 | | Floppies are cool! (was: Re: Finding a useful digital camera)
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(...) I use a camera that uses floppies (Sony Mavica FD-91), and I'm quite happy with it! Its resolution is only 1024x768, but that's already twice the vertical and horizontal resolution that I really need for almost anything web-related I've done (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Floppies are cool! (was: Re: Finding a useful digital camera)
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(...) Yeah, if I'd had the money, a Mavica was on my wants list. As it was, I just went and got one with similar resolution (Fuji DX-10) but that cost a lot less--and it came with a mail-away for a USB reader so that vitiated my concerns over (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Floppies are cool! (was: Re: Finding a useful digital camera)
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(...) *shrug* Those are pretty nice, but there are definite apparent compression artifacts. And, if you happen to have a laptop, compact flash will "just work" with PCMCIA. (With a cheap passive adapter; came with the compact flash card I bought.) (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Floppies are cool! (was: Re: Finding a useful digital camera)
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(...) Ya, it ain't perfect, but it's more than adequate for my needs (basically, taking close-ups of LEGO and goofing around with the cat). One of the other main reasons we bought it (besides the floppy drive) was the 14x zoom and macro (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.publish)
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