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Queries of NG members: dslr camera age.
Friends:
I had an early Minolta entry level slr which was stolen a year or so ago. Thinking about this, my first "serious" camera, which although about 30 years old, was still functional, I got to wondering (for those of you who care to answer) what how old your oldest (both in age, and number of exposures) dslr in "regular" use is. Further, I got to wondering for those of you who have had dslr's fail, how old the camera was when it failed, and if you know, what caused the failure. ns |
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Queries of NG members: dslr camera age.
According to Noel Stoutenburg :
Friends: I had an early Minolta entry level slr which was stolen a year or so ago. Thinking about this, my first "serious" camera, which although about 30 years old, was still functional, I got to wondering (for those of you who care to answer) what how old your oldest (both in age, and number of exposures) dslr in "regular" use is. Hmm ... define "regular use". :-) I've got a couple of NC2000e/c cameras -- start with a Nikon N90s, and replace the back with one from Kodak to turn it into a 1.3MP digital. Those were made back in 1995, IIRC. They still work, though I am using the Nikon D70 instead for several reasons. As for the age in number of exposures, since both cameras were used by the AP for many years before I got them, and there is no recording of the total exposures in the EXIF data, I really have no way of telling. Further, I got to wondering for those of you who have had dslr's fail, how old the camera was when it failed, and if you know, what caused the failure. No such failure to date. Enjoy, DoN. -- Email: | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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Queries of NG members: dslr camera age.
"Noel Stoutenburg" wrote in message ... Friends: I had an early Minolta entry level slr which was stolen a year or so ago. Thinking about this, my first "serious" camera, which although about 30 years old, was still functional, I got to wondering (for those of you who care to answer) what how old your oldest (both in age, and number of exposures) dslr in "regular" use is. Further, I got to wondering for those of you who have had dslr's fail, how old the camera was when it failed, and if you know, what caused the failure. ns I have a Nikon FTN I bought in 1969 (at the military PX in Yongsan, Korea) and coupled it with a terrific Nikkor 43-86 zoom (bought in a small store off the Ginza in Tokyo, the same year). It's basically a mechanical camera with a small dime-size battery (for the light meter) and titanium foil shutter. I've taken hundreds and hundreds of shots (probably several thousand) over the years and, until I bought a D70 and then a D200 it was the camera I used on a daily basis. Thirty seven years of continuous use isn't bad. And I have an old nikkormat sitting on top of my Nikon SK-e microscope that I use for photomicroscopy. |
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