When I was in junior high school in the late 80s, I had a Kodak Disk camera.
If it wasn't this model, it was very similar to it -- I remember the flip-down cover plate, the flash that would pop out to the side, and the bevelled shutter button. A cousin had the chrome version, but mine was black plastic like this.
At the time, it seemed very svelte and handy. In hindsight, it must have been both larger and heavier than, say, the original Firewire iPod models, the picture quality was never very good (but what the heck, I was 12 years old), and it was no fun being limited to 15 frames when other cameras then could do double that (nevermind how many images will fit today on a 2gb SD memory card, plus video too, and at much higher quality, and oh yeah no developing fees either).
I recently came across a pack of photos I took in the late 80s, and now that I have a scanner, I'll try to put some of the pictures up.
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This photo ran with Wired.com's GeekDad blog, July 22, 2009: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About.
I was cool with this at the time.
Then I realized that they're using the photo in house ads on all of Wired's articles.
The photo is clearly set with "some rights reserved", and if you click through to the Creative Commons license, it clearly says that I am not permitting commercial usage (like house ads) or derivative works (like slapping a Wired logo on it).
Surely Wired, of all people, should understand these things.
Apparently not though.
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UPDATE: I promptly got an email & a call back from wired.com's Editor-in-chief, who was very reasonable about the whole thing. More to come, but it looks like this will have a fair resolution.
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meleuwal 48 months ago | reply
Oh, wow! I had one of those. I took it to Europe with me, and I had to carry all the film for the whole trip, 'cause there was no place to buy it. Thanks for the picture!
J. Albano Photography 48 months ago | reply
Congrats on being featured in a Yahoo home page article!
Chris Devers 48 months ago | reply
Wow really? Cool... :-)
J. Albano Photography 48 months ago | reply
No joke:
www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07/100-things-your-kids-may-ne...
I'm surprised Yahoo didn't tell you. I guess by having your photo on flickr they are allowed to use it whenever they want without telling you? They credited you though, that's how I commented
Congrats!
Chris Devers 48 months ago | reply
The Wired article I found out about (and in fact I updated the caption here to link back to it).
But I didn't realize that the Wired piece had ended up on Yahoo's home page as well (and in fact when I looked a few minutes ago, I didn't see it on there -- either it cycled off the page, or one or both of us has a personalized version of their homepage).
J. Albano Photography 48 months ago | reply
Here is the link to Yahoo Buzz. It's there now, but it was originally on Yahoo's home page. I'm sure it will come back up soon enough. If it does, I'll screen cap and send it over to you
buzz.yahoo.com/articles/y_featured/168/1/topstories/recent
judy_ga_69 47 months ago | reply
Any way to print photos from that disk? I have 2 disks with my granny pics and I cant find a place to print them out.
Chris Devers 47 months ago | reply
@judy_ga_69 No idea, last time I tried it was 1985 or so. I have prints, including from this roll -- is "roll" even the right word with this film? cartridge maybe? daisy wheel? -- but they've faded terribly, to the point that they can barely be made out any more. I keep meaning to scan them before they get any worse, but at this point they're probably just gone.
deanmackayphoto 47 months ago | reply
Found this via Wired. I actually still have my disc camera somewhere. And I definitely have envelopes with the prints and the discs in a box. I haven't looked to see what condition there in. But providing they are in good condition, I will be looking to get them scanned at some point. I'd be curious to know what luck you have with doing it yourself. Wow. This brought back memories.
Char3396 45 months ago | reply
I just ran across a big box of these and would like to know how to look at them to see which ones I would like to get developed. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks
mc_razza 43 months ago | reply
My parents have about 30 rotary disc negatives dating trhoughout the 80s. In fact I have one sitting on my desk in front of me now. I'm searching the net to find out if there are any stores that still develop disc negatives.
Chris Devers 43 months ago | reply
At this point, your best bet might be a film scanner & Photoshop to inverse the colors...
mc_razza 43 months ago | reply
I actually had the same idea but I don't have a film scanner, just a standard document/image scanner. I tried to invert the colours but they came out blue and grey-ish. I don't have Photoshop so instead I used iPhoto and the image and scanning software that came with my printer/scanner/copier. I'll post my results on my photostream soon.
EDIT: It's up.
shutterback 27 months ago | reply
haha, one of my professors invented this guy.
Chris Devers 27 months ago | reply
Small world :-)
amalia9000 27 months ago | reply
Where in south texas can i get copies from my disk camera negatives.? Anybody know..Kodak...Do you know.. Mollie
Chris Devers 27 months ago | reply
Absolutely no idea. Did you try a Google search? The first hit I find right now is this photo.net forum post has some suggestions from 2006-2009, which may still be valid.
CruznTbird 20 months ago | reply
Does anyone know how to scan the actual begatives in on a flatbed - i recently purchased an Epson Perfection V600 photo and it has been doing a wonderful job with my regular film negatives (35mm) but I have no idea how to get these old disks to scan in.
Thanks
MarcAndYashica 16 months ago | reply
Is there any place i can buy negetive discs. I am so anxious to find one .
Chris Devers 16 months ago | reply
I’d be surprised if you could get new film for these anywhere, or get any you manage to find developed. Try a Google search?