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
My first job was working in a camera shop in the mid 00’s these were just about still for sale, and I hated them because people would buy them because of the floppy disk, see that at 2 megapixel they could only hold a couple of pictures so would then down the resolution to fit more on a disk and then come storming into us a week or so later because we ‘ruined’ their holiday photos or whatever because they were taking them at the lowest resolution and would be a grainy mess.
Always a tradoff
I know but that didn’t stop people screaming at me because of something I warned them about when they bought the damn thing.