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Optocam Zero’s Pictures Look One Hundred

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Optocam Zero’s Pictures Look One Hundred https://hackaday.com/2026/04/16/optocam-zeros-pictures-look-one-hundred/
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Optocam Zero’s Pictures Look One Hundred

Yeah, we know, there’s a camera on your phone that does this and that. But these days its become trendy to turn towards older digital cameras in place of smartphones, and we can tell you from…

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Mike Weston Apr 9

Interesting video from Caltech (where I went to college) and JPL about the invention of CMOS image sensors (though Wikipedia makes me think lots of others were working in this area at the time) in the 1990s.

https://youtu.be/LqSLD4LBEIU

Amazingly I bought my first digital camera, a $600 Olympus with 640x480 resolution and non-removable memory for only 20 such images (I think it was the D-200L) in time for my cross country bicycle trip in 1997.

#Caltech #JPL #CMOS #DigitalCamera #1990s #Olympus

This Tiny Chip CHANGED EVERYTHING!

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ChrisR Apr 6

Dear Fediverse #HiveMind, my grandson needs some advice for a (used) #DigitalCamera. He is 11 & interested in birds, which he'd like to take photos of. He's not particularly interested in #Photography per se, just as a means to an end, and probably not particularly careful. I'm thinking a #CompactCamera like some of the Panasonics; his father was wondering about a #BridgeCamera. We have a XQ2 he can use (24-100e zoom) but I suspect he'd be better with longer reach. Maybe £200 budget. Any ideas?