Exactly, and yet we've actually become quite traditional now...

Glad you're enjoying them! What am I missing from your collection? It may be my next one!

@@DinoBytes I'm super impressed that you kept all this stuff, mine always ended up on eBay or elsewhere. Probably better for clutter, but there is one camera in particular that I've thought long and hard about picking up another copy of - the Agfa Ephoto 1280. Was the first camera I had that had manual controls and really let me explore some of the technical side of photography (I was way too cheap to experiment with 35mm!).

@@beesoffury YES! I remember reviewing that one. I must try to find one.

Yes, I totally agree! Very cool to see these reviews.

I know! This camera had everything!

I thought they looked good too!

Thanks! I had a fair few misses!

@@DinoBytes which is to be expected of course 🙂

Thanks! I'm really enjoying making them!

it's surprisingly usable! Did you see my later review on the G1?

I will be retro-reviewing both the Pro1 and the DIMAGE 7 - you'll have seen my Pro1 in the video here.

@@DinoBytes hi, yes seeing your Pro-1 in the video reminded of one of my favourite cameras from the early 2000s. I didn't own one, a colleague did. I recall they became quite sort after..?

Nice find! Where did you get it, as it's quite rare. I managed to borrow one recently, so will be doing a video all about it soon.

My first DSLR was also the 300D! Glad you found m channel, I hope you enjoy my other videos here!

Thanks for watching so many of my videos! I have many more to come, so be sure to subscribe!

Thanks for finding me! Hope you get a chance to watch some of my other videos...

It's a classic, hope it works!

You are very welcome! Enjoy your cuppa!

You need to fire it up and try it out!

Glad you're enjoying the videos! Living on the coast we get all the weather, but this stretch between Brighton and Eastbourne gets more sun than anywhere else in the UK.

Great stuff, did you watch both my Pro90 and Pro1 videos?

@@DinoBytes I have, just caught up on the previous videos 👍

Thanks!

Yes, in technology terms, 20 years is a LOOOONG time!

Yes, it'll be interesting to see if they become popular as vintage tools...

What kind of batteries did it take? If it was an old rechargeable pack, then yes, they don;'t hold much power years later! Good effort for trying though!

Check out my retro review of the first Sony Mavica which recorded onto floppies!

Thanks! Yes, I loved the designs and you're right, when things moved to VGA 30fps, it improved a LOT.

Thanks! I loved all the different designs and ideas too! I'm trying to get hold of some older Fujifilm models as we speak!

Did you see my photo of the statue? That was fully zoomed to 10x and the only way I could get a little blurring in the background!

@@DinoBytes yeah! During times of ultrazooms there was even a matrix of distances to an object and background to predict bluring)) when I bought my first camera I thought I bought all the lenses between 28 and 560mm) this was a marketing trick though. But anyway, thank you for the video, it reminded me once more why I always was not happy with my dslrs - absence of EVF. That thing really rules the world

The COOLPIX 995 was excellent - did you see my video on the 900?

@@DinoBytes of course I never miss a video! I have co-workers in Brighton, they know I am a fan the texted me a few months ago the saw you out near the fishing museum. Testing a camera, they were going to tell you that a pro photographer in San Francisco was a huge fan!

Thanks for finding me! It's quite a new channel - only 6 months old - but I'm really passionate about this old stuff, because I reviewed it all the first time around!

@@DinoBytes I am too passionate about all these old cameras too being a camera fanatic myself hehe.. Cheers. Its nice to hear from you BTW~ I used to watch all yr video chips weekly since the earlier days of yr KZfaq channel while having my breakfast! :) Yr reviews determine some of my purchases too! Thanks Gordon!

Thanks and yes, I would love to review some of those... they are harder for me to find though...

Thanks!

It's quite a distinctive look!

I got into the Fujifilm system in the X-series era, but now I'm hunting for a Fuji S5 Pro just to experience the CCD magic people talk about.

Yeah, it was on the high-end!

@T T blimey, was it really that much?

@T T that sounds more like it. I think most good digitals around that time were 700-1000.

Yeah, these ones are quite hard to find at good prices

Yes, that could all be fun! As for lenses, what would you put onto the 300D? The lens of that era was the first EF-S 18-55 which wasn't particularly exciting!

Yeah, I should do some side-by-side comparisons of different CFAs

@@DinoBytes if you’ve done a Kodak Nikon F5 DCS 720 let me know that’s the last CYYM CFA camera on the market.

That's an excellent question regarding the correction on RAW files and the answer is I haven't tried that yet, but I'll give it a go. As you suspect, most modern cameras and lenses employ a LOT of software correction to compensate for a variety of evils, and this is where older models miss out. It was also a long zoom range for 2001.

Do you still use any of them? I'll be doing a review of the Pro1 soon!

@@DinoBytes Currently I have around 32 Digital cameras. Some oldies apart from others collection mainly from (2012-2014) which are my favorite ones would be Canon S5IS Olympus C8080, Kodak P880(Awesome rare camera with really true to live photos), Konica Minolta A2, Minolta A200, Panasonic FZ50, Leica Dlux (similar to FZ50)... Old Micro4/3 GF1, GF2, olympus ep2...etc . Looking forward for the Pro1 review! Its the only 1 of its kind with L lens!

Hope you still have those images!

@@DinoBytes I do. And I made a photo book with them

@@danielhenzphotography nice one!

however in a retro way, the video can be quite fun!

I must try and get hold of a DIMAGE soon...

@@DinoBytes I wish I had kept mine - it ran on AA batteries, and used SD cards so it wouldn’t have been a problem!

