Cute little girl knows nothing about camera's! Damsel in distress help!?

Question

SLR Style Floppy Disk Digital Camera

What is a floppy disk camera?

Is it the same as a memory card?

Would I be able to connect it to my computer to upload pics?

Answer 1

A single-lens reflex style floppy disk camera is one that stores the images on an old-fashioned flexible computer disk about 7.5" across. Here's a picture of one, posed next to a regular diskette for scale. http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/Fl...

You might have a hard time finding a computer that can read floppies these days. It would be about 20 years old.

Floppies, then diskettes, were precursors to the memory card, which is tiny in comparison.

Answer 2

if you provide the model number, i can probably answer all your questions... Floppy disk is different than a memory card. Its an older technology so my guess is that this is an older camera

Answer 3

To my knowledge there has never been ANY Consumer level SLR camera that wrote to floppy disk (unless you count the Compact Flash compatible Microdrive a floppy disk but it is, in fact, a super compact hard drive originally made by IBM and Hitachi).  A previous answerer stated that a floppy disk was 7 1/2" inches square, this is NOT how the terminology developed nor how it was used for photography or PCs.  The original floppy disks were 8 inch square rigid plasticized sleeves with a thin "floppy" media disk inside.  With the advent of Personal Computers and more advanced manufacturing these were reduced to a more compact 5 inch sleeve, and eventually to a three & 1/2 inch rigid hard plastic sleeve.  The "floppy" disk has ALWAYS been inside some kind of a sleeve or carrier.  

There were, at the very end of the development cycle, before CD and Memory Cards became dominant, a number of specialized "floppies" developed for compact applications in a variety of sizes.  There were a few cameras that used either 3 1/2" or specialty floppies of this type, most notably the Sony Mavica line of cameras from the early 1980's forward.

Other brands that manufactured or attempted to make cameras of this type included -

    - Agfa ePhoto CL30 Clik! using Iomega disks.

    - Iomega

    - Panasonic PV-SD4090 using SuperDisk (LS120).

This is important because none of these cameras was an SLR and many of the Mavica models would only produce images for viewing on a Television!  All of these models are obsolete and would be difficult, if not impossible to use to make digital photographs comparable to the very cheapest of todays digital cameras.

In fact the floppy media would barely have room to hold even one or two images with many of todays cameras.