Topic: Yesterday's Classics for Kids of Today!!

[Ed Wenn]

A kids' disc camera! Really? Oh wait....THAT type of disc camera. It looks pretty sweet though & that lens barrel just screams, "Diana!".
 

[Bryan]

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!

[Francois]

Strangely I never got the Fisher Price camera!
I was more into cars at that age

[Ed Wenn]

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.

[Hungry Mike]

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!

[Francois]

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

[jharr]

$10 @ ShopGoodwill.com

[tkmedia]

http://bentstruments.com/creativeefxcam/creativeefxcam.htm

[Francois]

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.


Here's the results it gave.
Whitney (shot in Pixelvision) PXL 2000

[Bryan]

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
He repairs and modifies them, some of the modified ones sell for over $400

[Francois]

I know, you should see the PXL's wikipedia page!
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.

[Hungry Mike]

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.