Mitsubishi DJ-1000: World's Smallest Digital Camera (in 1997!)
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2018
- Back in 1997, consumer digital cameras didn't get any thinner or lighter weight than the DJ-1000 by Mitsubishi Electric. While it may be forgotten these days, I think it's worth a retrospective look!
● Album of photos taken with this camera:
imgur.com/a/SqI5gSE
● LGR links:
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/ lazygamereviews
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● Music credits go to:
www.epidemicsound.com
#LGR #Retro #Photography - Наука та технологія
*Sherpness*
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errrrrm... sherp?
I wast just eating when I saw that part. Now the food is on my laptop screen... Thanks LGR!
Sherp-a-derp
If someone can add that as an Urban Dictionary definition, that would be amazing :D
That alleyway shot is awesome, looks like it could be a mid 90s industrial metal album cover
Less 'Too Dark Park,' more 'Too Bright Sky?'
Seeing Skinny Puppy mentioned on a LGR thing, really made my day
I was thinking the same thing! that Alleyway could easily be used for a album cover.
Lazy Game Nails
@@thematicschematic Thank you for the reference. No sarcasm. The majority of times someone says the word "industrial" in terms of music, it's some "industrial rock" style (like the OP), which tends to - not be very industrial at all. Electro-industrial like SP is far better, imo.
Can't wait to take a picture with my Mitsubishi camera of my Mitsubishi car being lifted by my Mitsubishi forklift while enjoying my Mitsubishi air-conditioning
Don't forget to write the picture on a Mitsubishi CD-R using your Mitsubishi CD-RW drive.
I have a Mitsubishi stereo
I took my Mitsubishi camera to my mechanic... He looked at me funny.
You forgot taking a flight on your Mitsubshi jet airliner.
Yo dawg...
This might have been the unbelievably thin digital camera I had seen in the hands of a Japanese tourist inside the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, sometime in 1999-2000. I remember staring at it for far longer than I should have.
I love how some random and specific memories from our lives remain clear and vivid in our minds, while others are completely forgotten.
Thanks for sharing!
i actually LOVE the look of this camera's photos
I love the look of this camera. Photos are pretty bad tho. Worse than already pretty crappy Casio QV-30 :(.
"As usual with older cameras I enjoy taking photos of things that would've been around when it was new" shows picture of himself LOL
I always enjoy his selfies, though.
Help. I'm Lost. Being fair, unlike me he was alive back then.
WHO, HO WHEEZE HO HE HA HA HA HA HA
Sorry to be so offtopic but does someone know of a method to get back into an instagram account??
I was dumb lost the account password. I would appreciate any tips you can offer me!
@Chase Tommy instablaster =)
Hey, LGR! Here's a little more background info on the DJ-1000:
The images are stored on the CF card as 128K files in a FAT12 (DOS) Filesystem. This is convenient because it is a primitive enough filesystem that just about anything can read it; Linux and NetBSD PCMCIA support works fine, and even the Psion 5 palmtop has no problem finding the individual MDSC*.DAT files on the card.
EDIT: In hindsight, is it possible that the reason why even a freshly-formatted card was "full" is because Windows formatted it as a FAT16 volume instead of FAT12, so the camera didn't recognize it? By default, Windows 95 uses FAT16B, aka "BigFAT".
The image files have four image planes, with different sensitivities. The planes are 8 bits per pixel, and the pixels are physically offset from each other, which is how they get from 256x128 to 504x378.
The two "missing" scan lines at the end appear to be zero except for some metadata:
* a four byte "signature" which is always C4,B2,E3,22; without these bytes at this position, the vendor software will not attempt to process the image.
* a four byte "camera version" which is displayed by the program as-is; 00,02,00,03 appears as "camera version 2.03".
* a constant byte 01.
* four more bytes which seem to have no effect on what the program does, but do vary per-image; they may be related to the "color balancing" but the vendor software doesn't appear to need them.
And one more interesting fact: Technically, it *isn't* a Mitsubishi. _Sanyo_ built it. From what I'm able to piece together, the camera was originally designed by Microdia, and licensed to Mitsubishi and Umax. Mitsubishi must've outsourced the production of the camera to Sanyo. The camera was called the DJ-1 in Japan, and had a different color case. The Umax version is called the PhotoRun. The original Microdia QuickShot prototype was apparently never sold.
man I feel old now.. fat12
Great info! I was curious about why formatting it would screw it up. Figured it may use some proprietary formatting scheme but then you would need the software to install some driver and new cards wouldn't work without being formatted beforehand. But FAT12 makes sense. Great details here.... where'd you get all this info?
