Hitting the streets with the Sony Cyber-shot day I (Patreon)

As promised in the last post, I took this Cyber-shot DSC-P100 from 2004 for a ride, stress tested it in the streets.

These are a mix of shots from the old port and downtown Montreal. 

These were processed in Lightroom but all the shots from downtown were actually shot in black & white from the camera, JPG baby no RAW here !

I could still push and pull from the jpgs so that's fun. 

All and all I was not expecting anything good, but some of these shots are quite nice in my opinion. This camera looks like nothing but it's packing, focus is pretty good for an 18 year old camera, you can even set distance focus and the manual settings are not that bad either, plus the camera itself is quite solid and feels good in the hands, plus it's so compact.

Only thing missing is more megapixels, but 2592 pixels wide is not that bad. One thing I noticed was that ISO400 back then is like ISO4000 now!

Even at ISO200 noise start creeping in if you under expose by one stop, but digital noise is the new film grain right? I'm telling you, this will be the new film soon in North America, I swear, send me those old digicams and I'll breathe new life to them. (or wait sell them and make a buck or two) 

I also noticed that I could get a little closer, this is what bugs me about the Ricoh GRIII, I feel like at an equivalent to 28mm I'm a little too wide and can't get up in their faces, reason why the GRIIIx is talking to me in my sleep. 

There's also a zoom that can get handy, however aperture closes on you the more you zoom in, obviously it's still a point and shoot.

Besides that I'm getting more confident each time I shoot, less afraid of confrontations as I grow. Plus with this camera people are more like; wtf of a camera are you using dude, it's 2022!  

Some do see me coming, they give me the look...and I love it!

Also, this was my first set of photos I processed on my iPad air 5th gen, it's quite awesome I have to say, wasn't sure of the Lightroom CC at first but after a while you get used to it and it do works great, it's also pretty damn fast, no lags whatsoever, that M1 chip is something for sure. Using your fingers plus the pen is quite magic, from now on all my LR work is transferring to the iPad, still not quite sure yet for photoshop, will see. 

In conclusion, I didn't know I would have had that much fun from a shitty digital camera from the early 2000s, a decade that was dead to me, not so sure it's all that shitty anymore, maybe there is more to those CCD censors, film like vibes I'm starting to see it. Day 2 coming soon, and you can bet I will give it a try with more of these digicams. (Already got more :) )

Thanks for reading!