Digital cameras. I seem to have quite a few!!!
I rescued the Kodak DC3400 from the bin at work and popped some batteries and a very small memory card in it and it works. It comes with a viewfinder that sadly isn't "through the lens" or TTL, and therefore non-WYSIWYG. In fact, with things centred in the viewfinder the resultant photo is skewed to the right a little. It has batteries in it at the moment but is very slow. Take three pictures one after the other and it struggles to write to the memory card and you have to wait for it to save them before you can use it again.
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P200 is another bin rescue. This time it was actually in the large bin outside along with some other broken equipment. The charging cable and USB data cables had been lost and the camera deemed surplus to requirements. I rescued it and from eBay was able to get a pattern part data cable and an original but used power lead.
The plug is a non-standard type and so needed the right one to power it. It came with a very small capacity genuine Sony memory stick. I have replaced this with multi-platform bodge up. An adapter to take an after market mini-stick, a micro-sd adapter to fit the adapter, and then a micro-sd card to slot in there....
And despite all the connections it works a treat. The camera is small enough to fit in my pocket and I use it on bike trips. It's a little scratched and bashed but it works perfectly. It also has a viewfinder so battery life is much better than an LCD screen only.
Another working relic - Kodak DC3200. I bought this one many years ago. In fact my second digital camera after the Casio.
It still works with a small capacity CF card and AA sized batteries. I haven't used it for a while and might plonk the batteries from the other Kodak in it and see what happens.
Watch for more old tech posts.
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