We used to have a Standard WT-417 black and white television. I can't find any information about it on the internet.

Interesting - to be fair "Standard" is a pretty useless brand name to search for. 😜 This deck has a listing on RadioMuseum.org. I hope I can get it working, I'm curious what's on the tape! It's in pretty good condition.

You've seen TM's Mission Impossible videos right, those were brilliant.

Took a trip to Vienna last summer. Took this from the top of Stephensdom with my Nikon Ftn. Kodak Ektar 100, with 50 mm Nikkor prime lens.

^^ Damn, that's nice. There's something in that that just screams vintage, maybe it's the color palette. it manages to be warm and vibrant without being hugely saturated. Love the lens flare too. Great shot.

Errius wrote:

You've seen TM's Mission Impossible videos right, those were brilliant.

L0L, I posted it on FB and the first comment I got was "Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is..." - I hope he continues that series, looking forward to more.

This thread motivated me to bid on a Ricoh KR-5! I used to have one, my dad's, actually, but kinda lost it.

Here's some info:

https://www.lomography.com/magazine/182234-my … mera-ricoh-kr-5

What I still have is lots of stuff for the camera somewhere. Tele lens, macro lens, a 35mm, and even one of those exchangeable backplates that imprint time & date and things on the photo.

Sony Mavica FD-81, 1024x768 max resolution untouched straight from the floppy - Old Nubrik brickworks site in Burwood.

Kodak DC4800 3.1Mp, also untouched, different part of same site a year or so later

Every film camera my family used during the 90s were generic-brand 110 or 35mm cameras, including a lot of single-use cameras. So, I don't really have any good representative pictures of those, since a lot of them weren't very good or memorable model-wise (also, I physically don't have the pictures in my possession, my brother currently has them).

My family didn't get our first digital camera until 2000. It was a cheap 320x240 Polaroid digital camera bought from AOL (yes, really), with horrible picture quality, even by the standards of the day. This likely isn't the very first picture ever taken with it (I imagine I took some test shots after getting it), but it is the oldest one I have saved, my car at the time.

We didn't get our first "real" (i.e. good enough to be heavily used) digital camera until 2004...and this one is actually an interesting story. For a while during the early-mid 2000s, they actually had single-use digital cameras for sale in certain camera shops and pharmacies. The idea was that you'd buy the camera, take 25 pictures with it, then return it to the store where you would get your digital pictures on CD along with a pack of prints, then the camera would be refurbished and resold to another customer. Anyway, someone eventually figured out a hack that allowed you to connect those single-use cameras to a home computer so you could download the pictures from it and clear the camera's memory yourself without taking it back to the store, thus making it reusable. I don't recall the exact number, but between my father and I, we took over 1,000 total pictures...not bad for a camera originally designed to take only 25. 🤣 The first photo is one I took last year just for fun...when using older cameras like this, I like taking pictures of places or objects that make it appear to be an older picture. The second photo is from 2004 during an autumn trip to Wisconsin.

This last one might be cheating a little bit, since it's actually a frame from a camcorder video and not a photo from a still camera. But, I still consider it retro. From our 1996 8mm Sony HandyCam, the clearest picture I have of the 486 system from my childhood that my family got in late 1995. This was recorded in early 1999, not long before it was replaced.

Random photo's from a holiday in 2001:

Camera: Sony DSC-S75 (3.3 MP)
Photo's resized to 1024x768 and compressed quality because they would be too large for this forum.

xjas wrote:

^^ Damn, that's nice. There's something in that that just screams vintage, maybe it's the color palette. it manages to be warm and vibrant without being hugely saturated. Love the lens flare too. Great shot.

that's actually not a lens flare, it's a dent in the negative. However, it passes off fairly well as a lens flare, 🤣

I would remove it with photoshop/gimp, but I suck at photo editing.

Little story for this one. 😀 So my first digital camera, besides a couple early webcams, was some super cheap Vivitar thing that I got bundled free with a Lexmark inkjet printer of all things. It wasn't great, but did the job for my photography needs from 2003~2007. I remember it having a really slow shutter speed, so I got tons of "rolling shutter" effects unintentionally. I was big into amateur motorsports back then, so a lot of my pics were of moving cars on race courses.

