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Originally Posted by CurrentlySober
The Mavica?
That was my very first Digital cam as well  I rember having to wait ages after taking the pic, for it to write to the floppy and having to put a new one in every 5 mins! |
Yes it was a Mavica. But it was the top of that line....I think it cost about a grand. And it had that Carl Zeiss lens that was centered in the middle of the camera with a nice zoom. The camera was pretty big.
It was a real pain like you said waiting for it to write to the disk and then having to change them out every few seconds.
I had a deal with a production company here in the States...they were old school DVD guys and didn't realize that the internet was going to soon be dominant. But I was already ahead of that curve.
So they actually allowed me to come in and photograph all the scenes they shot. As long as I didn't take video of any kind and they gave me all the internet rights to it! lol
And they would sneer at me while I fumbled and took too long. Meanwhile they would whip out their "real" slr cameras and shoot a hundred pics every 5 minutes. Told me what I was doing was just a fad. But they were friends of mine and let me do it.
That's why I laugh when guys on here talk about how old TGP guys like me were just "lucky" when we started out and couldn't cut it if we had to start over today.
No, I MADE my luck...I was always just a little bit quicker and a little bit more forward thinking.
A couple of years later that company that let me shoot all that and gave me the internet rights were out of business and I was making millions.