HISTORY:
My professional and private background is all about electronics, audio and 'The Arts' but NOT photography! My photographs on this website will atest to that (it's the best I can do with the equipment I have!)
Recently I have been asked by an associate/friend to 'look after' their collection of photographic equipment and small format film projectors and stock due to his serious ill health and his inability to look after this gear any longer. Most of the gear is original Japanese marketplace equipment, his country of birth. This is one of the vintage digital cameras that he has passed to me, a very dated camera but pretty 'cool' in it's own strange way!
I do not pretend to know a lot about this gear, in my younger days I had a 'box brownie' and I think later a 'super ubeaut' Pentax SLR film camera so my experience with these early digital cameras is pretty well zilch.
PLEASE read the description below completely and decide if this camera may be of interest to you.
There are no returns or refunds offered, this is second hand gear and offered 'as-is' but I do try to give some information in the TESTING section of this description.
This would have to be a "relic" from the early days of digital photography! I was hunting around for a USB port, it doesn't have one. How about a memory card slot, no luck there either as it has a "massive" 3Mb internal memory - that's it. Barely enough to take one contemporary hi-res photo. It probably doesn't matter that this camera appears to be non-functioning, who on earth would or could use it?
OLYMPUS Digital Compact Camera
Designed, manufactured and purchased in Japan by the owner (mentioned above)
This is not an Australian "Export Model"
Circa 1997
Model C-410L
Here is some basic information I dug up online ...
Expensive little beast! Originally had a retail price of $699 back in 1997!
640 x 480 resolution (Wow! Not)
Lens f=5mm /F2.8
Speed range 1/8s ~ 1/500s
I have only been provided with the camera, no cables at all - there are only two ports on the side of the camera. One is for external power and the other I presume is a digital output to external equipment (VGA perhaps) - this port is an 8 pin female socket.
TESTING:
Inserted the required 4x AA size Alkaline batteries ... all battery contacts look to be clean and shiny (no oxidisation).
Nothing ... Nada Zero ... Zilch
It would appear this camera "has ceased to be" as I could not get any life from either the top or rear LCD screens - no signs of life at all.
I really wonder if anyone would want a working camera in any case, it is EXTREMELY limited in its capabilities but may be good to include in someone's "digital photography Museum"
COSMETIC CONDITION:
USED
Clean
NO physical damage to the casing in any area
LCD screens do appear to have some scratching and the glass colouring looks "right" (not Yellowish as happens when water appears on the scene!)
Front sliding lens covers moves easily and does not stick
I am not sure but when I look into the depths of the front lens, I think I can see some dots of bacteria.
In it's day I guess this camera was the owners "pride and joy" (he was called snappy boy at one time!) but it is so so very dated compared to modern digital cameras!
I have now packed this camera (with the wrist strap) into a sealed clear plastic package and it now patiently awaits someone to bask in its former glory ...
