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Old 10-30-2017, 09:35 PM
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Originally Posted by WISCOJIM View Post
There was quite a lot of popularity of those by adults for a period. It created "artsy" films.

“Filmmakers love what they describe as Pixelvision’s dithering, a process designed to fill in the information between the pixels but resulting in unpredictable fluctuations in the image quality from frame to frame. Dithering, they say, calls attention to the properties of the recording medium in the same way that Jimi Hendrix’s use of feedback called attention to the properties of the electric guitar.”

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/ap...s-pixelvision/

The Art of Pixelvision: https://archive.org/details/artofpixelvision

They still are fairly expensive in the used market when in good condition.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...p2045573.m1684

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I've seen them for sale a few times while in Vancouver. I've never seen the hipsters eat those things up with that kind of money.
Never in my life was I expecting that it was cheaper for me to buy an HVC Trinicon camera than one of those. Crazy, I tall ya!
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