+Sam Cyanide Well, as much as I'd like to claim credit for the research, I can't. I got this info from two sources: (1) The Digital Camera Museum, which is where I found out that it is also called the DJ-1 and the UMAX PhotoRun, and that Sanyo built it; and (2) a blog called "The Herd of Kittens", which is where I found the information on the FAT12 file system and the structure of the DAT files.
Here are the links:
www.digicammuseum.com/en/cameras/item/mitsubishi-dj-1000
www.thok.org/intranet/djcam/djcam.html
keep doin what you're doin and the internet is gonna become a better place. you're an example as to how people should use the youtube comments.
Quality post OP
Damn, is that circus ever leaving town?
Clint probably uses his Patreon money to get them to stay there so he can keep using them as interesting photo subjects.
@@SmaMan Or the circus is abandoned.
And here I thought I was the only one noticing the exact same subjects at the same exact angle appearing in every camera video.
And then next year the GameBoy camera came out, what a time.
GameBoy Color*
This bag's shade of blue was so 90s! It was literally everywhere, even the dividing walls of the cubicles in my office back then were this color.
Loud. It is about the loudest shade of blue I've ever seen. : )
Mitsubishi is sort of like yamaha ,they make literally everything.
Nokia? I have no idea what else Nokia does than cell phones...
From fighter planes to cameras.
i believe nokia makes boots.
@@h.m.8068 That's Nokian. Different company.
Actually Mitsubishi is exactly like Samsung, they make all and literally everything.
This was incredible
Thank you!
Yes
You know what other Japanese company made a lot of different stuff? Sherp. :D
5Lives Gaming I swear to God...
Your retro digital cameras videos are my favorites, your eye to take this vintage looking images is amazing.
Getting close to 1mil subs there! Well deserved!
Who else was waiting for the picture of the conductor and the tiger for the comparison. I love that you always use this same place for the comparisons as it means I can look at your other camera videos and immediately see the difference!!! Great job as always Clint.
I don't know why, but I will never tire of LGR's retro digicam offerings. They're always so great
I'm a professional photographer and I absolutely love these early digital cameras, I'm so glad to see you making more videos about them, keep it going !
If you can find yourself some early digital backs for film cameras (such as the Kodak ones which were to be mounted on Nikon F4 cameras and the like), I think it could make for some very interesting videos !
Also, the streaks that you see from the highlights are due to the CCD sensors receiving too much light and "overflowing", causing a streak, and sometimes a stain (often green or blue)
It's also called blooming, bleeding, smearing, or even ghosting
Blooming is different from vertical smear in CCDs. What you explained was blooming, yes, basically overflowing to adjacent pixels. Smear happens due to the way the sensor is read out, while blooming is the overflowing during exposure.
I died at sherpness.
Ermahgerd!
Unsherp < Sherp
They're only as good as Google translates.
@Doge Maverick Mitsubishi are the company that managed to misspell Stallion as "Starion", so it's not unprecedented for them!
@@Lukeno52 That's just how stallion is written in katakana
the sound quality of your videos is always fantastic.. i appreciate that!
This video is so relaxing and full of nostalgia. Amazing content, as usual. 😁
As an amateur photographer and avid collector of older digital and film cameras I absolutely love your digital camera reviews. I have heard of most variations of products from the major digital camera manufacturers but I had never honestly heard of the DJ-1000 until I saw this video. Great work as always!!
Clint, I just want to say that your videos are endlessly entertaining and forever fascinating. I appreciate your penchant for alliteration as well :)
lets go lgr! love your work. here s hoping you hit 1 MILLION
You have such entertaining videos!! Keep up the great work!!
Thanks for making my Friday awesome!
Entertaining as always. Happy Friday
Love this- more digital camera vids please, sir!
Funny stuff. In the beginning you have a picture of "Mitsubishi Electric Halle" in Düsseldorf - Close to where I live and been there for an event lately :)
Love your work man. Brings back many memories. Just go on.
