Antique digital!

[John Camp]

Inspired by Frank's forays out to the local yard sales, I stopped by a Goodwill to look at the camera shelf. Buncha junk -- old broken 35mm p&s. There was a large square leather Yashica case, which caught my eye right away, but it was empty, and there were no Yashicas around. It was so large that I thought maybe it was for a videocam. Did Yashica make videocams?

My one find -- which I didn't buy for $6.99 -- was a Mustek 350-kilopixel digital camera with a removable 2-meg flash memory card, which somebody had removed and made off with. The memory card was of a size and shape with which I was not familiar -- about like a stick of Dentyne gum. But ads for Musteks say they use standard CF; maybe this was an earlier camera, or maybe early CF looked like a stick of Dentyne?

I almost bought it because ever since I went digital, I've been looking for something that would give me that Velvia look.* If only there'd been a memory stick...

And when was the last time you saw the word "kilopixel?"

JC

*joke

 

[peterc]

ever since I went digital, I've been looking for something that would give me that Velvia look

You can set the Fuji S1 Pro to do Velvia. I got one because of the filmlike colour rendition it's capable of.

Peter

 

[Dougg]

Compact Flash card or Memory Stick... modern stuff! Ten years ago we got a Kodak (made by Chinon) DC-50 for $990. Its memory was in the form of a PCMCIA card! That was handy, as my laptop computer had a PC card slot. Two megs was pretty big... And we got an adaptor in the shape of a PC card that had a socket for a CF card to plug into it! Wow, that's getting more up-to-date... BTW, as I recall its resolution is about 360k pixels.

 

[clarence]

Sony Cameras still use memory sticks, I believe.

The thrift stores in my area never have any cameras.

Clarence

 

[vicmortelmans]

I'm still happily using my AGFA CL20 for if I need something really pocketable and my Olympus XA-2 isn't loaded.

It says 'megapixel camera', but I think it's right below a genuine megapixel image. Anyway, the results are still satisfying and good enough for 10x15cm prints. You can only see that it's the antique AGFA by the terrible distortions of straight lines in the edges.

Groeten,
Vic

 

[Ash]

The oxfam in swindon apparently had a helluva collection of TTL's and compacts and all sorts. Course, I had no money, and I completely forgot a day after the friend told me. Apparently there was a whole window display, everything from medium format to cheap 35mm plastic things. The whole lot got ravaged within a few days.

As for digital, a few years ago I had a 'Nisis' cam that managed to lose all the pictures as soon as the AA batteries run out. Bubble memory or something. I lost about 80 (low quality) images i'd taken around the ancient sites in Greece. After that I vowed never to use a camera that I couldn't trust.

 

[JoeFriday]

Compact Flash card or Memory Stick... modern stuff! Ten years ago we got a Kodak (made by Chinon) DC-50 for $990. Its memory was in the form of a PCMCIA card! That was handy, as my laptop computer had a PC card slot. Two megs was pretty big... And we got an adaptor in the shape of a PC card that had a socket for a CF card to plug into it! Wow, that's getting more up-to-date... BTW, as I recall its resolution is about 360k pixels.

Doug, I've got a DC50 in my hand right now... I dug it out of my office drawer a few months ago (it was the official office digicam about 6 years ago).. now currently being utilized as an awkward paperweight.. right next to my Macintosh SE/30 (no lie!)

I ought to bring a camera to the office and take pictures of my antiques

 

[bmattock]

The memory card was of a size and shape with which I was not familiar -- about like a stick of Dentyne gum.

I still have my Olympus DL-something which was 640x470 or 1/3 of a megapixel. It uses 'SmartMedia' and I thought that might be what you're thinking of.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[ampguy]

lol, n00bs!! We got *the* first digital camera in Tokyo, still have it. A Casio QV10. Keep pictures in the internal flash memory. (backed up of course).