I know, I know... not as sexy as a 80-90 year old Leica or Contax... but, let’s see your digital relics. Seeing something from at least the late 90s should be easy... but who can surprise us with a true digital relic? I look forward to finding out.
raydm6
Yay! Cameras! 🙈🙉🙊┌( ಠ_ಠ)┘ [◉"]
Agfa ePhoto 1280 (1997'ish). Somewhere around here in a box.
CharlesDAMorgan
Veteran
A friend gave me one of these (not this one) last year. He claims it works but has yet to find the power adapter.
Dwig
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I have a EPSON PhotoPC that my wife purchased in 1996.
check out: https://petapixel.com/2018/01/22/digital-cameras-like-1995/
check out: https://petapixel.com/2018/01/22/digital-cameras-like-1995/
hendry86
Newbie
Dektol Dan
Well-known
My Oldest Digital Camera
My Oldest Digital Camera
I own two apple 1994 Quicktake 100 cameras.
You need an apple computer and a Quicktake application. I have a laptop from the era in order to get the images. I don't believe JPG was standardized yet at that time to see the photos (JPG went through many changes; raster vs. vector were an issue too). I've posted translated shots from the camera on this forum, I just have to find them. If I remember right they are around 450K.
Of course, the images are very soft with little detail but nice color.
My Oldest Digital Camera
I own two apple 1994 Quicktake 100 cameras.
You need an apple computer and a Quicktake application. I have a laptop from the era in order to get the images. I don't believe JPG was standardized yet at that time to see the photos (JPG went through many changes; raster vs. vector were an issue too). I've posted translated shots from the camera on this forum, I just have to find them. If I remember right they are around 450K.
Of course, the images are very soft with little detail but nice color.
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Devin Bro
Ooh. I’ve got a few very early digital point and shoots I’ll have to dig out and share.
This was a rebadged Fuji right?
I knew this would come up here... it’s the first digital I ever saw results from. Now... who can beat this?
Godfrey
somewhat colored
I think I threw out my 1988 Sony Mavica a year or three back, or sent it off as toxic waste. Gave away all my old cameras other than the Olympus E-1, built October 2003.
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1988! But these were analog right? Image to video tape?
Derek Leath
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I have one of these still works.
Derek Leath
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BillBingham2
Registered User
+1
I got mine in 1996 and used it to make life easy when I was setting up the first Intranet site at the company I worked for.
I was hanging on to it hoping Epson would give an aggressive trade up for that wonderful digital RF camera.
While I've been sorting through and trashing stuff that I don't need of late, I'm hanging on to it for a few more passes through culling out the stuff that's just stored.
It was the bees knees back then. Have a shot of my oldest that I just love. Him with an HP 99 4A and a toy that looks physics oriented.
B2 (;->
santino
FSU gear head
I think so. Mavica = magnetic video camera
hilltime
Well-known
I think the Fuji Finepix 601 sold for around $600 and the Leica $400+more.
It's funny how that name tacks on the $$$. I also remeber buying a Panasoic 4MP rangefinder looking camera (Don't remember the Model#), but the identical Leica model was about an extra $400 too....
Go figure
JeffS7444
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Oldest standalone digital was Kodak DCS200 which consisted of a stock Nikon 8008s body with Kodak digital back equipped with 2.5" 340 megabyte SCSI hard drive. Purchased secondhand from a San Francisco newspaper, far too costly for me to purchase new.
hilltime
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Now i remember, it was a Lumix LC-5 which I still have as well as the first Sony Mavica FD-7. Great part of the Sony was the 10X Zoom, although 640x480 was challenging.
Matsushhita Electric (Panasonic) has today announced the LUMIX line of digital cameras which make use of Leica Optics. The DMC-LC5 is a 'prosumer' four megapixel digital cameras with a 3x Leica optical zoom lens with full manual control. The DMC-F7 is a compact two megapixel digital camera with a 2x Leica optical zoom lens. Both cameras utilize MMC (SD) storage cards and are powered by proprietary Lithium-Ion rechargeable batteries. Both cameras will be available in both black or silver finishes.
Godfrey
somewhat colored
Yup analog: the first movement to all electronic consumer still cameras. Essentially a video still camera, which recorded images as a video field format on 2" floppy disks organized into a rudimentary FAT file system. Somewhere I have some of the images I captured with it, transferred to low rez digital. It was a marvel in 1987-1988.
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