When the 3 1/4-in floppy camera came out I wanted one. It was not in my budget. But a decade and a half ago a friend gave me one. It worked. It came with two batteries and three floppies.
Yesterday a different friend gave me one as well. It came with one battery. That battery is the same as the other batteries.
I went from a person who couldn’t afford anything back in the day to a person who’s just being handed these priceless artifacts.
They both work. The only device I can read the disk on are the cameras themselves because I have no floppy drives.
Sony Mavica FD91 and FD81
My dad used one of these for work when I was a a kid and I used to play with it all the time. He hated technology so he kept using it far beyond its reasonable lifespan. I remember I was in college and he was still using it, so it was like 2006 at that point?
Eventually the something got messed up somehow (image sensor?) and every picture was written to the disk incorrectly in a way that the right half would have fucked up color data. He finally got a normal point and shoot that took significantly higher quality images and could now store more than like 20 images without having to drag around 20 delicate floppy disks through sites filled with things very hostile to floppy disks