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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Matthew Richards

Got an old digital compact camera in the attic? It might be better than you think

Compact cameras.

I keep hearing about the incredible march of progress when it comes to all things scientific. Fair point. Just cast your mind back 25 years (if you’d even been born) and think about the mobile phones, computers, and TV sets that we were using back then, not to mention the digital cameras. I say ‘digital’ but at the turn of the century, most of us were still using film cameras. I was an early adopter and became the proud owner of an Olympus C990Z digital compact camera (D490Z in the USA) in the year 2000.

A year 2000 Olympus C990X / D490Z, resplendent with 2.1MP CCD image sensor and 3x optical zoom lens, plus a pop-up flash and sliding lens cover. (Image credit: Olympus)
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