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A Look Back at the Digital Cameras that Used Floppy Disks

It's easy to take memory cards for granted and forget how far we've come, but that 256GB microSD card in your camera bag is nothing short of a modern day miracle. Don't believe us? Just check out this "blast from the past" tour of old digital cameras that used floppy disks as their "memory cards".

Blast From the Past: Canon Ad Shows Off Its Cutting Edge 1989 Still Video Cameras

When cutting edge technology translates into RAW video, 14fps burst capabilities and smartphone megapixel counts in the 40's, it's easy to take it for granted and forget where digital photography started.

So here's a little reminder of what digital photography looked like a couple of decades ago in the form of a Canon ad that boasts the capabilities of its still video systems, the digital camera before digital cameras.