@@lim2001burger yeah, it's sad what we get rid of. I kept a lot, but also lost a lot too.

You haven't seen the half of it yet! More unique-looking cameras to come!

II have the G1 here and intend to make a video about all the models!

@@DinoBytes Fantastic! I look forward to these. I think vintage digital will become a thing. Maybe it already is and you’re just way ahead of the curve. I’ve seen great photographers rave about the sensor in the original Fuji Xpro1 and xe1. The XT1 sensor is also legendary. And yes, I miss the days when Canon threw all known technologies in their prosumer models! It enabled some of us to make a decent living with relatively inexpensive gear.

@@LyndonPatrickSmith yeah, it'd be interesting if the trend for vintage film cameras turns into one for vintage digital! It would have to be certain models though that still worked easily today as many are very hard to use now. I hope it does happen!

@@DinoBytes Twenty years is a long time and I forgot who (Fred Miranda?) posted images taken with his new G1 on DPreview and many of us found them good enough to buy one. I did and a few months later, the Canon D30 (including the IBM microdrive too).

As it has a CCD sensor there is no rolling shutter effect.

Believe it or not, the G1 had everything apart from IS a year earlier!

Yeah, when presenting photos full-screen in a video like this, you'll find them looking pretty acceptable around the 3-4 Megapixel mark, although some aberrations remained visible for a while due to lack of software corrections. But video was terrible for a looong time! Panasonic's GH1 in 2009 was the first decent video hybrid.

@@DinoBytes What about Canon EOS 5D Mark II? It might not be considered a hybrid by many; however, it was the first DSLR used by many tv and cinema productions.

There were a few back then, the first were collaborations between Kodak and either Canon or Nikon in the mid-Nineties. I mention a couple of them in my Canon PowerShot 600 review, check it out!

Hmmm, not sure about that!

I think you're right

Yeah - Canon were rife with making lenses for other cameras - IE:- the G1 lens appeared in various Casios as well as a couple of Panasonic models (Yup, Panasonic and its Leica Digilux 1 version had the G1 lens badged for themselves) so when the 10X IS zoom was made for the Olympus C2100UZ, it was an ideal platform for the Pro90 , as I say, I`m guessing that the development for the camera took too long (it may have originally been targeted to launch alongside the Olympus and be 2Mp likewise) and in the meantime, Sony launched the 3Mp 1:1.8" device and redesigning the 10X zoom would have been costly. when my C2100UZ finally died (mainboard failure) , a Pro90 owner repaired his camera with my lens ... I found the less bulky C2100UZ to be a nicer camera despite the lack of twisty screen or CF cards (the later ill fated E100RS variant of the C2100 used CF cards and shot video) and back then taking AAs was a big benefit - it was a clever design, basically a C2020 with a canon 10X IS lens stuck on and was very popular even way out of its sell by date amongst DP review forumers - worth a review ? ....... thanks for the review as always Gordon ..

@@Adam_T Thanks! I'm trying to get hold of some Olympus models as we speak...

I've not heard of that one!

I think we should put that to the test!

It had an L-grade lens.

I talk about this near the end of the video, I have one here and will be making a separate video about it soon.

@@DinoBytes Thank you so much! I should never had sold mine.

@@lrfarias my upcoming video will be just for you then!

Yes, there's some DNA there!

Do the subtitles work?

We have great weather down here! But today was pretty misty.

@@DinoBytes I will take your word for it, and also be a bit envious, since it will hit 44 °C here in Tucson later today . . . 😓

Thanks for commenting! Did you see my one on the PowerShot 600? I do have a D2000 body and would love to power it up, but I need a power supply for it to charge the battery... do you have one?!

@@DinoBytes 🤨 Post a picture of what you have, and if at all possible, what you need.

@@CanonEurope I have a D2000 body, but only need the AC adapter for it. It used a 3-pin circular plug that was common to all the Kodak collaborations with Canon and Nikon as well s their own branded DSLRs at the time. You can see it on this page if you scroll down to the photo of the ports: www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/Kodak/index3.htm

Not much I'm afraid. Most of these older cameras go for about 20-50 depending on condition and demand.

Hmmmm, I don't think anyone would want that video quality!

@@DinoBytes … of cause not. 😂

Yes, that would be interesting. I suspect not though as they're terrible for video which is pretty much mandatory on a modern camera.

@@DinoBytes Are they really that bad for video? The readout speed is better than most CMOS sensors though, right?

@@xmlthegreat I always remember video / live view on CCD being a challenge 20 years ago, but you're right, tech could have evolved it to a point where it's ok now.

@@DinoBytes I think the problem was mostly about heat, wasn't it? Also they would cost way more to produce now that all still cameras switched to CMOS, unfortunately. I really like their distinctive look as well.

@@arthurvoirin6430 yes, there was a power issue as I recall...

There is something about them!

I bought it in a shop in Barcelona! I was with Jordan Drake from dpreviewtv and he bought one too!

Thanks! Probably won’t help me here in Tasmania, but next time I’m in Barcelona I’ll keep an eye out 😂

@@TheBasementChannel ha ha! Tazzie's not that far!

Thanks for checking out several of my videos!

Just turn the mode dial to the movie position.

@@DinoBytes thank you very much sir but do we sell the cable alone, the one used to copy videos to the computer

@@tounkoudaba just get a compact flash card reader.

They're a bit flat-looking to me personally, but you can still use them of course! There's a certain look to them which might work well for some situations.

Well this is what was going on when you were a little one!

I'll give that shot!

I don't remember anyone laughing at it - within my friends of photographers and journalists, we all thought it was pretty good.