RIP FX - You are a legend
02.03.2026 05:03
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RIP FX - You are a legend
You know when you wife is a keeper when she sends you love notes like
It does and yeah I mean you know I mapped out the various interesting things on it already. However this is for the kids, so I have to try and be an adult to make sure it works so they can take pictures and photography first.
I’ve reached that stage in my life where I’m now doing camera repairs for turn of the century digital cameras and slightly older
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well played @cloudflare.social well played
Yes Daniel!!!!
Amazing, do you have any pictures of it?
Glad you are enjoying them. If there’s an appetite, I have plenty more quirky cameras to tell the story about.
Hahah hours of fun those were
It was a good idea, and you could see how they were experimenting with so many different formats at the time. Next up will be a 110 review too ;)
By 1988, production of most disc cameras ceased. Kodak officially stopped making the film in 1999.
Great looking camera with futuristic tech and ideas, let down by poor film.
It did sell and in the first few years, sold over 8 million disc cameras. People loved the "gadget" feel. However, that negative size was the killer: a standard 4x6 print was a 15x enlargement and yes, people did print their images back then
However, they also introduced technological obsolescence in a way by soldering the lithium batteries directly to the main board. No user-serviceable parts inside. Today, most Disc-7s are "bricked" unless you open them up and replace them with a modern 6v option
The precision was so high that Minolta’s aspheric glass technology actually paved the way for the rapid spread of CD Players. If it weren't for the tech developed for these odd little cameras, your 1984 portable Sony Discman might never have worked.
To get this level of accuracy, a machining tool that used NASA’s machining technology for aircraft components was introduced to fabricate a mold.
Now back to the Disc-7, which again was out of this world. The Disc-7 featured an all-glass 4-element lens, including a mass-produced aspheric glass element.
A huge achievement for the early 1980s
But, it had a cool safety feature in that unlike 35mm rolls, if you accidentally opened the back of the camera, you only ruined the one frame currently exposed to the window, not the whole disc.
These negatives were tiny, a minuscule 8x10mm. For comparison, 35mm film is 24x36mm!
Because of this, Kodak needed to develop T-Grain (Tabular Grain) film specifically for this format to keep image quality sharp.
Kodak launched Disc Film in 1982 to save the "point-and-shoot" market. Each disc was 65mm in diameter and held 15 exposures
it’s a time capsule of 1980s "gadget-ism" that predicted the future of social media while being trapped in one of the most doomed film formats ever created
Disc Film
But its real trick? It was the world's first dedicated selfie machine. It came with a telescopic "arm" or handle that doubled as a tripod/grip, making it the first dedicated "selfie" kit in history thanks to its circular convex mirror on the front
1983 was the year Matthew Broderick nearly sparked World War III in WarGames. While he was busy hacking into WOPR, Minolta was launching a piece of hardware that looked like it belonged on a NORAD control panel: The Disc-7
Shall We Play A Game... Of Selfies?
Those who know me, know that my obsession with War Games is something else, but I also have a slight issue with older cameras and tech from the same period.
The last few years has been brutal personally trying to balance research, kids, football and the desire to go and create photographs and longer bodies of work.
Here’s hoping this year I smash that photographers block hard.
Sunday mornings with a good coffee and a brilliant discussion with Jason Lee, who’s not only a 90s skate legend and actor but also now a phenomenal photographer
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Honestly I love rootkit. Building a light that can see hidden radio waves
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Great piece on the idea, design and actual implementation
A glimpse of the future of bug reports from our fav swede, Daniel of cURL
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These should be studied at universities teaching CS
Very tasty!! If you ever fancy hacking a Casio, this might be up your street
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F91w is an amazing watch still as is the calculator. Get one
