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- From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
- Subject: Re: Disc Cameras
- In-Reply-To: dwing@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu's message of 31 Dec 92 14:10:36 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec30.181543.23429@vestek.com>
- <1992Dec31.141736.1@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:42:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.141736.1@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu> dwing@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu (Dan Wing) writes:
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- In article <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. ...
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- The negatives were, if I recall, about the same size as the old
- 110's. Print quality was very poor, and the point-and-shoot 35mm's
- were just starting to become popular at about the same time.
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- You are too kind. Disc negatives were 8x10 mm, somewhat smaller
- than 110 negatives which I think were 11x17mm. Disc pictures
- were quite a lot worse than 110 pictures. At least in the early
- disc cameras, and I'm not sure there really were any later ones,
- the flash fired with -every- picture and the user could not replace
- the batteries! You had to send the camera back to Kodak.
-
- Disc cameras stunk on ice. That's why they vanished.
-