Old Digital Compact Cameras – Skip or Charity Shop

Got some old Canon Ixus Camera’s 500 to 1000HS and Digital Rebel 300 and the original boxes.

Can’t bring myself to dump in the skip yet, but taking up space 🙁

What have you guys done with yours ?

Freegle?

ebay’d mine. Got between £10 – £30 each

Those Canon’s seem to be going for decent money on Ebay.

If it has manual controls (the rebels do?) – given them to nieces and nephews interested in photography – still useful for learning about exposure and aperture.

Compacts, I think not much use for them now. Wait 5 years though, and everybody will want a camera that doesn’t interpret everything for you…

Those Canon’s seem to be going for decent money on Ebay.

Crikey – yes they do! Wow!

According to my 18yo daughter, small digital cameras are all the rage for taking photos on nights out (for whatever reason).

Seems to be popular again I just got offered double what I paid for a Fuji compact as a trade in price

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You can do what I do…    keep the cameras but throw away the proprietary battery chargers ?

If it has manual controls (the rebels do?) – given them to nieces and nephews interested in photography – still useful for learning about exposure and aperture.

I totally agree,  but the experts on the Photography for Beginners thread seem to reckon Spray’n’Pray is the way to go.

My first “proper” digital camera was a Fujifilm S7000. Fixed lens but full manual and automatic controls.

Loved that camera, took loads of good pictures with it.

The Mrs broke it and I upgraded to a DSLR.

Never seemed to take as good photos as the simpler camera.

Blimey. Ebay seems to be mad for old Canons Compacts.

I’ll check them out properly and mayby stick them on Ebay.

Mmmmm. Surprised at that 🙂

Thanks.

Aye, I just sold a Canon Ixus 40 for £40 and an Ixus 105 for £75. I listed tham with free postage and they both sold within a couple of days, at the asking price (as suggested by Ebay)

Bear in mind that asking price and selling price are not the same thing.

I’m gonna have to dig out my old Ixux. I have already found a Samsung Galaxy camera which go for okay prices, but I think I’d get much more for my Ixus.

Bear in mind that asking price and selling price are not the same thing.

Yup, just check the sold values to know what to list them for – sold some old olympus mui for good money on ebay

I recently sold an Ixus on Ebay, snapped up for the asking price in a matter of minutes.  Clearly a much appreciated item by certain foto-folks.

STW right on trend!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64512059

Well there’s a job for the wet weekend – I have a couple to sell.

Got a nice panasonic lumix that we still use on walking holidays. Much easier to use with gloved hands in the cold. Can change the batteries when camping for a couple of weeks. It would be annoying if it was stolen in some foreign city but not the same hassle as having a modern smartphone snatched (so that can stay somewhere secure).

On the back of this thread I remembered I had a 35mm Olympus mju in the loft. It’s a nice little compact, but switching to digital meant I stopped using it

Anyway, a quick Google suggests it’s worth proper money. Way more than it was new

Those old Digital Rebels might not be like anything you buy today but they’re still capable cameras. They were really popular at the time for good reason.

My first “proper” digital camera was a Fujifilm S7000. Fixed lens but full manual and automatic controls.

I still have mine! Biggest issue has always been power consumption as 4xAA don’t really cut it so now I keep a set for memory and run it off a powerbank hooked up to the barrel jack with an appropriate cable. Just need to get a base made that can screw into the bottom.

Also have an X10 (I think) that can be run the same way with a DC coupler and a broken S5000 with a corrupted CCD I was thinking of somehow mounting a webcam into.

Whoa I might try to flog a few of mine in that case! They’re sat doing nowt and are no competition at all to my Samsung S24

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According to my 18yo daughter, small digital cameras are all the rage for taking photos on nights out (for whatever reason).

I’m sure I read about this yesterday & it’s basically if you lose the camera “no big deal” but if you are using your phone & lose it “big deal”

Just seen bearGrease linked to the article

According to my 18yo daughter, small digital cameras are all the rage for taking photos on nights out

True- my daughter went to an open day for a local college as she wants to do a photography course.

I was talking to the tutor (having been into film slr in my youth) and mentioned all the film slr kit I still had plus early digital compacts.

He mentioned the trend for digital compacts being popular- thinks it’s to do with the lack of filters compared to the phones giving a “truer” image

Sold about four of mine over the summer on ebay for relatively good money. So many cheeky bids but help out for the buy in now recommended price and got the money. Worth the effort.

Interesting, I’ve got a top of the range (at the time, I think) Ixus of some type kicking around, just need to buy a replacement battery and charger as mine are on the blink ..

On the back of this thread I remembered I had a 35mm Olympus mju in the loft. It’s a nice little compact, but switching to digital meant I stopped using it

Anyway, a quick Google suggests it’s worth proper money. Way more than it was new

Mjus have a massive reddit/youtube/hipster following thats pumped up the price. They’re also tiny and plastic so theres quite a high failure rate as they age. I would ell it now before the bubble burts.

Re nightsout. Glass and a flash reign supreme when its dark the flash alone does alot of heavy lifting and the optics minimise the trickery required to get a shot in time captured. As good as phones are they rely on senors and whatever multi shot layering plus maybe ai and that just doesn’t compete in the dark if all the data they pic up is a bit shit. Cameras are also alot more ergonomic. Strap round the wrist and it can stay in your hand all night without it being awkward/dropping/ running out of battery for your uber home.

Off the back of this, I just pulled out an old Sony DSC-P12. It proudly proclaims 5 MEGA PIXELS on the front.

It used to be my underwater camera so maybe it will become my “pretend you’re down with the kids” camera now…

The charging brick is almost as big as the camera, so not sure how practical it is for general use…