camera photos from 22 years ago...

[@pcsecuritychannel]

Looks like it was made by Aperture Science.

[@salsagal]

r/unexpectedportal

[@bonbon51141]

Mabye it was 😐

[@bluiiCH]

looks like an egg

[@michaelfinlay1412]

you may look at the operational end of the device, unlike the apreture dual portal device. GLaDOS version, you may look at the operational end of the device, but id rather not see your fat face on my cameras. ik glados can be mean in both main games tward chell, but the comedy part of portal 2 is good.

[@michaelfinlay1412]

@@bluiiCH or a camera from portal and portal 2

[@1981dasimpson]

what amazes me is you still have all the photos back from that era anything i had is long gone

[@mariosangourakis2440]

when that almost 25 year old webcam is better than your 350$ computer's camera

[@SoonerStateSirens1]

Quackid Relatable

[@pikgears]

@SpaghattyLS bad internet, bad cameras, etc

[@hackernest4244]

it really is im not joking

[@gothfennec]

how le fuck did i find you here marz

[@daniidelrey]

Better than my 20$, Christmas tablet camera which the tablet is AAAAAAA

[@Jones12ax7]

In 1996 I got a damaged Cassio QV-11 from my boss for free. It was really expensive at that time. I was luck enough to fix it. Some time after, due to an over-voltage of the DC adapter, it was damaged again, but so that there's no to way to download the pictures using the serial cable. As I had important pictures there, some years later I hooked the composite video output to a TV card and captured a video of the photos slideshow. That's a clever idea to preserve that memories. Nice to see that you still have such old files backed up!

[@BrienMalone]

Whoaaa blast from the past. I had one of those!! I used it with software called (presciently enough) I-Phone 4 around 1995 that allowed me to video chat with my IRC friends around the world. We used to mute audio to try and get the frame rate above 4 per second. This was all over 28k modems.

[@zzco]

What network(s) did you haunt? :p

[@lemonslice2233]

But with muted audio all you could do was stare at each other's acne.

[@BrienMalone]

... or type... Typing to groups in real time was pretty captivating back then. We'd do it for hours.

[@lemonslice2233]

Brien Malone I meant what you could do with the video feed. Jeez, I'm from your era.

[@sergiofreitas9368]

The quality of the webcam is better than most of the "alien sighting" videos on YT

[@nikkirennardo5100]

“Even the Gimp will do it.” That could be taken very wrong to someone who hasn’t heard of that program

[@clickbait9948]

@XXEcstacy stfu Jk

[@Alessandro.ortizdezevallos]

Yes

[@xandercreates6766]

Stfu everyone Jk lol

[@Ozymandias1]

Or has watched Pulp Fiction.

[@Psythik]

@Adam Rx Fuck off, Adam, Nikki's comment was hilarious

[@JimGardner]

This is one of the most heartwarming things I've ever seen.

[@CHCHA2384]

The photos of your wife and yourself made me feel so warm, you could tell you were so in love with each other ❤️ Also what crazy memories to have stored away!

[@FlippytheMasterofPie]

Even though I’ve known how three-strip color works for years and years, every time I see it in action it still gives me a kick. It’s like a magic trick!

[@Xerdoz]

Must've been a hit with women because it had 14 more shades of grey than 50.

[@rommix0]

That is such a geeky joke. I love it

[@aidensulkey6678]

lol

[@missingno2401]

64 shades of grey

[@myMotoring]

Only if the women love to be hit

[@CtrlAtlDel]

Rofl

[@REthe4th]

I find it absolutely adorable that you used this camera to take pictures of you and your wife!

[@bitMAN]

Your old pics did it for me man! I have close to two decades of digital pictures stored securely, so pretty much every single picture I took with a digital camera and did not delete immediately, I have it. It always impresses my family and friends when they say "do you remember that time when..." and 90% of the time, I'm able to pull at least one picture of that moment in less than three minutes. Long live digital photography!

