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Sep 18, 2020

Olympus Brio D-230 - resurrecting an almost 20 year old Digital Camera

I resurrected this almost 20 year old digital camera, the oldest I've used yet, and gave it a test drive.

Aug 7, 2020

I shot a vlog with an 11 year old iPod nano

25th July was the first time I'd seen Chloe in over 5 months. I took my old iPod nano along and filmed our week away together.

May 25, 2020

Quickpix Qp3 Pen Cam

A little pocket sized 18 year old digital camera that records terrible video, and makes you look a bit like you're in the Men In Black film.

Nov 20, 2019

Traveler DC-6900 - a 50p digital camera buy

I found this 10 year old camera secondhand for 50p and I guarantee the photos it takes would still be acceptable by todays standards.

Jul 18, 2019

Kodak C613 - revisiting my old Compact Digital

The C613 was the camera I cut my photographic teeth on. This month I revisited my decade old compact digital and explored it in detail.

Apr 19, 2019

The 79p Smartphone camera experience

The Pixi3 isn't going to win any awards... but this tiny phone packs a 2mpx digital camera, so for 79p it's a total bargain right?... Right?

Aug 11, 2018

Playing around with the camera on an old feature phone

I carried an old feature phone around and took some photos, recorded some video, to see how it performed. The answer: not bad, actually!

May 14, 2018

Praktica Micropix - Smallest Camera EVER

What can possibly the world's smallest camera produce in terms of image quality? I took my charity shop find out to test drive it!

Sep 1, 2017

My first camera: Fuji Finepix A120

I first started to get into photography when I was 16/17. I was in college at the time, studying English Lang Lit and outside of college.

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