6MP sensor max pre 2008 DSLR

tandi said

Paul Montgomery said

Paul Montgomery said

Not many examples on my port, but this:

was taken on a 6MP D70s

Edit - I recently had to retire this camera as it came down with the dreaded ‘cha’ error…

Lovely image, I remember my husband had the CHA error years and years ago. I asked him and he said he formatted the card in windows and that should have fixed it according to some forums, but didn't so he changed the card and it worked again.

I've tried several cards with no joy - so I think it's terminal.

Shame really as I suspect it'll cost big bucks to fix.

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Tandi,

From my 'port. There's more on Flickr.

I find the old 1D MkII similar to shooting E6. The latitude and speed aren't the same as more modern cameras. But feed it right, it will pleasantly surprise you.
It's also built like a tank, if you need to knock a fence-post in on a shoot, use the 1D MkII and it will wtill work afterwards.

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For anyone waiting to see my 6MP photos from a retro camera shoot, the camera decided it didn't want to play ball and the mirror won't get out of the way lol.

Does anyone know if its cheaper to send it off for repair or buy and used replacement for it, so we can do the shoot?

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tandi said

For anyone waiting to see my 6MP photos from a retro camera shoot, the camera decided it didn't want to play ball and the mirror won't get out of the way lol.

Does anyone know if its cheaper to send it off for repair or buy and used replacement for it, so we can do the shoot?

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Hard to say without knowing all the facts. All I would say that I was in a similar situation myself a few years back when my trusty Pentax K10D unexpectedly let forth a puff of acrid smoke and ceased to function. The estimated cost of repair was well over £100. So I looked around and found a 'low mileage' K20D on eBay for a bit under ninety quid, and opted for that instead. K20D is a better camera than the K10D and this particular K20D has a significantly lower shutter count too.

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My Nikon D200 (with 30K shutter count) cost me £80. If it needed a repair, I very much doubt it would be economic to do it. Our buddy Richard has a D80 which cost him £20 (I think.) That D80 looks really clean & almost new, works fine, & produces nice looking RAW files. When I checked the shutter count, it was over 101,000 (SHOCKER!)

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Thanks guys, I have ordered a used one for the shoot.

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Not a DSLR, but this is a Olympus C5050Z, all 5 megapixels of it:

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Gothic Image said

Not a DSLR, but this is a Olympus C5050Z, all 5 megapixels of it:

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that is a seriously good pic :-)

5

All taken with a Canon 1000D with a 1.8 50mm! Edited by my own hand which I think recovered them nicely 🤣

Gothic Image - my (non-DSLR) Kodak Easyshare could beat your Olympus. The Kodak was 6.3mp, I believe. Na-na-na-naaaah-na. 

EDIT: When I started this model photography lark with digital, this was the camera I used. Being a newbie to digital, I didn't realise that it wasn't the done thing to turn up for shoots with such a camera. Oops! 

Timmee takes me back. I have 2x D200 cameras in a drawer here. Perfect condition. 10mp. I switched over to the Fuji X-T1 when it came out, and the X100S ..and never looked back. But yes, I loved using my D200 cameras, excellent image quality.

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