Vintage DSLR forum

There's a Sinar DCS 465 on eBay, with a starting bid of £418, number 230376174831. From Singapore. I'm not sure if the Kodak DCS 465 and the Sinar DCS 465 are the same camera; or whether the Sinar model is a Kodak DCS 465 in a certain configuration. It has "Sinar DCS 465" on the front and ...

By coincidence there is also a DCS 720X for sale, although the price is more reasonable (at £620), although at the same time it's not very reasonable. Based on the samples at Steve's Digicams the image quality is lovely at ISO 400 and still pretty good at ISO 1600, even by modern standards. It actua...

Will it sell? My modest bet is that it probably will. Almost incredibly it did sell, for $5,600, and there were two bids! The winning bidder is either a wealthy chap, or he's sitting in front of his computer wondering what the hell kind of madness got into him. I sincerely hope he uses the camera a...

You do have a stash. I actually bought a new DCS 420 battery to put into my DCS 460 - the previous owner had modified it to have an external battery pack held to the front of the camera. The new battery hold enough charge to fill up a 1gb PCMCIA card with charge left over, which makes the camera por...

No less! It's item number 120458495355: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Kodak-DCS-760M-Monochrome-Digital-Camera_W0QQitemZ120458495355QQ Features a rare shot of the front of the camera (the logo is in monochrome). Starting bid of £3,030, which is $5,000. I surmise that it will do a round around the blogs - pe...

Regarding the "small plastic memory squares" - you're kidding, right? Such diskettes were the only removable storage devices only a few years ago. Or maybe I'm getting old.. :-) Jarle I was tempted to add "they are described in the auction as floppy discs, which is puzzling, because ...

A chap called "nsxdream" on Ebay seems to have got hold of a bunch of NC2000Es, which he is auctioning off one at a time. The current one is #120450076976. At first I thought it was a relisting of an earlier camera - there is similar damage to the camera body's green strip-light - but the ...

This is an ancient thread, but I have half a mind to temporarily convert my DCS 460 back into a film camera (my only other film SLR, a Canon EOS 100, doesn't feel as tough, and the N90s body has a few features that the Canon doesn't, not least the ability to add a vertical grip). Spare backs are rea...

Thanks for that. The problem with buying an old SB flash is that the Strobist community has latched onto them, and sent prices through the roof: http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/04/steal-this-flash-nikon-sb-24.html http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/05/for-few-dollars-more-nikon-sb-26.html For exact...

I know very little about flash automation with the older DCS cameras. One thing I'm particularly curious to know is the general tolerance for high trigger voltages. Modern digital cameras have trouble with older flash units because the trigger voltage is too high for the camera, but the Kodak DCS ca...

He looks incongruous in that concrete room. I mentally picture Bruce Springsteem either in a smoke-filled bar somewhere in New York pondering the human condition, or riding a battered old car out into the darkness at the edge of town, or wandering through town whilst singing to himself, as in the vi...

It seems odd to write about the Nikon D1x on a vintage digital SLR forum, and I suppose it is odd, because the D1x is so normal. I took the picture just below this paragraph with a D1x yesterday, but there's nothing about it that screams D1x, it could have been shot with any camera at ISO 200 and a ...

This is something I posted to Digital Photography Review, but I thought it might find a place here. As per an earlier thread, I have bought a Kodak DCS 460. It is sensitive to infra-red, which tends to make the photographs look as if they have been stained with blood. Foliage in particular comes out...

Not all that rare, but it's odd to see two at once (from different continents - one from Spain, one from California): http://tinyurl.com/q2w88s http://tinyurl.com/ql7yls As always they hover around £1,600 and don't come with lenses. I wonder if there was ever e.g. an M42 - Contax N lens adapter? As ...

I have a habit to connect the camera to AC adapter every now and then to keep the internal battery alive as my 760 doesn't get that much use these days. But is there any general suggestions how to deal with the NiMH batteries over long period if they are not used? Should they be charged regularly o...