-Click-Click-Clack- ..-Pop- "..No effect sir. ..It's just not working!"
Before Christmas I made a trip to the east side. I stopped at a Thriftstore while I was there and bought two Robosapians (v1's) along with a Digital Camera as impulse buys.
I picked up the camera because I liked it's lines, and bought it because it had a Composite Video Out port. (I was thinking webcam with zoom and controllable depth of field) I thought its Magnesium Alloy body was all plastic. The battery box being built to accept (4) AA cells contributed to my impression of cheapness.
The camera is a Minolta DiMAGE 5 And had a retail of $900 in 2001.
8) ..I paid $8
It's not all sunshine and cookies though:
...It sucked a set of (4) AA Duracells Dry in 15min.
...Rechargeable NiCads 1600mah Are supposed to last ~1hr52min. I now have some secound generation (HR-3UTGA 1900mah) 'Eneloop' in it now. They seem to be holding up.
...The Autofocus is slow. (up to 4sec, according to the review)
...The Compact Flash Card gets hot.
...It will not take any flash card larger than 512Mb
...It was set to overlay text. (this last I have changed ..now, but the photos I got before my flashcard died..)
This one the Text seems apropos.
Maybe the DiMAGE was formerly the property of an activist?
I took these using the Kodak's 32Mb Compact Flash card. All when well until I bulk deleted the pictures after uploading.. the card promptly died. So now I have no cameras working at all.. If you have any Compact Flash cards that are 512Mb or smaller that you're not using I would be glad to give them a home..
Conversely, if someone needs a 16Gb card, I have one. (trade? )
I wanted to do a couple of build logs: The Lathe, Remotes for the RoboSapians V1 and V2, a Christmas present that I still have to deliver, the camera tripod (a Velbon) repair, Grid Beam tricks, etc.. But it's not feasible without a working still camera..
I picked up the camera because I liked it's lines, and bought it because it had a Composite Video Out port. (I was thinking webcam with zoom and controllable depth of field) I thought its Magnesium Alloy body was all plastic. The battery box being built to accept (4) AA cells contributed to my impression of cheapness.
The camera is a Minolta DiMAGE 5 And had a retail of $900 in 2001.
8) ..I paid $8
It's not all sunshine and cookies though:
...It sucked a set of (4) AA Duracells Dry in 15min.
...Rechargeable NiCads 1600mah Are supposed to last ~1hr52min. I now have some secound generation (HR-3UTGA 1900mah) 'Eneloop' in it now. They seem to be holding up.
...The Autofocus is slow. (up to 4sec, according to the review)
...The Compact Flash Card gets hot.
...It will not take any flash card larger than 512Mb
...It was set to overlay text. (this last I have changed ..now, but the photos I got before my flashcard died..)
This one the Text seems apropos.
Maybe the DiMAGE was formerly the property of an activist?
I took these using the Kodak's 32Mb Compact Flash card. All when well until I bulk deleted the pictures after uploading.. the card promptly died. So now I have no cameras working at all.. If you have any Compact Flash cards that are 512Mb or smaller that you're not using I would be glad to give them a home..
Conversely, if someone needs a 16Gb card, I have one. (trade? )
I wanted to do a couple of build logs: The Lathe, Remotes for the RoboSapians V1 and V2, a Christmas present that I still have to deliver, the camera tripod (a Velbon) repair, Grid Beam tricks, etc.. But it's not feasible without a working still camera..