Oldest digicam you have?

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whats the oldest Digicam you have (must be working!)?

Mine is the Nikon Coolpix 950 - Jan 1999 model with a 1.8 mp sensor and Mag alloy build.

How about starting a thread with all our old cameras, to make it fair say they're got to be Pre - 2004 or something? and have a day to get out and photgraph with them? It really takes you back - the glacial speed of operation if shooting TIFF! :D Maybe a sticky, mods?

Here is mine in all its glory

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Just had a look on line - may well be the first 3D digital one you have there! :D
 
think mine was a traveller from Aldi, £59, 1 mega pixel cant remember the year though, possible around 1998 ish, still got it and it still works with carp results and eats batteries
 
I've got a Canon IXUS V which was very funky in its day. It's built like a tank and my 4 year old is enjoying using it now. 2.1MP and video.
 
Don't have it anymore (I know, I know, it doesn't count) but I remember an old sony thing that took 3.5" floppies!
 
Well my 1d is 2001, But i have a Casio thing which is around the same era lying about somewhere..
 
It doesn't technically count now, but I was given a 0.8Mpix Olympus Camedia C-820L with a FlashPath adapter in 2003.
That camera was what started my decent into photography addiction.
I gave it to a friend in 2005 when I upgraded, and she too became hooked.
She passed it on to her parents when she too upgraded; I don't know if they're hooked yet. but they were still using it in 2010.
 
Can anyone beat me...

Kodak DC-120 from 1997. The first ever megapixel camera I think?

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Cost me something ludicrous like £700 (that's something like £1200 now...) - and I didn't buy another digital camera until last year, so I probably win the prize for longest gap between purchases. To be fair, I stopped using it long ago though!
 
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Mine's a DiMage5 which Dad bought after selling off all his old film kit. Not sure where the thing is - must dig it out and send it up to Julian (Wheels) For his stroke photography group to use.
 
I have a Ricoh Caplio RR30 which is circa 2001 and a similar vintage Olympus C5050Z
 
Sony dsc-p50 from 2000. Cost £320, plus another £80 for a battery, charger and case, which I was compelled to buy as it gets about 20 shots with flash before its eaten a set of alky AA's.

Still takes an okay photo. Crappy old camera picture challenge anyone?!
 
oh blimey, i'm going to smash you guys out of the water with my kodak i've got at work. i think i got it around 1995 or '96 maybe. it doesn't even take any memory cards, you just use the built in memory and download to pc.
anyway, it's no good blabbing on without pics... so i'll leave it at that until i can get a pic uploaded :bonk:
 
My uncle has got a old Apple QuickTake 150 up his loft, i'll see if I can get a picture of it (won't be able to download any pics from it though as we've not got an old Mac anymore). Pretty sure he got it in the States not long after it came out.

It looked like this:

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Olympus C730 - 10 x optical zoom. You have to wait an age between pressing the shutter release and actually taking a shot but it was actually pretty decent in it's day! Still keep it in my glovebox.
 
swordjo said:
My uncle has got a old Apple QuickTake 150 up his loft, i'll see if I can get a picture of it (won't be able to download any pics from it though as we've not got an old Mac anymore). Pretty sure he got it in the States not long after it came out.

It looked like this:

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WOW I'm loving that!! :love::love: Never knew Apple ever did that!

EDIT: I'm now watching one in eBay :D
 
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ChrisMClark said:
Don't have it anymore (I know, I know, it doesn't count) but I remember an old sony thing that took 3.5" floppies!
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That would be the Mavica which was a great camera in it's day, I used to work for a Sony distributor and later for Sony directly and we shifted a lot of those. My job meant I had a play with a few early cameras including the first 1 megapixel models by Canon and Sony which cost around £1000 or more. The first one I bought in 2001 was a Nikon, which we still have, I have a range of Sony cameras and now two Canon D SLRs.
 
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That would be the Mavica which was a great camera in it's day, I used to work for a Sony distributor and later for Sony directly and we shifted a lot of those. SLRs.
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We had (in fact probably still have) several of these at school for the kids to use. A lot of our computers are old enough to still have floppy drives so they may well still be in use.
 
I've still got my Sony Mavica 1.3, and it still works! A remarkable and high quality camera for it's time, brought it used from my sister back in 2003.

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Unfortunately it only stores images on floppy disk and NONE of the three computers I have around the house has a 3.5 inch floppy to offload the image! Plus the battery no longer hold it's charge, might be able to get two or three shots on when it's fully charged up and then that's the lot.

And the image below was taken with that very camera back in 2005. The photo itself is completely unedited apart from resize for internet use.

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Rmacleod90 said:
Sorry you have lost me.... 3d digital?
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Google the camera, and it explains it can shoot in 3D, in a way.

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Oldest one I haven't binned is a Canon PowerShot Pro70, dating back to 1999 .. a fixed-lens "bridge camera" with a 28-70mm equivalent zoom lens f/2-2.4 so a bright one and not too cheap back then... Pretty restricted 1.5Mpx resolution but does support shooting RAW. Flip-put screen too. But horribly slow and the zoom is motorized and sloooow. The battery is also completely useless.

Oldest cameras I still use is my Canon 1D and 1Ds.
 
Okay to revisit my original post I have been into my boxes of stuff and found my first digital camera and here it is along with the memory card supplied with the camera, I have tested the camera and it is still in full working order so will use it to take some pictures with it over the next few weeks, there are also some pictures of my niece who is not 13 when she was about 3 so will have to be using them for there embarrassment factor ;)

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Mine was a HP PhotoSmart 315. It was a package with a printer included! :) It costed me around 600 euros in 2000.

Probably the camera I shot the most.
 
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