My Jankuary camera is proof that good things often arrive in unexpected ways. In this case, it came in the form of a Kodak EasyShare Z730 digital camera that the seller threw in...
In retrospect perhaps I tempted fate. This Jankuary road trip retraced the steps of a trip I made in the late 1980s to retrieve our Combi van that had broken down when my wife a...
7 February, 2024
5 Frames with the MiniCam 100k – My Jankuary project
I liked the idea of Jankuary when the first posts appeared, and started wondering what I could use. Ideally without buying anything! I considered my early Fujifilm bridge camera...
5 February, 2024
Fuji MX-500 – 5 Frames for Jankuary with my first digital camera
Given that others are digging out newer cameras for Jankuary, I decided to take another look at my first digital camera – a Fujifilm MX-500. This had a 1.5 megapixel camer...
You’ll think I’m nuts to recommend an admittedly “janky” digital camera that dates all the way back to 1999. During the original Polaroid company’s final years before closing it...
26 January, 2024
Kodak DX6340 – A Day With a 2003 Digicam for Jankuary
I mentioned in my last post that I am a compulsive collector of Kodak cameras and have a number that I have never used. The current Jankuary January strand prompted me to look f...
16 January, 2024
Casio EX-ZR800 – My Cheapo Companion
This is a sort of review of a small cheapo compact digital camera I have been using exclusively since early Spring. I wanted a compact digital camera, as I loathe Smartphone cam...
15 January, 2024
Olympus Camedia C2020Z – Vintage Digital/Antique Shop “Jankuary’ Find – 2MP from 1999.
I saw the Jankuary posts and I wanted in. Backstory. A while ago I found out about an Antique Store not far from me. The signage is on the nose. I was told by two friends (Guill...