Who wants to buy a piece of leading edge 1980s technology? Or the highest rated device for converting slides and negatives from the early 2000s? So old school, right?
Maybe not. Yep, we love equipment that hasn’t been manufactured for decades in some cases. More than that, we need that old equipment.
In the pursuit of photo organization and management excellence, we’ve been amazed at how much old technology we’ve acquired to help clients with old photos and family movies.
As a photo organizer, not only have we seen some really old photos, we’ve also seen some really old tapes, film and slides. Back in the day, there were as many choices for capturing a memory as today – but using a much wider degree of equipment (our term today is “devices.”) And, the output options were more varied as well.
- Cameras (35mm, Polaroid, Disc, etc.)
- Video Cameras (MiniDV, 8mm, VHS, VHS-C)
- Film Cameras (Regular 8, Super 8)
Some old tech stats!
- The “Brownie”, Kodak Eastman’s first camera was sold in ever improving models from 1900 through the 1950s. Did your family have one?
- In early 2014, Gallup reported that 58% of respondents still had a VCR player. The largest age group to have a VCR was the 65+ demographic at 74% still owning one.
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