Sony PC100E

April 2000 – My first real Video camera! As my parents live over 2000Km away, it was a logical when their first grandchild was on the way, that a video camera would be the ideal way to keep close visual contact and connection. Remember Skype video, or Facetime didn’t exist yet, and internet was slow, so sending a couple of pictures was the maximum in those days. Mobile phones where not great in those days either, no built in high resolution camera’s, or any of such nowadays conveniences.

Sony found it’s niche with the PC100E. Some of its predecessors where good rehearsals for making a truly fantastic machine! Small, great quality picture, reliable and easy to use. Only downside is/was the price. In those days you had to fork over at least 2000€ for this camera, and therefore it really wast the camera of choice for everybody.

As it was so easy to use, and great quality, I got hocked with the video recording. Actually, from day one, I decided (as I am a computer freak as well) that I will start editing the video’s I am capturing as well. This was a great decision as well, as today I have a very well indexed set of video’s, of over 500 occasions, over the following nearly 20 years.

Besides taking very good quality video, it also made very good and high resolution pictures, especially for those days.