Travel back 20 years, when digital cameras were the hottest new technology

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$20,000 for a 1-megapixel camera that can store up to 70 images! Transmit photos via modem! See a cutting-edge new technology called digital photography in this CNET video from 1995.

[@MichaelD8393]

I bet if someone said back in '95 "One day you will be able to take digital pictures with your telephone." everyone would've laughed.

[@BilisNegra]

Actually, "your telephone" was not even a thing for many people. Cellphones were still the stuff for the very rich.

[@robertknight4672]

@@BilisNegra Edwin land who founded Polaroid and invented instant film predicted that there would be a small camera that that fits in the pocket. One that would be useful when your memory can't be trusted. I saw it in a documentary He wasn't sure of the exact form but state it would be something used as often as a phone.

[@BilisNegra]

@@robertknight4672 Really interesting indeed.

[@blackentertainmenthistory8601]

@@BilisNegra Yeah for famous people they had cell phones that poor people did not in the 1990s

[@pollumG]

It only took 7 years so

[@TechGamesAU]

Please dig up more archival footage.

[@mikepowers171]

That was amazing

[@joeyc923]

DylanDesign My first thought as well. The clothes & hair alone make these worth it.

[@MrJ0mmy]

+DylanDesign yeah more old footage of cameras

[@TAGMedia7]

Gina St. John was so hot.

[@videosuperhighway7655]

Funny thing is I actually lived it, using a Quicktake 100 as shown on that video. Used it extensively for web site imaging. Definitely miss those days when the web was innocent and was not yet compromised.

[@j_c2225]

It’s crazy how tech savvy the 90s actually was, such a far cry from the 1980s. The second half of the 90s was just like the first half of the 00s.

[@HomegrownTyrone]

1:50 $20,000 131mb and stores 70 images OMG

[@edvenuto9614]

Robbery

[@blackentertainmenthistory8601]

This is from 1995 fool 20 thousand is nothing to rich people or famous people

[@neonthefox3550]

This is the future

[@Professional_internet]

Up to 131 MB! Meaning most cards were probably around 8MB and costed another $1,000 😅

[@applekid321]

20 years later "let's take a look back on the early Smart Watches that sucked!"

[@iwearleatherjackets1]

UltimateCringeM8 They still aren't very useful now lol.

[@archangel1996j]

They aren't as useful as the camera all those years ago

[@Wesley95501]

The first apple watch was suck.

[@applekid321]

***** or VR and Holo Lens

[@applekid321]

Yes I meant 20 years L8r

[@dancepiglover]

I saw the first digital camera in 2002, with a screen on the back. I thought it was the coolest thing. You can instantly see how your pictures came out!

[@tijolex]

"has a resolution of over 1 MILION PIXELS" like, 1 megapixel? Awesome video! Show us more!

[@pabdiary]

when i was a boy in the 80's I would look out the window while my dad was driving and think, "If only i could play a video game that looked this real." I was certain that it was impossible, I was wrong. But I still love my NES

[@dancepiglover]

I think they’ll probably make car windows into translucent computer screens at some point. They’ll be touch screens. And in the back seat, you could look out the window and play a game, pretending to interact with the things you see through it. That’s what I imagine.

[@newsuperbowserworld]

I swear some late nes era games looked 16 bit

[@djtoman6875]

It just boggles the mind how far technology has come. To think, 131 MB is precisely two RAW images on my Nikon D850.

[@maguszxz]

Blows my mind. All that nostalgia just comes flooding back. Netscape. People talking about "the Net", small capacity drives. The memories are alive!

[@bonze1257]

“And they’ll modem it.” I was a teenager in the 90s, and I’ve never heard modem used as a verb before.

[@atherisgreen1391]

300mb hard drive lol....wow.....we've come a long way.

[@julian123411]

Atheris Green D.r Manhattan preferred film. Especially on Mars.

[@javieraravena3972]

now you could buy a 1tb micro sd card

[@CameraNostalgiaClub]

Absolutely fascinated by our recent past, love the nostalgia of it all

[@Khum4r]

2:43 Over a million pixels. Holy shit! lmao

[@SCtester]

aWatch Lol. Not so much now. :)

[@joser9237]

1MP, damn so shitty and to think that actually looked good back then.

[@Kev50027]

I love that almost all of us are now viewing this on displays that are 2 megapixels or more.

