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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Coolpix 600, 1998 Lyngby, Denmark

I just came across these couple of pics, I don't believe I've ever posted them before. They were taken in 1998 or 1999 with my first digital camera, a Nikon Coolpix 600, where I lived in Lyngby, Denmark, near Copenhagen.
Believe it or not, the linked files at 768x1024 pixels are the full camera resolution... How times have changed. I bough the camera for about $600, just marked down from over a thousand. But even at such basic quality, the immediacy of a digital camera was exciting.



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4 comments:

  1. Philocalist15 Jan 2012, 19:27:00

    I can well relate to this: way back in the day I bought an Olympus digital compact, one of the first available. I seem to remember that it was the size of a small house brick with the magnificent resolution of just 640 x 480 pixels ... and a price that now seems outrageous of somewhere well over £800! ... I recently found a single writeable CD, in case, bought at the same time ... with a price tag still attached of £14 ... for ONE blank CD!!!!

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  2. Eolake Stobblehouse15 Jan 2012, 19:36:00

    Sounds unbelievable.

    I do remember though that around '97-'98, Olympus was top dog in the consumer digicam market though I forget the data about it, it was before I could afford to consider one.

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  3. Anonymous19 Jan 2012, 16:05:00

    So, the Danish word for Zone is Zone?

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  4. Eolake Stobblehouse19 Jan 2012, 16:46:00

    Yes, though pronounced in two syllables.
    There are probably hundreds of words like that, or at the very least very similar.

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