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Re: Floppies are cool! (was: Re: Finding a useful digital camera)
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Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:13:27 GMT
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
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 so far.

All of the photos on these pages were taken with a floppy-based Mavica:

*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.)



BTW: I recommend <http://www.megapixel.net/> as a very nice digital camera
review site.


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  Re: Floppies are cool! (was: Re: Finding a useful digital camera)
 
(...) 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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  Floppies are cool! (was: Re: Finding a useful digital camera)
 
(...) 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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