Good enough for the RAF – The last of the massive floppy disk Mavica’s – The Sony Mavica FD200

Sony are synonymous with innovation and have overseen the development of some monumentally successful product releases that have changed the markets in which they have entered. Walkman, Betamax and Playstation will instantly spring to mind for anyone who grew up in the 80’s and 90’s and, with the exception of…

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1994 Minolta Dynax 500si – “A camera so simple a child could use it!” Best give it to a child, then…

I’ve recently been looking into cameras which hold some form of historical or technological significance. It turns out that there are other camera manufacturers out there that aren’t Canon? I know, I’m as shocked as you are by this revelation and apparently in the mid 1980’s a little known company…

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Surfing the crest of the 1999 CD-ROM craze – The Canon Virtual Camera Interactive CD-ROM

In terms of technology, the 1990’s were utterly bonkers. These were exciting times, the news was full of “digital revolution” and we were all getting on board the “Information Super Highway!” People had laughed when Bill Gates said he could envision a time when every house contained a PC –…

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They’re all dead, Dave – One of the last surviving Canon Digital Ixus 400’s – A retrospective review

The Canon Digital Ixus 400 (Ixy 400 in Japan and Powershot S400 in America) was an utterly iconic digital compact camera, released in March of 2003 into an intensely competitive marketplace. Digital compacts were all the rage in the very early 2000’s and had truly come of age. They came…

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