Administrators Andrew Reid Posted May 16 Administrators Share Posted May 16 If anyone wants to have some retro CCD fun then I have found a fun little bargain for you... https://www.wexphotovideo.com/olympus-e-500-digital-slr-camera-body-used-3242908/ This is using the same Kodak CCD sensor tech as the M8, just a slightly smaller chip at 2x crop vs 1.5x. The colours and grain are a thing of filmic beauty and it has the rather lovely Olympus colour science in JPEGs too. sanveer, PannySVHS and Emanuel 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PannySVHS Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 No kidding? @Andrew Reid I love the colours people are getting from the M8 sensor. Some classy classic read from a photoblog favorite of mine. Those colours in these shots, bw as well! https://blog.mingthein.com/2012/07/12/revisiting-the-leica-m8-a-cheap-entry-into-digital-rangefinders/ Emanuel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil A Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 The M8 had an APS-H sensor so crop factor of 1.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emanuel Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 2 hours ago, PannySVHS said: (...) Some classy classic read from a photoblog favorite of mine. Those colours in these shots, bw as well! https://blog.mingthein.com/2012/07/12/revisiting-the-leica-m8-a-cheap-entry-into-digital-rangefinders/ oh God, that's beautiful! < 3 What an artist we have there! We need more stuff of this! : ) Who cares about new features when the old ones are already prone to shine? : P We need shooters and art coming from, not much else... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlfan Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 On 5/16/2025 at 4:00 AM, Andrew Reid said: If anyone wants to have some retro CCD fun then I have found a fun little bargain for you... https://www.wexphotovideo.com/olympus-e-500-digital-slr-camera-body-used-3242908/ This is using the same Kodak CCD sensor tech as the M8, just a slightly smaller chip at 2x crop vs 1.5x. The colours and grain are a thing of filmic beauty and it has the rather lovely Olympus colour science in JPEGs too. I have one e500. Small, coupled with oly 43 25 f2.8. Good for travel. The lens has some distortion. The camera is not good at night. Other than that, it is good to use. Color is good at iso 100. At iso 400, it starts to smear. I brought it to DC once as my sole traveling gig. I like it except limited use at night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuickHitRecord Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 Brought mine along on my honeymoon in Ecuador a few years ago. Kind of a slow camera to work with and not my usual keeper rate, but I do like the shots that I was able to get: maxJ4380, PannySVHS and eatstoomuchjam 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcio Kabke Pinheiro Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 On 5/16/2025 at 8:16 PM, Emanuel said: oh God, that's beautiful! < 3 What an artist we have there! We need more stuff of this! : ) Who cares about new features when the old ones are already prone to shine? : P We need shooters and art coming from, not much else... I miss Ming a lot, the guy is brilliant. But now he have a very well respected watch company, only shoots for some clients and (of course) all the media for his watch company. https://www.ming.watch/ PannySVHS 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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