Picture viewer 70s little disc upgrade#

Picture viewer 70s little disc upgrade#

Making matters worse, in order to get the best quality print from disc film reels, print processors would have to upgrade to some specialty equipment… and many chose not to make that investment, instead using the same machines that printed from other types of film.Īs a result, pictures too often ended up being grainy, having poor color or a lack of definition - all of which led to the Disc’s quick demise. Photo by Michel Bussieres | Īs simple and convenient as using the camera was, there were quality issues that came along with using a negative that was just 8mm x 10.5mm in size. The new cameras were lightweight, foolproof (with auto-exposure and built-in flash), affordable, and used a brand new kind of film cartridge.Īs you can see in the images below, this was film mounted on a disc - which looked a lot like one of the old View-Master reels - rather than the traditional type of film that was spooled in a cartridge and returned as negatives in strips. The Kodak Disc camera was introduced with great fanfare in 1982.