This is just one of my "hey what do you guys have" questions. Is there anyone here who uses older/out dated cameras as their everyday take along cameras. And if so, who has the oldest. The cameras that live in my pockets are the Kodak 1450 and the Kodak zi8. I've had my Zi8 for over 10years and has been with me everyday. I've made rigs, bought external microphones, and even now I'm trying to make a small ring light for it. My old still camera was a Canon sd1000 the had the CHDK firmware on it. I loved that camera but unfortunately,and I'm not making this up, it got run over by a steam roller. I'll get another off ebay eventually.I replaced it with a Nikon s3300 that i got at a thrift shop. It takes decent pictures but It's so slow. I replaced it with a Kodak c1450. Another thrift store find. I want another Canon point and shoot because of the CDHK that gives it so many more features. But until then,I'm a decade old Kodak man.
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Who here has the oldest camera as their daily driver
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Captain America
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Still using my Nikon D90, purchased in February 2010.
Smaug
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Why is CDHK firmware so special to you?
How did your Canon get under a steamroller?
I had a Canon SD600, which I really loved. The main mode switch wore out. I tried to keep using it anyway, then the battery died and I gave it up and recycled it.
I guess I have two daily drivers that get equal time. Neither of them are in the running in this thread. (Nikon Z5 and Ricoh GR III)
I was in a film phase that ended last year. I didn't have one daily driver, but I'd guess the average age of those cameras was 40 years old.
How did your Canon get under a steamroller?
I had a Canon SD600, which I really loved. The main mode switch wore out. I tried to keep using it anyway, then the battery died and I gave it up and recycled it.
I guess I have two daily drivers that get equal time. Neither of them are in the running in this thread. (Nikon Z5 and Ricoh GR III)
I was in a film phase that ended last year. I didn't have one daily driver, but I'd guess the average age of those cameras was 40 years old.
RBIV
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I liked the Canon SD series as well. I had an SD800 that I carried in my motorcycle tank bag. It got drowned twice in the rain (I keep forgetting those bags become small pools in hard rain) AND it got dropped onto concrete once during a gas station stop. Oops!! No problem. Camera worked fine. Lent it to my son and it was in his back pack when the back pack was stolen.
Replaced it with an Olympus XZ-1 which is also a nice point N shoot, and one of the last of the CMOS sensors. I still use it on occasion, but it's not really my daily driver. I carry the Zfc Nikon on the bike now, and for more serious stuff use either a Pentax KP or the Z5 Nikon.
Replaced it with an Olympus XZ-1 which is also a nice point N shoot, and one of the last of the CMOS sensors. I still use it on occasion, but it's not really my daily driver. I carry the Zfc Nikon on the bike now, and for more serious stuff use either a Pentax KP or the Z5 Nikon.
I like the cdhk because it allows me to dhoot raw photos and make adjustments in video mode. As far as the steamroller incident, I was taking photos at a vintage car and equipment show when I got too close to a 1940s vintage steamroller. A guy bumped into me and knocked the camera out of my hand and into the path of the roller.I loved that camera,but I'm not going tojump in front of a steamroller to save it.
Hike Pics
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As a certified Kodakian with over 100 models in my collection, it does my heart proud you are still shooting them! I recently picked up a Zi8, the stills are hit and miss but the video is pretty cool. I'm currently testing out a DX6340. I also picked up a brand new C1550. I'll post photos at the Kodak forum soon.
My oldest almost daily shooter is an Olympus E-500 (from late 2005) which has a Kodak 4/3 sensor plus some beautiful Zuiko glass.
As for replacing your Canon, I can recommend a 720IS. I bought one new back in the day and, at that time, it was my ONLY shooter. Takes CDHK very well. It's older though, back from 2008.
RBIV
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My first digital camera was a Kodak DC280 just to see for myself what this digital imaging business was all about in -- I think, 1999 or so. It had a 2 megapixel sensor whatever that was and a little optical viewfinder. Took a few shots and brought the compact flash card over to a friend who had a color printer. Wow. I think to myself, working for a film manufacturer -- film's in trouble.
