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Post by donerundlecams on Feb 6, 2023 8:45:17 GMT
My dad bought me a Kodk Disc camera to replace my 8 year old Kodak 110 camera  Cheers, Jack Did anyone consider that to be an upgrade?  Oh yeah, Zou, I mean it had an automatic advance and, plus, I sold my first photo with my Disc camera  ...... Cheers, Jack |
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Post by gray1720 on Feb 6, 2023 8:56:07 GMT
You sold a photo from the disc camera? Tell us more!
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Post by zou on Feb 6, 2023 9:21:07 GMT
Seconded, we want the full details (and the picture if possible)! |
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Post by nickr on Feb 6, 2023 14:57:57 GMT
My dad bought me a Kodk Disc camera to replace my 8 year old Kodak 110 camera Cheers, Jack Did anyone consider that to be an upgrade? Disc was Lomography before Lomography. I loved the results my Halina produced with its simple meniscus lens and the tiny, tiny neg. Grain the size of basketballs, virtually no resolution - heaven. Bloody useless for anything else, of course. |
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Post by spinno on Feb 6, 2023 15:22:30 GMT
Did anyone consider that to be an upgrade? Disc was Lomography before Lomography. I loved the results my Halina produced with its simple meniscus lens and the tiny, tiny neg. Grain the size of basketballs, virtually no resolution - heaven. Bloody useless for anything else, of course. Best of all no evf  |
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Post by petrochemist on Feb 6, 2023 17:20:04 GMT
Disc was Lomography before Lomography. I loved the results my Halina produced with its simple meniscus lens and the tiny, tiny neg. Grain the size of basketballs, virtually no resolution - heaven. Bloody useless for anything else, of course. Best of all no evf I don't think I've ever seen an EVF that was worse than the disc cameras OVF. (The EVFs on my Dads 1980/90's video cameras were dire but still as good as the disc camera). Though I rarely used 110 (perhaps finishing 2 films) I had an expanding 110 camera (about the size of a 35mm film until the 110 cartridge was added) which had a fold out frame viewfinder that was far better than the disc camera's. Indeed I don't think there's one factor of a disc camera that compares well with 110. The shape is awkward, it's negative frame size is about the same as 110, which is as easy to load. Storage of 110 negs after processing is much less space hungry... I now have a Pentax auto 110, which is smaller than a disc camera in overall volume & for 2 out of 3 dimensions, has much better viewfinder/lenses/handling... I've not put a film through it but it handles like a proper camera, not like a CD case. |
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Post by nickr on Feb 7, 2023 8:56:40 GMT
I don't think I've ever seen an EVF that was worse than the disc cameras OVF. (The EVFs on my Dads 1980/90's video cameras were dire but still as good as the disc camera). Though I rarely used 110 (perhaps finishing 2 films) I had an expanding 110 camera (about the size of a 35mm film until the 110 cartridge was added) which had a fold out frame viewfinder that was far better than the disc camera's. Indeed I don't think there's one factor of a disc camera that compares well with 110. The shape is awkward, it's negative frame size is about the same as 110, which is as easy to load. Storage of 110 negs after processing is much less space hungry... I now have a Pentax auto 110, which is smaller than a disc camera in overall volume & for 2 out of 3 dimensions, has much better viewfinder/lenses/handling... I've not put a film through it but it handles like a proper camera, not like a CD case. It'll surely come as no surprise that I've got quite a few 110 cameras. The real surprise is that some of them are quite good. There's another Halina that's not - a twin lens version. Not a TLR, of course. But I've an Auto 110 which is fun, a Canon 110ED that's a decent rangefinder, a Kodak Instamatic 60 that, battery woes aside, is a really decent little camera, again a rangefinder, and my favourite of all, yet another rangefinder, the Rollei A110. Absolute jewel of a camera. What Disk did do better than 110 was film flatness. Still, 110 was better than 126 in that regard, but really a small neg (almost the exact size of the 4/3 and MFT sensors, interestingly) and less than perfect flatness conspired against these very decent cameras. Oh, and the fact that film technology wasn't really advanced enough for the format size didn't help - the advances in film that came in with APS would have made a much more compelling case for these little cameras. |
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Post by petrochemist on Feb 7, 2023 9:32:02 GMT
I don't think I've ever seen an EVF that was worse than the disc cameras OVF. (The EVFs on my Dads 1980/90's video cameras were dire but still as good as the disc camera). Though I rarely used 110 (perhaps finishing 2 films) I had an expanding 110 camera (about the size of a 35mm film until the 110 cartridge was added) which had a fold out frame viewfinder that was far better than the disc camera's. Indeed I don't think there's one factor of a disc camera that compares well with 110. The shape is awkward, it's negative frame size is about the same as 110, which is as easy to load. Storage of 110 negs after processing is much less space hungry... I now have a Pentax auto 110, which is smaller than a disc camera in overall volume & for 2 out of 3 dimensions, has much better viewfinder/lenses/handling... I've not put a film through it but it handles like a proper camera, not like a CD case. It'll surely come as no surprise that I've got quite a few 110 cameras. The real surprise is that some of them are quite good. There's another Halina that's not - a twin lens version. Not a TLR, of course. But I've an Auto 110 which is fun, a Canon 110ED that's a decent rangefinder, a Kodak Instamatic 60 that, battery woes aside, is a really decent little camera, again a rangefinder, and my favourite of all, yet another rangefinder, the Rollei A110. Absolute jewel of a camera. What Disk did do better than 110 was film flatness. Still, 110 was better than 126 in that regard, but really a small neg (almost the exact size of the 4/3 and MFT sensors, interestingly) and less than perfect flatness conspired against these very decent cameras. Oh, and the fact that film technology wasn't really advanced enough for the format size didn't help - the advances in film that came in with APS would have made a much more compelling case for these little cameras. I stand corrected disc did have one improvement over 110. The reason I brought the auto 110 was for the lenses it was bundled with these work well on MFT, the only real issue being the lack of an aperture. The 24mm/2.8 is particularly fun being such a tiny lens! |
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Post by nickr on Feb 7, 2023 12:58:11 GMT
I stand corrected disc did have one improvement over 110. Absolutely only the one. And that wasn't enough to get even close to equally the scores. They are fun little lenses. My outfit has the 24, 50 and the 18mm Panfocus. Would prefer the normal 18mm, and the 70 is quite fun, but I'm never likely to get the use out of either. |
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Post by donerundlecams on Feb 13, 2023 7:08:08 GMT
You sold a photo from the disc camera? Tell us more! One of the tenants in the building I was living in was in a band and, amazingly, they had a gig at place where I would, eventually, take snaps of The Proclaimers, John Hiatt and, amongst others, Johnny Winter, but, I have no idea what the name of the Disc Camera group was  Cheers, Jack Attachment DeletedAttachment Deleted |
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Cheers, Jack