A few seconds apart, 24 years ago

In late 1994, I bought cheaply someone's disused Ansco disc camera. Even then, disc film was hard to come by but I was able to find some Konica 200 that had expired in 1993. I started using it.

The camera was amusing but it was surprise to me that the market had rejected such fancy technology with such poor results.

Today, in mid-2019, I scanned three of my discs from that period, nearly a quarter century ago now. These two frames are from one I used in March 1995. I scanned the entire disc at 6400 dpi and then made little fragments of what I wanted.

The disc-film technology relied on the lenses' very short focal lengths and the cameras' on-board flash to increase depth of field. Each frame is about 8x10mm -- a nice aspect ratio, but a rotten size nonetheless.. Whatever depth of field was gained by technology, the film was still tiny.