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The 1988 VIDEO Floppy Disk Camera: Canon Xap Shot RC-250

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An exploration of the 1988 Canon Xap Shot, a still camera that recorded analog NTSC video signals directly onto floppy disks.

The Canon XapShot is one radical late 80s still video camera. It takes photos and saves them to a floppy disk, but it's not a digital camera. It does so using analog NTSC recording tech! ● Check out the photos taken with this camera here: imgur.com/a/igrlPoi ● LGR links: twitter.com/lazygamereviews facebook.com/LazyGameReviews patreon.com/LazyGameReviews ● Music credits go to: epidemicsound.com #LGR #Cameras #Retro

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Yes, probably -- before digital cameras, there were still video cameras. They used a CCD to record still video images onto magnetic media such as a video floppy disk. So a lot like a digital camera, but fully analog. These were pretty cutting-edge tech in the mid 80's and would have made a lot of sense for a project like this. link link A fun video to learn more about the tech: link to this video
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On “A floppy-disk Walkman using a Raspberry Pi”

Similarly, there have been photo cameras that used floppies for image storage, and I'm not talking about sony's Cybershoot cameras which stored photos as actual files - I'm talking cameras which just stored photos as analog signal directly on the floppy, in NTSC format! link to this video
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On “A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera”

It's interesting that you differentiate between analog and digital electronic cameras. My first "digital" camera was one of the Canon Ion ones that use floppy discs but actually record the photos in analog, so technically just an "electronic camera", but was marketed as a "Still Video Camera" (!). You had to use a video capture card to get the images into the PC. link link to this video
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