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Title: Yesterday's Classics for Kids of Today!!
Post by: Ed Wenn on April 22, 2014, 08:06:42 PM
A kids' disc camera! Really? Oh wait....THAT type of disc camera. It looks pretty sweet though & that lens barrel just screams, "Diana!".
 ;D ;D
Title: Re: Yesterday's Classics for Kids of Today!!
Post by: Bryan on April 22, 2014, 08:46:28 PM
I remember that from my childhood.  I remember the flash cube rotated when you clicked through the pictures.  It's like a 2D View-Master.  It's amazing how those memories come back when you see a picture of something.  Until I saw this I remembered my first camera being a Kodak Instamatic X-15F.  Thanks for sharing that Ed!
Title: Re: Yesterday's Classics for Kids of Today!!
Post by: Francois on April 22, 2014, 09:19:08 PM
Strangely I never got the Fisher Price camera!
I was more into cars at that age :)
Title: Re: Yesterday's Classics for Kids of Today!!
Post by: Ed Wenn on April 22, 2014, 11:16:55 PM
My wife still has the 110 style Fisher Price camera that her dad brought back from the States for her in the early 70's. Our kids played with it a lot when they were younger.
Title: Re: Yesterday's Classics for Kids of Today!!
Post by: Hungry Mike on April 23, 2014, 05:12:26 AM
Ha we have a 110 style Fisher Price camera for my son! He occasionally plays with it but hilariously he likes to use my wife's real 110 camera she had from her childhood as a gun!
Title: Re: Yesterday's Classics for Kids of Today!!
Post by: Francois on April 23, 2014, 03:06:26 PM
He occasionally plays with it but hilariously he likes to use my wife's real 110 camera she had from her childhood as a gun!
I did the same thing! I had taped a paper towel tube to the electronic flash and used it as a sort of ray gun :)
Title: Re: Yesterday's Classics for Kids of Today!!
Post by: jharr on April 23, 2014, 04:40:56 PM
(http://images.shopgoodwill.com/161/4-22-2014/838955022132853ch.jpg) (http://www.shopgoodwill.com/auctions/Barbie-Polaroid-Film-Camera-16277517.html)
$10 @ ShopGoodwill.com (http://www.shopgoodwill.com/auctions/Barbie-Polaroid-Film-Camera-16277517.html)
Title: Re: Yesterday's Classics for Kids of Today!!
Post by: tkmedia on April 23, 2014, 05:53:39 PM
(http://bentstruments.com/creativeefxcam/creative-effects-boxfront.jpg)
http://bentstruments.com/creativeefxcam/creativeefxcam.htm (http://bentstruments.com/creativeefxcam/creativeefxcam.htm)
Title: Re: Yesterday's Classics for Kids of Today!!
Post by: Francois on April 23, 2014, 09:15:09 PM
I'd really love to have the thermal paper one!

Fisher Price did create some pretty wonderful stuff. The PXL-2000 was really good. It recorded B&W with sound on a single audio cassette.

(http://retrothing.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/pxl2000.jpg)
Here's the results it gave.
Whitney (shot in Pixelvision) PXL 2000 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSu7NjC51Xs#)
Title: Re: Yesterday's Classics for Kids of Today!!
Post by: Bryan on April 23, 2014, 09:48:30 PM
I'd really love to have the thermal paper one!

Fisher Price did create some pretty wonderful stuff. The PXL-2000 was really good. It recorded B&W with sound on a single audio cassette.


Check this guy out: http://bentstruments.com/pxl/pxl.html (http://bentstruments.com/pxl/pxl.html)
He repairs and modifies them, some of the modified ones sell for over $400 :o
Title: Re: Yesterday's Classics for Kids of Today!!
Post by: Francois on April 23, 2014, 11:12:48 PM
I know, you should see the PXL's wikipedia page!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PXL-2000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PXL-2000)

This thing's been used in so many movies. I heard it's even been used in the movie Aliens for the images on the security cameras.
Title: Re: Yesterday's Classics for Kids of Today!!
Post by: Hungry Mike on April 24, 2014, 01:17:12 AM
Oh in my student days I coveted the PXL 2000 something fierce. Occasionally, they'd go for under a hundred but in bad shape and unmodified. And I regularly saw them go for $200+ (even unmodified). I never did get one... One man's junk is another's treasure.