I think it still works -- and here's a couple samples from way back.
I think it still works -- and here's a couple samples from way back.
- EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY - KODAK DC280 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA
- 6.3 mm
- ƒ/5.6
- 1/60 sec
- Average
- EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY - KODAK DC280 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA
- 12.6 mm
- ƒ/6.7
- 1/180 sec
- Average
Tom Caldwell
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Well I had a nice GM5 which I was carrying in a padded bag over the roll bar of my tractor as a place where I could keep it clean and accessible for when that rural image suddenly popped up. But I should have made a slip through knot on the strap but instead made a knot that came undone and the bag, camera and all went under a rear wheel before I could stop. Wide grass tyres on grass and I think that the camera would have survived except for a spare battery in a pocket that was driven into the top plate and crushed it. Not a steam roller, just a tractor. I also saw a thread where someone had dropped a GM1 into a snow drift and lost it. Only to have someone else to find it and return it some months later after the melt. Apparently it still worked. No idea of the longevity though.
My first GM1 went out on a very wet trip in Milford Sound in the South Island of New Zealand. Notorious for its very wet weather it lived up to its notoriety. Not helped by the thrill seeking Captain piloting his craft under a few of the very high waterfalls that abound there. Downstairs the windows were heavily steamed up so the only place for a photographer to be was the open top deck. Shades of "the boy that stood on the burning deck" this aged photographer stood alone in the very wet top deck to try and get some photographs of a place I was unlikely to see again. Even the weather sealed photographic guys gave up and departed for cover. But I had made a decision and swapped my expensive 42.5/1.2 lens for the kit 12-32 thinking that if I had to sacrifice the gear it was a minimal cost compared to the whole trip. I was wiping the water off the object lens constantly to keep it clear. The effect was akin to dropping the camera in a bucket of water.
The upshot was that I managed some images and spent the trip back to Te Anau wiping the outside of the camera and lens dry and extending and contracting the lens to draw out water droplets to dry off. I made sure that I did not open any doors into the camera and left it to dry overnight in a heated room with indirect heat.
The good news is that nine years later that camera and lens are both still in use and have never shown the slightest hiccup of distress,
If we can't be good then we must be careful.
Well I had a nice GM5 which I was carrying in a padded bag over the roll bar of my tractor as a place where I could keep it clean and accessible for when that rural image suddenly popped up. But I should have made a slip through knot on the strap but instead made a knot that came undone and the bag, camera and all went under a rear wheel before I could stop. Wide grass tyres on grass and I think that the camera would have survived except for a spare battery in a pocket that was driven into the top plate and crushed it. Not a steam roller, just a tractor. I also saw a thread where someone had dropped a GM1 into a snow drift and lost it. Only to have someone else to find it and return it some months later after the melt. Apparently it still worked. No idea of the longevity though.
My first GM1 went out on a very wet trip in Milford Sound in the South Island of New Zealand. Notorious for its very wet weather it lived up to its notoriety. Not helped by the thrill seeking Captain piloting his craft under a few of the very high waterfalls that abound there. Downstairs the windows were heavily steamed up so the only place for a photographer to be was the open top deck. Shades of "the boy that stood on the burning deck" this aged photographer stood alone in the very wet top deck to try and get some photographs of a place I was unlikely to see again. Even the weather sealed photographic guys gave up and departed for cover. But I had made a decision and swapped my expensive 42.5/1.2 lens for the kit 12-32 thinking that if I had to sacrifice the gear it was a minimal cost compared to the whole trip. I was wiping the water off the object lens constantly to keep it clear. The effect was akin to dropping the camera in a bucket of water.
The upshot was that I managed some images and spent the trip back to Te Anau wiping the outside of the camera and lens dry and extending and contracting the lens to draw out water droplets to dry off. I made sure that I did not open any doors into the camera and left it to dry overnight in a heated room with indirect heat.
The good news is that nine years later that camera and lens are both still in use and have never shown the slightest hiccup of distress,
If we can't be good then we must be careful.
Canon 5D, 2005 I think.