alt Hacker NewsMy first digital camera was a Sony with a whopping 1MP image size and it cost $100 for a 128Mb card. It also had this cool night vision that, when paired with a special lens filter, could be used for IR photography in daylight. It too could see through clothes, something I found out accidentally when photographing my then girlfriend at the local beach. We joked about it being the best camera for perverts.
To be clear, this wasn’t a video camera but a digital camera. Different from the one mentioned in the article, and this was in 2001 so a few years later.
Nostalgia, I won a Year 10's schools gardening competition with the schools Sony Camera that used a Floppy Disk. The clunk made when you slotted the disk in was satisfying.
The era of resonating with computer hardware is at its end.