Post your old-sensor pix

Nikon Coolpix E5600, 2010
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Sapporo City, Japan 日本 北海道 札幌市

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Hokkaido, Japan

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Pentax *ist DL (2007 APSC CCD)
Pentax SMC 18-55
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One of my first digiital photo's. Taken with the demo camera borrowed for a few days from the dealer. So 1997 or 1998.

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I bought one, an Olympus C-1000L and as it had an instruction book with it I discovered I could turn out bigger (1024 x 768) pictures.

Later on (2001) I got the Olympus E-10 and just loved it:-

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The problem for me with the earlier ones was the cost of the media and their small size.

I also realised I needed a small pocket camera and had a Fuji MX 1500.


Regards, David
 
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Arcadia, Los Angeles County pre Covid 19

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Sony A200 (2008 APSC CCD)
Sony 18-70
media by SunDisk made in China

*i love this camera...Fast!
 
What a great thread. It really shows that the old cameras were more than capable of making great images.

The Canon S45 was my first digital camera, back in 2002. Almost all of the images on my flickr account from the S45 have no postprocessing.

Sunset 2 by Archiver, on Flickr


Flinder St by Night by Archiver, on Flickr

The S45 began my odyssey into full blown obsession with photography. After the S45 came the Canon S70 in 2005.

Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong, 2006.

S70 - A Thousand Christmas Stars in Digital by Archiver, on Flickr

Long exposure in Sydney, near Anzac Bridge:
S70 - Anzac Bridge at Dawn [explore 2007 06 04 #72] by Archiver, on Flickr

The Fuji F30 in 2006 brought the remarkable Super CCD with unusual pixel layout. This gave better high ISO performance than other small sensors of that time.

Southbank in Melbourne.

F30 - Southbank by dusk comparison by Archiver, on Flickr

In Harbour City shopping centre in Hong Kong, 2008.
F30 - Azabu Sabo by Archiver, on Flickr

2006 also brought the Canon 30D with its 8mp aps-c sensor. At the time, I wondered why the heck I hadn't got a DSLR until then. The image quality compared with a small sensor camera was ridiculous.

Somewhere in Sydney, or maybe near the Blue Mountains. Being able to see the highlight details in the car park lighting was unheard of before I got this camera.
30D - Night is falling by Archiver, on Flickr

This year, I've started to use it again, and being able to use Lightroom properly has given new life to the old sensor.

Somewhere on the beach in the southeastern suburbs, probably near Rickett's Point. Canon EF-S 17-55mm f2.8.
30D - Single Swan by Archiver, on Flickr


Somewhere in Lakes Entrance. EF-S 17-55mm f2.8.
30D - The Rows by Archiver, on Flickr

But the sensor which really wowed me back then was the Sigma DP1 from 2008. Holy cow. The dynamic range, the pixel level acuity, the recoverable shadows and highlights, the wacky colours, it was like shooting slide film. That Foveon sensor was unique and incredible. I actually stopped using film as the DP1 gave me the experience of shooting film in a lot of ways.

Chinatown in Melbourne.
DP1 - Chinatown by Archiver, on Flickr


DP1 - Blue and Yellow [explore 2008 07 22 #484] by Archiver, on Flickr

Somewhere in Lakes Entrance.
DP1 - Hypercolour Agapanthas by Archiver, on Flickr
 
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Sapporo City, Japan

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Kodak Z730 (point n shoot CCD 2007)
Schneider K 5.5-22mm (36-144 eqv) F2.8-5.6
 
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