Fun thread...what's the oldest digital camera you use?

Hmmmm, possibly not what you were after :E Although by all the threads calling for a 14mp replacement it seems to be already past it
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Sony DSC-S85 w/CZ f2.0 in January of this year. I purchased it in March of 2003 - when it was over a year on the market. It seemed like an eternity between shutter press & activation, but I did capture some nice memories.

Crab Apple blooms
4-18-2006, Sony DSC-S85, ISO-100, 1/400, f2.8, 7mm (21mm - 35mm eq)



Joanna
5-19-2006, Sony DSC-S85, ISO-250, 1/30 sec, f2.1, 9.3mm (27.9mm - 35mm eq)



Reilly - Crawlin
6-26-2003, Sony DSC-S85, ISO-320, 1/30 sec, f2.1, 9.3mm (27.9mm - 35mm eq)



Yellow Swallow Tail - Carolina Keep
8-28-2007, Sony DSC-S85, f2.8, 1/320 sec, ISO-100, 9.3mm (28mm - 35mm eq)



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Funny you should post this topic gipper!

I was doing some cleaning a few days ago and came across my Nikon Coolpix 900. I hadn't used it for at least 6-7 years so I decided to charge up the battery and test it out and still worked like a champ!

I'll pull out my Sony MVC-CD300 once in a while as it takes great pics. I used it to photograph my eldest niece’s wedding in 2005..........this is probably my favourite pic from that day.............

HawkC026 said:

Funny you should post this topic gipper!

I was doing some cleaning a few days ago and came across my Nikon
Coolpix 900. I hadn't used it for at least 6-7 years so I decided to
charge up the battery and test it out and still worked like a champ!

I'll pull out my Sony MVC-CD300 once in a while as it takes great
pics. I used it to photograph my eldest niece’s wedding in
2005..........this is probably my favourite pic from that
day.............

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My first digital camera was a Sony CD500 model and it took great pics. Even looking at those images compared to my DSLRs they are still very 'clean' and vivid files. Great camera.

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donedoc said:

The KM F100 3X zoom, 4.1 MP..... I have a number of 11X14
prints on my walls made with this camera... remarkable sharpness, and
a wonder to carry around on a trip... in the pocket or let it hang
from the strap.

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Ditto...

With a very cool blue brushed aluminium body. A really solid camera which still takes excellent photos. It's just a shame that it pre-dates mainstream lithium batteries. The NiMh cells just drain too fast.

Possibly one of the most attractive cameras ever made?

My trusty KM Dimage G400 I bought in August 2004.

It will just always get everything right and give nice vivid images in all kind of conditions. It still outperforms most P&S from today IMO, has a full manual mode unlike them, and all that for cheaper (only cost me $300 new back then). It takes 4MP images weighing about 1.3MB average, which is just perfect for souvenir shots you'd take with it. Not too big so you don't waste space, I still have the 256MB SD card that I bought with it inside, and it will take about 200 shots on it.

It has been disassembled twice, once to clean the sensor (did it myself), and once to add an external trigger input so I could take aerial shots from R/C models with it (done myself too), and still works like a charm after 45'000 shots. Just had to replace the battery.

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I use my KM Dimage F300 for candid snaps. The GT lens produces great shots especially when saved as .tif files. Compared to my newer cameras the F300 is slow, has a tiny screen and chews batteries but the KM interface is great and feels designed for photographers. Here is a shot with the F300.



ISO 64 1/350s f/2.8 Dimage F300 Silkypix+PSE7

The old excellent Sony DSC-V1
Still using it when I want to look as an innocent tourist.
For the amount I paid you now have a 350

Wim

I still have, and occasionally use a Kodak DC4800. I bought it in November 2000 in time for my eldest son's wedding and it has done Trojan service since. The batteries are somewhat suspect now, and dont hold charge long, and the case is a bit battered, but still functional.

My current mainstay is my K-M 7D, bought in November 2004, and despite its idiosynchrasies (better than problems, don't you think!), I still love the colour balance of the photos.

It's probably time for a replacement, but with the A700 now over a year old, I guess I can wait to see what PMA suggests is in the pipeline.

It's funny that we look back on these cameras as if they were museum pieces when in fact, few are over 10 yrs old. We need some designation for "digital years" like "dog years". Maybe one people year equals 10 digital years. LOL. Anyway, great little camera. Phil commented that at 3.3 it had "plenty of megapixels". Magnesium body, and a 3x lens that went from f1.8-2.6. Phil described it as being from the Olympus prosumer line. Back then Nikon and Olympus were really slugging it out. Times change.
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Oldest in use - the aged (3 years old, haha) and venerable R1 -



Now if you had asked what's the oldest camera you've ever used... I don't recall the brand, but it had bellows and probably dated back to around 1920s! LOL
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I still use a Minolta Dimage 7 purchased in January 2002 at a cost of 799 pounds, i also use an A100. You can see from this how prices have come down.

Markbee

My oldest is the Minolta RD3000 - the company's FIRST ever DSLR. Many think the Dynax/Maxxum 7D was first, but the RD3000 was out some SIX years previously.

The RD3000 was a 3mp camera that came out in the late '90s (1998, I think), and it took Minolta's Vectis Lenses that were made for APS. Apparently, Minolta chose to go down the Vectis route because they felt these lenses were superior to their 35mm optics

Maybe they were better (being designed for a smaller format), but it was a disastrous decision commercially. It wasn't until late 2004 that Minolta (by then Konica/Minolta) had the 7D ready. From being one of the first to make a DSLR, they effectively became the last.

The RD3000 was very big, and had some strange foibles. For example, lenses can't be used at full aperture - the fastest aperture you can use is something like f6.5. It was very very slow too. IQ was surprisingly good - excellent colour - but (because of the maximum aperture restrictions refered to earlier) it was a camera only usable in bright weather.

While the RD3000 was far from perfect, you have to bear in mind it came out a good two or three years before Nikon launched the D1. Not sure how much it originally cost, but I think it was a shade under £3k!

J M Hughes

Minolta Dimage G-400 from 2003.

I keep it in my car and use it for quick grab shots if I don't happen to have my A700 with me.

Bob S.

a lovely picture of a lovely young lady... who I fear may have a problem someday soon.......
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Is that whole "wall" a solid phalanx of speakers??!!!!

If it is then no one will have any hearing at all when they hit their old age of 30.

I'm a retired dentist, and I just got hearing aids due to the hearing loss caused by the high pitched whine of the dental handpiece..... And it was pitch specific loss.... these sound systems just tear out the hearing of most people very quickly. I can't remember where I read it unfortunately, but the article claimed that most people age 40 or younger have worse hearing than those of us in our 70's because of listening to music at concerts and through earphones that is just so loud it destroys the hearing mechanisms. I'll look for the article......
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I see #4 was a 15sec exposure. How did you manage to arrange that? That's about the best lightning shot I've ever seen.
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I still have and use my Olympus C5060. I bought a vertical grip and their smallest external flash later on. It takes gorgeous pictures and has a build quality second to none. I later got the Olympus C7000. Also a dandy in a smaller package.

The oldest digital I use is an F717. Even used it as back up last week end when I shot the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships for letsrun.com. I always stick a p200 in my pocket when I go any where and use the A100 for serious shots.

The Oldest 35mm I use (not to often any more but still onces in a while) is a Minolta SRT 101 from the 1970's it is still a work horse.

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