Sony Dear Sony, please make one of these

[Brownie]

Stamp Minolta on it and I'm in.

 

[rloewy]

Stamp Minolta on it and I'm in.

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They probably made the sensor for that one... 😉

 

[L0n3Gr3yW0lf]

Stamp Minolta on it and I'm in.

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Closest you can get right now is the Sony a7C/C R/C II ... If you can stick a fake EVF hump in the Hot shoe 😛

It would be nice with some old Minolta A mount lenses

 

[rayvonn]

Could happen. Olympus, Nikon, Fuji and I believe Canon in the not too distant future are quite rightly pointing to their wonderful heritage and designs. Sony would have to bring back the Minolta name for this wouldn't they?

 

[Brownie]

Could happen. Olympus, Nikon, Fuji and I believe Canon in the not too distant future are quite rightly pointing to their wonderful heritage and designs. Sony would have to bring back the Minolta name for this wouldn't they?

That’d be my desire. Minolta still exists in cheap p-n-s, but I’m sure whoever licensed the name wouldn’t mind free publicity in the form of an upscale camera with a throwback design.

Unfortunately, Sony rarely does anything that makes sense to me. If there is one holdout in the world of nostalgic cameras, I’d expect it to be them.

 

[Brownie]

Closest you can get right now is the Sony a7C/C R/C II ... If you can stick a fake EVF hump in the Hot shoe 😛

It would be nice with some old Minolta A mount lenses

I have an allergy to anything that even remotely resembles a rangefinder. I hated the last one I had.

 

[rloewy]

Maybe Sony can give us a rotating body F-828 retro inspired camera 😉

Or maybe a Mavica with a floppy disk drive.

 

[L0n3Gr3yW0lf]

Maybe Sony can give us a rotating body F-828 retro inspired camera 😉

Or maybe a Mavica with a floppy disk drive.

If they make the Mavica please put it on a 8 inch Floppy Disk or Magnetic Tape 😛

 

[rloewy]

If they make the Mavica please put it on a 8 inch Floppy Disk or Magnetic Tape 😛

I don't think they ever made these, i am certain of a 3.5, maybe the early ones were the 5 1/4? And they had a cdrw version, for sure.

 

[Brownie]

I was thinking more along the lines of an XG-1, but ok…

 

[L0n3Gr3yW0lf]

I don't think they ever made these, i am certain of a 3.5, maybe the early ones were the 5 1/4? And they had a cdrw version, for sure.

The first floppy disks, invented and made by IBM in 1971,[3] had a disk diameter of 8 inches (203.2 mm).[4] Subsequently, the 5¼-inch (133.35 mm) and then the 3½-inch (88.9 mm) became a ubiquitous form of data storage and transfer into the first years of the 21st century.[5] 3½-inch floppy disks can still be used with an external USB floppy disk drive. USB drives for 5¼-inch, 8-inch, and other-size floppy disks are rare to non-existent. Some individuals and organizations continue to use older equipment to read or transfer data from floppy disks.

Think of it as the vinyl disk with corners to the CD ROM and Mini CDs 😛

Oh and you should see the Floppy Disk drive for that giant burger:

It's bigger then a Mini ITX computer.

 

[rloewy]

The first floppy disks, invented and made by IBM in 1971,[3] had a disk diameter of 8 inches (203.2 mm).[4] Subsequently, the 5¼-inch (133.35 mm) and then the 3½-inch (88.9 mm) became a ubiquitous form of data storage and transfer into the first years of the 21st century.[5] 3½-inch floppy disks can still be used with an external USB floppy disk drive. USB drives for 5¼-inch, 8-inch, and other-size floppy disks are rare to non-existent. Some individuals and organizations continue to use older equipment to read or transfer data from floppy disks.
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Think of it as the vinyl disk with corners to the CD ROM and Mini CDs 😛

Oh and you should see the Floppy Disk drive for that giant burger:
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It's bigger then a Mini ITX computer.

I am taking about Sony not having an 8'' floppy camera.

I have some old shit here including 8'' floppies. I have a 10MB bernoulli box here (which is basically a floppy disk) - it was much bigger than a 8'' floppy.

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[L0n3Gr3yW0lf]

I am taking about Sony not having an 8'' floppy camera.

I have some old shit here including 8'' floppies. I have a 10MB bernoulli box here (which is basically a floppy disk) - it was much bigger than a 8'' floppy.

Sample image to show you how big a Bernoulli box "cartridge" (floppy in a hard shell) is.

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What are you keeping on there? The nuclear codes from the 1960s ICBMs? 😛

 

[rloewy]

What are you keeping on there? The nuclear codes from the 1960s ICBMs? 😛

I don't know or remember. They are just kept because I do not have the will power to throw them out.

I have tons of zip disks with who knows what on them. Maybe some old photos from the 90s? Would be nice to check these out - but I do not have a drive that works with anything modern to actually read them...

 

[L0n3Gr3yW0lf]

I don't know or remember. They are just kept because I do not have the will power to throw them out.

I have tons of zip disks with who knows what on them. Maybe some old photos from the 90s? Would be nice to check these out - but I do not have a drive that works with anything modern to actually read them...

If you have a PC with a Parallel Port you can get Zip Disks to be read.

 

[Brownie]

Good grief...

 

[John King]

I've got all of those, with the exception of 8" floppies and drives.

Tape drives, Iomega disks, and 5.25" and 3.5" floppies. I've got working drives for the latter.

I also have my first HDD. A 10 MB IBM with controller card, and a PC that will drive it. If you hit a burglar with the IBM, you'd be up on a murder charge ...

How the technology has changed!