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   Brad (bk1e@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 13:52:30 JST Brad

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs Have you heard of the Minolta SB-70 Still Video Back (1988)?

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     Haderach C. Kwisatch (rayckeith@techhub.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 14:01:14 JST Haderach C. Kwisatch

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I worked for Pixera, which made digital cameras that were primarily used on microscopes. Worked on the Mac software, mostly, still PowerPC if I recall correctly.

     the innovation of the camera was taking four images, shifted a half-pixel for 3 of them, getting an interpolated high resolution image.

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     Eliot Lash (eliot_l@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 22:23:38 JST Eliot Lash

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Not sure if this qualifies as "obscure" but the first digital camera my family had was a Sony Mavica that wrote directly to 3½" floppy disks. Some of those old photos I took with it are still online, being served up by a PC my dad has been using as a webserver since around that same time period: http://www.bambi.net/eliot/a1.html

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     Trammell Hudson (th@social.v.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 22:24:21 JST Trammell Hudson

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs have you heard of the Cromenco Cyclops? It uses a decapsulated 1 kilobit DRAM chip as the image sensor and can be built from plans in Popular Electronics (Feb 1975). Here's a selfie at an astounding 32x32 pixels:

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     Lar Van Der Jagt (supaspoida@ruby.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 23:23:29 JST Lar Van Der Jagt

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs maybe this one? First digital camera I ever saw as a kid, felt like something out of Star Wars with that form factor haha.

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     Mike Prior-Jones (drmikepj@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 03:30:26 JST Mike Prior-Jones

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Canon Ion? https://www.digitalkameramuseum.de/en/esvc/item/canon-rc-251