[@EduardRitok]

3:22 those pictures are actually great!! especially since they are made back in 94-5 .. and when you have some nice memories captured on them, they do not have to be full color 10mpx ❤️

[@annabeladenney]

The pictures with his wife are so cute 😍😍

[@Dacite6]

and old

[@iwouldliketobelievethattha7561]

@thepostedtoast *staples toast to a tree*

[@jonahwickenden1624]

Meeep

[@salmonsquirethebruhifysold8136]

HOI

[@salmonsquirethebruhifysold8136]

HOI

[@MarkyDav]

It's pretty neat you still have those image files.

[@AmandaHugenkiss2915]

Love the pics from long ago. The 90s were a wonderful time to watch technology rise. While I genuinely appreciate what we have now, I also appreciate the simpler times of the 80s and 90s

[@alainportant6412]

3:23 This cat looks adorable.

[@twistedmetalyrock200]

i feel sad cause that cat must've been dead a long time ago

[@henrys3138]

@@twistedmetalyrock200 if it was alive even by this video it would be a world record. Cats live a maximum of 25 years. Edit: supposedly one made it to its 30s, but that's not the norm.

[@RoBEEFnik]

yes

[@DoctorNemmo]

Oh, that floppy disk inserting sound was so satisfying.

[@caponeprincess73]

Awww you two look so cute. Thank you for sharing with us!

[@michaella4347]

"The Gimp will do it" = most famous line cut from Pulp Fiction

[@Preinstallable]

Michael La Right as he said thwt i scrolled past ur comment

[@bensvedra9616]

Don't forget - "Exercise in futility."

[@n2noodles]

@@Preinstallable same

[@bazurk_dot_com]

This was my first ever webcam. Thank you for the nostalgia.

[@CurtF94]

4:46 that pic looks like it was taken in the 50s

[@Anthony-nj2mz]

I agree

[@kai990]

Except that colors weren't yet discovered in large parts of the world in the 50s

[@morebadgamers3108]

@@kai990 yes that is true it was the late 60s or early 70s

[@igameidoresearchtoo6511]

@@morebadgamers3108 early 60s was when color cams in the usa became known commonly (not yet used by the public however)

[@austoful]

the process of using 3 lenses and recombining the film to make a color photo is exactly how technicolor films work.

[@tziuriky86]

Yep! But not only NASA. Plenty of amateur stargazers buy black and white CCD's and take photos with RGB filters (among other types of filters) as this will produce more faithful images. Fact is, that colour sensors have tiny RGB filters applied to each pixel, literally reducing the resolution and the amount of details captured, so using BW and taking each colour and other wavelengths separately is a better technique either for scientific purposes or even just for the sake of obtaining the best looking photos 8-)

[@MarkTinberg]

The Smithsonian had some amazing photos from Imperial Russia where a photographer there named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii had figured out the three-filter trick, a technique which was lost until re-invented in the mid 1900s.

[@SMGJohn]

+Tziu Ricky Not really applicable in these days mate, maybe 5 to 10 years ago but not today as digital cameras have almost twice the dynamic range of analogue film.

[@rorrt]

SMGJohn, The thing about analogue film is you have finesse in the highlights and the shadows. Even with a 5Dmk3 or the D4 or 5. There is still that window of exposure. And then it slams to clipping out white areas and highlights. Which doesn't happen with film, you can push and pull film. You can, as i have overexposed some FP4 film by 7 stops and have it in a state where i can print in the darkroom... Of course i'd preferred it if i overexposed by maybe 2 stops. But that didn't happen. RAW is fantastic, but i've never seen 7 stops over on a bright and sunny day.

[@tziuriky86]

***** It depends.... I think medium and large format film has superior dynamic range to even the best 35mm (full frame) digital SLR. However, in my comment I was talking about something else, that is the capture of each different channel and different wavelenghts of light using BW cooled CCD sensors, that's how pro astronomers capture the most accurate astronomical pictures.

[@dermetzger]

0:47 - "Easy ball-cleaning design" on that mouse... Man... That is one thing I definitely do NOT miss about the old mouses. Such a massive pain in the ass.

[@philbertchow5425]

I really hate when my balls get dirty.

