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- From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
- Subject: Re: Disc Cameras
- In-Reply-To: acs@csri.toronto.edu's message of 31 Dec 92 10:47:21 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec30.181543.23429@vestek.com>
- <1992Dec31.054721.27130@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:10:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.054721.27130@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> acs@csri.toronto.edu (Alvin Chia-Hua Shih) writes:
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- In <1992Dec30.181543.23429@vestek.com> don@vestek.com (Don Labutay) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Actually I don't think the small size of the neg was the sole culprit.
- My Minox submini camera had about the same size neg but took much
- better pictures (better optics, flatter film plane, who knows).
- The disc cartridge took a lot more SPACE than a Minox cartridge
- though, so a disc camera has to be about the size of today's
- small 35's. Thus, disc cameras are pretty much pointless now.
-
- 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!)
-
- This is interesting--who is going to offer 72 exp. loads in normal
- cassettes? Ilford tried this with a thin-base HP5 a few years ago
- but it was very unsuccessful, perhaps partly because of the special
- processing equipt. needed.
-