Exploring Sanyo Digicam Multi Shot ‘movie clips’

I unearthed my early Sanyo VPC-G210 photos and discovered a few ‘multi shot’ photos taken at the time (1997-98), so I decided to see what I could make of them today. Each Sanyo multi shot image contains 16 sequential pictures, tiled 4x4 into a single 640 x 480 pixel JPEG. So each ‘frame’ is a mere 160 x 120 pixels and movie clips last 1.6 or 3.2 seconds. I've also been experimenting with manipulating them and making a serial lead to download onto a compatible Windows 98 PC.

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