LGR Oddware - HP Mobile Camera for PDAs
Wetenschap en technologie
In 2003 Hewlett-Packard released the Photosmart Mobile Camera for iPaq Pocket PCs running Windows Mobile. And the entire thing is on an SD card! Or more specifically SDIO. It's got a 1.3 megapixel sensor, 4x digital zoom, manual focus with macro, and a surprising bit of versatility for such a tiny device.
● LGR links:
www.patreon.com/LazyGameReviews
LazyGameReviews
LazyGameReviews
● Download a folder of the photos and videos here:
mega.nz/folder/3FgXFIzI#4u6vKETj1xgKtfoJCLlqVw
● Music courtesy of:
www.epidemicsound.com
#LGR #Retro #Technology
Reacties
"What happens if you plug it into an SD card reader?" Nothing! I discussed this briefly during the section on SDIO, but while the two interfaces look the same, SD interfaces do _not_ accept SDIO peripherals. Unless you've got a device built to support SDIO things then it won't work. Plugging the HP Mobile Camera into an SD card reader results in a whole lot of nothing, it won't even recognize that there's anything inserted :)
Matthew Green
9 dagen geleden
@Miroslav Kocúr wow
Miroslav Kocúr
9 dagen geleden
You might find quite a lot of SDIO devices. SD shaped WIFI cards, 3g modems (if you have nanoSIM). Some of these are quite practical if you have notebook with SD IO compatible slot and you decide to remove some internal cards in favor of different devices.
Jonathan Nocon
28 dagen geleden
I just commented the exact same Q lol Left it in there just for the lols anyways. Thnx Clint!
Matthew Green
29 dagen geleden
I have a prototype lego apple ll
Dana Goyette
Maand geleden
I'd suggest trying it on devices that already use SDIO, such as for wifi. For example, some crappy Atom (Cherry Trail) tablets and boards use SDIO wifi, and might support it on the other slots too. I believe there's a list somewhere in the Linux kernel of quirks of SDHC controllers that specifically *don't* support SDIO.
Griding Bangsat
Outdoor face diaper selfies!! Soooo 2020!
What a massive shame SD Express doesn't have an SDIO standard. Would be great to have Thunderbolt on an SD slot.
A tiny camera with a touchscreen interface? It'll never catch on.
Reminds me of the gameboy camera
14:45 the Toyota off-roader passing by on the street crossing!!
Unrelated: That Land Cruiser is a beaut.
Great video, the real magic for me was when I got the WiFi SDIO for my Win Mobile 2003 iMate and was able to connect to WiFi networks when mobiles were limited to the super fast EDGE networks :)
How many millions of dollars of old crap has changed hands on the internet between seller's who've been holding obsolete hardware for yearsor decades, and fans of this channel who suddenly decide/remember/discover "Hey, I NEED THAT" after watching for any amount of time? No need to answer- that was rhetorical.
5:46 How come they could fit Xenon Flash into a small camera add on, and then in phones like the Sony K800i back then yet no one does it these days.
i love u clint
instantly makes all the pictures taken look like a still from a zack snyder film
love how he waits for the intro to finish then greets us.
Those pictures are exactly what modern photos looks like, considering everyone is going to apply Instagram filters...
I keep forgetting you're in Asheville, and then I see the trainyard...
It's AAiSO :D :D :D
15:10 I loved that look it reminded me Pink Floyd's album covers
I'm really impressed by the quality of this device. I expected it to be worse. Just wow for a device from those times. Cheers!
I remember considering buying one of those for my "Compaq iPAQ". HP iPAQ, pahh just doesn't have the same ring ;)
I’m actually genuinely impressed by the quality of the camera. That’s incredible for 2000s funny tech
What's with those mouse homes? Do people want to get more rats around or something?
this is the best camera in the world
My friend had something similar for his Motorola Flip Phone (the chunky one, before the Razr was released). It blew my mind... I never expected to see a camera working on a phone.... in a SD slot ;)
It's weird to see recent model year cars in 2003vision video.
