r/VintageDigitalCameras

Hi all,

I came across a photographers early picture book with photos taken between 99-2003. However, there is two distant styles of images. One is the trendy 2000’s digicam vibe aesthetic look and the other is a more professional early 2000’s look.

To me it looks like the vibey ones were taken with a prosumer camera such as the G1-G5’s. While, others could be either SLR APS-C’s like the D30, 10D, 20D or Full frame DSLR’s like EOS 1Ds or Canon 5D.

Picture 1 (2000) and picture 2 (1999) are the type of pictures I want to take jpeg sooc, while picture 3 (2000) is what I’d like to avoid.

The G2&G5 seem to be more picture 3, while the G9 is closer outdoors but not indoors in low light even with flash.

Is this look G11-G16 territory or would a G7X i with its bigger sensor and the sharpness turned down be a closer match?

Thanks

Maybe a bit too underexposed ? Either way these are SOOC. The macro mode was quite the good surprise with this 20yo credit card sized compact

A world in unedited

3.34mpixels. what a fun journey.

Just found this forum lmao

Edited in raw

Not sure if I’m using it to its full potential, will mess around with the settings

Shots from moody rainy days of March 🌨️
Color graded in Lightroom and the inspo is of course, Twilight ☆

I dropped my camera and now the battery door won’t shut and it won’t turn on. i’ve tried taping it a couple different ways but nothing worked.

Is there anything i can do?

Bought for $50 (CAD) on eBay, complete in box. When half pressing the shutter release, the motor inside would make a whining noise, and fully pressing the shutter release to take a photo the mirror assembly would raise and lock itself in the up position and the infamous “Err” message starts flashing on the top info display. Research on the internet revealed that it is a very common failure on this model, due to a manufacturing defect of a teeny tiny gear that is present on the shaft of the aperture gear motor (3rd photo), the gear splits up and rotates freely on the motor and the camera cannot do its cycle to click a photo.

Tools used: a soldering gun, one Phillips screwdriver, and a pry tool. No repair manual, no parts tray, just a silent YouTube tutorial of a guy disassembling this camera and printer paper with screws taped down and labeled as my parts organizer.

Parts used: Replacement gear from AliExpress for $2

Three hours and several near-death (figurative) experiences later, I have a fully working D80 with 24k shutter count. The wires inside were so thin that stripping them snapped the conductors. I was left with 2mm of slack, had to melt the insulation off with my soldering gun to expose enough copper to tin and reconnect. Then at the very last step of reassembly, I accidentally shoved the LCD flex cable retainer clip inside the connector itself. Had to extract it in pieces with a pry tool, fully convinced I had bricked the camera at the finish line. Taped the flex cable down and it works perfectly.

The funny thing is there was an invoice inside the box from 2014 for the repair of this exact same problem. Same part, failed twice. Nikon replaced it with the same cheap plastic gear and here we are again 12 years later.

This is the most intense I’ve felt repairing a thing. Amazing how complicated these cameras are, even when they’re 20 years old. I can only imagine how complex newer cameras would be to self repair in the future, when they start to break.

Next step: Infrared conversion.

My dad dug out his old Canon DSLR circa 2008 and gave it to me annnnnd well I've never had an SLR before, and it feels like a lot of camera, so I'm not sure where to start?

Tips for learning this camera? Any cheap must have accessories? Not pictured is the gear bag it came in, which just has some lens caps, cables, cards, and cleaning kit. I think he kept his lenses... 😅

I've been goofing off with Camp Snap Pro for awhile, and of course my phone camera, but that's about it. I took one semester of photography 20 years ago and honestly remember very little from that class. 😆

The nex-5 was always my "pro" camera, but in the last years I taken back my old cameras... The Nikon Coolpix 5700 is absolutely a banger, great colours, great zoom. Also the Olympus Stylus 720SW have pretty cool colours. Waiting to get my hand on a Sony cybershot DSC-828 and a DSC-H50

What ya think?

Processed RAWs - no changes to color or WB, just contrast/levels and a little high pass sharpening for crispness.

(Camera released in 2011)

Thoughts? The thing I love about digital cameras is how portable they are, so I was thinking of experimenting with it since it's an easy carry on long walks.