The $50 Point & Shoot Camera with a Leica Lens!
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I found it! My first ever point & shoot camera, while having a spring clear out. This is a compact camera released way back in 2009 from Panasonic & is actually really fun to use. The Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FS15 can be found these days for less than $50 & to top things off this little camera has a Leica lens! Which is the equivalent of 29-145mm in 35mm format. It packs a 12.1MP CCD sensor that produces some very pleasing colours & tones. This camera has been all over the place with me back in the day & it was nice to take a trip down memory lane & use it once again.
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My first digital camera was a Kodak DC5000. Still have it and it still works! The early Kodak CCD sensors have such good colour pop! Been buying up cheap digicams over the last few years! Not all of them are winners, but I think if it works and your take your time with composition and have an interesting subject, these cameras can be fun to use. I try to keep away from cameras that are 4mp and lower. Sharing images on social media, viewers are more interested in the subject than the pixel count! Thanks for sharing!
Nice! I've only ever had my hands on a Kodak once & it was one of those instant print cameras from years ago. I'm becoming more & more interested in the CCD sensor cameras, I like your stance . . . Buy lots of older cheap cameras & have a great time using them 👌
Well done on finding a classic camera. I have to say these are some of your nicest pictures you've ever shown. I started with a Kodak 110 film compact camera. It cost me 5 pounds back in the day. It was so exciting to see the prints that came back. They were all crap though lol. My first real camera was a practica mat. I felt like a pro lol. A 50mm lens and a light meter. Then roll after roll of 35mm film later I found pentax. Meter built in was a game changer. Bayonet fitting lens instead of screw in.
I've just moved away from pentax. They are to slow nowadays. Yes even the k3 mk 3! I have access to 60 frames or more per second if I need it. Blazing fast focus. And industry standard video. Yup that's panasonic for you. I have 4 of their cameras now. You should borrow or rent one sometime. It's really surprising. I think of panasonic as pentax if they were still with the main crowd.
My first digital was (still have it) a Fujifilm S5700/S700 super zoom CCD 7.1 MP camera. My first ever camera was a Konica C35 Rangefinder film camera.
Haha we must all be the same (keeping our cameras) you should dig your Fuji out & take it for a spin Kobie 👍
@@LeeIveson I really should!
My first camera (still with me to this very day) is an Olympus 35mm RC film camera. It's a rangefinder camera with a superb 42mm fixed lens. It's been a fantastic learning camera and still fun to shoot. Image quality still excelles. Manual focussing is a bliss! My first digital camera was Samsung NX or NV with interchangeable lenses. A great compact versatile camera. It never really succeeded, which I could never understand.
I must admit even though I've never owned a camera that doesn't have AF, I love to use MF from time to time, especially with my Pentax M 50mm & Pentax A 70-210mm. There's somthing really nice about slowing things down, taking your time to compose, focus & getthe shot. I also had (still have) a Samsung NX1000, much like yourself I was too baffled as to why they didn't take off similar to how Sony did. I often wonder how the camera landscape might have looked had Samsung not pulled the plug 🤔
My first camera was a box brownie which I still have, my first digital camera was a vivid red Kodak easy share 1.3 mp offering.
I had to Google that one Barry I'm not going to lie! Box brownie, you know sometimes I feel I'd liked to have been born a few years earlier to experience all of these amazing cameras as they came out. I can't help but feel things move too quickly these days 😕
First: Minolta rangefinder ca. 1970. First SLR: Pentax Spotmatic F ca. 1973. Loved Pentax, I’ve been Pentax ever since.
First digital was an Epson. Great pictures, but I sold it. I wish I kept it! The sensor was gorgeous, lens was superb. Well made, well designed.
Wow! You have definitely earned the Pentaxian badge of honour 🎖 Looks like Pentax are going full circle with the new film project too.
My first digital camera was a Nikon Coolpix 8800 with a CCD 8mp that I purchased new in 2005 ( not quite a pocket camera though) and I still have it, I recently charged the battery and started to use it again for fun.
Ahh yes I always thought they looked like awesome cameras. The optical zoom some of those things had was crazy!
@@LeeIveson indeed and it still takes beautiful quality images throughout its whole focal range. It's an amazing camera for its age.
My first camera was a Hanimex clone of the Kodak instamatic 1979, 1988 I enrolled in a 2 year photography course and it was compulsory for us to buy a k1000. My first digital was a Canon 400d in 2009, we brought a dozen pocket digital cameras Sony, Samsung , Canon eosm etc from 2009 to 2019. Then got back to Pentax K5II, k70 but it's solenoid blew up after 8 months and was replaced with the KF under warranty by Pentax. 2022 I moved back to film shooting and digital photography is now a backup. I shoot Pentax MX, SP, K1000 and Olympus Pen ee2 plus just bought 7:57 a Minolta alpha 303si film camera for magazine shoots. I now shooting at least 12 rolls of film a month and don't miss digital
That's interesting that after exploring all the digital options you ended up back with film. What lead you back to film if you don't mind me asking?
@@LeeIveson Digital is mindless photography and film is mindful photography. With digital you can just blaze away giving very little thought to the composition, after 16 years i found i was getting so bored that i had to keep buying vintage lenses for some spice. Then in August 2022 i tried film again, i brought the Pentax MX and yes i had some disasters getting used to shooting film, but i had to think about every shot, compose every shot in my mind first and then decide was it worth using one of my 36 shots for. Film i use is mostly JCH Streetpan, i tried Hp5 and XP2 but streetpan is a funky black and white film that really highlites white. So when i shoot JCH i am seeking white objects to focus on, whether thats a cafe chair, an umbrella or a persons clothing. My digital photography has gotten a lot better since i started doing film again and i am not getting bored anymore.
BTW Kastar has batteries for the Panasonic FS15! Listed on Amazon! I have been able to find batteries for a lot of legacy gear. Apparently the ‘retro’ craze is creating a demand for batteries that is not being ignored!
Yeah I've noticed a lot of the popular cameras from yesteryear are having companies make new batteries for them, an indicator of their popularity.
My first digital camera is a Vivitar 4 megapixel point and shoot camera it still works as it tmakes AA batteries
My first DSLR is a Pentax istDL I still own and use because I had Pentax film cameras and the lenses worked on the DSLR
A lot of the early point & shoots seem to take AA batteries. That pink Samsung I showed in the video uses AA. That's the great thing about the K-mount, to this day we can use all that lovley vintage glass on the modern Pentax bodies, which is a huge win in my book!