[@orgeszeneli]

@@philbertchow5425 my brain is getting the wrong idea

[@RaveN_EDM]

Mice*

[@RedMango.]

@@RaveN_EDM he meant pc mouses

[@dennisolof9994]

Talk about memories. I use to own that Quick Cam and I used it on Win 3.11 computer running Cuseeme software to chat with people. I was connected to the Internet with my modem. That was a long time ago and today most people do not seem to appreciate that most of the technology we use today is not new but only improvements of things we already had from before. Thanks for sharing the cool photos from back in the day.

[@sharkmanxbro7082]

Stuff like these videos just make me wounder how different my life is going to be in 20-30 years froms now, and how cool it will be to look back at my old photos that I've taken in 2010's and 20's.

[@thesteaktc]

I remember when my friend got one of these and it was really exciting to be able to capture real world images on your computer.

[@JonnyInfinite]

you know you're old- school when you call Gimp "The Gimp"

[@zzco]

Hey, don't knock RedHat Linux 6! :p

[@tziuriky86]

Greetings from Slackware Linux 7.0 :P (Sent from my Amiga 1200).

[@zzco]

:P

[@VaughnRhinehart]

JonnyInfinite but it is more correct because it is saying the Gnu Image Manipulation Program so saying the is correct.

[@nabarunr3]

It was lovely seeing young you and your wife. Actually the first time I saw her smiling in any of your videos!

[@D0nCab]

Lol. you and your wife look like you just came from the set of blossom. really interesting video. loving your channel.

[@BlueXonar]

3:28 proof if ever it were needed that David has always been an amazing geek!

[@OppirompaMiDotCom]

No, it's the merging of BW images taken using physical RGB filters that does it for me. That's hardcore 90's nerdcred! o7

[@BMD19840]

god, I love to look at old pictures cuz they are so cool. the white and black format made any picture mysterious which I love

[@menthodman6969]

You know, I couldnt give a shit about that camera, but the joy that you had looking at those old photos of you and your wife. That hit me. Now I will forever have this memory of you reliving a memory with a old camera. Thank you. ❤

[@viktormaslennikov03]

Back in 90s 8 bit guy was a "cool" guy XD

[@agustinalejandrogerosa7069]

Виктор Масленников He Still is

[@technologyproductions-ye3px]

Leopold Slikk I know

[@Roshan_420]

he had very nice hair

[@Infinitebreak97]

Young 8-Bit Guy looks good man! No homo

[@maxywaxy34]

This is the 21st century you know you don't have to put "No homo" when your complementing the same gender.

[@invertidols1307]

MaxtheAlien shaddap you have the gay

[@DamienNightmarish]

I thought the same. No homo.

[@ReddoFreddo]

What old(er) age does to you man. This why you should use moisturizer and sunscreen every day. And make sure you don't go bald. And make sure you're born Asian or African.

[@punishedexistence]

He kinda looks like Tobias Forge from Ghost in his younger shots.

[@manuperez3345]

i just LOVE IT, all those memories, make me nostalgic

[@mrfourtysevenman]

This is one of the most interesting videos ive ever seen. I cannot believe as young as i am that i was alive when this stuff was around. Also, I don't even have any of my digital photos I kept from 2009 let alone 1995! Your photos from that time were really cool

[@Bandicoot803]

0:30 - They were extremely generous in regards of the lengthy cable they shipped their eyes with! That's at least 5 or 6 foot, I guess!

[@JeremyWittkopp]

You are an awesome KZbinr. Thanks for such great content.

[@ianjohnson5365]

your old photos are awesome haha

[@WASasquatch]

This video is fascinating. I would never have thought of that method of obtaining colour photos this way. People are brilliant. Also really cool seeing some old pictures of you and your wife.

