GoKawiil
Tech News
Camp Snap has opened preorders for the 110D, a pocket-sized digital point-and-shoot styled after the thin horizontal 110 film cameras Kodak popularized in the 1970s. It costs $74.95 and comes in two color options, packing an 8-megapixel Sony sensor, a 4.2mm f/2.0 lens with 30.5mm filter compatibility, five built-in retro filters, and a bundled 4GB microSD card.
Fujifilm has unveiled the Instax Pal 2, a successor to its palm-sized Instax Pal camera, adding an optical viewfinder and a 1.3-inch LCD screen missing from the original. The camera uses a small sensor paired with an f/2.2 28mm lens to shoot up to 10-megapixel images and will launch in the US later this month for $169.95.
Kodak engineer Steven Sasson built the first digital camera in 1975, a bulky device that shot low-resolution black-and-white images and took over 20 seconds per photo. Despite pioneering the technology, Kodak ultimately collapsed because it clung to the film-based business model that had made it successful, rather than embracing its own invention.
A hobbyist developer has released a major update to their QuickTake program for the Apple II, adding full support for the Kodak DC50 Zoom camera from 1996. The update enables picture downloads, thumbnail previews, deletion, and settings adjustments over a custom serial cable, achieved after reverse-engineering the camera's protocol using tools like dcraw, libgphoto2, and old Kodak software.