I like auctions.
Actually, I love auctions.
I really, really love auctions.
Not eBay. eBay doesn't count as an auction house. I like proper auctions at auction houses. What I really like are those auction houses that hold their auctions online. That just tickles me pink.
One of my recent wins really shows just why I love them so much. I won this fantastic camera for a scant few dollars. It may have been $2.00. I don't think anyone else bid on it. I got it home this week. Now, shall we unbox it? I think we shall, but first, let's enjoy the box.
The box clearly states that this is a Kodak DC120 Zoom Digital Camera. But not just any Zoom Digital Camera, one which over one million pixels! That's huge!
How can a person view the results of these one million pixels? By using Windows NT 4.0, of course! This is cutting edge technology.
Now, upon opening the box, the first thing that comes to mind is that this camera either was never used, or was used by a person who saved absolutely everything. Perhaps a hoarder (not to be confused with whorder, which would be a person who purchases the services of a prostitute). Perhaps someone who was just incredibly anal. Regardless, this person was meticulous and saved all the documentation that came with this camera. Seriously, it doesn't look like the documentation was ever browsed through at all. It literally still had that new-publication smell to it.
Digging down farther into the box I find a PCMCIA card. A PCMCIA card! This is a win. I was absolutely not expecting this. And it has a whopping 4 MB of memory! What is even more exciting is that I have a laptop that has a PCMCIA slot in it. I can use this!
For what it's worth, this box and wrapper had never been opened before, either. I had to cut it open to get the card out.
Finally, we get to the camera itself, and look at this beauty. You cannot tell by looking at it, but the lens has a threaded cover to it to allow for filters to be added. Pretty good thinking, really. This is the camera in the powered off state.
This is the camera in the powered on state. Yes, that cover needs to be physically opened to power the camera on.
And here is what it looks like from the back.
Upon opening the camera up I see the reason for the PCMCIA card; the camera uses a CompactFlash slot for storage. It turns out that I actually still have a CompactFlash card. Why, do you ask? Because I'm a nerd. This one is also substantially larger than 4 MB. 128 MB of pure storage power, baby!
With the addition of 4 AA batteries this camera is ready to rock and roll.
So how well does it work? I'll admit, I actually had to pull the manual out on this one to figure it out. I did figure out how to turn it on all by my lonesome, but I could not figure out how to turn the flash off. Thankfully the prior owner left this entire package in absolutely pristine condition and a quick flip through the manual provided some good information.
So how do the pictures look?
Well... the zoom on it sucks. Sucks ass. Big ass. Big, smelly, donkey ass. It's a digital zoom, and with only 1 megapixel to work with, the pictures quickly turn from pictures to sucky blobs of suck ass blobiness.
But... using no zoom turns out a pretty decent picture. Of course, before figuring out how to turn the flash of it turns out pretty bright.
But, you know, my Christmas Nippers turned out pretty well!
(c) All images and photographs, unless otherwise specified, are created and owned by me.
(c) Victor Wiebe
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General all around problem-solver and creative type.
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