CCD Sensor Compacts

[oldhaven]

This is the same Olympus C-750 UZ with a Hoya R72 IR filter. This is handheld, so a bit fuzzy, using autofocus and exposure at widest lens setting. The camera does not get enough light to autofocus at the telephoto end of the zoom. I was pleased to learn that this CCD camera requires no modifications to do IR images and allows viewing the scene to compose thru the viewfinder on reasonably sunny days .

 

[x-ray]

Edit: I said I shot them with an F30 but it was an F10.Apology for the small files.

Fuji F30

 

[Jamie Pillers]

Nice images, Xray. The files are the perfect size for viewing in my phone.
I once owned the F30… I’m going to have to go back and look at those files now! 😁

 

[x-ray]

Nice images, Xray. The files are the perfect size for viewing in my phone.
I once owned the F30… I’m going to have to go back and look at those files now! 😁

Thank you!

oops!!! I just looked and these were shot with a Fuji F10 not an F30.

These were shot in 2008 and I still have the camera. Once in BBC a while I charge up the batteries and take it out for some fun. The images are excellent but technology and function have really been improved over the years.

A couple more from the F10.

 

[x-ray]

The first image is with the G10 and the other two are with the F10.

 

[Axel]

Casio EX-Z10 from 2005. CCD 5MP, OVF, 2AA-Batteries.
Works like new - pics taken yesterday 🙂

 

[Axel]

And with ISO800 the tiny cam produced a lot of grain

 

[bcostin]

Edit: I said I shot them with an F30 but it was an F10.

Very pretty! I have a Fuji FinePix F11, which I think is basically the same camera with different firmware. The later F30 was legendary for low-noise high-ISO shooting, but these earlier models do almost as well. They're fun little shooters!

 

[boojum]

Here is a link to a folder on Flickr of pics I took with a Sony DSC S70 when I lived in Mexico, Baja and Ajijic. I paid $1,000 for it in 2000. The zoom froze and I got a second from eBay for $35 much later. The second takes photos with great color, too. Mexico

When I look at the color of this 25 year old Sony CCD sensor I struggle to find fault with it. The sensor is 3MEG. Zoom, movies, built-in flash, a really great point and shoot.

 

[Out to Lunch]

Canon PowerShot S95 (2010). 10Mp/CCD; 28–105 mm; f.2/4.9; JPEG and RAW; size of a pack of cigarettes. Still a good camera today.

 

[oldhaven]

Here is a link to a folder on Flickr of pics I took with a Sony DSC S70 when I lived in Mexico, Baja and Ajijic. I paid $1,000 for it in 2000. The zoom froze and I got a second from eBay for $35 much later. The second takes photos with great color, too. Mexico

When I look at the color of this 25 year old Sony CCD sensor I struggle to find fault with it. The sensor is 3MEG. Zoom, movies, built-in flash, a really great point and shoot.

I really enjoyed the Mexico pictures and especially the color you squeezed out of the 3mp camera. I hope young people can live lives as interesting as yours in the future. We may not be as welcome in Mexico for the next few years.

 

[boojum]

I really enjoyed the Mexico pictures and especially the color you squeezed out of the 3mp camera. I hope young people can live lives as interesting as yours in the future. We may not be as welcome in Mexico for the next few years.

I regard Mexico as a narco state now. The road from the Guadalajara airport to Ajijic is a place of danger. I have an old squeeze who still lives in Ajijic. She says it is safe. She never leaves the safety of the expat community of Ajijic. I had some wonderful times there. And Baja, in Mulege, was wonderful. But that was 25 years ago. It is not the same now. And that does not mean better. And I am too old to verge on reckless.

The camera was and is a very good camera with a good Zeiss licensed lens and that sweet Sony CCD sensor.

 

[bcostin]

I regard Mexico as a narco state now. The road from the Guadalajara airport to Ajijic is a place of danger. I have an old squeeze who still lives in Ajijic. She says it is safe. She never leaves the safety of the expat community of Ajijic. I had some wonderful times there. And Baja, in Mulege, was wonderful. But that was 25 years ago. It is not the same now. And that does not mean better. And I am too old to verge on reckless.

The camera was and is a very good camera with a good Zeiss licensed lens and that sweet Sony CCD sensor.

Thank you for sharing those photos. I regret not visiting Mexico back then, when some of my friends would invite me along. It's a beautiful place with so much history and culture.

Some of those older digital cameras have do really amazing lenses, I suppose to make best use of the low-resolution (by today's standards) sensors, without modern built-in digital correction. Sony always seems to have been particularly good at that.

 

[dkreindler]

Patio Season by Derek Kreindler, on Flickr

Canon S95