[@leoprisionero]

absolutely loved the old pics

[@abc-ni9uw]

Loving the 90s curtain hair style

[@EpicLebaneseNerd]

i remember the first ever web came i ever saw, at a friend's house, i was so impressed that i made a small video as a test , doing funny faces, i didn't know the video was saved, over 20 years later, my friend still makes fun of that video, he still has it and it makes me angry each time he mentions it :P

[@quardpd6390]

It makes me so happy to see people making videos about Connectix products because my dad had worked for Connectix until they went out of business in 2003 and helped design the software for the majority of their products such as Ram Doubler and Virtual Game Station! (and also the camera software) And since he had worked for them, we have a fair share of old Connectix products.

[@imadeyoureadthis1500]

4:56 look how much sour worms are in the packet now they barely have any

[@Tobi_DarkKnight]

Well, the german version of the trolli are still good.

[@lucetubegplusstillsux2678]

I kinda like the effect of the manual color filtering, I might try that on one of my cameras.

[@zzco]

The color actually looks better when filtered manually like that, IMO.

[@lucetubegplusstillsux2678]

It can sure, I figure some of it can be lost from byte compression.

[@zzco]

Yeah.

[@Niosus]

That's simply due to compression. In a modern color camera, the same happens but on a single pixel level. Each pixel has 3 subpixel with an individual filter in front of them.

[@cpufreak101]

Lucetube GPlusStillSux next time I have a black and white camera I'll have to give it a trial

[@XNusemX]

Damn you were a stud back then 😂

[@isaacdavis1363]

and now too

[@suprememasteroftheuniverse]

Welcome to the gay sauna.

[@Olav3D]

8-bit Chad!

[@AlanRoe]

Great video! As someone who was quite young but interested in tech in the mid to late 90's these are always refreshing flashbacks.

[@williamarkwright1805]

Imagine using this for facecam for Twitch streams

[@diogonoronha100]

Lol It would be a very special vibe

[@TubeDupe]

Actually many laptop webcams haven't really become that much better. The Quickcam at least had a decent lens.

[@lolgal1996]

thank god for you honestly because i'm bored af at 1:20 am on a school night and ,, a new tech video djdkdh

[@DanteToska]

ddivinezeroo same

[@TheLogax100]

ditto

[@TheModShopCO]

And now all of you are bored af again.

[@safetydoge]

ddivinezeroo ur school must suck I don't have school on Halloween

[@Greenlink74]

same man

[@GloKat]

Man, you mentioned Paint Shop Pro, that program takes me WAY back

[@markm0000]

Nero Burn also takes me back. I think the last time I burned a disk was 2008!!

[@TylerSteven9]

WinZip, Corel Word Perfect, WinAmp

[@The8BitGuy]

I STILL use PaintShop Pro 6 for most of the graphics in my youtube videos.

[@markm0000]

Nah it's still good software for basic tasks. You would get the benefit of a better UI and improved effects with GIMP. WinZip has moved onto the superior 7zip. WinAmp is dead, foobar2000 has replaced it and I believe you can get the exact same skin for it.

[@TubeDupe]

Your video really conveys your excitement about this rather simple product. Which was at the time, absolutely amazing and stunning. At same time I was set on getting a webcam (they were only around US$200 (inflation adjusted), and I had no idea what to use it for. But now I know the answer: It's for playing around with. It's for building your own smartphone out of a laptop, a headset and a webcam and running around in the garden with it, trailing electrical wires behind you, and probably prompting the neighbors to call the cops on you. Actually, I just bought my first webcam only a month ago. So that was a purchase a quarter of a century in the making.

[@hasrulmuhammad8271]

Mopkwaas, uwcerrtyuwsm.?whup bvhwn.?

[@Moon-zo6hu]

You (correctly) qualified this with "affordable and mass market", but I bring to your attention the SGI IndyCam that was included with the Indy workstation introduced in July 1993. It was a pack-in with a 5,000USD professional workstation, but I thought I would mention it for trivia buffs.

[@mapesdhs597]

Two years on from this video I come across it and was just about to post about the IndyCam, decided to read the comments first, saw your post. :D Yes indeed, IndyCam was a year earlier, though as you say, not a consumer product.

[@DJefke001]

Well, The Indy was supposed to be an affordable workstation for the home user. And the price was quite low compared to other UNIX workstations of that era.