Don't forget, digital camera technology at that time was advancing leaps and bounds every year. A great camera one year was quickly behind the times as short as a year later. It was an exciting time for digital cameras.
This thing is so cool
I live about an hour outside of ashville and remember parking in that same garage as that land cruiser from around the 13:00 mark a few weeks back visiting with friends, i can only imagine the hilariously strange encounter that would have ensued if the timing of mine and LGRs days had lined up
Nice to know the CCTV of the world are all filmed on this thing.
I wonder if Michael Kleinpeter knows his review of this product is still available for people to see 17 years later. Did he realize that someday his post on a forum would be shown for all of youtube to see? I wonder if hes still alive? Maybe hes watching this right now in awe that his review was aired? Who was Michael Kleinpeter...
Esp8266 isn't is a RaspberryPi.
15:00 The photo looks like an album cover or something. It looks really cool for some reason.
I can imagine an amateur blogger in the late 90's using the video function to post "live action video shots" for whatever reason
Gawd, that WinXP Active Sync brings back memories. I had a HTC O2 XDA II which lasted me a few years until the battery exploded. It had a built in camera and I seem to recall the photos actually being similar to this SD camera (I think, it was like 15 years ago now).
I realize this might be the intended effect, but your mask really disturbs me when I look at it.
Wait a minute
It looks like this camera has a permanent filter on it
Ngl a lot of those photos are great for a 2003 PDA camera
Holy Crap man! I work in Asheville!!! Dude I been watching your vids for a long time and I had NO idea!
I'm actually impressed considering how bad some phone cameras were less than a decade ago
No "Farts" :(
Great video camera for cryptozoology
Everyone: "Wow, check out this tiny camera for PDAs!" Me: "Wait, Microsoft Windows MOBILE existed!? And before the Windows Phone!?"
I could swallow that
That camera has no right to be that good.
LGR your head is starting to look like peanut.
What's really sad is that the quality is better than a lot of 2008-2012 chinese phones, specially the ones with Mediatek processors.
I remember dreaming this camera. I was HP ipaq h1930 users. I didn’t know the result is so good compared with my add-on attached phone camera at that time.
26:42 after quite some time struggling with the crappy live preview and LGR's device-wiggling efforts against me, searxing far and wide I have determined that that's The Shadow of YSERBIUS there. All may now offer congratulations, adulations, adorations, and praise of various descriptions. Dunno why but I just had to know what was written on that box :'D Edit: Also does anyone else have trouble paying attention when there's a wall of games to inspect >.
For a 18 year camera, i'm actually very freaking impressed! I wonder who worked on this camera and what are they doing now?
FunFact: the employes from the 'Nederlandse Spoorwegen' (Dutch Railways) used PDA's for seeing their shift's and scanning tickets for the last in 2016!! Since then, they use smartphones for that...
The video mode on the camera can be used to make maps for counter strike 1.6 😂😂
I did not expect at all that quality of the images, such a pleasant surprise, also I'm really digging the photography itself, nice job Clint!
Where can one get a woodgrain mask. Asking for a friend...
Scotty Kilmer would approve this video :D
I like how the Spanish translation says it has 3MP.
it almost has this beautiful film-like aspect to it, astonishing
Why does this thing take better pictures than my budget cell phone from 2019
If you can get somebody else with a windows mobile pda on your LAN you should try find a copy of microsoft portrait which was a primitive video calling demo app for windows mobile that could use some models of these cameras. Had great fun with it on a motorola mpx200 with side car camera back in the day
I think the way the digital zoom works with the crop is how it should always work! Eventually the image is upscaled by your GPU on the viewing device anyway if you blow it up, so no point wasting CPU/storage for that useless re-generatable data. I think they did this on purpose so that zoomed images could be handled better by the low-end hardware on the PDA anyway. Working with a proper XP machine to demonstrate the syncing was a really cool addition. Though not having the PDA screen visible all the time was a bit of a bummer. Also missed a proper audio test with the video functionality
i knew you lived close to me, but didn't realize it was that close lol
I love this thing. I want one.
