Anyone interested in pulling out your oldest gear and playing?
As for rules? None other than equipment limitations, as long as it's crap, you're welcome to play.
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To kick it off here's an image out of my new old Canon S10 - for a 2.1 MP camera (liars, it's 1.92MP), it does pretty good, although it is quirky, low contrast, takes about 30 shots per charge, and gets insanely hot taking those 30 pictures.
To kick it off here's an image out of my new old Canon S10 ...
I guess you found a decent-sized CF card for it ... ;-)
FWIW my upcoming entry for Metal on Metal was taken with my Olympus D490Z, 1.92MP, I've had it for ten years ... I may or may not chip in -- I don't seem to do so well when I actually sign up for these ...
To kick it off here's an image out of my new old Canon S10 ...
I guess you found a decent-sized CF card for it ... ;-)
FWIW my upcoming entry for Metal on Metal was taken with my Olympus D490Z, 1.92MP, I've had it for ten years ... I may or may not chip in -- I don't seem to do so well when I actually sign up for these ...
LOL, we can have a lo-res sub challenge in Metal on Metal then. Since I'm in with a S10 shot myself.
To kick it off here's an image out of my new old Canon S10 ...
I guess you found a decent-sized CF card for it ... ;-)
FWIW my upcoming entry for Metal on Metal was taken with my Olympus D490Z, 1.92MP, I've had it for ten years ... I may or may not chip in -- I don't seem to do so well when I actually sign up for these ...
You've got me thinking now....
Why don't we go ahead and do this as a sub-challenge, rather than the standard side challenge?
Metal on Metal - subchallenge: Retro Equipment
Obviously the reason this would be fun is that we can then leverage the voters to make this a little more competitive than your average side challenge.
Do you think that sounds like more fun too? If so, should we just use the score as posted, or score-(Megapixel / 10) subtracting a 10th point for every megapixel the equipment is capable of?
It can be both types of challenge -- anyone who wants to enter Metal with an old camera can post their score in the photo thread when the voting's over for bragging rights (or sympathy, AND submit unrelated images throughout the month for comments. I don't expect my Metal entry to score well here anyway ...
Does it have to have glass? I'm pretty sure that Ben (bspurgeon) has a pinhole lens.
That's possible, of course, the real intent here is to use really bad equipment to get a good image.
I don't really know that super old glass, or a pinhole counts...
Now, if that old glass is funky and hard to work with while constantly producing oof or low-contrast images, then that's something that fits.. If the pinhole lens is on a 6mp DSLR, then that works fine too.
The simple theme is really "Crappy Equipment Side Challenge", I suppose I may have been less than careful in my thread title. I'll put in a ticket to fixit. ;)
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In the end, anyone can play, and I'd love to see what you can do with bad gear - prove that it's the photographer, not the kit. Follow that theme and basically anything can fly - just make sure it's arguably really bad equipment.
My first digital camera was 1.3 mp but has gone to camera heaven. I have a very crappy little freebie camera from National Geographic (two of them actually) and they produce bad photos, are hard to get to work, have no screen, viewfinder or anything much at all. They aren't 10 years old though, more like 5, maybe.
Does it have to have glass? I'm pretty sure that Ben (bspurgeon) has a pinhole lens.
That's possible, of course, the real intent here is to use really bad equipment to get a good image.
I don't really know that super old glass, or a pinhole counts...
Now, if that old glass is funky and hard to work with while constantly producing oof or low-contrast images, then that's something that fits.. If the pinhole lens is on a 6mp DSLR, then that works fine too.
The simple theme is really "Crappy Equipment Side Challenge", I suppose I may have been less than careful in my thread title. I'll put in a ticket to fixit. ;)
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In the end, anyone can play, and I'd love to see what you can do with bad gear - prove that it's the photographer, not the kit. Follow that theme and basically anything can fly - just make sure it's arguably really bad equipment.
I assure you my old glass won't count as Crappy, it does fit retro....make up your mind man! My old glass produces amazing images no matter what old camera I throw it on!
Does it have to have glass? I'm pretty sure that Ben (bspurgeon) has a pinhole lens.
That's possible, of course, the real intent here is to use really bad equipment to get a good image.
I don't really know that super old glass, or a pinhole counts...
Now, if that old glass is funky and hard to work with while constantly producing oof or low-contrast images, then that's something that fits.. If the pinhole lens is on a 6mp DSLR, then that works fine too.
The simple theme is really "Crappy Equipment Side Challenge", I suppose I may have been less than careful in my thread title. I'll put in a ticket to fixit. ;)
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In the end, anyone can play, and I'd love to see what you can do with bad gear - prove that it's the photographer, not the kit. Follow that theme and basically anything can fly - just make sure it's arguably really bad equipment.
Does it have to have glass? I'm pretty sure that Ben (bspurgeon) has a pinhole lens.
That's possible, of course, the real intent here is to use really bad equipment to get a good image.
I don't really know that super old glass, or a pinhole counts...
Now, if that old glass is funky and hard to work with while constantly producing oof or low-contrast images, then that's something that fits.. If the pinhole lens is on a 6mp DSLR, then that works fine too.
The simple theme is really "Crappy Equipment Side Challenge", I suppose I may have been less than careful in my thread title. I'll put in a ticket to fixit. ;)
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In the end, anyone can play, and I'd love to see what you can do with bad gear - prove that it's the photographer, not the kit. Follow that theme and basically anything can fly - just make sure it's arguably really bad equipment.
Just say NO to bad glass.
Well, come on, is it the equipment, or the photographer? ;)
My first digital camera was 1.3 mp but has gone to camera heaven. I have a very crappy little freebie camera from National Geographic (two of them actually) and they produce bad photos, are hard to get to work, have no screen, viewfinder or anything much at all. They aren't 10 years old though, more like 5, maybe.
