No Camera Trade Today
I stopped by the Houston Camera Exchange and they gave me the bad news – around December, people stopped buying film cameras. Completely. They offered me $20 for my Minolta 400si. $20 for this?
Bah. I’d rather get $20 fun out of running over it with a truck.
I looked a digital cameras for a while, but I decided to do some research first. The three I looked at were the Sony T1, the Minolta Z2, and the Olympus C765. I decided since I wasn’t getting the credit on the old film camera, I’d just come home and do some research.
Gadzooks. I checked out Digital Photography Review. Do you have any idea how many cameras are out there? I think Cannon makes 100 or more. It’s gonna take me weeks to buy a new camera.
June 26th, 2004 at 10:54 pm
I LOVE My HP 3.3…It was priced about mid range ($340?) and it’s AWESOME. I am sooo happy with it. Every pic on my site was taken with it. If you’re innerested I’ll look up more of the specs. It’s prolly cheaper now, I bought it about a year ago…
Don’t get rid of your camera. I still have my Pentax manual and my instamatic….the manual Pentax is cool for artsy stuff…
June 27th, 2004 at 11:56 am
I’ve decided to keep it, though I suspect I’ll never use it. At the wedding last night, I talked at length with the wedding photographer and drooled over his 12 megapixel $5000 digital Fuji camera.
June 27th, 2004 at 1:38 pm
Have you thought about contacting any local photographers or photography students in order to get better than 20 bucks for your camera?
June 27th, 2004 at 6:14 pm
I’ll give you $25 for it
June 28th, 2004 at 8:14 am
I think I’ll keep it. It’ll go well with my eccentric old man image. “Whoa, grandpa, is that FILM? That is so cool!”
June 28th, 2004 at 2:09 pm
John and I just bought a Cannon Digital Rebel – it uses the same lenses as my old Cannon 35 mm Rebel, and it is just incredible!
June 28th, 2004 at 3:47 pm
I looked at the Rebel; it’s a pity my old camera is a Minolta instead. I have a 35-75mm zoom on that camera that meets 95% of my needs.