Nikon COOLPIX 300: 25 YEARS later! RETRO review
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- Reviewing the Nikon COOLPIX 300 from 1996, 25 YEARS later!
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Reviewing the Nikon COOLPIX 300 from 1996, 25 YEARS later!
Buy Gordon a coffee: www.paypal.me/cameralabs
Gordon's In Camera book: amzn.to/2n61PfI / Amazon uk: amzn.to/2mBqRVZ
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Equipment used for producing my videos
Sony A6400: amzn.to/3hul53c
Sony e 24mm f1.8: amzn.to/2TqWNzk
Rode NT USB mic: amzn.to/3AdHcUp
Rode Wireless Go II mic: amzn.to/3xkCvGo
Rode Lavalier Go mic: amzn.to/3ygzzKY
Godox UL150 light: amzn.to/2VpVbXE
Godox QR-P70 softbox: amzn.to/3yQfGdF
MacBook Pro 13in (16GB / 512GB): amzn.to/3hrwMYD
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Love these retro reviews, though I never owneda Nikon 300, I can appreciate them for the stepping stones of technology they are. I think the early digital camera designs interest me, they did not want to just make a "film camera look". I think that is part of the charm of these devices! Great channel!
Thanks, glad you liked it, more to come!
I love this channel I realize it's a very small niche but it's fun seeing how these once cutting edge devices have aged.
Thanks! I'm enjoying making them!
Another trip down computer memory lane, really enjoying seeing these devices that we read about in PC mags but never could afford (or need) most of them.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video! The devil pic(it looks like it to me at least) is hysterical 😁
Definitely ahead of its time.
Seeing this reminds me of two things: My own Palm, which I still have somewhere, m100 I think. And also a digital camera at work that used 3.5" Floppy disks for storage. Do you have some cameras like that on hand?
Yep, the floppy disk cameras were the Sony Mavicas and I had e a video about them here: ruclips.net/video/gHtgnOQCYsk/видео.html
Very cool
Such an interesting device.
The Pictures were as "good as can be expected" :)
Cool device! :)
Both my desktop PC at home and at work have a Physical COM port, so they are still pretty common, on desktops.
And as a Automation engineer I actually use them several times a year, but now mostly with a USB adapter to my Laptop.
Even though the resolution is only VGA it seems there are chromatic aberration visible below the pier 😏
I also have a 9-pin serial port on an older PC, but Nikon's original software to perform the acquisition won't work on a modern OS, so I resorted to AV capture.
I had a scsi interface on my Omega ZIP drive and immediately thought I had made a mistake! I eventually went over to USB (I am not sure why, but possibly related). I still have a USB drive, but I am having trouble with making it read discs. I have tried it with XP and Vista. Anyway, a bit off topic.
It's very possible the drive or discs simply aren't working anymore - they were notoriously fickle.
I would assume while the photos from your slideshow don't look that great on our HD screens today, in 1997, on standard tvs, these would have looked a bit more sharp and clean.
Definitely, and I also think had I been able to acquire the images over a serial connection rather than composite video, the colour would have been little better too, albeit not the resolution which would be roughly similar.
@@DinoBytes Totally agree. I think for some of the younger viewers, they might think that those of us using that technology then really sacrificed quality for convenience, and there is truth in that, but the sharpness was decent, it was the blown out highlights and chromatic aberration that was the worst part. Anything now that is broadcast off non-HD devices look muddy, which to me wasn't the case even then with our standard box shaped TVs. Thanks for doing these vids, you bring back the initial excitement of technology then. It moved so quick.
@@seanb480 glad you're enjoying them, many more to come!
SCSI!, really, well that makes It rather clear what market segment this was aimed at. We also liked having those quick interfaces. But how many types of SCSI interfaces with how many pins were available...? It was rather hopeless. And always with those thick and stiff cables making it a chore to handle.
I had a somewhat ridiculous collection of SCSI devices, interfaces and cables, all of them!
@@DinoBytes Me too. I had a tower with a Syquest 44, a Syquest 88 and an Exabyte tape drive I also had a flat bed scanner with SCSI interface. This whole setup was very finicky and the stiff cables in combination with the fragile connectors always caused problems. And then the terminator resistor at the end of the chain...
I remember ADB as well. The Apple keyboards and mice used them. I liked how the mice connected into the keyboard, which connected into the computer.
@@heiner71 hah! Your SCSI chain sounds a lot like mine!
Back side looks like a modern high end smartphone.
Almost like my Galaxy Note4.. just 20 years earlier :D :D
I remember that camera back when I worked for Ritz Camera in the 90s :-) However the Casio's sold a lot better.
Can you remember any other popular models?
@@DinoBytes The QV10 was one of them.
@@vic_the_roman I am looking for one of those...
It's crazy to see a color touchscreen, Palm themselves wouldn't do it until 2000! Say, Gordon, did you ever get your hands on any of the Kodak PalmPix cameras?
That battery warning is annoying, does it beep for the entire thirty seconds?!
Really fun seeing this camera after Cathode Ray Dude's recent video on the MiniDisc Camcorder, with the insane "shove whatever into the camera" mentality that companies had back then. Back when they were still trying to figure out which wacky features fit in the middle of the Venn diagram of "things this new technology enables" and "features that people will actually find useful."
(Also, small nitpick, the Apple serial plugs (labeled for modem and printer) and ADB were two different things!)
Yes, you're right, ADB was just for the mouse and keyboard wasn't it? And yes it beeps for 30 seconds unless you intervene! 'm finding Kodak camera surprisingly hard to track down considering there were so many them out at the time.
RETRO-DIGITAL FUTURE!!!
The 0.3MP camera produce images isn't bad... And the camera had interesting feature too...
The colours aren't great, but there's an interesting vintage feel to them...
U.S. still use this camera to record UFO 👽
Ugh...the interface with the pen brings back bad memories about a phone I once had, the Sony Ericsson P910i. Guess the picture quality was about equal, meaning not. Just not. Devices like the Coolpix show that today's ideas are nothing new, just the technology has finally caught up with the ingenuity. Wonder what could be considered a similar ambitious idea today, where our technology isn't there yet.
flying cars? Even electric cars to some extent, almost there but we could do with longer range and or better infrastructure...
@@DinoBytes Look at what people do on the road nowadays, you really want them in the air as well? And being an electric drivetrain engineer, I promise you, I'm working on it.
Nikon invented the Samsung Note series 25 years ago 😁
It is amazing how many boxes it ticked, and yet proved unsuccessful back then.
The spiritual successor to Kodak's Autographic system of 1914.
Who needs any fucking dynamic range, right?! 🤣
First
But did you finish watching? 😂
@@mattdp846 Not yet😃
Yikes, not much corner sharpness in that lens
there's not much sharpness anywhere at 640x480 pixels.
@@DinoBytes True, but those photos still give the feeling of viewing the world through a coke bottle