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Being that it's so cold and wet this winter in the Oregon area, I was looking at old photos from the Kodak DC3200. Have you ever done that...that is look at old photos and compare them to what you are using today?

Here's one that I thought was pretty good. This is Velma Lakes; just west of Lake Tahoe. It's a good hike to get there; taken during the summer of 2001. I hope you like it too.

Kodak DC3200

 
Digirame said:
Being that it's so cold and wet this winter in the Oregon area, I was
looking at old photos from the Kodak DC3200.
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Very amazing for a 1 M camera. Very decent picture.
Digirame said:
Here's one that I thought was pretty good. This is Velma Lakes; just
west of Lake Tahoe. It's a good hike to get there; taken during the
summer of 2001. I hope you like it too.
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Very nice place. Like it.
Do you have any pictures of the same place taken with the later camera?

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chiue -



 
Hey, I've been there! The only hike I can think of where you risk being squished by a freight train on the way in :-) By coincidence, I was snowshoeing a few miles from there just today, near Castle Peak. That summer scene looks nice on a winter's day. Thanks for sharing.

--Rick
 
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David Davies - Some oldies can still punch out good colour acceptable pictures. Only drawback on yours and all the others is that lack of detail or sharpness. Way back when I first got my 6340 and it was being compared to your and similar cameras the advance was noticeable. That was and still is a pleasing picture.
 
Interesting blast from the past, I would certainly like to see more of what these cameras were capable of. I started out with a CX4230 in 2003 (gave it away) and I do remember setting my CX4230 to 1 megapixel to save space on my memory card and was usually pleased with the results but that's not quite the same as those 1-megapixel (or less) pioneer cameras.

But I've got to ask a question about the photo in the OP. There's some weird purple colors almong the tree branches, like what many superzooms today suffer from at the end of their telephoto lenses or perhaps more like a screen grab of low quality VHS video. Anybody care to explain?
 
Very nice. It has the characteristic Kodak color. I have a bunch of pics I took with my old 1 megapixel no optical zoom HP C30 that also still look fine. Good light and large file size and you can't tell the difference between the old cameras and the new. This one is just plain a good picture, no matter what camera you used. Thanks for sharing and reminding us how silly we have become with the constant race for more megapixels, more zoom, etc. and ignoring the true aim of photography--taking pictures.
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Reminds me of many of my white granite shots in Minarets, as well as theTrinityAlps & Marble Mountains that are my Klamath Mt. god country home!
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Thanks. Yes, I do have quite a few that I took later; here's some. This is also the Velma Lakes region. I took these in the summer of 2007 with the 5mp Kodak camera. You can see the difference in quality.

For me, the Kodak DC3200 1mp camera was the first time that I took digital photography seriously. I could see the potential; I knew it was going to get better and better.

Kodak Z740



 
Thanks for the reply...then you know how nice it is there...lots of pretty scenery. This time we walked along by Eagle Lake. I thought it would be an easier climb than the more southern route. But I think it was harder, because of all the rocks.

We would have gone there this summer, but because of all the smoke, that trip got canceled. I never saw so much smoke at Lake Tahoe before; the sun was orange and red during the sunset. Only on one day just before we left, did it clear up, so that I could take a few photos.
 
Thanks. Yes, we've come a long ways since the 1 megapixel days, but we have to appreciate that they had to start here first...and appreciate all the advancements they have made in that time.
 
Thanks. The colors you mention are purple fringing or CA (chromatic aberration). They were more pronounced then, and a common topic of discussion. As cameras advanced, that's not mentioned as much.
 
Thanks James. Yes, we are at times sick of the rain (living in Oregon also). So, it was such a relief for us to go south again during the summer. I waited all year for this vacation, and then we saw smoke...and more smoke. I was hoping by the time we got up to Lake Tahoe it would be less. Well, it was a little less, but it was so bad that we took very few photos. I'd never seen it so bad...never saw smoke like that ever...so maybe this summer will be better.

Assuming this year is better, you should definitely take a trip to Lake Tahoe. It's a photographer's paradise.
 
Thanks Tom. Yes, we have to learn how to enjoy our cameras and push them to their limitations. For fun, this past Sunday I took a picture of a heron at 1/30 and 1/20 of second (hand-held) with my Olympus DSLR at 277mm FL (554mm 35mm equivalent) and posted it on the OTF with EXIF data.

I did it because I wanted to show that under some of the worse conditions, we can take nice photos by using good techniques. This time I braced myself against a tree, while taking the picture. I slowly approached the bird, so that it felt comfortable with me there, and then I could experiment some.

I often do that with my Kodak Z740 camera, getting nice pictures at 380mm (35mm equivalent), as long as the lighting is good. The DSLR still gives me the advantage, but I like to try to see how I can do with an older camera with less technology.
 
Thanks for the reply.

There's so much pretty country around there...so many nice things to photograph.
 
It was an awful summer. At one point we had two thousand fires burning, and the heat and smog were horrific (I live in the valley, where it just accumulated and didn't clear for weeks).

Here are a couple shots from a lake I camped at (in Emigrant Wilderness) in September. Somehow (lightning or a campfire) a fire started in the granitic basin and jumped among several remote stands of trees.

The likely source



The basin and lake



It's a dry winter so far, so next summer promises more of same :-(

Cheers,

--Rick
Digirame said:
Thanks for the reply...then you know how nice it is there...lots of
pretty scenery. This time we walked along by Eagle Lake. I thought
it would be an easier climb than the more southern route. But I
think it was harder, because of all the rocks.

We would have gone there this summer, but because of all the smoke,
that trip got canceled. I never saw so much smoke at Lake Tahoe
before; the sun was orange and red during the sunset. Only on one
day just before we left, did it clear up, so that I could take a few
photos.
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