[@Zerit0]

And not just that, IndyCam was a color 640x480 cam. Way ahead of its time, as anything from SGI.

[@polishboot]

Kids today have no idea what we went through

[@-Vitalis-]

- Dad, Internet is slow as hell. I have to wait two seconds until Google does a search. Is there anything faster? - Son, sit down and let me tell you a story...

[@tor2840]

polishboot and you kids have no idea what kids 200 years *ago* went through. stop living in the past and get it through your head that technology and society progresses, and you weren't the only ones in the history of the world to suffer

[@polishboot]

tor grandma, is that you?

[@tor2840]

polishboot great grandpa, not grandma. your memory seems to be going with your young age

[@-Vitalis-]

tor 200 year kids? Damn, I feel bad for their parents. I thought 18 years living in their parent's house was a nightmare already...

[@ragnarokstravius2074]

2:58, do you see this photo? This photo shows a Man that get laid in a snap of a finger.

[@lemonslice2233]

I just see the 8-bit guy.

[@Thornn1]

LemonSlice That's what he said.

[@Advection357]

lolz

[@ghome8281]

i just see 24 year old nic cage

[@WilliamMelton617]

Man, that's so awesome that you thought to take pictures and videos so long ago. A true archivist!

[@BoeZerek]

"64 Shades of Gray" by QuickCam

[@woilah794]

*A STACK OF GRAY*

[@conturnplayscounturn6911]

two stacks of gray?

[@untrust2033]

Quality looks better tha most stuff on youtube nowadays. The (relatively) low quality looks pretty good actually!

[@pokepress]

For the color photos, someone did something similar with the Game Boy Camera, but they needed a second filter to remove the infrared since it doesn't have that filter built in. Does this camera have one?

[@The8BitGuy]

It does have an infrared filter that can be removed.

[@ИльяВитцев]

+The 8-Bit Guy Wow,in '90s you looked like Sheldon Cooper =D

[@sengsakmony84]

The 8-Bit Guy p

[@Adrastia]

I had no idea that was possible. I know my uncle had those filters. But as a kid I never knew what they were for and never bothered to ask. I think I thought they were broken 3D glasses or giant bingo markers. Something weird like that.

[@AP-gc5ss]

You still have the pictures you took with this camera, amazing!

[@quachyq]

Not going to lie, that 95 keyboard looks really good for only $30? Looks like a steal these days.

[@lemonslice2233]

True, the only sub-100$ keyboard these days that's worth a damn is the Apple wired one.

[@MrPoeGhost]

I know I'm necro'ing the shit out of this thread, I apologize, but... LemonSlice Meanwhile, I'm all here perfectly content with my $20 ASUS keyboard. Hey, if it stays and one piece and gets shit done, yanno?

[@elmoelmerson172]

Poe Ghost Necroposting isn't really a thing on KZbin tho'

[@BilisNegra]

It might LOOK really good, but maybe it wasn't. Those days most keyboards looked pretty much alike, there wasn't much design variety... aesthetically, that is. By looking at that one in the old ad, maybe the good old IBM model M series has sprung to your mind, but I'm pretty sure it is far worse than that.

[@RobertLeBlancPhoto]

I actually bought the color version of this web cam. I wish I still had it, I'd send it to you.

[@MikhailBersenevVlog]

You make a colored photos like a Russian photographer Prokudin-Gorskiy in begin of 20th century

[@hughjass2024]

lol, that's what it reminded me of as well

[@9inchpp]

And he did a video about him later

[@алексейкузнецов-я5и]

Прокудин-Горский was indeed ahead of his time.

[@Volodimar]

@@ekaneev111 kak Jak Fresco

[@BobbyIronsights]

I don't have alot of money to start being a patreon to all the wonderful channels on youtube, but I did subscribe and I am definitely going to hit that like button with every video and see if that helps out YT's algorithm a bit. ...... I like your work. You deserve to be successful. I wish you well.

[@thegrifman]

Colorizing those pictures seems like such a simple solution and they seem to resemble old colorized photos. Is the method you used the same or similar to how they colorized those older photos before modern software?

