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This (pic #1) is Sony Mavica MVC-FD73: a 0.3 megapixel photo camera that saves your snaps to a 3.5" floppy disk.
This wasn't some early proof-of-concept. It was selling like hot cakes in 1999. Today, you can still find these cameras for about $10.
Around 2010, cheap digital sensors surpassed the capabilities of photographic film. But consumers transitioned to digital *long before that* - and they did so while the tech absolutely sucked.
Pic #2: Mavica (bottom) next to a modern camera (top).
Even in perfect lighting conditions, the photos were a smudgy, overcompressed mess (pic #3). They didn't hold a candle to the prints (or scans) you could get from film.
Technologies often win on merit, but the pros are habitually wrong about what the merit might be.
Fin.
This wasn't some early proof-of-concept. It was selling like hot cakes in 1999. Today, you can still find these cameras for about $10.
Around 2010, cheap digital sensors surpassed the capabilities of photographic film. But consumers transitioned to digital *long before that* - and they did so while the tech absolutely sucked.
Pic #2: Mavica (bottom) next to a modern camera (top).
Even in perfect lighting conditions, the photos were a smudgy, overcompressed mess (pic #3). They didn't hold a candle to the prints (or scans) you could get from film.
Technologies often win on merit, but the pros are habitually wrong about what the merit might be.
Fin.