u/No_Abrocoma_711

I've been buying various types of digital cameras for about 3 years. DSLRs, compact point and shoot, bridge and the venerable Mavica.

My most expensive Mavica was a FD95, from a second hand shop, so it had a warranty (money back if it broke during the next 12 months). That was £25. I've paid as low as £5. Most have been around the £10-15 range.

Recently I'm seeing £30, £40 and even £50 for very average looking models. Clearly some people selling them have no idea what they are. No batteries, charger or disks.

Some of these cameras with sky high price tags aren't even tested. I've omitted the ridiculously priced £400, boxed camera.

I bought a 6MP DSLR with 3 lenses for the same price as one of these. I love my Mavicas, but they aren't in the same territory as DSLRs and bridge cameras. They should be fun and affordable.

I was introduced to the KM brand by buying the DiMAGE A2 bridge camera. It's a fantastic camera, just so easy to use.

I was interested in why Minolta sold up and exited the camera market, and what were their last models.

Meet the Dynax 5D (Maxxum in other markets).

I bought one, in used but nice shape, with 3 lenses, for well under the £100.

It's a different beast to the A2, but I'm starting to love it just as much.

Just some quick snaps from last night.

Not a collector, so I didn't buy this. I don't specifically remember this model as a child, but it was in very decent condition.

I've posted some images from this building before, as it transitions from a department store to living accommodation. Its pace of development has been glacial, with the Debenhams store on the opposite side of the road only having recently started its parallel transformation.

This grade 2 listed building (gained in 2021) shut its doors to the public in 2019. During this time it has had a number of different 'graffiti' make overs. These look to be planned/authorised, as they are images rather than tags.

Whilst old buildings sometimes succumb to spontaneous combustion, this one will probably become living accommodation, but I am sure that the existing doors will be unlikely to be restored to their former purpose.

If anything, it's a record of urban development that we all seem to find fascinating, when we come across what would have been called mundane high street images, from the recent past.

I just recently purchased a F401, and then a couple of days later ran across someone selling a whole host of cameras, one of which was this F450.

He assured me it worked, which I've been told before, but the camera looked good. I was also trying to negotiate a Konica Minolta Dynax 5D into the price as well, but was short on cash. 😭

Long story short, this dinky little camera really is very cute. I do worry that the triple barrel extending lens is just waiting to get jammed or knocked, rendering the camera useless. It did take me a while to find the power button, which of course is the finger grip on the front of the camera. A neat touch.

The controls are a little fiddly, if you have fat fingers. I would imagine the target audience for this camera was a young girl/woman, who had dexterous fingers, with a light touch, and could pop the camera into a small pocket or bag when they weren't using it.

Initial shots look interesting.

Images from the south bank of the Thames, in London. Images rotated, otherwise SooC.

I think I upped the image quality, from those taken on the underground. Certainly the extra light helps the images to be less noisy.

A day out in London. On the underground.

The Singer Porsche exhibit carried on the tradition of putting highly valuable cars, high up in the air, at gravity defying angles in front of Goodwood House.

Lots to see as usual, but where the cars were undercover in the pits, the difference between light and shadow really caused the A2 some problems with dynamic range.

Looking strangely like a calculator, because it was based on the Sinclair Oxford range, this is one of the more unusual products produced by Sinclair Radionics, just before Sinclair Computers burst onto the scene.

Not in the best condition, but classic lines. Large flat tuning and volume controls. LED time display. Tape cassette. Radio. Alarm.

Anyone got this camera and has managed to charge their battery?

The manual isn't terribly helpful, saying to use AC-DSC1 charger, which from googling seems to say it's somewhere between 4.5V and 6V.

I was planning to use a high current USB charger 5V @ 2.1A. Is this likely to work. Also the battery is probably dead, so any replacement suggestions?

I bought this DC50 online recently because it is quite an early camera (1996), with an unusual form factor, but has CF media, so it is quite easy to take images and transfer to the computer and/or phone.

What I hadn't realised was that the previous owner had purchased a Tiffen adapter to allow filters and additional lenses to be added.

The mount is plastic and cross threads at any opportunity to do so. But I've added some sample shots, with and without the Tele converter lens I happened to have close by.

As you can see, quite a bit of vignetting occurs on the wide angle setting. I've not tried the flash bit I expect the lens probably casts a shadow over the background to the RHS.

Not seen this one before, but it's all there for your entertainment.

I've got some of the later (2004) Camedia models, 750uz / 760uz, so it's interesting to see how the earlier (2000) C-3000 compares.

These are all SOOC, taken during the golden hour.

Essential viewing for nerds. Professor Heinz Wolfe was the stereotype mad professor in real life. I loved the challenge to see who could move an egg the furthest on a single rubber band.

Goodwood Festival of Speed, Cartier style and luxe pavilion. Lamborghini Miura, in various colours (RGYOBW), BMW M1 and Lancia 037.

All images SooC, but obviously the collage counts as edited.

It's an absolute blast of a camera, with the lens that rotates through 180 degrees, so you can selfie, shoot from waist height and also normal.

Beautifully made in silver metal (magnesium alloy?).