Advantix film era.
Posted by Accomplished_Bit3153@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 34 comments
Got woodstock 99 on these bad boys.
Posted by Accomplished_Bit3153@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 34 comments
Got woodstock 99 on these bad boys.
Chain-Slinger@reddit
Panoramics and standard shots all on the same roll.
GarminTamzarian@reddit
Not a true panoramic, just a cropped and enlarged print of the same image.
melanthius@reddit
It was very cool when it came out but ultimately a gimmick, and shortly superseded by digital
GarminTamzarian@reddit
Having worked in a one-hour photo lab in the late 90s, I can say that the film cannisters were very poorly designed and frequently required replacing. Dealing with 35mm was generally much easier.
SwitchbackHiker@reddit
I only have two surviving pictures from Woodstock 99 and it was us leaving for the road trip.
Accomplished_Bit3153@reddit (OP)
Good times. 5 dollars bottles of water. best memory was the hangar where they showed movies, saw Trainspotting and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels there.
SwitchbackHiker@reddit
Ah yes, the only place with AC, watched Blue Velvet in there.
p9k@reddit
Missed me.
How about riding your bike to the grocery store photo lab and begging the tech for disposables with flash from the recycling bin so you can make mini tazers?
crazycatlady331@reddit
Worked at CVS during this time (we had a busy 1 hour photo as well as sending pics out to a lab for developing). Our 1 hour didn't do this type of film and we were yelled at on a daily basis for this.
Spartan04@reddit
One of those things I always thought was cool but never used. Just wasn’t worth replacing my regular 35mm camera back then and by the time it was (in the early 00s) digital had come far enough I got one of those instead.
SirBobsonDugnutt@reddit
I worked at Ritz Camera when those were a thing. I wasn't a fan since it was smaller format even if it was more convenient. Funny that it lives in legacy with APS-C sensors on DSLRs.
8Deer-JaguarClaw@reddit
I, too, worked at a Ritz Camera when these were a thing. I can't say they were ever popular compared to 35mm film in terms of photo processing volume, but we did have some cameras that shot that format and some of them were very cool in terms of features.
iwasnotarobot@reddit
IIRC, these were the proof for the APSC size format
SeaSkimmer2@reddit
I worked among 2 Boater’s World locations co-located with Ritz Cameras (alternated between college town and home during summer/winter breaks)…Had many, many Advantix rolls from my flip-up Kodak paid for by payroll deduction and employee discount. 😄
SirBobsonDugnutt@reddit
I still remember my employee ID number since I had to type it for every transaction.
moles-on-parade@reddit
569XX, late 2001 hire here. It somehow still springs to mind whenever my right hand gets near a numpad.
SeaSkimmer2@reddit
Same. Mine was in the vicinity of 33200, hired August 1998.
Right_Hour@reddit
You gotta develop it, bud, it doesn’t have an infinite shelf life.
queenofcaffeine76@reddit
loved it! this was the last camera I had before I went digital
basil_imperitor@reddit
My first camera was an Advantix that I used to document my life in Japan around the turn of the century. Plastic lens, mostly useless viewfinder, etc.
Of course now, 25 years later, people put a lot of effort and money into replicating that entire aesthetic.
toomuchtv987@reddit
I’m gonna have to ask you not to refer to the year 2000 as “the turn of the century.” Yes, I realize it is the correct term, but holy shit does it make me feel old. 🤣
SeaSkimmer2@reddit
A few months ago, I posted some scanned point&shoot Advantix photos in the NASCAR sub I took in Daytona of the speedway on the day Dale Earnhardt later died (February 2001, 25-year anniversary this year)…Someone asked “Why do early-2000s photos look like 1980s photos?” 🫨
ImA13x@reddit
I spent $250 on a 25 year old scanner a few years back just to scan all my rolls of Advantix.
body_by_monsanto@reddit
Oh wow, I totally forgot about this! I absolutely loved my Kodak Advantix camera!!
garygnu@reddit
I still have my Canon EOS IX.
smooshie-mooshie@reddit
I have a a grocery bag FULL of unprocessed film like this
fromthedarqwaves@reddit
I worked at Target when this was a thing. It was also around the time Sony had their Mavica camera with the built in 3.5” floppy drive. The days of film cameras were numbered.
CokBlockinWinger@reddit
I had one. I was just perusing my old photos box, where I still have an Advantix sleeve to hold those enormous panoramas.
I loved that camera. When it stopped working I went to Best Buy to get it fixed, (I bought the extended warranty). They told me it was not fixable, but they would give me store credit towards a new camera. At this point, anything comparable was twice as expensive. I was just a broke kid and couldn’t afford it, so I think I used the credit on a few albums and video games.
0bsidianM1nd@reddit
I swear these were designed to help camera companies switch over to digital. Smaller film (for smaller sensors), more digital technology. They all knew it was coming, just wasn't ready yet.
Baked_Potato_732@reddit
I had a waterproof Advantkx camera. That thing was my pride and joy. I had it sitting on the bleachers at school one way and the vice principal’s son (preschool age) threw a basketball up I the air and it hit my camera and broke it. I was devastated.
LockPleasant8026@reddit
1 hour photo
MoonlitBlossoms@reddit
I loved, loved my old Kodak 4100ix camera that took this film. I don’t even want to think about how much it cost developing that film.
utti@reddit
I thought I was so rad when I got one of these cameras.
Mean_Median_0201@reddit
Either that or 25 blank photos