Is that the same Land Cruiser again at 14:44? Or a different one? How many Land Cruisers are there running around Asheville?!
The Journeyman Project and Buried in Time!!! I can only hope those are getting a review in the near future.
Better than Bank CCTV
I'm pretty sure I still have Sony's version of a camera stuck to a Memory Stick
WOW - an HP product that still works 5 hours after leaving the manufactor- new HP record
I love your videos so much dude, perfect to drink my coffee in the morning.
way better quality pictures than the gameboy camera.
9:01 I like the game selection on your desktop
Not a bad camera, frankly!
Oh, so _this_ is the video camera every UFO hunter uses!
The interface these use at the physical layer is usually called SPI. It's so dirt simple that just about anything made in the past couple decades includes an interface for it built in. If you don't mind slow speeds, you can even attach it to any system that has a few open I/O pins and do everything completely in software.
Good job
I'm sure that Photo Center application also came with an HP printer (of similar vintage) that my family had back then.
i really liked the photos this thing took, they have a distinct early 2000s sense memory somehow.
The righteous spaghetti inexplicably crush because ox suddenly educate pro a uninterested mole. erect, measly priest
MAn this reminds me of my Nokia 6600 from 2005. damn good old memories
The video quality is horrendous. lol
in this time period u could use calmshell phone to take photos
What would happen if you plug that in any other SD reader? Does it just not work or would it just damage things and blow electronic bits out? That latency isn’t as bad as I expected huh That’s kewl tho 👆🏼 Answered already ha! Thnx Clint 👌🏼 Damn, this made me miss my ipaq that’s long gone now... Also, those fidelity/types of cameras are still around now days btw. Their on my micro toy drones that’s just flooded eBay, amazon and junk. Albeit much smaller in size typically pin holes 🕳 but they take very old skool looking pics/selfies. This reminds me of my PSP’s camera camera add on for some reason. Although that takes better pics/vids but shotty compared to today’s standards ofc
My eyes see LGR, my ears hear Seth Rogan.
Of course you have a woodgrain mask.
Daaaang those pics were actually pretty good
Holy crap the colours are amazing on this camera! Does it have a CCD sensor?
18:52 Convenient store camera mode. lol
I'm not sure, am I the only one, thought camera on laptop and my daily using phone is obsolete and not useful. Since I have a camera and I feel the solution on that 2003 PDA is kinda good...
The digital zoom is not useless if you want to get a close up immage of somethibg and put it on a stamp or small sticker lmaoo
When did doom guy steal master chief's armor???
jbfarley
18 dagen geleden
I hope that was meant to be a joke
And yes kids. Between 1990 and 2010 we always had extra crap looped through our belts.
I had a Kodak camera that took a sdio wifi card for uploading pictures directly to Kodak photo services. I think it was in 2005. A touch screen camera with wifi blew my mind
Great review ! Used to be an early PDA nerd myself back in the days... Didn't have such a camera, but a lot of other stuff. An external GPS device, and even a vga-adapter so that I could show power point slides when attaching my pda directly to a beamer. incredibly at that time 😀😀😀. Lately I gifted everything to a small but fine museum (run by volunteers) on computer history in Hamburg/Germany. Not far from the place I live. Keep on with your very interesting channel 🙋 !
Before I saw the date, I assumed mid-late 90's. My memory of available tech in the early 00's is way more optimistic than reality!
TL;DR: WYSINWYG - What You See Is Not What You Get. But still good.
"Let me just take a quick picture of your business card using my PDA" said 10 people flexing in 2004.
did much better than i thought!
gta3 , Fog and mist
8:42 "[laughs in Oddware]" lmao
SDIO is meant to pop out easily like that. You're not meant to leave the camera in the PDA.
Wow I did not expect that little thing taking such pictures,that actually looks decent.Another great video !