I recall seeing a table at a swap meet, in the Seattle, Washington area, that had an old Sony Mavica digital and an ancient Apple digital camera. Everyone was more intent looking for film cameras and just glanced at this old digitals. A friend was interested in the Sony because his office once had one when the camera was state of the art.
Jim A. > From: Frantisek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 03:23:38 +0100 > To: PDML <[email protected]> > Subject: Digital nostalgia > Resent-From: [email protected] > Resent-Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 21:23:49 -0500 > > > Yes, > even digital now has its dinosaur-cameras making you feel nostalgic. > > Rob Galbraith has written a very nice article on the first PJ > digital SLR, the AP2000, here: > > http://robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-6463-7191 > > Few years ago I was even contemplating buying the later version of > one, komplete with F90 body, which somehow found its way to the > used department of local shop. It was still spendy though then, so > some more time later I ended with a 1.3MP ZLR from Sony, direct > spiritual precursor of Olympus E-10. With barely usable iso 400, > but a fast f/2-2.3 28-140 equivalent lens, flash hotshoe and full > manual controls, it was the best I could get with limited budget > at the time. Funny it was because I got it from local Sony > distributor's "museum" corner ;-) At that time, many staff shooters > were already using Nikon's D1 cameras, with all their faults and > advances of that time, but I still made some money with mine poor > beast. I resold it to the museum some time later, because the > viwefinder system got misaligned so mysteriously that even I > wasn't able to realign it - not mentionin Sony's repair department > who probably saw my camera for the first time in the country! It > was kind of fun > > ;-) > > My somewhat bizzare dream would be to own the first selling > digital SLR, the Kodak DCS 100, a monochrome ~1MP back screwed on > Nikon F3 with huge briefcase-sized power source and processing > unit with real harddrive (probably outrageously expensive 10 MB > one). Imagine the impression on clients in a studio ;-) > > Another interesting model was the first 6MP camera from Kodak, > introduced around 1996 I think, first also on F90 (without any > kind of review LCD). With only iso range of 80-200, heat problems > after prolonged studio use (so I heard), but still, 6MP at that > time! I guess the price must have been around 30 000$ back then... > > Is it strange to hear that from me who like to shoot film whenever > possible ;-? > > Frantisek >