[@joser9237]

Kev50027 Well when it comes to photography 2MP is terrible because of downscaling and other effects. Display on the other hand is different. A 2MP Display would almost 1920x1080. I think the correct number would be 1.7MP because mostly everyone uses a 720p Display or better.

[@SCtester]

Kev50027 What is even more impressive is that smartphones typically have 16 - 21 MP.

[@thewiirocks]

Oh lord. Back when "cyber" was the go-to prefix for anything computer related. We really thought it was KEWL back then...

[@GiveMeBass93]

"high speed phone lines" I'm dying! lol

[@Col_Eddington]

They say that a lower end 90s digital camera is to have images about the same resolution of a $20 35 mm disposable camera “box camera”. Quite a wild claim.

[@Khum4r]

It's been 20 years? damn

[@abbasannooz3286]

Years it is😄

[@Deuguui]

Dis comment was 4 years ago. 4 years went by fast huh? hru?

[@blackentertainmenthistory8601]

25 years ago big deal its just a number

[@daeltgryn05]

25 years now lol

[@binburr]

thank you Cnet .. do more of this please

[@juanbaclavab]

back in 1995 to 2000 it was super hot to see or have a camcorder

[@RodneyWolfram]

20 years from now we look just as quaint :)

[@caroljeanscott5571]

I have a digital camera now but one thing that is frustrating about going digital is the fact that computer software is always upgrading. For example, a person who had an apple quick take would have trouble accessing the pictures because of the computer upgrades. A film camera, you are able to keep the negatives and make prints no matter when the picture was taken.

[@rickbiessman6084]

I don’t know what file format the Apple Quick Take puts out, but jpg has been around for as long as I can remember using computers (which started in the late 90s for me). So as long as you make sure your files don’t get corrupted on a bad hard drive, they’re essentially as safe as film negatives (which you have to store properly too so they don’t get damaged physically). There is enough of an interest to keep digital images accessible long term that backwards compatibility will always be taken care of. Don’t know if the same thing will be true for RAW files, but if you edit and export your RAW files (which, with the images you want to keep, you probably will), then I don’t see any problem.

[@7teenagesmokers309]

She exposed that roll of film.

[@BoffinGrusky]

I'm really liking these old stories! Please keep them coming!

[@Kartechvideos]

3:54 the OG food-photographer lol

[@PromotingTheBeat]

How can you not put Gina St. John's name in the description. I loved watching CNET Central.

[@NeonVisual]

"store it on memory cards like this" *holds out card bigger than my 2tb NVME

[@yellowhammer3]

Those Burrito guys were food blogger pioneers!!!!

[@ItsDSP]

Wow this video is amazing. You guys really need to upload more videos like these.

[@Khum4r]

4:03 Pre Historic Instagram 😂

[@amitkhare2338]

It's been 5 years svr 😂

[@FIREDRAGON158]

It'll never catch on... Film has better quality that digital storage. Nice try tho.

[@BilisNegra]

Well, the BEST film gear has better quality than a point and shoot digital cam. Cheap film cams were of course garbage.

[@Thaumazo]

BilisNegra whooosh

[@tonivoul1971]

Well i am not into film but i am in the camera who uses plates the film is ok at a point digital has its own goods. both are good and they look good digital has more options to take a photo compare to film is only the amazing picture quality and havent many options to take a photo but to go and buy lens And the tapes were same as film almost the tape takes the movement in some Fps and uses magnetic tape for this job and you can take pictures with some of them compair to film is only one picture with GOOD QUALITY .when i say tape i mean camrecorders is a hybrid of film and digital cameras who take on a hight fps rate of pictures. and you still can get a photo on them if you use the digital 8 series of cameras by sony NOT VHS CAMRECORDERS

[@Roxxofoxxo]

Sorry for this random comment but all I wanted to say was cute pfp!!!

[@FIREDRAGON158]

@@Roxxofoxxo Lol, thank you!

[@dupuychile]

Is that webpage still up? Haha

[@OfficialSeth]

sergio dupuy They probably hosted it on geocities.

[@Dsmtuner562]

I'm glad I was just kid during that time.😁😂

[@DucttapeBubbles]

THIS BROUGHT ME LIFE!!!!!

[@johnohalloran9486]

I did not know that cnet was around in 1995

[@CAG2]

Those people think that was the hottest new technology, like our perspective on 3D Printing.

