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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.

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