I don't seem to have the camera right now (it's entirely possible it's packed away somewhere - I found my S-VHS camera that I used around the same time a while ago!), but I do have the box:

(^^ note: taken on another rescue Nikon that I haven't featured here yet, an E8800 from ca. 2004 which has quickly become my go-to camera when I need something better than a smartphone. I'll post some more of its output later!)

It came with a 16MB(!) SD card and I found a 32MB card on the ground somewhere. I had no money so that's what I used. 😜 I still have both cards too:

(^^ E8800 again)

Anyway I came across said cards a couple days ago and was looking through them. They still held my last "roll" of pictures from the Toronto International Auto Show on 16 November, 2004. Most of them aren't great, as it wasn't good in sort-of-low-light conditions, but I must have gone outside the convention center and taken this absolute gem:

(^^ cheap-o Vivitar, untouched)

Seriously, this is probably one of my best pictures from that era, and it wasn't even in my archive until now. I guess I never copied the last batch of pics off those cards. It's about as good as this camera had to offer; a little grainy with some visible color fringing, but I think it's pretty impressive for what it was!

I used that camera for a couple years after that but I must have upgraded to a bigger SD card right after these.

Look through your old memory cards!

In other news, the charger for my CoolPix 995 arrived. More soon. 😉

torindkflt wrote:

We didn't get our first "real" (i.e. good enough to be heavily used) digital camera until 2004...and this one is actually an interesting story. For a while during the early-mid 2000s, they actually had single-use digital cameras for sale in certain camera shops and pharmacies. The idea was that you'd buy the camera, take 25 pictures with it, then return it to the store where you would get your digital pictures on CD along with a pack of prints, then the camera would be refurbished and resold to another customer. Anyway, someone eventually figured out a hack that allowed you to connect those single-use cameras to a home computer so you could download the pictures from it and clear the camera's memory yourself without taking it back to the store, thus making it reusable. I don't recall the exact number, but between my father and I, we took over 1,000 total pictures...not bad for a camera originally designed to take only 25. 🤣 The first photo is one I took last year just for fun...when using older cameras like this, I like taking pictures of places or objects that make it appear to be an older picture. The second photo is from 2004 during an autumn trip to Wisconsin.

That's pretty cool, I always wondered about those "disposable" digitals. I figured they were just bargain-basement regular cameras with some BS DRM firmware. Guess so.

Love the "goat climber" BTW. There's a market/tourist trap on my island called Goats on the Roof. It's exactly what it says. 😜

SpectriaForce wrote:

Random photo's from a holiday in 2001:

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Can't help but notice the little Peugeot 306 in the car park. Must have been nearly new. Always liked those!

3) overcast day in Tokyo by a KD-500Z
2) a Florida-shaped patch over a rust hole by KD-500Z
1) pic of a Canon taken by a Konica KD-400Z

What you taking about Willis ?

Don’t make me bust out my HP C30, 1MP camera.
Or my Sony Mavic digital camera with floppy disk drive.
Or my Apple QuickTake 150 digital camera.
Or my Kodak easy share DC290 with 1.6MP and Color inkjet All-in-one Printer.

Sony Mavica FD-81 floppy disk camera - 1024 x 768

I tried to include one with a glitch caused by a disk error, but imgur wouldn't accept it.

^^ upload a fullscreen screenshot

I'll keep it computer related. Taken with my Sony Ericsson w300i flip phone back in 2006.. no editing done, not that it would help 🤣. I feel this fits the rules since it is spectacularly bad, and showcases how poor of an image sensor some of the earlier camera phones had, and it doesn't even seem that long ago.

My three rigs back in college..

LAN party at my buddy's house:

taken with a Kodak DC200, one of the first "megapixel" digital cameras at 1152x864 resolution . IIRC it was like $400USD!

picture of my engine bay, when i had no money for proper modifications. extra points if you can guess the car (and which generation of said car)

DaveJustDave wrote:

taken with a Kodak DC200, one of the first "megapixel" digital cameras at 1152x864 resolution . IIRC it was like $400USD!

picture of my engine bay, when i had no money for proper modifications. extra points if you can guess the car (and which generation of said car)

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1985 Celica Supra MK2?