Stephen
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Post by Stephen on Jun 20, 2014 16:21:03 GMT -5
I wanted some spare memory cards, the Compact Flash types, and found on Ebay, one 256 new, two used 256Mb, two 128mb, 128 Mb,(all Sandisk) and a Nikon branded 19mb..... £14....!...but along with cases, leads, camera case, instructions etc, ...and a Nikon 4300 Compact 4meg digital camera, thrown in, complete with instructions, all paperwork, Photoshop Essentials, spare batteries , mains charger, Video lead and Data lead...........all in mint condition in original packing and boxed in original box..
Seller said it had been unused for several years, and after Piriform's Recova program was used on the seemingly blank disks, they show the last shots were indeed taken in 2004. The disks had been formatted, but the shots were able to be reviewed basically to check the performance of the camera. Shots recovered since deleted with a file shredder program.
All seems perfect, it performs as well as the other 4300 I have, and the condition is as new. I'll try it out over the weekend.......
I always have had very good results from the 4300, Nikon fitted a really good lens. The other plus point is the camera has a viewfinder.. plus a tiny screen!
Stephen.
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Post by philbirch on Jun 21, 2014 2:53:55 GMT -5
Wow, a bargain indeed! What you say about the viewfinder is what I like about old digitals. I prefer to use one.
Is it me, or do pictures taken using the viewfinder have with less camera shake?
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Stephen
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Post by Stephen on Jun 21, 2014 15:27:34 GMT -5
Who in their right mind would take, say, a Leica 111g, and hold it a foot from their face and try to take a shot, shake guaranteed.......that's why image stabilisation is normal on digital. A viewfinder gives three point support, two hands and the nose !!, much sharper than Digital. Also the "soft" digital releases are down right vague, against, say, a Compur shutter with precise release point. The Leica will always give a positive feedback to the finger, electric just does not do this. Stephen
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Post by truls on Jun 29, 2014 4:30:21 GMT -5
Those old digitals are sold for fairly high prices. A Nikon Coolpix 4300 went for around $50 at the auction site, and the new Nikon S4300 16Mpix are sold for similar price. Strange world.
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Post by philbirch on Jun 29, 2014 6:03:11 GMT -5
I wonder if the buyer confused them...
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Post by daveh on Jun 29, 2014 23:01:19 GMT -5
I think you have that wrong. Stabilisation was becoming the norm when digital cameras still had viewfinders, and s6tabilisation would be normal even if all cameras still had viewfinders. Cost and size are the reasons, in fact. It is cheaper to make a camera with an electronic viewing screen than it is with an optical viewfinder. The screen shows what is being taken, so parallax problems became a thing of the past. Many optical viewfinders had, in the search for "small", become so pokey they were almost unusable anyway. The designers already had stabilisation, and as electronic screens became better it was odds on the viewfinder would go.
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Post by Dan Vincent on Jun 30, 2014 5:27:16 GMT -5
I bought a Nikon 4300 for my wife and it gave superb pictures. One thing we didn't expect was how well it did on faces.
My wife was teaching a vacation church class for kids and took each kid's face for a project and they all came out beautiful.
That would be a good camera to keep in your car for things that pop up and you want to grab a quick shot.
My Grand daughter now has the 4300 and uses it for vacation pictures.
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Post by philbirch on Jun 30, 2014 17:26:01 GMT -5
So why did Nikon make models with the same number?
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