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
These Mavicas could become popular again now as retro tech. There’s a lo-fi aesthetic growing in photo and video that’s all about compression artefacts and old image sensors. Physical media and its inconveniences is also having a moment as a novelty and maybe even a broader movement.