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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 06:40:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   I took some pseudo-selfies with my Sony Mavica FD7 from 1997, which saves jpegs on a floppy disk. Amazingly, this is the high quality mode!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 06:43:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     The camera and floppy disk I used.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 07:07:51 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • niche witch with a 🐝

     @clairely_undaunted I've not put it up for sale anywhere yet, but you can just pull the SVG off of github and take the image to any custom-flag-maker site:

     https://github.com/foone/VGAPride/blob/main/crabs%2FCool%20Crab%20Pride%20Flag.svg

   • niche witch with a 🐝 (clairely_undaunted@mastodon.triggerphra.se)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 07:07:52 JST niche witch with a 🐝

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     @foone cute! where can I get the beach crab flag?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 07:37:02 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Correction: Mavica FD5, not FD7. they were released at the same time, but FD7 has an adjustable lens.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 07:48:41 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Phil in SF

     @kingrat it's got a timer, yeah

   • Phil in SF (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 07:48:42 JST Phil in SF

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     @foone Does it have a timer, or did you have to do something complicated to take selfies?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 09:05:34 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • JamesK

     @JamesK although to be fair, it does technically use a format they invented, the 3.5" floppy disk :)

   • JamesK (jamesk@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 09:05:35 JST JamesK

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     @foone Nice! Before Sony turned evil with a myriad of proprietary storage mediums.

   • Gorgeous na Shock! (indigoparadox@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 09:07:28 JST Gorgeous na Shock!

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     @foone Oh I found it... Olympus D-200L. 😌

   • Gorgeous na Shock! (indigoparadox@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 09:07:28 JST Gorgeous na Shock!

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     @foone So it won't turn on... Tried new batteries and all... The screen can turn on if the lenscap is open but it's just blue... I took it apart a little... caps look good... No idea.

     But the next step up is only $25 on ebay! It says it's working and it still seems to use the serial port (most important part), so let's waste some money! 😌

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 09:07:28 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Gorgeous na Shock!

     @indigoparadox good luck!

   • Gorgeous na Shock! (indigoparadox@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 09:07:29 JST Gorgeous na Shock!

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     @foone I love looking at my digital camera photos from the late 90s (my grandpa had a Canon FinePix, I think? It uploaded via RS-232), I try to remember if everything was really just blurrier back then.

     Are they pseudo selfies because you're not using a selfie stick? Sparkling autoimages?

   • nobody you care about (snepperstepper@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 09:08:39 JST nobody you care about

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     @foone here's a selfie with mine. I think it kinda looks like one of those press photos when they're at a red carpet premiere (or leading someone out of court i suppose), but not the one that gets published. I like the "dslr" style mavica model better but this was before i was using that one regularly. This was taken in the lowest quality mode because i like that digicam crunch. Still a lot clearer than you'd think. Have you gotten to play with the CD models yet?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 09:08:39 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • nobody you care about

     @SnepperStepper yeah! I've got a couple of the CD models, they're not as much fun as the floppy ones in my opinion

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 12:27:37 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Mike Johnston

     @ThaMunsta the images are about 20-30 kilobytes each, so you can fit around 50 images a disk

   • Mike Johnston (thamunsta@mastodon.nervesocket.com)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 12:27:42 JST Mike Johnston

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     @foone inserting that floppy be like "get in the damn robot Shinji" lmao does it ever refuse to take photos because of the years of trauma?
     Jokes aside yeah that's surprisingly great quality especially if you can take 500 that look like that

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 12:44:32 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • nobody you care about

     @SnepperStepper oh yeah, it's a nice camera. I just have a bit of a thing for the floppy models, given my obvious prejudice

   • nobody you care about (snepperstepper@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 12:44:33 JST nobody you care about

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     @foone i'd probably say the same about the CD point and shoots but the cd1000 is a great camera, the reload system of physical media with the vibe of contemporary digicams like the cybershot and camedia. Its the best of both worlds imo, and has that big DSLR holdfeel with the good settings to play with. Its also the closest i'm gonna bother getting to DVD camcorders.

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2024 04:31:34 JST vxo

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     @foone there is something strangely perfect about your smiling face being popped onto a floppy disk. :D