[@bluepandaman]

Which at this point in 2022 even kids can have their own 3D printers.

[@GonzalezJio]

I love these Cnet!!!!

[@Benj1to]

This was really interesting! Please find more!

[@ccf_1004]

I wonder how they would act if they saw a modern gaming pc running (the most realistic game you can think of).

[@jkerman5113]

Crysis?

[@eppesboy]

Watching this made me Appreciate my iPhone so much more!!!!

[@shadyguy6600]

eppesboy which would be obsolete in less than 5 years

[@kulio212]

S6 fdw

[@shadyguy6600]

Giulio Catena I never said theres anything wrong with them. I still have my nokia 3310 that works perfectly fine. What i intended was that technology wise it can't stand its ground with the current phones on the market.

[@brendantatertot9628]

+Giulio Catena try playing 3D games on a four.

[@joerparzych3153]

I still use my 📷

[@tbonebugam1]

Saw that same camera at Goodwill for 20 bucks

[@tbonebugam1]

$20000 one

[@drjones694]

This is awesome do more of these throwback Thursday videos

[@Kris_Phoenixx]

70 images? I can't handle. At a photoshoot I take nearly 1000....wow

[@Kris_Phoenixx]

My quality is good. But my photoshoots are all day events, 8 hours non stop. They require lots of images, poses, wardrobe changes. They add up.

[@robertparks2933]

Anthony Bogucki Hey, I understand spraying and praying, but when I shoot a wedding, I take around 4000 photos. I usually get a call later asking did I get something that wasn't on the disc. So I'm better off have more than required, because I'll never know.

[@adrianozzz]

Hi I'm Kris :) Teenagers, when they go to the bathroom, they take pretty much the same quantity.

[@EdwardBliffin]

Loved it, its something different... Would like to see more of these

[@haikat4]

I found one of the Kodak DC40s in my dad's room after he passed away. Really cool piece of old tech. I think I will hold onto it! It's history, folks!

[@bgcreations6995]

Lots of Memories.

[@boondoc001]

3:45 these guys were ahead of the digital food blog game

[@MRP78]

"We came, we ordered, we videotaped" . Do we still use the word "videotaped"? And "net". These words have seemed to evaporate from daily use. This was awesome! I can't believe its been twenty years!

[@whitemailprivilege2830]

We still use the word "came" though.

[@MRP78]

John Smith haha...true.

[@BilisNegra]

Please swear to me that was 60+ year old people.

[@peterp2626]

Nostalgia overload!

[@Native722]

I was so excited about digital cameras back in the end and still am.

[@bluepandaman]

Still excited?

[@choinate]

I love this kind of videos.

[@alberte8796]

back when steven segal had a career

[@videosuperhighway7655]

I remember using a Apple quicktake 100 camera in 1994 and max resolution of 640x420 and it could only store 8 pictures. It was so cool, take pics and put up on the web server via ftp.

[@jetsetgo3665]

my ipad has 3 million pixels an 8 megapix camera and 64 gigs how many photos fit in that XD

[@FAMEROB]

first digital camera i ever came across wasnt on a camera but on a phone and that was 2004, it was film cameras all the way up to 2009 for me, and from 2010 i got an actual digital camera

[@dylannguyen1017]

Seeing these videos makes you think you really are in the future!

[@neelzsan]

so where they used to post this videos 20 years back? there was no KZbin.

[@J-D_]

Tv

[@neelzsan]

which channel?

[@yellowhammer3]

eastJR they would do them during news shows on CBS if I remember right.

[@neelzsan]

matt k thanks for the info I'm not American so i didn't have any idea about then. Also back then i was only one year old.

[@J-D_]

Its good! I think it was on Tv since they are with Cbs

[@gurkanbeats]

I remember playing fortnite on my computer back in the 90s

[@user-pd9xj1bt4e]

I used to play on my ps2

[@RickyLi]

Holy crap, I actually had to purchase 3 of those apple cameras and 10 of those casios back in the day for a uni i worked for back then. I remember the purchase order being some where close to 10 grand after everything was configured. Also ordered a mavica with the floppy drive just in case some of the instructors wanted to use their own floppies.

[@eliet8944]

If these modern gadgets were developed in that era, then why our parents doesn't like our phones and computers? Well in fact, they are the one who experience those things first.

[@JohnathanRHill]

Awesome, do more video's like this.