I love your videos, they're kind of like a video museum that shows off information of cool stuff
Awesome :)
I keep looking at all the pictures you took and I'm just reminded of the camera quality used in 80's tokusatsu shows
I find myself relaxing to whatever LGR has to present, the dulcet narration and lounge music... I think LGR could present "Welcome to another end of the world comet hitting earth thing..." and we'd sitting around chilling out as the sky started to boil and not be overly concerned about it. Another great and interesting video LGR, thanks! 😁
This video, was just awesome, relaxing, and somehow made me nostalgic for a product I never knew existed back then.
I remember my grandma had a really heavy Mitsubishi TV. I was a kid and a thought it was so weird a motorcycle factory making TVs haha
I always wondered why a music instrument company made atvs... My first introduction to Yamaha was a trumpet I got in third grade. It's still weird to me that they use the same tuning fork logo on their small engine stuff.
My parents still have a Mitsubishi VCR somewhere.
Yamaha was forced to make small military vehicles using their factory when they couldn't sell their pianos during World War II, after the war, they never stopped this side business.
Really? I wonder what they did to be forced to make flutes hahaha
My own grandparents had one. It was a 40" and I was surprised it was a tube TV more than anything. I don't know what it weighed, but after my own 110 pound / 50kg 27" Trinitron, I can't imagine it was light.
Thank you for the video LGR :D wasn't much of a camera person growing up, still have problems being in pictures/smiling even today, but I can take them no problem. Lol.
I live in the same area as you and I love seeing all these places through your old cameras!
That was so cool man. You should just keep that on you at all times. The pictures look really cool. Please more LGR food videos on your other channel. That sandwich looked so good in your last video. "Num num num, num, num num. Sandvich makes me strong!"
I have an interest in photography, so I love these videos about the oddball cameras in your collection. I think it might be my second favourite thing on your channel (after LGR thrifts).
Your channel is the holy grail sir
i've been loving these digicam videos. it's so fascinating even though i remember them from my childhood.
Thank you for showing a picture from the Mitsubishi Music Hall in Dusseldorf, Germany, my Home City! :D
I love this type of old school tech, the pictures are fuzzy, blurry little masterpieces. ;)
One kilobyte of ram Awesome username. 👍
Very cool camera, speaking of Mitsubishi I've got a high end CRT made by them, 22" 2048x1536 @ 85Hz pretty much as good as it gets for a 4:3 aspect ratio CRT.
Égua da câmera LINDA, irmão! Valeu, Clint, muito bom o vídeo!
I need to dig up my first digital camera I bought in 2000 for my big trip to London and Paris. It's probably buried in a box somewhere, along with its two 128MB memory sticks and a tiny 4MB stick which I think came with it. I wonder if there are still photos on those sticks? The nostalgia on your channel is both delightful and almost painful in a way! A time I'll never get back, existing only in memories and UA-cam channels like this one!
I Love how you take the same photos with all the cameras. Really is a great way to see how they all work.
Thanks, that's certainly the idea :)
lolz
I actually had one of these when I was younger. It was a delightful little camera, if an absolute pain to deal with files on it.
Thank you very much for yet another !Nostalgia trip!
Clint your recent camera videos have been fascinating :) this camera reminds me of this tiny little point and shoot my dad got back in the very early 2000s the photos were terrible compared to his cannon film camera but he loved that thing. Would fill entire cdrs with random nature shots. Or print out cd labels with photos he took :) i wish i still had that thing around somewhere
Great video! Never had any experience with these early digital camera's, but I remember reading reviews for them in PC mags back in the day and my thoughts at the time were eew! Looking back now, it seems the only cheap way of getting good quality 'Digital' photos in the mid to late 90's was to use a decent quality film camera, get the pictures developed (oh yeah, one hour photo!) and then scan them on to the PC later. Oh how times have changed! :)
It might be sacrilege to you, but you've inspired me to recreate this look with my camera, haha. These 90's digital sensor artifacts are really doing it for me.
Awesome, never heard and finding out from you is awesome, keep it up :)
6:28 Always love the comparison between the Note 8 and the cameras that you get. It's wild to think that those cameras were the standard (or were they?)
They weren't. Film cameras were the standard back then.
I agree with Andrej. My then girlfriends circa 1995 £50 Canon 35mm Film Point and Shoot took better pictures than my Canon 3 MegaPixel Digital Point and Shoot which cost me £400 in 2002. Actually LGRs early digicam photos always remind me of the photos I took with the cheap 126 Prinz and 110 Halina cameras I had in the 1970s.
Boy do I love Lazy Camera Reviews!
very interesting, great video!
