Stan
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Post by Stan on Dec 16, 2013 19:38:08 GMT -5
That's a pretty impressive pedigree! The colors rendered very nicely.
Late 90's was when I got involved with digital cameras, and at work as well. I was working for the Housing department of the University of Illinois, Chicago and we kept a stable of the Kodak DC2xx models for all manner of stuff such as our website and brochures. Nice, easy to use cameras. I still get a little sad over Kodak sometimes.
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Post by philbirch on May 23, 2014 19:30:35 GMT -5
Kodak made the first digital camera and perfected the sensor which they sold to everyone.
More fools them!
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martin
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Post by martin on Sept 23, 2015 5:10:44 GMT -5
What comes closest to a vintage digital in my heap of cameras is certainly a Canon G2. 4MP and a tiltable screen the size of larger stamp. But has an optical viewfinder. Very fine camera and made from unattainium (1500 Euros) at the time.  I took this photo with it. The statue is by Georg Kolbe and found in the Miehs van der Rohe pavillion in Barcelona, Catalunya. Second one I'd like to mention is my Olympus Camedia C-5050. 5 MP, f 1.8, optical finder, tiltable screen, hot shoe. Takes almost everything that provides electricity ;-) and I think three different types of memory cards. I just got it and it's still untested. |
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mickeyobe
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Post by mickeyobe on Sept 23, 2015 10:47:08 GMT -5
My first digital camera. I was pleased with its performance and handling. It took excellent pictures. But - it drove me crazy. I spoiled far more pictures than I ever had before. SHUTTER LAG! I had always taken my picture and immediately advanced the film and cocked the shutter so I was instantly ready for the next shot. It just did not work with this camera. A lifetime of doing what most photographers considered correct was now passe and I could not adapt. So, after a few months I switched rather than fight.  Fujifilm FinePix 3800 3MP Digital Camera w/ 6x Optical Zoom by Fujifilm 3.0-megapixel sensor captures enough detail to create prints up to 11 x 14 6x optical zoom with variable digital zoom: 3.2x (at 640 x 480) or 1.6x (at 1280 x 960) Stores photos on 16 MB XD card--12 images at fine and 26 images at normal Connects to PCs via USB port Powered by 4 AA alkaline batteries (included)--rechargeables recommended |
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martin
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Post by martin on Sept 23, 2015 12:27:55 GMT -5
Scary picture, Mickey, but excellent.
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Stephen
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Post by Stephen on Sept 23, 2015 17:10:12 GMT -5
Of the earlier digital cameras my favourite is the Fuji 4900z ( bridge style), limited today only by the defunct memory card they used in 2000.  A solid metal camera, superb lens, odd Fuji sensor, and great colour rendition. Plus full manual operation, full manual focus, proper real aperture stops at small values, full flash connections, and release, power supply options, and a reasonable menu on a small but usable screen, plus the reflex viewer. Even outputed in TIFF files at over 6 meg. Almost all the auto features are customisable. But is has shutter lag, takes time to process, but no worse than any digital of it's time. Stephen. |
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Post by philbirch on Sept 23, 2015 17:33:16 GMT -5
I think the camera above used XD cards. You can buy an adaptor that converts them to use Micro SD. I have one and its great. BTW you can get converters cor Compactflash and Sony pro Duo too.
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Stephen
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Post by Stephen on Sept 24, 2015 5:05:40 GMT -5
Regrettably its not XD but the early Smartmedia, and no converters fit, so 128meg max cards. The software could not take bigger.
Stephen
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Post by philbirch on Sept 28, 2015 11:45:14 GMT -5
and smartmedia command a high price these days...
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Post by belgiumreporter on Sept 29, 2015 7:41:51 GMT -5
My first "digital" camera was the 1991 canon ion rc 260. Though it wasn't really a digital camera rather a video still camera (recording on special sized floppy discs). You needed a pc board for digitising the captued images.It was horrendlously expensive but i was able to use it profesionaly for (small) illustrations in low quantity published catalogues. For this kind of work it was cheaper in use than normal offset work. My first "real" digital camera was the 1997 Agfa 1280 1Mp camera.With this camera you could for the first time get results that looked (a bit) like film. The only problem was it went at an alarming rate through batteries, remember in 1997 rechargeable AA's weren't available in high capacity versions and to run the 1280 you needed 4 duracell's wich could give about 50 shots, wich made each shot about as expensive as one on film! From then on things only got better. I guess over the years i've had allmost every new generation of digicam from diffrent makes and at the moment i'm still very happy with my D300s and D3 even though they are from a previous generation.  This is the later ion261 but i've still got the original 260 somewhere...  The Agfa 1280  For some more serious studio work the 1995 Agfa studiocam wich was a body with scanning back able of 4500 x 3648 images( way back then!) that used nikon lenses. ( got it but never used it) |
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Post by paulhofseth on Sept 29, 2015 13:41:48 GMT -5
I have more or less thrown away my first digital experiments. That is what will make such devices collectible.
The first one I kept after trying small "toy" devices to see what it was all about, was the Kodak DCS pro something. Reasonable photosite count (14M? 12 M?) and VERY good colours. Unfortunately, terribly high noise above 400 ASA. The not Kodak-made body also had an inaccurate viewfinder.
I gave up and went to Canon FF and Olympus MFT. They are not perfect either, but sooner or later a better one may appear. Fujis non-hump electronoc viewfinder and the Canon and Sony pixelwars are encouraging.
For my part, I want a pocketable, high-pixel count, low noise, mechanical ISO & time dial (not interminable menus).
Auto lightmetering is OK, but a fast reacting, non battery-eating camera body which will take M-mount or shorter back-focus lenses is necesary. Manual focus with some focussing aids is of course needed.
p.
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Post by johnbear on Dec 1, 2015 15:46:01 GMT -5
My first digital camera was a Leica Digilux, bought new in 2002, and you know what ... I'm still using it (almost every week).
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Post by barbarian on Oct 3, 2016 17:53:07 GMT -5
This little guy was always a joy to use.  Gave it away to a kid in the photo club. I kinda miss it. |
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Doug T.
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Post by Doug T. on Nov 24, 2016 22:17:40 GMT -5
A bit late (again), but here I am.
The camera that I've fallen in love with, and use daily, is a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ5. The lens is a Leica DC Vario- Elmarit. Super sharp and great fun to use.
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Post by dee on Jan 21, 2017 9:42:49 GMT -5
I still have my Canon G2 , but just bought a charity shop £3.50 Panasonic DMC-LZ2 5mp for a wrist strap for my Panasonic G1 .
It works fine and takes SD cards , quite well regarded at the time .
i will probably play around with it
dee
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