Author Topic: Do you still use an "obsolete" camera?  (Read 117462 times)

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Re: When time isn't a factor...
« Reply #75 on: November 02, 2016, 01:53:09 »
(And for what it's worth....it's stamped "Made In USA.")

On this forum which happens to be named after a Japanese company and has members spanning the globe, I'm not sure it's worth all that much  :o

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Re: Do you still use an "obsolete" camera?
« Reply #76 on: November 02, 2016, 14:29:11 »
Autumn colors

Really went old school with this one

D1H with 1.4/50mm, Sandisk Extreme III 2GB CF
Uploaded with Sandisk Firewire Imagemate
Processed on a Macbook Core 2 Duo, in NX (the 1st version)

still works after all those years

http://www.pbase.com/image/164439813

(sorry, still failing to directly upload a picture despite using the 'Attach' option, really tried :-[ )

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Re: When time isn't a factor...
« Reply #77 on: November 02, 2016, 14:41:25 »
On this forum which happens to be named after a Japanese company and has members spanning the globe, I'm not sure it's worth all that much  :o

Well, it has an 'F' mount hasn't it?

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Re: Do you still use an "obsolete" camera?
« Reply #78 on: November 02, 2016, 18:27:38 »
Sure, I was referencing the cameras place of origin though, not the camera itself.

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Re: Do you still use an "obsolete" camera?
« Reply #79 on: November 02, 2016, 18:32:50 »
Kodak was a big part of the digital camera revolution and had some amazing sensors, too bad it didn't work out for them!
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Re: Do you still use an "obsolete" camera?
« Reply #80 on: November 02, 2016, 19:03:42 »
Well, one of my "obsolete" cameras died yesterday ... A D40, that I still used quite a lot recently has developed a hotpixel dead in the centre, with a nice red line of pixels down to the bottom of the image.

Oh well, I now may have to ask around in the family if someone who's still got an old D40 lying around doesn't need it anymore. I still like the D40 quite a lot, especially for some quick shots for use on the net. Nice, small NEFs that don't need a lot of work.

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Re: Do you still use an "obsolete" camera?
« Reply #81 on: November 02, 2016, 19:04:41 »
One of my old D2H's still works. Not used too often but still fun to use. Here with a K version of the 50/1.4.
Edit: Added a second pic from a dance show. The camera pushed to ISO 800 and pushed furter in pp to get details out.

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Re: Do you still use an "obsolete" camera?
« Reply #82 on: November 02, 2016, 19:52:49 »
Kodak was a big part of the digital camera revolution and had some amazing sensors, too bad it didn't work out for them!

Could be still in business. But mismanagement is able to kill even giants like Kodak was.
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Re: Do you still use an "obsolete" camera?
« Reply #83 on: November 02, 2016, 19:54:35 »
Well, one of my "obsolete" cameras died yesterday ... A D40, that I still used quite a lot recently has developed a hotpixel dead in the centre, with a nice red line of pixels down to the bottom of the image.

Oh well, I now may have to ask around in the family if someone who's still got an old D40 lying around doesn't need it anymore. I still like the D40 quite a lot, especially for some quick shots for use on the net. Nice, small NEFs that don't need a lot of work.

Hermann

Get a D40x. Very cheap on the second-hand market and highly capable small cameras. Image quality can be outstanding, clearly an improvement on the D40.

Few of my cameras have taken beating in the field as well as the D40x used for my UV photography for years. I still keep an IR-modified D40x as a spare camera in the car.

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Re: Do you still use an "obsolete" camera?
« Reply #84 on: November 02, 2016, 21:23:40 »
Could be still in business. But mismanagement is able to kill even giants like Kodak was.

Kodak didn't want digital cameras to kill off their film sales so they let other companies kill off their film sales (or so I read). Last I knew Kodak still made skins for touch screens and picante sauce. The Kodak failure having had an employee invent the Bayer filter (Bryce Bayer) should be in text books for as long as text books persist.

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Re: Do you still use an "obsolete" camera?
« Reply #85 on: November 02, 2016, 23:04:50 »
The good old D80  ( Image also posted in the Autumn theme)  Same IQ as D200, but won't accept all lenses, and less setting options.

With the 50/1.8G

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Re: Do you still use an "obsolete" camera?
« Reply #86 on: November 02, 2016, 23:12:18 »
Kodak is a great example of how to set up a bunch of accountants in a small business - just give them a big business and wait........... :o

Kodak didn't want digital cameras to kill off their film sales so they let other companies kill off their film sales (or so I read). Last I knew Kodak still made skins for touch screen skins and picante sauce. The Kodak failure having had an employee invent the Bayer filter (Bryce Bayer) should be in text books for as long as text books persist.

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Re: Do you still use an "obsolete" camera?
« Reply #87 on: November 03, 2016, 00:24:02 »
On you tube there is a video from the Kodak museum, super interesting!
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Re: Do you still use an "obsolete" camera?
« Reply #88 on: November 06, 2016, 11:30:01 »
Still using my old cameras, and lenses.

This one from my garden this morning, D2Xs, AFI300 lens with fill light from a SB800.
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Re: Do you still use an "obsolete" camera?
« Reply #89 on: November 06, 2016, 18:01:49 »
Talk about taking a obsolete camera and putting it to use again..

https://youtu.be/M_kkJep4nUc?t=1
https://youtu.be/yzR4REsOPC0?t=2