Oh yeah, those film brand memory cards were annoying...

[lilfluff]

So kylecassidy mentioned that his New Years photo tradition started back in the days of film and I thought to myself... "Oh yeah, those film brand memory cards were annoying. They were like CD-Rs, you could write to them but not erase so you had to keep buying them over and over, no, worse than a CD-R, a CD only goes bad if you leave it in a car on a hot day where it starts to melt as the car becomes and oven. Those old film brand memory cards went back if you just let too much light on them..."

Is it a bad thing if you start muttering, "Get off my lawn you dang kid!" at yourself?

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[seawasp]

The really annoying thing about them was that to access the stuff you stored on them you had to bring them to some particular location where they would perform the access function, and you had to specify the output format THERE. Want more? Go back to the same place. Oh, you COULD do it at home but the investment of time and effort would be substantial.

[lilfluff.livejournal.com]

And don't forget those chemicals. You couldn't just plug it into your computer, oh no, you had to pull out stuff that would have the local health inspector getting all nervous.

Although amusingly I did get to play around with a Sony analog/digital electronic camera back in high school in 90, maybe 91. It was the sensor from an analog camcorder put in a film camera derived body. It then converted the image to IIRC either a TIFF or possibly GIF image written to a 2 inch disk that was apparently part of early Sony work that eventually led to the mini-disc format. You then plugged that disc into a drive that was possibly slightly large in volume than the Mac it was hooked up to. I got to use it to photograph some graffiti at the principal's request, then surprised him when I brought over printouts (nifty 150dpi laser printer printouts) a half hour later. I was apologizing for the low quality of the pictures, "We can print in color if you want, but the wax sub printer runs about two dollars a page," while he was sitting there stunned simply the have pictures on paper that fast.