£28 Canon 400D – A budget bargain in 2024?
There’s no doubt that Canon set fire to the digital SLR market back in 2003 with the release of the 300D and then continued to pour fuel on the flames with their successors the 350D and 400D. With the 300D…
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Category Reviews
Old does not mean obsolete! Giving old, forgotten or obsolete cameras a retrospective review, with a focus on budget bargains and affordability. Maybe you don’t need the latest camera, or even one from the last ten years!
1989 Second Generation Auto Focus Fight – Canon EOS 600 V Nikon F401S
In 1989 the autofocus wars were well and truly underway. All major manufacturers had either moved from manual focus entirely, were well on their way to doing so or, like Pentax, reserved manual focus cameras only for their super low…
Pictures for a Pound – The Fujifilm S3500
A reoccurring theme over at Canny Cameras is the “camera for a quid.” Short of being gifted a camera, which is cheating, a single pound is about the most rock bottom price you could expect to pick up a camera…
Not a Cosmic Symbol but close enough – The GOMZ / LOMO Smena 8 – Cosmic 35
In June 1989, Amateur Photographer magazine teamed up with Jessop of Leicester to bring readers a once in a lifetime bargain offer of a “Cosmic Symbol” camera for just £8.95 or £22.80 inflation adjusted as of February 2024. Far from…
Good enough for the RAF – The last of the massive floppy disk Mavica’s – The Sony Mavica FD200
Sony are synonymous with innovation and have overseen the development of some monumentally successful product releases that have changed the markets in which they have entered. Walkman, Betamax and Playstation will instantly spring to mind for anyone who grew up…
1994 Minolta Dynax 500si – “A camera so simple a child could use it!” Best give it to a child, then…
I’ve recently been looking into cameras which hold some form of historical or technological significance. It turns out that there are other camera manufacturers out there that aren’t Canon? I know, I’m as shocked as you are by this revelation…
More abandoned memories saved by a Canon EOS 1000F / Rebel S
It’s 1990 and the Canon EOS lineup is iteratively starting to take shape. The first few models were slight outliers in their design language and even their model numbers were odd, starting at 630 and working their way down to…
Canon EOS 5 – A wholly underwhelming experience
In 1992, Canon released the EOS 5 to great critical reception. Without doubt, the EOS 5 came packed with features that consumers wanted from a high end SLR and it sold in vast quantities. Professionals who had invested in the…
They’re all dead, Dave – One of the last surviving Canon Digital Ixus 400’s – A retrospective review
The Canon Digital Ixus 400 (Ixy 400 in Japan and Powershot S400 in America) was an utterly iconic digital compact camera, released in March of 2003 into an intensely competitive marketplace. Digital compacts were all the rage in the very…
Completing a 25 year circle – revisiting and reviving one of the first consumer digital cameras – a 1995 Casio QV-10
A story of struggling against the passage of time, technology and endless rummaging in the garage for old computer parts… This one is special, for me personally at least. A great deal has already been written about the Casio QV-10…