easyrider
Photo addict
My wife will never give up her Canon G2. She shoots flowers. Not ideal for that but she likes the look.
Archiver
Veteran
It reminds me a bit of the music video guys who are now shooting on VHS or tape cameras for the '90's look'. The tiny videos I took with the Canon S45, with its 320x240 QVGA resolution and 15fps framerate, actually have a weirdly nostalgic feel. Today, I use cameras that are almost like looking through a window into the action, so while the S45 videos have an odd charm, they are not acceptable for current needs.
The cameras she uses aren't entry level at all. They were the flagship cameras of their time, and very well made. The S45 and S70, for example, were solid and quite lovely. They were also very costly, the equivalent of buying a Sigma DP Merrill or similar today.
I still use my Sigma DP1 (2008), DP2 (2009) and Fuji F30 (2007), despite having much more recent cameras. I like the look of the Fuji F30 black and white images, and the DP1 and DP2 give me results unlike any other camera I own. Even a couple of weeks ago, I took that nine year old camera interstate for a work trip that was in a place with great scenery. There's nothing like a good classic Foveon image.
The cameras she uses aren't entry level at all. They were the flagship cameras of their time, and very well made. The S45 and S70, for example, were solid and quite lovely. They were also very costly, the equivalent of buying a Sigma DP Merrill or similar today.
I still use my Sigma DP1 (2008), DP2 (2009) and Fuji F30 (2007), despite having much more recent cameras. I like the look of the Fuji F30 black and white images, and the DP1 and DP2 give me results unlike any other camera I own. Even a couple of weeks ago, I took that nine year old camera interstate for a work trip that was in a place with great scenery. There's nothing like a good classic Foveon image.
David Hughes
David Hughes
And the odd Smart Media card on ebay, from the found and cheap digital will often fund these purchases and more.
Regards, David
PS And soon we'll be able to say the same about the empty cardboard boxes; if Leicas are anything to go by...
Regards, David
PS And soon we'll be able to say the same about the empty cardboard boxes; if Leicas are anything to go by...
ruby.monkey
Veteran
I keep an Olympus E-20P (with both wide and short-tele conversion lenses) at work for lunchtime walks. 2001 is vintage, right?
Richard G
Veteran
Interesting. Not vintage enough. The camera I miss most is the iPhone 3GS. I loved the pictures from that. The iPhone 4 I had to get that replaced it had too good a camera, which was then just boring.
mod2001
Old school modernist
Can't aggree more, printed some old stuff last week from my still working F11 on A4 Hahnemühle paper with my Epson P600, lets you really think...
Jürgen
BillBingham2
Registered User
JeffS7444
Well-known
Thanks for posting, enjoyed the article.
I wouldn't want to get too vintage with digital, because you don't get many pixels for your effort, not to mention that the simple act of extracting the photos can be a pain, sometimes requiring a serial or SCSI connection and an equally vintage computer.
Ricoh GX100 is a great pick IMO: Pretty modern in most respects save for high ISO performance. GX100 gets noisy in some interesting ways by ISO 283. And it uses cheap commodity-type batteries.
I wouldn't want to get too vintage with digital, because you don't get many pixels for your effort, not to mention that the simple act of extracting the photos can be a pain, sometimes requiring a serial or SCSI connection and an equally vintage computer.
Ricoh GX100 is a great pick IMO: Pretty modern in most respects save for high ISO performance. GX100 gets noisy in some interesting ways by ISO 283. And it uses cheap commodity-type batteries.
Axel
singleshooter
You make me curious which camera doesn´t have at least a usb-port and/or a storage card and stores something different from .jpg or .tiff?
LukeBanks
Established
Nice to hear that there's another F11 out there still producing the goods. It's a lovely sensor, and at 6.3mp still very capable of producing great prints.
The F31fd I replaced mine with has the added bonus of looking good all the way up to 800iso.
JeffS7444
Well-known
Kodak DCS100 and 200. I owned the latter and recall that it stored images to internal 340MB SCSI hard drive. To download, one connected to a PC via SCSI cable and used a Photoshop plugin. I don't recall what the native file format was.
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/Kodak/index.htm
Apple Quicktake 100 and 150 used serial connections + Apple's own software to download and convert images. Again, not sure what native file format was, but the software allowed export as JPEG and TIFF. I owned the QT100 (1995?) and think it's internal memory could store 8 or 16 photos at the higher quality setting with no option to add more.
http://epi-centre.com/reports/9403cdi.html
I think my first USB-equipped computer was a PC I assembled myself around an Asus P2B motherboard (1998!) But you wouldn't have wanted to use it's USB ports to transfer much data because at 1.x speeds, anything more than a floppy disk's worth would've taken forever.