Now this is a DSLR...

[Socke]

I can only speak for Canon, but on my D60 and a friends 20D as well as another friends 1D MkII one can turn off almost anything. They do have a manual mode, realy!

 

[shadowfox]

I'm just happy that Olympus seems to give a nod to old designs:

... this picture is quoted from this article: http://dpnow.com/3006.html

 

[SolaresLarrave]

I like built-in flashes. They come in handy. As long as you don't use the camera in program mode, it won't pop out on you.

 

[giellaleafapmu]

(Maybe collecting them would be a little like collecting historical computers.)

Philipp

Type "retrocomputing" into your favourite search engine and you will find out that many people do that. If you started working on a VT100 terminal using the ed editor you will find really pleasent to be able to do the same from time to time... Besides, having a working VAX 4000-300 in your house can keep you warm too...
Digital photography is still young and probably very few people have an old digital camera they used for so long to feel anything for it but I am sure that in some 20 years stuff like a Mamiya 645 ZD today too expensive to most, then possibly realively accessible, will be sought of by many people...

GLF

 

[giellaleafapmu]

No shooting modes, but it would have an "A" setting on the shutter dial for aperture priority.

Maybe a white balance control?

GLF

 

[Doug]

There would have to be some sort of control dial on the body to change the aperture on the DA lenses because they have no aperture ring.
I curse lenses with no aperture ring!

Good point and I agree. In the absence of the lens aperture ring, it could be put on the body around the lens mount rather like the Olympus OM shutter-speed control. That at least would be more familiar ergonomically.

 

[amateriat]

Type "retrocomputing" into your favourite search engine and you will find out that many people do that. If you started working on a VT100 terminal using the ed editor you will find really pleasent to be able to do the same from time to time... Besides, having a working VAX 4000-300 in your house can keep you warm too...

Interesting idea...but if I needed to keep warm, I think I'd choose a tube amplifier: smaller, nicer looking, and such nice-sounding music.

Digital photography is still young and probably very few people have an old digital camera they used for so long to feel anything for it but I am sure that in some 20 years stuff like a Mamiya 645 ZD today too expensive to most, then possibly realively accessible, will be sought of by many people...

...provided it's still working and/or servicable.


- Barrett

 

[giellaleafapmu]

Interesting idea...but if I needed to keep warm, I think I'd choose a tube amplifier: smaller, nicer looking, and such nice-sounding music.

It seems we share more than one passion... Anyway, a tube amplifier is smaller and sounds better but it does not look nicer (nor uglier) than a vax workstation! It is the same retrobeauty as a sun workstation, a revox tape recorder, two huges back loaded horn type speakers, a Bolex 16mm movie camera...just beautiful and with a quality difficult to find!

...provided it's still working and/or servicable.

- Barrett

I guess it will be about as serviceable as it is a vax workstation now...plus the problem of the miniaturization and spares... Anyway, I am sure that some will survive as and the same will happen to many Canon whateverD mark whatever and I think they will be just as collectible as anything beautiful!

GLF