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To: Salamander
I took these pictures of the Minolta with my Olympus C2100 UZ from back in 2000. It was a long time before anyone made a better digital camera.

I love old stuff, I'm old myself!

35 posted on 07/29/2010 9:31:54 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, A Matter Of Fact, Not A Matter Of Opinion)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

We have a bunch of 2100s.
They are mildly IR capable [with fairly long exposure time, though] and solid workhorses that never die.

The “Holy Grail” of the old “accidental” IR capables is the Oly C-2020.
[got 4 or 5 of them]

You can slap on a R72 and easily see what you’re doing.
Even with a 620nm filter, you can still hand hold it if you’re steady.

It kicks ass even though I still use my Fujifilm IS-1 IR dedicated forensics camera a lot.

For “regular” digital, my love is a Sony DSC-R1.

It has the coolest swivel/rotating LCD *ever* and you can use it as a waist-level “viewfinder” camera like the old Rolleis and Hasselblads.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/SonyDSCR1/

[no more laying flat on my stomach in cemeteries....yay!]

The Sony F-828 and F-717s had a similar “rotating” lens thing going but you could only use them waist-level in the landscape mode.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sonydscf828/

I don’t use mine that often any more but I’d never part with it.
I did sell my “spare” a few years ago, though.


53 posted on 07/29/2010 9:49:08 PM PDT by Salamander (And I think I need some rest but sleeping don't come very easy in a straight white vest.)
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