Digital, not new but not obsolete!

[Archiver]

My Ricoh GR (2013) and Panasonic LX7 (2013) would still be in use if they had not died. I love those cameras, and their output still holds up today.

GR - The Solipsistic Universe [explore 2016 10 17 #363] by Archiver, on Flickr

LX7 - Holding His Balls by Archiver, on Flickr

 

[AndersG]

My Canon EOS 30D is pretty old now, I bought it new in 2006. 🙂
It is still my main digital camera.

 

[dexdog]

I still have my Canon S90, with antique CMOS sensor. A tiny little camera, easily fits in a shirt pocket without feeling too heavy. Madrid, 2003

 

[das]

It's nice that people can find uses for older digital cameras instead of tossing them. The number of old cell phones and digital cameras must at this point be taking up plenty of landfill space, if they cannot be mostly recycled. Same could be said with the vast majority of 1980s and 1990s film point-and-shoots.

 

[halvmesyr]

Out shooting with my 250 SEK (around 25 usd) EM10. I got it just before christmas from a local seller. Had to run the pixel-mapping program from the menus to even out a few dead pixels and now it works well.

 

[Bike Tourist]

My Nikon Z5 is not that old but I sometimes feel that it is. It never got much love or recognition from the Nikon community, probably because it is upstaged by the Z6 and so forth, For me, after having owned many top-end cameras during my many years, it is all I need.

 

[Darthfeeble]

Were I to be reduced to one camera (perish the thought!) my R-D1x would probably be the one.

 

[pgk]

Still using 2 x Leica M9s (2009). As a low ISO shooter I see little point in buying newer until I have to. And 18MPixel is sufficient for surprisingly big prints, as my limiting factor is wall space to display them.

 

[nikon_sam]

The Nikon D3x arrived on the scene in 2008 making it 15 years old now.
I bought it some time in 2016 by my best guess...currently at 48,000+ shutter actuations.
It fits the "Not New" requirements but it still delivers the goods...

Image taken with set-up shown above...

 

[Archiver]

With the closure of DPReview coming closer every day, I've gone back to some of the cameras I loved while I was on that site the most.

My Casio Z750, a tiny 7.2mp camera from 2005, had to be fully charged as the batteries were completely run down. The last time I used it, according to the photos on the card, was in mid 2016, and probably around 2010 before that. No IBIS, a maximum usable ISO of 400, but a rather sharp lens and a very small footprint. And now that I understand shutter speed and white balance better, I'm taking better photos with it. It has a lot of unique features, and I might make a thread about it.

I also charged the Canon S90 from 2009. This was the camera I wished the Z750 had been, with a 28mm equivalent lens with f2 aperture and even better movie mode. But the auto exposure errs on the side of ISO 100, which means a LOT of slow shutter and blurry images. And the movie mode is frankly pants compared with even my Samsung phone from 2017. But the raw files are reasonable, and the colours are very appealing.

My Fuji F30 (2007) is also working well, and I'm about to fire up the Sigma DP1 (2008). I might as well get the Canon 30D (2006) going again, too.

 

[Dogman]

I'm almost (but not quite) ready to sell off my APS-C Nikons and DX lenses. I seldom use them. But then I look at something shot with the D2Xs, especially the color, and think, "I can't let this thing go."

I can sell the others but maybe I'll just keep the D2Xs. And the 17-55. And the....Damn!

 

[Ricoh]

Is this a thread where you can ask for advice?
I‘m looking for a lo-fi digital with the minimum of MP having seen pixelated images from a GameBoy, which I like. The GameBoy is probably a bit extreme, but thinking definitely less than 5MP, ideally 1MP.
Any suggestions?

 

[x-ray]

I used my D800 and Df for my work until retiring last year. I still have them but added a new old stock Fuji X-T3 for vacations. I have an X-E1 too and have grown to love my Fujis so much I haven used my Nikons since retiring.

 

[x-ray]

I previously posted a bunch of samples from various digital cameras I’ve owned over the past 23 years. These are samples from jobs i shot so they were shot under pretty much ideal conditions using studio light so they don’t illustrate the failings of these earlier cameras. What they do show is how even the very early ones can make beautiful images if shot in raw and processed in modern raw conversion software. Feed these old cameras good light and they produce beautiful images.

Each image is marked as to what camera they were shot with. I’ll throw in some film for comparison too.

 

[x-ray]

Here are three images from a Nikon D3100 that I hadn’t made a composite for.

 

[Axel]

My current mostly used cameras are the Sony SLT A33 (2010) and a Fuji S9600 from 2006.
The A33 already had far more than 100.000 actuations when I got it.
I don´t think that I will buy any further camera(s). Sony A7 perhaps because of the bigger sensor
and the ability of using nearly every lens I ever got.

About the need? I also still have a Casio EX-Z10 from 2005 that would still cover 95 percent
of my demands.

 

[Dogman]

I pulled out my old Fuji X-Pro1 last night, popped the Fuji 16/2.8 lens on it and played with it for a while. I kinda impressed with it. Feels good to use but a little quirky. Files look great to me.

Here's me after a do-it-myself haircut yesterday. ISO 3200.

 

[Arnold Layne]

I pulled out my old Fuji X-Pro1 last night, popped the Fuji 16/2.8 lens on it and played with it for a while. I kinda impressed with it. Feels good to use but a little quirky. Files look great to me.

Here's me after a do-it-myself haircut yesterday. ISO 3200.

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It looks great Dogman. The file also looks great ;-)

I'm going to miss the X-Pro1, but I'm selling it to buy my next camera. An even older camera, the M8! Maybe not a very smart move, but I'm not the smartest guy either, so...

I started making photos with a Pentax MZ-M camera in 99 or so. Then I bought an LX (loved that camera). My Leica journey started in 2005 with a CL. Then came the M4 in 2011 and the M6 in 2015. In 2018 I stopped shooting because of the €€€. My first digital camera, the X-Pro1 came in 2021 after selling the M4.

I have been enjoying it A LOT, almost always using manual lenses because 'manual everything' is the way I like. But focusing with it is very slow, I missed a lot of pics because of that. I "need" a real rangefinder. So I'm going back to it. I hope it last.

So I guess I'll be posting in this thread with my new but not obsolete camera as soon as I get it. And maybe I'll be posting here again with the old M11 in 2043.

 

[JeffS7444]

Is this a thread where you can ask for advice?
I‘m looking for a lo-fi digital with the minimum of MP having seen pixelated images from a GameBoy, which I like. The GameBoy is probably a bit extreme, but thinking definitely less than 5MP, ideally 1MP.
Any suggestions?

Superheadz Digital Harinezumi (“hedgehog”) or Sun & Cloud.

 

[hap]

I still hve my Nikon 1 v1. I don't use it much ....kind of waiting to try topaz photo AI and see what I can do with enlargements. The lens I am missing is the 32mm 1.2. It's probably one of the best from Nikon...but it's expensive, even today.