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Retro Digicams

This thread is for people who like old low-megapixel digital cameras. I love them for their grain patterns, inaccurate colours and the designs of the objects themselves. If you're into them too, show me some pics you've taken, or let me know what you like about retro digicams, which ones you own or anything else you'd like to say on the topic.


I currently have a collection of two, because my third old digicam broke recently:

  • Praktica Micropix (0.1 MP) - I love the hazy lo-fi pictures this takes and the slight fisheye effect.
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ5 (5.0 MP) - This is a great combination of oldschool pixellation and high quality optics, a somewhat large sensor, etc. High-end lo-fi!


Broken or given away cameras previously in my collection:

  • Olympus Camedia C-150 (2.0 MP) - I loved using this for night photography, with its really powerful flash and the way the colours come out
  • Polaroid PDC 2070 (2.1 MP) - this camera has a really crappy tiny lens and limited dynamic range (blown out highlights and everything else in fuzzy darkness)
  • Canon Powershot A430 (4.0 MP) - my first digicam and the only one I owned when it was new, so I associate the look of pics from this camera with childhood. All the other digicams of this sort that I've owned were 15+ years old by the time I got hold of them.

If you want to see some pics of mine, I'm on Flickr.


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Reply by neofenixlive

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im not that much into digicams, but i do own one that i take some pictures from time to time, its a samsung es65 (10.2MP)!

yes i know its kinda high resolution but ive only taken photos on the 1024x768 resolution until now XD, but unfortunately i dont have any photos to share, except the ones i already posted on my photo dump blog


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Reply by DJ_James_Naughty

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Nice! Cool pictures on your blog. 


If you're interested in a more lo-fi look, another setting you could try is increasing the ISO (if your camera lets you change it). This makes the camera take pictures faster but with more grain. The normal usage for increasing the ISO is to avoid blurring your pics when the light is low, but you can also crank it up to get grainy rough looking pictures that you might like the look of.


Another thing I can recommend is recording video and isolating frames as pictures. I do this using the VLC media player, which lets you go through frame by frame and save the ones you like as images. Some digicams behave really weirdly in video mode, giving you good results like this.


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