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The listing, Polaroid PDC 2000/40 Digital Camera! $3,695 MSRP! has ended.

You're bidding on a Polaroid PDC 2000/40 Digital Camera, first offered in 1996 for $3,695! Seriously! Despite its age of about 14 years, it appears to be in working condition! The camera powers up, info displays in the small LCD window, and it appears there are still about 20 images in memory - it uses a 40MB internal HD, and can store only 18 or 19 shots! When the shutter is pressed, I can feel the camera focus, the flash and shutter will fire, then there was about a 5-second wait while the image is stored to the HD!

The lens is an f2.8 11mm, equivalent to a 38mm lens on a 35mm film camera. The flash automatically selects full, fill or ambient flash mode. The PDC-2000 uses a SCSI interface for image transfer; this means you’ll need a SCSI card in your desktop and the camera must be the last device on the SCSI chain.

The resolution is 1600 by 600. It produces very good images, with great tone balance and reasonable sharpness, but it’s not as good as the resolution figures might imply.

In late 1997, Polaroid dropped the price for the PDC-2000/40 from the original $3,695 to the low, low price of just $1,699! Heck, for that price, gimme two!

You'll receive the camera and five (5) 3.5" v1.0 software disks. The software should also be available for download. Batteries not included.

S/H: Parcel Post or USPS Priority Flat Rate Medium Box. For calculations, use 10" x 10" x 8", and a weight of 3 lbs.

Payment: Paypal or USPS Money Orders only!

Questions & Comments

Cool ;)

Jul 2nd, 2010 at 7:36:58 PM PDT by

And it still appears to work!

Jul 2nd, 2010 at 11:43:45 PM PDT by

wow, i've never seen a camera like that before.

Jul 2nd, 2010 at 9:19:00 PM PDT by

It's one of the first digital cameras on the market! While in grad school, my department paid $3200 for a Kodak digital; it used small floppy disks and required special readers for them. Hard to believe how far tech has come!

Jul 2nd, 2010 at 11:43:23 PM PDT by

you don't know how much the shipping will be? Just regular type mail..?

Jul 3rd, 2010 at 12:42:35 PM PDT by

I've included the dimensions and weight, and my zip code is listed next to my user name. Go to the USPS website and use these number to calculate the kind of shipping you want: Parcel Post, Priority, etc.

Jul 3rd, 2010 at 2:59:55 PM PDT by

WoW is Poloroid still in business? I know they lost the instamatic court case against Kodak.

Jul 4th, 2010 at 10:35:53 PM PDT by

See the comment by Doodlebug!

Jul 5th, 2010 at 7:16:44 AM PDT by

Ill be watching this one for sure! have u used it? i mean taken acual pics or just turned on?

Jul 4th, 2010 at 10:44:50 PM PDT by

When the shutter is pressed, it activates, the flash fires, and you can actually feel the hard drive spinning up to store the image! The indications in the LCD window show the count increasing with each image. As far as I can tell, it works!

Jul 5th, 2010 at 7:15:51 AM PDT by

Huh, this is an interesting item. i hope you can get its worth in credits :)

Jul 5th, 2010 at 12:02:31 AM PDT by

Run a bunch of 3-day auctions of your own! That might give you enough to win!

Jul 5th, 2010 at 7:14:01 AM PDT by

This is for BEST4LESS....Polaroid didn't lose the infringement case to Kodak. They won it,and Kodak had to pay BIG TIME. There's a lot to the story, and I certainly won't go into it here, but, just so you know....

Jul 5th, 2010 at 5:48:14 AM PDT by

A 9-year lawsuit. Why doesn't that surprise me?

Jul 5th, 2010 at 7:12:25 AM PDT by

This is a neat auction for Camera Buffs!

Jul 5th, 2010 at 9:14:50 AM PDT by

Yeah, too bad you need all the SCSI equipment! But it would be great in a camera store window with the original price below it! People wouldn't believe it!

Jul 5th, 2010 at 11:29:17 AM PDT by

wow for 96 thats not bad!!

Jul 6th, 2010 at 4:37:56 AM PDT by

:-)

Jul 6th, 2010 at 7:56:48 AM PDT by

nicw qw qill be watching this

Jul 6th, 2010 at 4:55:03 PM PDT by

Okay!

Jul 6th, 2010 at 6:07:10 PM PDT by

This is a really cool auction ... probably one of the first digital cameras. They were REALLY expensive when they first came out. All the gadget geeks bought them, but since the digital images generally weren't as good as film images, most people didn't buy them (or didn't like) digital cameras for a while. How FAR they've come eh?

GREAT listing for a GREAT collectible!

Jul 7th, 2010 at 3:49:55 AM PDT by

Actually, the resolution on this was 1.6MP, so it was one of the best for the time! However, that rez is a bit misleading, as the CCD pixels aren't sqaure; they're twice as tall as wide! This requires a bit of software magic, but still produced a very good image. Too bad the 40MB HD could hold only 20 images!

And like ANY new tech, the prices were outrageous! I remember when VCRs first came out, people were paying $900-1200 for them! Portable CD players were $200-300, and so on.

Eventually, economies of scale kick in (a production run of a million vs. a run of 10,000) and the prices come down.

Jul 7th, 2010 at 8:20:43 AM PDT by

It's amazing how fast things changed back in the 80s and early 90s with all the new tech toys, computers, etc. Seems to have slowed down a bit. I can keep a computer running for five or six years ... remember when you had to replace them every two years or they'd just STOP running any software or internet apps? Much better now ... wonder what the new 3D TVs will be selling for in a year or two???

Jul 7th, 2010 at 12:41:42 PM PDT by

3D won't last; there's not enough useful content to show in 3D that would add significantly to a story.

As far as tech goes, Moore's Law may apply to more than just computers! Things change as rapidly now as they did then! The only tech that hasn't kept up is batteries. Still a LOT of work needs to be done to boost the energy densities!

Jul 7th, 2010 at 5:19:45 PM PDT by

14 years old and still workin i wish things were still built this nice

Jul 7th, 2010 at 5:40:41 PM PDT by

Well, some are, but they cost $3500! You generally get what you're willing to pay!

Jul 8th, 2010 at 6:41:49 AM PDT by

I didn't even know they made digital cameras back then.

Jul 8th, 2010 at 3:06:57 AM PDT by

This is a pretty common theme with new tech. At first, only a few businesses have a real need or the money to pay for it.

Digital cameras have been on the market since about 1986; the quality was poor, but the customers were mostly TV stations and newspapers, who didn't need the high quality we've come to expect. Those cameras cost upwards of $20,000! The first VCR came out around 1956, for the low, low price of $50,000 (again, TV stations were the first customers)! The first cel phone (different from older mobile phones that were more like CB radios that current cel phones) came out in 1973; that phone weighed almost 5 pounds! Watch the 1st "Lethal Weapon" film (1987) and you'll see Danny Glover using an early cel phone!

Jul 8th, 2010 at 6:37:02 AM PDT by

My husband has been in alternative energy all his life, and battery tech is a big holdup for a lot distributed energy ideas. Folks have been working on it for decades, so I guess it's a tough problem. I agree ... wish I could find a battery that would keep my camera working longer than the current rechargeables!

Jul 8th, 2010 at 8:12:42 AM PDT by

I'm sure the answer is out there. Or maybe pocket-sized plutonium packs! Use the heat to generate electricity!

Jul 8th, 2010 at 3:27:46 PM PDT by

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