[@acelakid94]

This was cool, upload more videos from the "vault" please.

[@BenjaminKanarek]

I love this video!!!

[@Chidoro41]

Bring on more. PCMCIA cards, ahh the memories

[@RISCGames]

I can't wait to modem some photos on my Quicktake 150!

[@callmemarc]

I had an awesome Sony digital camera that stored directly to floppy disk :)

[@Usernamejjd]

It's called Sony Mavica

[@ukfmcbradioservicingTango21]

mine is still in daily use 19 years later

[@elihernandez330]

The resolution on that massive Ds 515 is only 1.3mp which is less than the iphone 2g 1.92mp cam. Though it's no surprise it takes massivley better photos because of the image sensor being massive to the 2g's in comparison.

[@marioluisbonoan6175]

Clothes, hairstyle, and our devices has changed

[@tealover70]

I love the 90’s man.

[@DrToiletfaceGames]

*Then* $20,000 for a 1-megapixel camera that can store up to 70 images! Transmit photos via modem! *Now* $20 for a 4-megapixel camera that can store up to 10000 images! Transmit photos via broadband internet!

[@gyrovague]

I bet it was better built!

[@clintyoung6851]

DrToiletface... & the crazy thing is that it’s inevitable that younger people in 20 years will be laughing at our today’s technology & we’ll still be here to laugh with them.

[@velascosr]

*Laughs in 2020 😂

[@craig2web]

I miss seeing Gina St. John each week - great host.

[@TheFrugalAudiophile]

WOW...$20,000 for one megapixel and and it only stores 84 photos! How far we have come!!

[@CassetteMaster]

The '90s!

[@HomegrownTyrone]

more of these vids please

[@ahmedessa1364]

I was four years old when this video was made

[@bustinga]

in the future you can talk, send message, chat and also send e-mail with your digital camera. Isn't it wonderful

[@thegamingchef3304]

Reminds me of tech TV. Old tech TV.

[@27inzenith]

It's a shame the term "cyber shooters" never caught on

[@ChrisAstro]

Pretty amazing!

[@theproanimator8447]

back in the 1990s, they didn't record video.

[@SankofaNYC]

AMAZING!!!

[@FireShell7]

cnet videos used to be more than 38 seconds???

[@Aero1492]

the music is so 90s

[@10thmountainsoldier90]

Where are they now!!! I would love to know.

[@PanaMadalin]

Tbt to photo food beginnings

[@StevenTorrey]

Hard to believe the digital camera is only about 15 years old... And $20,000 for a camera? Buy two!

[@cococly]

1:08 Sandra 20 years younger, hawt

[@MJQ-P]

Yeah, old times =D

[@jigglemankiller]

Wow CNET keep digging good up.

[@aye_its_karate6169]

$20,000?? Bruh. That’s outrageous especially for back then.

[@JuicedPegasus]

Bridget had a nice tan back in the day

[@whitemailprivilege2830]

Bridget was like 10 when this video was recorded.

[@CloudyShinobi]

Who tf is Bridgette?

[@JuicedPegasus]

Bridget Carey, Senior Editor of CNET Samuraisahsah

[@MrRotterdamn]

Lol funny my phone does all those things in 2 seconds xD.

[@blackentertainmenthistory8601]

This is from 1995 25 years ago the world has changed

[@MrRotterdamn]

@@blackentertainmenthistory8601 All that but still no flying cars. What a disappointment.

[@memeunbox9758]

Mine 1.5 seconds

[@HarpoTheLynx]

Wow look how far we have come in 20 years! Haha this is great

[@bluepandaman]

27 now

[@barbaradarnell7376]

Now a 51.4 mega pixel Pentax 645Z can be had new for $4,000.00.Looks to be about the same size as that Stealth Bomber hybrid camera.

[@richardcrandall1428]

"the net"

[@jhjr1224]

Megabytes.. Omg. This is crazy.

[@tirtahahaha]

That fujix got 2/3 inch sensor but maintain to cover the entire 35mm full frame lens/image area with reduction lens. If only they implement that idea in modern small sensor camera…

[@tristan6509]

You can buy speedbooster lenses which will make an APS-C sensor have a wider view

[@AlejandroFerrariMc]

$32,000 in today's money... We've come a long way...

[@jarrod7465]

3:24 oh god don't remind me what websites once looked like

[@DerKrazyKrautGaming]

Ah the 90s