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- From: acs@csri.toronto.edu (Alvin Chia-Hua Shih)
- Subject: Re: Disc Cameras
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.054721.27130@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- References: <1992Dec30.181543.23429@vestek.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 10:47:21 GMT
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- In <1992Dec30.181543.23429@vestek.com> don@vestek.com (Don Labutay) writes:
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- >Whatever happened to the disc cameras that kodak first introduced a few
- >years ago. I don't see them being sold anymore. I had one of their first
- >models and the picture quality wasn't that good. But, I was thinking a
- >few years more, they would have improved it, maybe a 35mm disc with autofocus.
- >But it looks like they didn't. What happened?
-
- The quality of disc cameras wasn't that good because of the tiny
- negatives. Now that 35mm P&S cameras have become smaller, have
- autofocus, built-in flash, power loading, winding, and rewinding, it
- really doesn't make sense to support disc cameras.
-
- Indeed, there are plans underway to standardize a smaller 35mm film
- cassette with thin-base film so that smaller P&S cameras can be made.
- So, the pocket-sized P&S wonders of today will get even smaller! (And
- the possibility for 72 exposures in the current cassette looms...
- Gads. Bulk backs might even become extinct!)
-
- ACS
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