Foo Photo - 12/29/07

Today's Foo Photo shows you how far technology has come. It was taken in November for one of David's school assignments, using the first digital camera we bought in 1999 - the indestructible Sony FD-75. The technology part? Well it has a whopping 1.0 megapixel capability, and uses floppy disks. Even the cellular phone I carry today has a higher resolution than that!

Despite the marginal image quality, it's a tough old soldier. It even has a great flash and a timer. The zoom lens works better than my Olympus digital, oddly enough. David uses it when we go looking for trains. Since our home PC doesn't have a floppy drive I purchased an external one that plugs into a USB port in the computer. So now 90s technology has a new life in the 21st Century.

Ain't technology grand?