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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!csn!copper!cudnvr!dwing
  2. From: dwing@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu (Dan Wing)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.photo
  4. Subject: Re: Disc Cameras
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec31.141736.1@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu>
  6. Date: 31 Dec 92 14:10:36 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec30.181543.23429@vestek.com>
  8. Sender: netnews@copper.denver.colorado.edu
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  11. In article <1992Dec30.181543.23429@vestek.com>, don@vestek.com (Don Labutay) 
  12. writes:
  13.  
  14. > Whatever happened to the disc cameras that kodak first introduced a few
  15. > years ago.  I don't see them being sold anymore.  I had one of their first
  16. > models and the picture quality wasn't that good. But, I was thinking a 
  17. > few years more, they would have improved it, maybe a 35mm disc with autofocus.
  18. > But it looks like they didn't. What happened?
  19.  
  20. The negatives were, if I recall, about the same size as the old 110's.  Print 
  21. quality was very poor, and the point-and-shoot 35mm's were just starting to
  22. become popular at about the same time.
  23.  
  24. The disk cameras were also taller (up and down) than a normal camera (weren't
  25. they?).
  26.  
  27. -Dan Wing, dwing@uh01.colorado.edu or wing_d@ucolmcc.bitnet (DGW11)
  28.  Systems Administrator, University Hospital, Denver (DGW11)
  29.