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OK -- I'm not *that* old school, but I think I can share this: in 1998, I borrowed a friend's Sony Mavica FD-5 (or maybe it was an FD-7?) cause I didn't have the $1000 to buy one. I think the highest rez I could shoot was 640x480, but I might be wrong. I shot on the 3 1/2" plastic floppies. I'd get like 50 shots per floppy, and every donzen shots (or so) were ruined cause I'd get these weird stars/halo effect...no matter what I did with my lighting.
My little bro was a bouncer at a popular nightclub, and I'd pay him and his bouncer buddies a $50 finder fee for any cute girls who were willing to nude-up for SC photos. I actually got some cute ones!
I got out of the biz in '99, and jumped back in in '02, and was shooting on a Sony Cybershot and a Canon GL-2 -- the cutting edge in digital video. Camera was $2700, and of course it was SD. Post done in the latest version of Premiere -- 6.5. I think I set bitrates on the vids at 750KBpS, but I might be wrong there. I placed an ad in the Phoenix New Times weekly that pretty much said, "Porn stars make more money in one day than most people make in a week" and took it from there.
Fun memories.
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