by Tdarcos » Sun Jan 17, 2021 2:16 pm
AArdvark wrote: ↑Sun Dec 27, 2020 9:54 am
Got me a kick-ass DSLR for Christmas this year!
[image of a 1930s's-style news photographer's camera]
Too bad they stopped making film for it.
'Vark, DSLR stands for "digital single-lens reflex," meaning it is a digital camera, it does not use film. The joke would have worked better if you said they stopped making floppy disks for it, and showed an image of one of the old 8" floppy disks from the late 1970s and early 1980s (I used to own about a dozen of these, the PDP-11/03 minicomputer used them.)
This is not that far fetched, because Kodak actually invented the firsty digital camera back in the '70s, and it used floippy disks. Someone at Kodak realized (correctly) that this would cannibalize film sales, and shelved it, not realizing that if they could create a digital camera, someone else could, and failing to realize that if a new invention is going to cannibalize your market, it's better you do it than have someone else both eat your lunch
and take all the money doing so.
[quote=AArdvark post_id=117917 time=1609088079 user_id=20]
Got me a kick-ass DSLR for Christmas this year!
[image of a 1930s's-style news photographer's camera]
Too bad they stopped making film for it.[/quote]
'Vark, DSLR stands for "digital single-lens reflex," meaning it is a digital camera, it does not use film. The joke would have worked better if you said they stopped making floppy disks for it, and showed an image of one of the old 8" floppy disks from the late 1970s and early 1980s (I used to own about a dozen of these, the PDP-11/03 minicomputer used them.)
This is not that far fetched, because Kodak actually invented the firsty digital camera back in the '70s, and it used floippy disks. Someone at Kodak realized (correctly) that this would cannibalize film sales, and shelved it, not realizing that if they could create a digital camera, someone else could, and failing to realize that if a new invention is going to cannibalize your market, it's better you do it than have someone else both eat your lunch [i]and[/i] take all the money doing so.