[@-DeScruff]

Yeah it would be (kinda?) the digital equivalent to how old time photos were colorized.

[@The8BitGuy]

Not really.. Unless they had the 3 separate sources of color taken at the time the photo was made, there would be no way to use this technique. So in most cases, old photos are colorized by hand with a paint program, which can take hours of work.

[@-DeScruff]

The 8-Bit Guy Yeah true they did require 3 photos. like this old 1911 photo upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Rgb-compose-Alim_Khan.jpg/1920px-Rgb-compose-Alim_Khan.jpg

[@Ty4ons]

Some 19th century photographers like Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used the same technique with taking three black and white images with a different filter. Later they made film with different dyes for each color. At first those could be really complicated to process and needed a development bath for each color (look up K-14 process) while "modern" color film is simple enough that an amature can process it (C-41 process). Using separate dyes on the film itself for the different colors still kinda how they do it today with digital cameras. Only there they use different color filters on the pixels themselves (bayer filter). One other way to do it is with individual sensors for each color. If you see a camcorder advertising something like "3CCD" that means it has three image sensors and a prism splitting the image into red, green and blue for each sensor. Foveon has a third way of making color sensors, but those sensors are much rarer.

[@Ts6451]

Before color photography was available for general consumers some artists and photographers offered hand coloring of black and white photos, which is similar to how you might use colorization brushes in a modern image processing program.

[@KaityKat117]

That method of getting color pictures with a black and white camera is piety awesome. Bit of trivia, that technique was originally theorized by a Scottish physicist named James Maxwell in 1855. The first color photograph made with this technique was taken in 1861 by a photographer named Thomas Sutton. Not by any means a new technique even in the 90's, but very intuitive, nonetheless. ;)

[@SMNFXCN]

There is actually more then *50 Shades of Gray* on that camera

[@elephystry]

Mikey Simon *than

[@NGOTB]

Certainly has the same type of hassle

[@stevejohnson4637]

Lol, 50 likes

[@JasonPriesmeyer]

Loved this video-- it was truly like a time capsule from the past!

[@asdfasdf4345artsdfg]

I believe that this was the same technique that a photographer used to achieve perfect color photos over 100 years ago.

[@IllidanS4]

Yup, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky.

[@zeddash]

It's amazing how well done it is, I couldn't believe how old the photo I was looking at was

[@Deathly66]

2:53 Still in style

[@marro643]

This reminds me of the time when I first got my DSi and I went around the house taking pictures of everything I saw

[@bogdan4148]

Go to sleep

[@myMotoring]

Also if you using 3 color filter method, it will increase the dynamic range. So u basically taking HDR photo

[@BobbyIronsights]

cool.

[@ladofthedamned7796]

@@BobbyIronsights cool

[@srpenguinbr]

I was wondering if we could take the highest resolution camera on the market and somehow take 3 pictures in shades of gray and filters and combine them in order to get an even higher resolution final image. My idea is that we could use each of the sensors, instead of grouping them in bigger ones. In modern cameras, each pixel is made of a number of subpixels. Maybe this would need to be built in the camera software or even hardware, but when you care a lot about resolution in still images, it might be worth it...

[@qjshgddfdf4100]

man i loved this episode to bits its so fascinating the fact that you can get colour photos from a black and white camera

[@Xitrial]

My first webcam was on Windows 95/98 era, and it came with a stop motion software. I have tons of funny little movies of toys moving and other creative things

[@MoonLiteNite]

I never knew that my parents webcam was one of the first one ones.... they had that one, but was the colored version.

[@kakashi101able]

Maybe send it to this guy so he can review it?

[@user-vq3nu5tb4z]

I will call you "The one byte guy"

[@heniuprojutuber7095]

@@leap123_ bit and byte are not the same thing

[@Kimnoora2024]

Yea since 8bit=1Byte

[@fzerowipeoutlover]

I call him "The int8 guy"

[@TheDOSGamer]

This is so cool. My family was ahead of the times and had a webcam in the 90s. I remember using it all the time despite the terrible quality.