'classic' digital cameras

I started taking digital pics by filming something with my VHS camcorder, then using a capture card to get the paused image onto my pc, circa 1995. As you can imagine, the results were pretty dire, but with 28k dialup, who wants big images on the internet! Besides, it was better than.. nothing at all. in 1999 I bought a mini-DV camcorder, the most expensive on the market, it was £1,600. This came with a floppy disc drive and would take 640x480 stills, so this was my upgraded kit!



My first real digi was a Fuji 2.1 mp which I bought in 2002. It has fixed focus and mechanical macro. It was very fast to use as it didn't faf about focussing. Click! that was it. Had many a great pic from it. Main think I liked about it was its robustness. It lived in my pocket for 4 years solid and was beat to hell.

I even left it outside in the garden for a week, then found it in a puddle and put it on the radiator. Still worked . Shame the same can't be said for their newer efforts. Had two subsequent terrible Fujis, and a Sony U20 which broke so I abandonded them and bought a Canon DSLR, and a cheap Samsung.

I still have every pic I've ever taken.. on my PC, about 35,000

sold this in the summer for a few quid on ebay, took floppy disks!

Ahh, I want that mavica!!! I can't think of any better use for the piles and piles of floppies I have left over.

My first one was a Sony DSC-F515V which was the model in between your two. It packed up unfortunately, but I got £56 for it on eBay!

One I'm looking for, to actually buy and use, is a swivel body Nikon Coolpix. It was a cracking stealth camera in its day because the body twists and I remember it took really good pictures.

The original one I used was the Coolpix 950, which was replaced by the 990, 995 and then the 4500. Might look for a 990 because they replaced the battery with a Li-Ion and a lot of older cams used to suffer with battery life. Can't remember if it used to take regular AA or AAA. The later ones got a bit bulky and laden with "features", that's why I liked the earlier models.



I bet by today's standards it's pretty rubbish though ;D

22 years old, bloody hell, I didn't realise they were that old. I thought the first digital camera was the Kodak DCS460 (1995).
I am using quite an old digital camera at the moment, a Fuji S6900 from 2001 or so. It takes nice pictures, but you'd expect that from a camera which cost around £600-800 in its day

Oi Jonny, I have the 4500's little brother:


It takes fantastic pictures. I haven't used it in about 3 years but I reckon it must be somewhere! I really should recommision!

The way I have done it is follow this guide, you use a bit of film negative as a filter over the ccd.

geektechnique.org/index.php?id=254

Or you could get a Sony cyber-shot, my f717 has a built in night mode which makes everything go a bit 'Most Haunted'! ;D

Edit: I've just thought, night vision goggles can't be that hard to knock up using this technique, I'm off to get some IR L.E.D.s for a head torch/Ir goggle combo!

I sold a Nikkon (i think) a year or so back, the top part came off it and it plugged into a laptop pcmi slot to download the pics, i got it from a clearance we did, looked cool but it only held about 20 pics so i ebayed it.

^ Thats a nice interesting looking camera, I have taken it upon myself to collect old digital cameras now, for the good of mankind!

I really like quirky designs, odd features and well thought out cameras, I'm not to keen on late 90's bubble shaped camers (ones that look like current disposable film cameras).

I have got myself this off ebay for £11!



and I was going to go mad and thought about this:



There was one on german ebay yesterday but it seems to have gone, it was around £50. 4500 x 3648 pixel color CCD. Nikon 35 - 80mm zoom f/4-5.6 lens. ISO 100-400.

Thing is, it was SCSI only and it had no storage of it's own, so you would have to cart a laptop with a SCSI port around with you, I bet it's pretty good quality though!