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01-16-2016, 10:54 AM #1
I dug this old thing up...
I guess this is boating-related enough to be here...
I was going through some of my old storage totes and uncovered my old Nikon E995. This camera was introduced in 1999 and is 3.3 megapixels. Its price was around $900, which was a lot of money to me, being that I was just finished with college back then. I charged the battery and it still worked just fine. The old 64 MB (that's megabyte, not gigabyte) Compact Flash card was still in the camera from the last event it was used at. This camera's image quality is still impressive, though its auto-focus system is extremely slow by today's standards. The camera also takes several seconds to boot up.
This was the first 'good' digital camera I owned, and I used this very camera to cover some of our earliest events and evaluations at S&F. I remember using this camera at the ODBA Jasper races in 2002 and 2003, as well as for our original Brucato SVS and PCU tests. I also used this to cover the Connecticut River Runs in 2000, 2001, and 2002. I also used this camera for our evaluation of Aeromarine Research's Tunnel Boat Design Program. This camera's very unique articulating lens module made it so well suited to shooting unusual angles that were required for some articles.
This camera is important to me because it represents such an important part of Scream And Fly's history. All of our very first articles were made using this camera.
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01-16-2016, 12:23 PM #2
I remember that one !
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01-16-2016, 12:59 PM #3
i still have one of those too....great camera for what it is...
1984 28 ghost twin 200 Yamah ProVs (SOLD)
1997 21 Superboat Legend 250 VMAXXX (SOLD)
2001 25 Concept CC 250EFI (SOLD)
2002 24 Superboat Step 250EFI (SOLD)
1997 21 Checkmate Pulsare 200EFI Merc (Beater Boat)(SOLD)
1994 20 Hydrasport 225 Optimax (SOLD)
1998 27 progression Twin 225 Mercs (SOLD)
2005 23 Kryptonite 300 Promax (SOLD)
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01-16-2016, 01:56 PM #4
reckon thats an oldie but a goodie- if i remember correctly ours is in Copper Canyon (Az.) at the very bottom.
"We're here cuz we're not all there!"
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01-16-2016, 06:34 PM #5
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