sun & lake from July 1998

Posted by Martin Schneider (Vienna, Austria) on 31 October 2006 in Landscape & Rural.

This Photo is an example of how bad digital photgraphy was in its beginnings. When I took the photo I was 12 years old. It was made with a, now historical, Sony Mavica with 3.5" floppy-disks and fixed focal length. I took it at the Neusiedler See (literally: Newsettler Lake) in Austria. The resolution of the camera is effective 320,000 pixels, or 640 x 320 ;-) I think saving a picture on the floppy took at least 7 seconds or so... I think the photo itself is not too bad, but the qualitiy is so poor. My family was also in posession of a Pentium II with 233 MHz but I never tried to edit it under Windows 98, because it took so much time transferring the photos from floppy to my 'huge' 6 GB hard-drive. Remember USB was new and this camera didn't have that at all.
You might wonder why I explain everything in technical detail, but at that time I was a computer-geek, so I remember lots of the stuff.
Anyway, it should just be an example of how digital photography has developed since then. Have fun critisising on it :-)

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