I think I may have a bit of a camera collecting problem. In about two weeks I’ve gone from having no cameras1 to having five of the things!
From left to right:
Fujifilm S4800
Got this one on 18th January for £70 from Facebook Marketplace. Not spent a lot of time with it yet, but I’ll post a review once I have. I had it from an old fella who bought it brand new for his daughters wedding. It’s basically like new.
Olympus C4040Z
I’ve written two posts about this camera here and here. This camera will always have a special place in my heart. Taken loads of photos with it (mainly early 2000’s). If I could only keep one of these cameras, it might be this one. Who needs more than four megapixels anyway!?
Fujifilm F80EXR
Picked this up today for £50, also from Facebook Marketplace. Looks to be in great condition and came with a spare battery and case. Review should be coming within a few weeks.
Fujifilm JV90
Probably had this for about ten years. It was lost in the daughters bedroom, but resurfaced after we redecorated. Sadly, there’s some sort of scratch on the lens or sensor (most likely) and photos have a faint vertical line on the left hand side. In due time, I’ll post a review of it anyway. Only really noticeable in dark shots.
Sanyo VPC-W800
Had this longer than the JV90. Fifteen years at least. I’ve written a post about it here. It’s certainly not going to win any awards, but it has some charm that I like.
What’s Going On?
A few weeks back I suddenly became interested in photography. I think this was mainly due to blogging again, and wanting to have some images to complement the words in my posts. I would spend up to (about) fifteen minutes searching for the perfect image. As I was doing this, I must have realised that I could also supply images for some posts, hence the sudden interest in photography. I’m firmly in the canp that believes that photography does not have to be objectively good / perfect. Imperfections are entirely acceptable to me. Preferable, actually. Reality often has rough edges, so should photos. e
The photo beneath this section is (from left to right again) of me, a Scottish fella whose name escapes me at the moment and a Polish fella called Bogdan. I must have asked some other drunkard to take this pic on my Sony Ericsson K750i. The picture is low quality as was always the case in low light back then (and also now often). But, I would argue this is a great photo. One of my favourites of work buddies, out of thousands of them.
My ultimate plan is to have two (maybe three) good2 cameras for different use cases. A pocketable, point-and-shoot one, and a bigger one with a better zoom.
Footnotes
1 Three of the cameras I had in my house, but they all took some finding.
2 Good is subjective of course.
