LGR Oddware - HP's SD Card Camera from 2003

Asaf Sagi

I see what you there

Peter Metzger

Ha, well as bad as the quality is I still kind of dig the weird aesthetic. It's got that "this could work in a music video" vibe going for it.

LGR

Not that I can tell! It's just kinda... bad no matter what

Peter Metzger

If you record video without sound, does it improve the framerate?

electricitynerd

Awesome outro!

Steve Skafte

Clearly my nostalgia for old digital cameras knows no bounds, because these videos are consistently my favorites of yours, no matter how many you make. Thanks for this! Something I never knew existed.

Mighty Jabba's Collection

I was working in Japan in 1996 and bought a "Color Zaurus" MI-10DC with my first paycheck. It was a Japanese-language PDA from Sharp with a color TFT screen and a PC-card-based digital camera. (It was also bigger than a VHS tape.) The quality was quite a bit worse than what you show in the video, but being able to take digital photos and do some very basic manipulation of them right on the device was pretty amazing at the time, so I can certainly see the appeal. I used the heck out of that thing.

Myles MAN

Not bad for a little camera from back them. I was expecting the pictures to look way worse

Cyclone

17:00 Those are so cool. We have something like that in Atlanta called Tiny Doors.

Rob Caporetto

I'd never heard about SDIO before this, so that in itself is a neat bit of tech. As for the camera? With the right light, it really did a neat job with some of those shots (and absolutely love the setup shots with your phone for comparison). The video makes for a neat way to replicate that 90's Sega/Mega CD FMV experience. Otherwise? That's kinda dated badly. It's an interesting slice of history for sure!

Counter Surprise

Love the wood grain face mask!

zephyrmo

I am stunned by the quality of that - with a lot of light it gets a really attractive picture. I wonder if the manual focus helps out there vs old autofocus....

Eric Siegel

I know you said it in the video, but the picture quality is surprisingly not bad. I would've been totally happy with this back in the day :)

Frederick G.

I am surprised with the photo quality but not the video.

Pietro Gagliardi

23:58 "Camera is not connected or reset your Pocket PC." I think HP accidentally an entire line of text or two there...

LGR

Sadly those statues were moved away somewhere, so that scene no longer exists for photo comparisons.

Dan Fiscus

I really like the new photo test style, where we get to see a short clip of whatever it is you're about to photograph with a short explanation, followed by the shot itself. Really helps give an idea of the context for each test shot! Although I must admit, I was surprised to see an LGR camera video without that classic caged tiger photo. ;)

LGR

Indeed it is! Can't wait for things to become more normal again, I really miss the whole music, art, and food scene down there.

LGR

Thanks Kiaha, I'm glad to hear! Covering these things definitely takes care of some wish fulfillment myself :)

LGR

I wish that it did. Unfortunately it's cropping in on the same inaccurate, lower-res, highly-aliased live preview. If I had to guess, the live view is using the same mode it uses to record video, and well. Those videos I recorded with this speak volumes, heh.

JohnnyCache

Yessss more oddware!

Alyxx the Rat

I see Eradicator on your desktop. Please do a review on that game at some point. So underrated.

PhotoSvein

Neat 😀

Milos Jovanovic

Asheville looks nice

Kris Asick

Did the digital zoom help at all with figuring out the focus? I noticed when you tested it on the screen it didn't do any fliterring of the resulting image and since it's basically a cropping function that would mean whatever you focused to would stay like that when turning the digital zoom off. :B

DFawlt Uzr

I always enjoy your oddware coverage on early 00s tech, it takes me back to when I was younger and reading all the catalogs for all the cool tech I could never afford but sooooo wanted 😂😂

LGR

Likewise, haha. Thinking back it's rather strange how there were a number of years where video footage of everyone went SO FAR down in quality compared to the 90s. VHS and Hi-8 tape were so much better compared to early digital cams. But it was so novel so we all recorded using it anyway, heh.

LGR

Sure does! That whole era with bubbly, rounded, glassy buttons with all kinds of primary colors and excess gradation. Those are the years I was studying graphic design in college and BOY has a lot of that knowledge not proved useful, haha.

LGR

I'm sure it was a godsend in certain situations over there. Lots of entertainment packed into a tiny package.

LGR

Oh dang, I didn't realize he hadn't uploaded in a while. We actually talked about his plans to cover this camera a couple years ago after he saw me mention it in my iPaq retrospective, and he asked if I wanted to borrow it to make my own video. Really nice dude, hope he's doing well!

evistre

i dug the mask too. woodgrain mask is perfect for clint.

Steve Lovelace

Woodgrain mask? Awesome!

Mya Crosbie-Styles

I was so impressed and almost jealous of that camera quality, thinking back to all the cheap digital cameras we had growing up. However, oh boy does that video quality bring me back to all the videos we'd take on family outings

Bryan McIntosh

That screen interface for the camera is SO 2000s. I love how it looks like an audio mini-system from the same era!

Hey, you finally did something *after* poor Science Elf! I wander what happened to that guy. https://youtu.be/CDfqyZ_p9bQ

Well, isn't that a thing!! I had one of those Ipaq devices back in prehistory. I sold it to a guy who was in the Army and leaving for Afghanistan. I'd like to think it was put to good use.

LGR

Razors, pure magic 🧙

LGR

NC doesn't have front license plates, it looked to me like one of those vintage-style tags that people put on old cars for aesthetic purposes. I'll blur it anyway, better safe than sorry I guess!

Mark Petocz

Awesome video as usual! Do you think you should edit out the green Toyota's license plate? I could picture someone bitching or about that or taking advantage of it unfortunately.

Becka Pitts

Beard witchcraft!!