But it had the worst rolling shutter effect I've ever seen. Just taking a photo in not the brightest of sunlight holding it in your hand you're liable to get a wavy image.
Ah, someone remembers Mustek! They were pretty big in scanners, and branched into digicams. Just a step-down from the cheapest Olympus (in 2002 Ukraine).
Mustek MDC3000 was my first digital camera, which took me on a journey through Canon Powershot S2 IS, Nikon D1x, Nikon D200, and now Fuji x100.
Mustek MDC 3000 was amazingly versatile: plug it into a computer, and it becomes a webcam (same as the Mini you had, IIRC), could shoot videos. Daylight quality was good. If it had manual controls, it would have been amazing for the money (about $200).
I semi-killed my Mustek by trying to power it off a DC adapter by hotwiring it to the battery terminal, and mixing up the polarity or the voltage. It still worked as a webcam after that!
100's of thousands of shots later (on other cameras), I still have my Mustek, hoping to repair it one day.
Ah, I remember this one! It was essentially a webcam with storage, batteries and a shutter button strapped to it :)
It may not have been much, but it came at a price point that made it much more attainable than "real" digital cameras at the time.
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That's fantastic. And here I thought I had the cheapest digital camera - but I had luxuries like 1.3MP, 15fps video, and a plastic lens to twist for "macro"! http://commonemitter.blogspot.com/2012/06/teardown-mustek-gs...
But it had the worst rolling shutter effect I've ever seen. Just taking a photo in not the brightest of sunlight holding it in your hand you're liable to get a wavy image.
Ah, someone remembers Mustek! They were pretty big in scanners, and branched into digicams. Just a step-down from the cheapest Olympus (in 2002 Ukraine).
Mustek MDC3000 was my first digital camera, which took me on a journey through Canon Powershot S2 IS, Nikon D1x, Nikon D200, and now Fuji x100.
Mustek MDC 3000 was amazingly versatile: plug it into a computer, and it becomes a webcam (same as the Mini you had, IIRC), could shoot videos. Daylight quality was good. If it had manual controls, it would have been amazing for the money (about $200).
I semi-killed my Mustek by trying to power it off a DC adapter by hotwiring it to the battery terminal, and mixing up the polarity or the voltage. It still worked as a webcam after that!
100's of thousands of shots later (on other cameras), I still have my Mustek, hoping to repair it one day.
Ah, I remember this one! It was essentially a webcam with storage, batteries and a shutter button strapped to it :) It may not have been much, but it came at a price point that made it much more attainable than "real" digital cameras at the time.