30 May
2007
30 May
'07
3:11 p.m.
On Wed, 30 May 2007 10:49:28 -0700, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Okay, so what does one do with these relics? One can
reuse old PCs
to do various things, but what's an old digicam good for?
For want of battery life my Sony Mavica FD5 (Sonys first digital camera 1997) would make a
workable 3.5
floppy formatter. But alas it is out on loan, to a friend who is takeing ebay pictures
with it. It uses a dos
formated floppy and stores ~24 exposure like roll of film as 640x480 jpgs. Still works
great at age 10.
I have a later model (7 year old) Sony MVC-FD91, I picked up in 2000, It has 14x optical
Zoom. It writes
1024 x 768 jpgs on a standard floppy, and needs a charger and battery to be usefull again.
But alas this
youngster it may have to rot on the shelf 2 or 3 more years, when it then will have shot
of bringing this post
back on topic. :)
The most common use I have head of for old digicams is to lash them up some Rube Goldberg
inspired
mount design and hang them off of telescopes, in an attempt to image something just plain
fantastic from
ones own backyard! These projects most often lead to one of two results. Either all
involved get to see and
injoy the insides of a digicam before it goes to the junk box, OR it become the start of
yet one more
expensive hobby. Next thing you know you get the idea, that just maybe a bigger telescope,
and a better
camera, and a hydrogen-Alpha filter... Ok, whats on ebay...
I have known several in my life to head down the dark side of sky watching. I would bet
there are a few
lurking here on this list.
Re: ... enough already ..
Sorry Jay, but you gota love the wild loops some of these OT postings take at times :)
Til Later
The other Bob