OOOOOooo I'm early to a LGR video!
Great video as always!
LGR: "Things that would have been around in the late 1990s"
*takes selfie*
This camera would have been awesome to have as a child in the 90s. I was just given a hand me down vivitar point and click but at least it auto wound the film. Love the video as always Clint!
The Mitsubishi Electric Halle is located in my home town Düsseldorf in Germany. Thank you for putting a smile on my face. :)
Somewhat reminds of me of the pathetic and terrible Fujifilm digital cam I bought in the early 2000s. Was it good? No. Did it take photos that held a special place in my heart? Yes. There's something to be said for a digital device that delivers the mystery of film photography. "Did that shot turn out? I'll know later"
XFolf
Yeah I had a fujifilm I used in 2011 for a Statue of Liberty trip and I still have (albeit deactivated and probably dead) and it brings similar nostalgia to this.
That's why I enjoy playing around with an old Kodak dc50 I got at a thrift store, take 11 shots onto the internal memory to fill it, then hook the serial cable up and run the software to retrieve the photos and see how they turned out
Thank you for mentioning the Mitsubishi Electric Hall in my hometown Dusseldorf 😊
I actually had a Umax Photorun back in 1997, bought in CANADA, but I don't remember what store (got it after the Xapshot you talked about three weeks ago, which I had since 1989). My Photorun though came with the Parallel port card reader for desktops...a cable from one end of the reader plugged into the parallel port, there was a cable that plugged into the keyboard port for power, and it had a pass-through for the printer. If you want to talk about my next camera too, it was the JamCam! ;-)
i love the sherpness comment it made me laugh so hard. i really like your videos. wish the goodwill i worked at got such neat stuff like yours do. i know this isn't lgr thrifts but i do like watching them.
just what i needed this morning some more LGR goodness
Those photos look just like my childhood. A long time ago, fuzzy and out of focus, loved it!!
Great video, I've never seen this camera before. The smallest digital camera I remember was one that fit on a keyring that you can buy from Walmart and it worked with Windows XP, but that was around 2007.
Good video!
👍
We had a Mitsubishi Pc in the 90s. Our first home computer, the Mitsubishi Apricot. What a beast with its 8MB RAM; an Intel Pentium 1, 120MHz processor; an ATI 3D Rage GPU; and an absolutely massive 1.25GB HDD, just about big enough to fit Baldurs Gate 2, which is what I played on it the most outside of Magic Carpet 2.
DragonNexus Apricot was a UK company bought by Mitsubishi in 1990. Great computers. I had a 486 XEN
"A some what annoying little thing but absolutely charming & I adore it never the less..." Sounds like the story of my life. 🤔
Really cool & random 90s tech review LGR!
You need to do a video showing us that ingles place. Super curious after seeing the sign so many times.
I believe it's headquartered in NC. There's one near me in Marion VA.
@BadDriversOf Georgia woooo now I want to see it more
Lol it's just a grocery store, I miss it though tbh they always had some damn good deals, so much better than Walmart.
Good photos ;)
Sheesh. You are the only guy I know that can make me feel both guilty and sad that I got rid of the camera that came FREE with my Ulead Photo Express Software I got in 1997. It was definitely on par with this one; maybe even less.
This was really cool. all the annoyances are part of its charm. so thin too!!
Man, every time you do a camera video, while I absolutely respect your preference for taking pics of things that look like they would have fit in perfectly with the time period of the camera, my inner love of anachronism is always sad at not being able to see what really modern-looking things would look like through the same lens.
That camera might be about the size of the wallet I use.
(Also, I was born in 1997, so it's nice to learn about what existed when I was born. Great video as always, LGR! 👍🏽)
You should take a look at the Nikon D1 from 1999. It was the first pro DSLR built in-house by a camera company, independently from Kodak or Fujifilm. It's a lot like a modern DSLR, except for some 90's-era quirks like old camcorder menus and images being in NTSC color instead of RGB. Also works with nearly every Nikon lens made.
The Kodak DCS cameras are more interesting, but they're a pain in the ass to get up and running, and they're pretty expensive now that they're a collectors item.
I'd love to do a whole photo exhibition of digital photos using these pre-2000 digital cameras. As Clint said, they output their own unique look on a subject.
