Administrators Andrew Reid Posted Friday at 11:00 AM Administrators Share Posted Friday at 11:00 AM 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. PannySVHS, sanveer and Emanuel 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PannySVHS Posted Friday at 08:43 PM Share Posted Friday at 08:43 PM 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 Friday at 10:43 PM Share Posted Friday at 10:43 PM 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 Friday at 11:16 PM Share Posted Friday at 11:16 PM 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 Saturday at 05:21 PM Share Posted Saturday at 05:21 PM 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 Saturday at 06:51 PM Share Posted Saturday at 06:51 PM 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 and eatstoomuchjam 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcio Kabke Pinheiro Posted 5 hours ago Share Posted 5 hours ago 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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