Interesting ILC from Canon Circa 86'

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Sometimes I stumble onto something new (to me!)

Just wanted to share this brief Camera-Wiki and stir up a little conversation on odd cameras during those awkward times in camera technology... floppy discs.

Anyhow! Your Welcome 😉
http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Canon_RC-701

 

[sepiareverb]

...equal to almost USD $5,100 in 2011.

Makes the M10 seem like a bargain.

 

[Archiver]

The price of that thing is crazy. And it's also interesting to note how different that technology must have been for it to command that kind of price.

Brings back memories of waiting minutes and minutes to download a tiny hardcore gif from a BBS in 1991. How technology has changed.

 

[rscheffler]

This technology was also in a couple other 'still video' cameras from Canon. During my college photography program, we used the Canon RC-250 'Xap Shot' point & shoot camera as part of the digital photography class. This was the early 90s before true digital cameras were available at the consumer level. During the second year of the program I recall a visit by Kodak to demo the DCS 100 digital camera - a Nikon F3 tethered to a briefcase-sized computer/storage device.

But back to the Xap Shot... I happened to have some Kodak Wratten IR filters kicking around and discovered they worked great with the Xap Shot. Somewhere in my belongings are a few of those 2" floppy disks with whatever I shot on the Xap Shot. IIRC, a problem with the technology was doing anything with the photos. You needed the camera or a device compatible with the disks for playback. Not sure if there was any solution for transferring to computer. In class we would just plug the camera into a TV with RCA cables and play back that way...

 

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Interesting. I used to have a ex-military research DEC PDP-11 computer that booted from an 8" floppy disk. That was twenty years ago and hardly anybody knew that format existed even then. I'm sure I've got archived backups in storage somewhere done on Zip-drives. Is there anybody anywhere still offering a service to extract data from obsolete formats?
This also brought to mind the PXL-2000 toy video camera that stored to audio compact cassette. That's one camera I would like a chance to use.