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4/5/2014 Mike Orazzi | Staff
Participants listen to Connecticut Citizens Defense League President Scott Wilson during a CCDL gun rights rally at the Connecticut state capitol in Hartford, Saturday April 5, 2014, speaks out against the state's gun control law passed one year ago on April 4, 2013 restricting magazines to 10 rounds and prohibiting the sale of certain semi-automatic firearms, including the AR-15.
Video & Slideshow here: youtu.be/XbILfKZkMbs
This photo was made in September 1997 with my first digital camera. It was a SoundVision SVMini-2, and was made in the US!
www.dcresource.com/reviews/soundvision/svmini2.html
It had a CMOS sensor, a new thing at the time. Actual resolution was 960x800, and it saved the images on a small amount of internal RAM (Only 500 kilobytes, enough for about 12-25 photos!). It also had a slot for a physically large linear flash PC card, but those cards were VERY expensive back then, even if they were only of a MB or two capacity:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Flash
Image compression was a proprietary "wavelet" format that was claimed to be better than .jpg, which was then converted in the computer to an uncompressed bitmap or .jpg. No LCD screen on the camera, so it was strictly a viewfinder to shoot- check 'em later on the PC setup. Fixed focus, fixed focal length lens. Serial cable transfer, no USB.
As you'll see from my photos, image quality was rotten. And I had a weird compression level setting problem with it, so I visited the company near Boston, and ended up back in their tech lab, talking with a boffin. They ended up being totally mystified by the problem, and gave me a newer, better model for my trouble.
Here are some specs on the camera:
www.dcresource.com/reviews/cameraDetail.php?cam=73
It appears that the company may be defunct. Their website has not been updated for about five years, from the dates shown:
I did not keep it long, and did not buy another digital camera for a few years. The next one was a Nikon 800, which was a revelation compared to the old SV Mini.
Samyang / Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens.
The lens hood has been “shaved” to allow a nearly full circle image to be captured.
I removed the hot shoe and the original solid wires that ran from the receiver's PCB to the hot shoe. I then drilled out the hole in the receiver's plastic body that was formerly occupied by the hot shoe center contact, so the new 1/8-inch (3.5mm) phone jack would fit in it's place.
Stranded light-gauge wires were soldered to the PCB and the new phone jack, and the job was done!
The radio trigger set works perfectly like this, and is much more versatile, and safer to mount, too.
The previous photo in this set shows the outside view of this mod.
Here is a Strobist forum thread on this mod:
The wimpy on-camera flash did it's best, but at the Samsung D53's base ISO of 50, the flash is just too weak to expose the room correctly.
I could have boosted the camera's ISO as high as 400, but that would have introduced a lot of noise in the image. This is an unavoidable result with any of the small point and shoot digital cameras, due to the tiny image sensor they use. So take the seemingly high max. ISO rating you see advertised on a wee digital camera with about a pound of salt.
See the next image in the set for results with an off-camera flash added to the scene.