Here's a few of my classics-some 35mm film compacts and digital cameras.
Ricoh TF-500:
A nice twin focal length Ricoh compact from the late 80's-note the square lens barrel, this is also seen on early 1990's Shotmaster cameras and some Myport models.
Lens is a Ricoh 35/70mm.
Pentax Zoom 105-R:
A bulky looking Pentax from 1991 with 38-105mm zoom lens and zoom flash, has bulb mode, interval shooting, multiple exposures. Bulb mode time can be upto 60 minutes (set by a button on the rear).
Cost me $10 (was in a bag with other Pentax cameras).
Kodak DC4800:
A 3.1MP enthusiast compact from 2000 with a great set of features such as large 1/1.8" CCD, 3x zoom (wide-angle:28-84mm), manual shutter speed setting a exposure compensation dial, PC sync socket and TIFF and manual WB with WB shift-even color temperature setting for WB (in kelvins-2500K TO 10,000K) and a battery that is similar to Fujifilm's NP-80 (for the DC4800, called the KLIC-3000).
Shown here with original box. Cost me $10 at a thrift store.
Kodak DC210 Zoom:
Another wide-angle zoom lens digital camera from Kodak-from 1998. Has 1MP resoultion, top status display and exposure lock, 2x zoom (wide-angle:29-58mm).
$8 at a thrift store.
Olympus CAMEDIA C-1400XL:
A SLR style digital camera that resembles the old Olympus IS- series.
Olympus often referred to these as ZLR (zoom lens reflex) cameras.
Came out in 1997 and has a LCD on the rear (interestingly only used for reviewing captured photos and menus)-the optical through-the-lens type viewfinder is used for composition and a 3x zoom lens (36-110mm) whose lens never extends out of the body-zooming is internal.
A quick focus system (basically a set of buttons on the rear) allow for shooting at several preset focus distances (also seen on several models like the later D-450/C-920 Zoom).
Has a 2/3" CCD and PC sync socket (and SLR like pop-up flash), plus manual WB (set using the Kelvin scale) and spot metering.
Takes SmartMedia cards (which I have several that came with it).
Cost me $20 at a thrift store (came with camera bag,cables, CD,SmartMedia cards and manuals).
Olympus C-2000Z/C-2040:
One of the first Olympus digital cameras to have this body design (used by several Olympus C-series cameras) and a fast f2 lens with shutter and aperture priority. Can use a external flash (has a standard PC sync socket). From 1999. Both have status displays on the top.
Second one shown here is a C-2040 (2001)-even faster f 1.8 lens and adds manual mode and movie mode. Both use SmartMedia cards but this one can use Olympus flash units due to a properity Olympus sync socket (3rd party ones can be used with optional sync socket adaptors).
Both have 1/2" 2MP CCD's.
Cost me $12 for the C-2000Z and $10 for the C-2040 at a thrift store.