When the 3 1/4-in floppy camera came out I wanted one. It was not in my budget. But a decade and a half ago a friend gave me one. It worked. It came with two batteries and three floppies.

Yesterday a different friend gave me one as well. It came with one battery. That battery is the same as the other batteries.

I went from a person who couldn’t afford anything back in the day to a person who’s just being handed these priceless artifacts.

They both work. The only device I can read the disk on are the cameras themselves because I have no floppy drives.

Sony Mavica FD91 and FD81

  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    And now, these days my camera would require 20-30 floppies to store a single image

      • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Yay, I get to store 7 photos on one 250 drive!

        I just need to bring a sherpa with me to carry 215 disks for a normal outing, should only weigh 11kg

      • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 months ago

        At this point, we are talking about the storage media, not the camera.

          • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I have an excellent backpack, a Thinktank BackStory 15, I do not blame it in the slightest!

            • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              2 months ago

              A poor musician sometimes notices that their guitar has a rattlesnake in it