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The Kodak Easyshare Z710, a 7MP noughties digicam
It’s been a while since I picked up a ‘generic’ camera from the CEX website, but last week they were advertising a ‘generic 7MP camera’ for 4€. I like these as you are never quite sure what you are going to get and for a few Euros the outlay is minimal. This time it turned out to be a Kodak Easyshare Z710 digicam from 2006.
The Kodak Easyshare Z710 is a general point and shoot camera with a 7.1MP CCD sensor and a 38-380mm zoom lens. This 10x zoom was one of its selling points at the time, alongside the Easyshare brand, which meant you could share images straight to a computer with either the USB connection or an optional docking station. The camera has 32MB of internal memory, enough for about 10 images, and although there is a slot for an SD cards use was described as ‘optional’. Fortunately the camera will read my 2GB SD cards so downloading images is not a problem.
As usual,with all new cameras I took the Z710 across the road to test it with my favourite tree and well. The colour images were competent enough, nothing special, but let’s face it, this is a basic point and shoot camera. Then I brought out the colour filters to make a trichrome and the 720nm infrared filter to see what the infrared response was like.
I took one colour photograph with the infrared filter and then set the camera to black and white so that I could make some trichromes. It was a bit fiddly to find tge right options in the menu, but I took photographs with red, green, blue and the 720nm Infrared filter. Back home I loaded the images into GuIMP and using the infrared, red, and green filtered images (for red, green and blue layers, respectively) made a digital aerodrome.
I also took the colour infrared image and channel swapped the red and blue channels. Often this can be ‘hit-or-miss’ but this time the channel-swapped photograph came out really well. Mind you, the infrared photographs were full of noise.
On the whole I was really happy with how this camera performed, especially on the tree, where the afternoon autumn sun was behind me. With the shed in the field the sun was to one side, so the light was not ideal, but the aerochrome and channel swapped infrared image came out well. I don’t think this is a special camera, by any stretch, but for €, what’s not to like?
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#Aerochrome #Digicam #Digitalcamera #Kodak #Photography #Retro #Shittycamerachallenge #Shittydigital #TrichromeEverything #Vintage
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About two years ago I spotted a 'new' to me (originally from around 2011) tag by the Portuguese street artist Dalaiama on a junction box in Alfarim. Finally, yesterday I had the chance to capture it for the #ShittyCameraChallenge
#Graffiti, #StreetArt, #Dalaiama, #ShittyDigital, #SummerInMeco, -
Starting the beginning of July there’ll be a new Shitty Camera Challenge and I’ve been thinking about what I might do this time around. I have a couple of ideas, but just lately I’m really enjoying experimenting with a new to me camera, the Canon Powershot G12. The snag is that at 10MP the G12 is not Shitty Camera compliant, and even if it was the camera is just too darn good to use in the Challenge, so I felt that I needed a backup. Something that behaves just like the Powershot G12 but with half of the pixels.
And that’s where the Powershot G5 comes in. Originally I found a slightly flakey G5 from the Kamerastore website and then a second one came from the CEX website, advertised as a ‘generic’ camera but in beautiful condition, for the princely sum of 3€. The PowerShot G5 was the fourth in the G series of digital cameras, introduced by Canon in 2003. It seems to me that ergonomic design was not at the forefront of the designers’ minds when they made the Powershot G5 as the best way to describe its look is, ‘la brick’. With a 5MP CCD sensor, it features a 4x zoom, an optical viewfinder and a swivelling colour LCD screen. Images are stored on CompactFlash cards, since during the noughties every camera manufacturer seemed to have their own medium for storing photographs.
So I thought it might be a good idea to remind myself how these G5s perform. The G5 from the CEX website was in pristine condition when it arrived, although the battery was not the original Canon battery. On the other hand, the Kamerastore G5 was in slightly worse condition, described as ‘glitchy’ with a flickering LCD screen, but otherwise working fine. I knew that they both performed well in natural colour, and black and white, but when I tried to make trichromes and digital aerochromes the Kamerstore G5 gave a decidedly strange response.
On consecutive days I took the G5s across the road to my favourite tree and well and around the block in tge woods gehind the house and put them through their paces. With the cameras in programme (P) mode and the ISO set to its lowest setting (50), in colour mode I took one natural colour image and then a second image with the infrared filter for red/blue channel mixing. I then set the G5s to monochrome mode, to one image without a filter and then subsequent images with red, green, blue, and infrared filters to make trichromes and digital aerochromes. Back at home I used GuIMP photo editor to red/blue channel mix the colour infrared image and made trichromes from the red, green, and blue filter images. TO make the digital aerochromes I used the infrared, red, and green filter images for the red, green and blue laters, respectively. Blend mode between layers was set to ‘addition’.
The results were fabulous. There was no sign of the strange results from my first experiment and both G5s behaved admirably. I also tried a few infrared channel swapping images and these worked too. Though I have to G5s to chose from with the Shitty Camera Challenge I think I’ll start with the older ‘glitchy’ Powershot G5 and use the Canon LA-DC58B lens filter adapter, which is a little plastic gizmo that fits to the front of the lens of the G5 and allows the use of 58mm circular filters.
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#Aerochrome #Canon #Digicam #Powershot #Shittycamerachallenge #Shittydigital #Tree #Trichrome #TrichromeEverything
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Today my Sony #Mavica FD-92 finally arrived! It was quite an adventure: I shopped it used from France, and it took exactly a month to negotiate with the seller, coordinate shipping, and to get it delivered (shipping only took 5 days)!
I blame the #FloppyDiskSquad for the inspiration, but especially @emsquared
It works like a charm (#1) and had a 0.5x converter bundled (#2).
Also here's some #Konqi (#3) and @tvpin (#4) 😀
#photography #Fotografie #SonyMavica #ShittyDigital #LofiDigital
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Shitty (slightly out of focus, handheld) sunset from Samsung WB150F at 13x magnification (~520mm)
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cat attack! a story in 4 panels
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This is just incredible ... and can I have one? The ultimate Holga/Gameboy camera mashup. #GameboyCamera, #Gameboy, #Nintendo, #Funtography, #ShittyDigital, #Holga,
https://www.hackster.io/news/michael-fitzmayer-s-cmos-holga-combines-the-iconic-point-and-shoot-with-nintendo-s-game-boy-camera-3801173a0462