6:53 aw freakin yiss a Mazda Rx-7 FC3S, mid/late 80s awesomeness, rather fitting for the camera!
the photos you took with the dj-1000 remind me a lot of the first digicam i ever had (in fact, i'm pretty sure i still have it in a box, somewhere). i'm short on details at the moment, since i don't have it in front of me, and i didn't buy it, originally, and i haven't been able to find drivers for it newer than xp. but it was a garish translucent purple plastic monstrosity called a coolcam, which my mother picked up somewhere, most likely wal-mart, for $10-$20 in probably 1997. i only mention it because the photos (and videos!) it took looked exactly like yours. indoors. strangely, as light levels went up, not only did the strangeness subside, but it seemed that the actual resolution of the photos was higher, to the point that photos taken outdoors in full sunlight were actually pretty decent. i later found software which was able to interact with the camera in ways it was never intended, and found that the ccd was capable of many more modes than the two which it's original software made available, up to quite high resolutions, albeit in greyscale and at low framerate. not sure what my point is here, i just spent many hours playing with it, making ir flashlights to take photos in the dark, i even used it as a motion sensing camera to catch a roommate red-handed breaking into my room a couple of times!
I was wondering when this one would show up! Got one when I was younger at a pawn shop.. loved it... even though quality wasn't exactly great and the lack of flash pretty annoying.. haha
I love your camera videos! Are you planning on doing some film cameras at some point?
Thanks, I couldn't remember how life was like back in 97. The green streaks definitely were there.
Another cool one!
Dang it, I must have thrown away those Kodak-branded 1mb cards I had, I would have gladly sent you one :(
Thanks for the upload! Have a nice weekend!
Hnnnggg, them photos of the BB&T building. So majestic.
I used to have one of those 'credit card' size digital cameras some time around the 2000s.. I'm reminded a little of that by this camera as it had no functions on it either bar a lens shutter (which switched the camera on) and a button to take photos. From what I remember it was only 640x480 resolution and had a fixed memory of about 2mb(?)
Was just about to post the same thing. I think I got it as a freebie with something, could have been with a cereal box or front of a magazine or something? I seem to recall the battery life on it was terrible (and if the battery died your pictures were gone), but it could also be used as a webcam, which is what I used it for.
I love that quality. It's a very certain kind of nostalgia and it makes me happy.
I love stuff like this!!! An obscure piece of tech, a blip in time... Someone in Mitsubishi Electric thought "We need to get into a niche market...Well if Sanyo can do it... why can't we?". Mitsubishi makes so much electrical tech, I just knew about the Air Conditioner and Semi-Conductor divisions, they have plants around here when you look into them, they make anything electrical.
I'm impressed digital cameras were a thing in 1997. I remember seeing the first one around 2005 and being "wooooow, you can now see the picture before you take it"
i'd love to see a comparison of all the digital cameras you've reviewed, like a spreadsheet of the same photo on different cameras or something haha
Love these old camera reviews, do we get a review of the Fuji as well?
The design and color of it is actually still beautiful. Most old electronics look dated nowadays, but this has held up nicely.
wow, nice video
Discord goes down so I check UA-cam and find this, great upload timing
One of my friends used to have a Mitsubishi computer that we played Sim City 3000 on and stuff. Oh the times
Wow, it has kind of an abstract art look to the photos. 😎
6:53 lovely Rx7 FC seems like it needs some love and some better looking rims :3
7 seconds before 7:00, no less! Aren't they original wheels? They look great to me. I have an FB and an FD. If only I had the space and money for an FC... I'd probably get an Esprit instead
Wow were do you find theses weird facts i love it.
That crazy highlight glitch is called blooming. I learned about it in photo school at just about the time that technology finally fixed it. I've never seen it in the wild like this before. Nice!
2 megs of memory :) how cute ;) For its time of course it definitely was an accomplishment
Christian O. Holz I’m old enough to remember when a 1 mb hdd was a big deal. :)
The digital camera I got in 2002 came with a 16mb memory stick. 8x improvement in 5 years isn’t terrible, I suppose.
I kind of dig the amount of text on the back of the camera. It’s like taking photos with a business card.
My very first digital camera! And I still have it! I flew a million hours in my plane with that camera in my front pocket. Thanks.
Got this as a hand-me-down from my father when he upgraded to a real deluxe digital camera. I took it to school and the size was great to be able to snap quick photos. Yearbook people liked that I had, about halfway through my senior year. (I still have the adapter somewhere around here, but dunno about the camera...)