Checking out the world’s first (and only) digital camera using Iomega Clik disks for storage! Each disk held 40MB and cost just $10, a tenth the price of CompactFlash. Quite impressive in 1999! But this odd diversion in the late 90s digicam market was short lived, and its impact on digital photography is… well, no one remembers it. But it sure was neat!
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● An album of photographs taken with the CL30 and PDC-1100:
https://imgur.com/gallery/fariI8t
00:00 You ever had a Clik disk camera?
01:03 Clik versus Compact Flash
02:29 Agfa and their digicam licensing
03:48 Unboxing the CL30 Clik!
05:12 Looking at the camera itself
08:36 It’s half-dead… so is my other one
09:40 Taking pictures, adjusting settings
10:45 CL30 photo examples
13:10 Downscaling, interpolation, comparisons
15:05 Windows 95 PhotoWise software
15:35 A forgotten failure, still kinda neat!
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Digital cameras were like THE thing in 1999. You could still get film cameras then, so this was early in the next gen of photography. You could probably get a comparable 35mm camera for 60 bucks then, so this was a toy for the rich.
So here's a weird personal experience… I'm visually impaired, and I often find that modern photography and videography looks nothing like the real world its capturing.
The pictures from this camera are 100% how I see the world. This video is the first time in a very long time I've looked at digital media and thought "That's the most realistic photo I've seen, it's like I'm there!"
So in an odd way, thank you for making this video. It's given me some comfort to know that while my vision is in fact continuing to degrade, a majority of the struggles I have with digital devices are the result of the presentation of modern media capture, rather than the state of my eyeballs.
The Polaroid PDC 1100 looks an awful lot like an HP Photo Smart 215. My first and most awful digital camera ever! Haha
That's my favorite series of LGR
I think I'm most impressed that the rubby bits of the camera are still rubbery bits and not slime.
your subtitles of "ejects clickly" Perfect. hahaha
Now you can throw it away
Please review Todd-AO Model 35 (it's an old cinema camera)
Photos look pretty good for 1999!
This was a fun time in digital cameras. It was also really fun trying to predict what was going to happen in their future.
Back in the day, I stayed with film.
I didn't move into serious digital, until I purchased an Olympus E3, and while it's still an awesome dSLR, it's been surpassed many times over…
I was hoping that Sony would open up the UMD media to consumers and let us do things like this. But they let it flop.
Had the Iomega MP3 player with clik disks. Vs a 32mb SmartMedia card, the value was way better. 2001 was wild times at OfficeMax.
NOOOOOOO Im so sad the circus ringleader and tiger are gone! Those were perfect for image comparison and they were just super fun! Overall though if the camera worked as it should, I wouldn't mind using one today, granted knowing its not a Pixel phone camera but I love these old style digital cams. Great stuff as always Clint!
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@6:08 was really satisfying! 😂 Having to pay extra for a lens cap!? Man Alive!
I still have my Iomega Click drive, its a PCMCIA model with a USB dock. It still works, on Windows 10 and on Linux. I have to say, I really liked it back then as USB memory sticks were not yet available and when they started to become available they were crazy expensive. The Click disks were small and easy to carry and, for the time, held a lot of data. At this time 3.5" floppies were still king for portable storage.
Most likely the electronics have suffered the fate of larger devices .. bad capacitors. You already know it's a brick at this point, so take it apart and see if it's got bulged or leaking capacitors
Despit the artifacts and low resolution, those photos look surprisingly good. Contrast and dynamic range seem to be pretty good and even in scenes with strong brightness differences (like 11:10) you can still see most stuff.
Looks like Sonys UMD, wonder if these were some kind of inspiration for those.
Did you perhaps try to adjust the settings on the clik by mirroring the input actions on the other camera? Might work, if only what is broken is the LCD… maybe you can navigate the ui, but without any display
I am really surprised like 20 years from today how people would look at today's tech.
The upscaling to a megapixel trick was common back then. Even Kodak's groundbreaking DC120 back then only had a 850×984 sensor which Kodak magically turned into a "megapixel" sensor through software.
If the two cameras have the same menu trees, you could turn both on and slowly mirror the menu navigation to get the resolution set on the one with the broken screen. That's assuming everything is the same between the two…
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