I recently acquired a very nice Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W7 compact digital camera from 2005. In it was a 1.0GB SanDisk Memory Stick PRO with some images that were taken in late 2013. Here are a few of the most interesting so far. I believe they were taken in West Texas and New Mexico but I don’t know the photographer’s name.
The Sony is a 7.2-megapixel camera with a super sharp (and fast) Carl Zeiss 3x optical zoom lens and CCD sensor.
Rediscovering these neat little compact CCD digital cameras from the middle 2000s can be a rewarding experience. Their film-like images are in contrast with the super high-resolution images we’ve grown accustomed to in our modern CMOS and full-frame digital cameras. BTW, the Sony was listed at around $400 when it was released in 2005.
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Thank you for sharing the lovely stored photos taken my a previous owner. I wonder if they had placed any information in the metadata of the files?
I recently acquired a Sony DKC-C300X camera but it only had 157 passport photos on the 64MB memory *smiles*.
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Hi, thanks for your comments. Since it was film there wasn’t any data available as to when the images were taken. The seller of the camera wasn’t its original owner so they couldn’t add any info about them. Passport photos. Cool find! – Chris
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