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Hello everyone

So many nice cameras released since these came out about ten years ago.
More nice cameras to be released this year.

I still really like my 2MP 3MP 1/1.7 to 1/2 sensor with their big yummy pixels (size of m4/3 pixels).





Canon s30, Fuji 4800, Olympus c2040, Olympus c2100, Nikon 990, Sony f505v.

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I have each for specific purpose.

Canon S30 http://www.dpreview.com/products/canon/compacts/canon_s30
fast shutter lag & fast shot to shot times for street









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Fuji 4800 CCD http://www.dpreview.com/products/fujifilm/compacts/fuji_finepix4800z
textures (not sure why dpreview exif says canon a620)









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Olympus C2040 F1.8 http://www.dpreview.com/products/olympus/compacts/oly_c2040z
low light









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Olympus C2100uz (uzi) http://www.dpreview.com/products/olympus/compacts/oly_c2100uz
forest, river, sea









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Nikon 990 http://www.dpreview.com/products/nikon/compacts/nikon_cp990
2cm macro









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Sony F505v Zeiss http://www.dpreview.com/products/sony/compacts/sony_dscf505v
architecture funky angles & no neck cracking with its swivel lens :)







 
Nice selection - Shoot the S30 in RAW and use RAWshooter essentials (Free if you can find where to downlkoad it) - even at ISO800 it gives modern cams a good run !

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A Problem is only the pessimistic way of looking at a challenge

 
brings memories of fuji 4800. Liked it very much til the lens would only protrude intermittently. Distinctive style and pictures were good. Took my avatar picture from mirrow with 4800 when I visited Korea in winter.

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watch out for the rattlers...
 
The c2100 was my first digital camera. My brother-in-law still uses it.
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Bruce
 
I must admit I really like photoing with these golden oldies.
I dont feel the urge to spalsh on aNy moderns.
On my 12" laptop screen (10x8) they holdup.
Grungy & lo-fi.
 
I generally prefer new cameras because they perform better, have more features, are a better value, and convey a sense of credibility that obsolete cameras just can't match.
 
I had a samsung ex1 fine camera.

I think large pixels of golden oldies (2mp, 3mp on 1/1.7-1/2 sensor) give them a different look from modern premium compacts (except Canon G1X which has just as large pixels).

Its just a personal thing, I like grunge & lo-fi.
 
Gregory Chang said:
brings memories of fuji 4800. Liked it very much til the lens would only protrude intermittently. Distinctive style and pictures were good. Took my avatar picture from mirrow with 4800 when I visited Korea in winter.

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Heeheee I just saw your avatar.
4800 Styling reminds me of a mouse :)
Constant f2.8 Ive used for low light. Real nice analogue look.
 
Bruce Miller said:
The c2100 was my first digital camera. My brother-in-law still uses it.
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Bruce
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The UZI is my take anywhere. Pictures are lush.
That viewfinder puts modern bridge viewfinders to shame.

Even low light I get more keepers than from my oly c2040 f1.8 cause of image stabilization on UZI, I can handhold at 1/2.
 
AdamT said:
Nice selection - Shoot the S30 in RAW and use RAWshooter essentials (Free if you can find where to downlkoad it) - even at ISO800 it gives modern cams a good run !

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A Problem is only the pessimistic way of looking at a challenge

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S30 having RAW was just mental, considering it was 2001. IQ I prefer it above any other S including S95, S100.
 
To me at least, 3mp was when the image was becoming good enough for 4x6, 5x7 and even some 8x10 prints, although 8x10 was pushing it. It was this point when I dumped my film P&S.

The golden age of P&S to me was with the 5 to 7 mp cameras with the 1/1.8 sensors such as the canon A610/620, G series and some other brands that produced pixel sharp images. I know the new cameras have more resolution but there was something about those images that popped out.

I had the Z6800 version of the odd vertical styled Fuji. Images from it were wonderful and it even did video with sound. I think I paid $800 for it 11 year ago.
 
Simon97 said:
To me at least, 3mp was when the image was becoming good enough for 4x6, 5x7 and even some 8x10 prints, although 8x10 was pushing it. It was this point when I dumped my film P&S.

The golden age of P&S to me was with the 5 to 7 mp cameras with the 1/1.8 sensors such as the canon A610/620, G series and some other brands that produced pixel sharp images. I know the new cameras have more resolution but there was something about those images that popped out.

I had the Z6800 version of the odd vertical styled Fuji. Images from it were wonderful and it even did video with sound. I think I paid $800 for it 11 year ago.
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A610 almost had it all (1cm macro, swivel screen, 5mp on 1/1.8, decet vf). Just the lens given body size was too little for me at 140mm

5mp on 1/1.8 is as far as I was comfortable. Any more as on the 7mp A620, Oly C7000 photos started to get a little choppy.

6800 if I am not mistaken had the same CCD as S602. If S602 had been in a A610 body & stabilised what a camera that would have been.
 
Thanks for commenting.

The cathedral of Pécs, a city in South-West Hungary, my mother's city.

The 3 Mpixel HP 735 is still operable besides the flash which I did seldom used anyway. Battery draining, operational speed are not up to today's standards....

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I started digital with Nikon Coolpix L1 in early 2006. Nice camera 6.2MP. I still have plenty of good photos taken by it during my wedding and many other trips. Its problem was it was too slow at times, low light performance was very poor, wide angle was not that great. My brother still uses it.
 
My first digital camera was also a C2100, and I still have it and still use it on occasion. I could never understand why Oympus never brought out upgraded versions of that camera.
 
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