Photographs from Early "Filmless" Cameras

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Photographs from Early "Filmless" Cameras

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Hello, friends.

Is there any sort of a repository for photographs from early filmless cameras? (analogue or digital)
I'm mostly interested in images from still video cameras, but also earlier digital cameras.
The works of later models (Kodak series 500 and after) can be found, but I haven't seen many contemporary images from earlier examples.
Any help or users who are willing to link the results of their own units is appreciated.
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Re: Photographs from Early "Filmless" Cameras

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No such repository that I know of. You'll find some sample photos from the QV-1000C in the article at https://www.nikonweb.com/qv1000c/ but few people used these early still video cameras, and even fewer would publish the photos online. Remember, the first still video cameras were introduced and sold before the modern Internet (World Wide Web) even existed, meaning there are not a lot of reviews online.

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Re: Photographs from Early "Filmless" Cameras

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Not only this was previous to internet, most of them weren't digital so there was no real way of getting the picture to a computer.
It needed to be digitized in a similar fashion a VHS does which at that time was not an easy task.
Nowadays is easy to digitize but i guess the source material cannot be found easily neither something that can play it.
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Re: Photographs from Early "Filmless" Cameras

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There's a working MVC-5000 on eBay, with lens, at the moment, for $700. You could make some of your own...

I did find someone who had posted some digitized MVC-5000 shots here: https://imgur.com/a/OGkHi5o
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