{"id":101522,"date":"2025-03-28T18:11:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T22:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/?p=101522"},"modified":"2025-06-05T19:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T23:01:53","slug":"random-thrifting-haul-olympus-c-3000-for-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/random-thrifting-haul-olympus-c-3000-for-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thrifting Haul – Olympus C-3000 for $10!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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So I got this camera while thrifting the other day–an Olympus C-3000 Zoom from the year 2000!\u00a0 I think I will forever leave the price tag on the body.\u00a0 Sadly though the memory card (a smart media) was like $30 for 32MB!\u00a0 One dollar per Megabyte. Yes kids, 1 MB won’t even store a full res jpeg\/heif from a modern cell phone.\u00a0 This camera shoots TIFF files as well! But on this little card you can store only 3.\u00a0 That’s a pretty challenging thing if you wanted to limit yourself to just 3 images a day.\u00a0 I’ll have to wait until I get a USB cable or smart media card reader to see if the pictures have a digital lo fi vintage quality though.<\/p>\n

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Olympus C-3000 sitting on one of my all time favorite photo books: Laetitia Casta. She was at the tail end of the super model era of the 90’s, and might have been the most gorgeous, fitting for any age, from then to the Renaissance days<\/p><\/div>\n

To put things in perspective, my first digital camera came with an 8MB card, and before that we had the Apple Quicktakes and Sony Mavicas that wrote to floppies.\u00a0 Nowadays you can walk into Micro Center and get a 64GB SD card for a few dollars. Crazy!<\/p>\n

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Olympus C-3000 with some other neat finds I got: Return of the Street Fighter, Bloodsport, and Hard Target–all on VHS, and a Dragonlance paperback. I’m still looking for the rest of the trilogy but they are hard to find because they are now collectible. Who knew?<\/p><\/div>\n

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Olympus C-3000 on top of my other great finds, old issues of The Savage Sword of Conan–for $2 each! That’s a bargain. I loved (and still do) these comic magazines as a kid. The black and white art on the inside is amazing, and the painted covers just scream adventure campaign like a D&D boxed set.\u00a0 What’s crazy is these comics came out in the late 70s at a price point of $1.50.\u00a0 A normal comic was only like $.35 back in the day.\u00a0 This is kinda like the $7.99-8.99 issues of Vogue that we have in 2025…<\/p><\/div>\n

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This camera is one of many 3.3 Megapixels cameras from that era, when they started to get pretty good in image quality.\u00a0 It takes 4 AA batteries, which is great!<\/p>\n

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In photographing all my various gear I get to appreciate the product design of every single item.\u00a0 Things look quite unique when they are off on their own.\u00a0 Cameras can also elevate the outfits that you wear.<\/p>\n

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This type of memory card is wafer thin and very finnicky.\u00a0 You have to insert it a few times if the camera gives you a Format error. (I’ve had much better write speeds and results after I finally bought a card reader and formatted it in Windows)<\/p>\n

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Why even bother with a digital camera this old? Why not? It’s a piece of history, from a different age.\u00a0 To be so clunky with the media and operational quirks, it actually came from a time that was much simpler from a society and life standpoint.\u00a0 I guess that’s why old folks hunt down toys and memorabilia from their youth.\u00a0 Cameras, comics, and movies is pretty much the stuff that defined me.<\/p>\n

(All product shots taken with the Nikon V1 and 18.5mm<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Update! I finally bought a new multi memory card reader.\u00a0 I needed another one anyway and this one has the rare SmartMedia Port!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I got this camera while thrifting the other day–an Olympus C-3000 Zoom from the year 2000!\u00a0 I think I will forever leave the price tag on the body.\u00a0 Sadly though the memory card (a smart media) was like $30 for 32MB!\u00a0 One dollar per Megabyte. Yes kids, 1 MB won’t even store a full […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[320,7],"tags":[368,293],"class_list":{"0":"post-101522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-gear","8":"category-photos","9":"tag-digicam","10":"tag-photo-gear","12":"post-with-thumbnail","13":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olympus-C3000-Product-005-Boon-Vong.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pelE0-qps","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":100646,"url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/random-thrifting-haul-minolta-50mm-f1-4-for-4-dollars\/","url_meta":{"origin":101522,"position":0},"title":"Random Thrifting Haul – Minolta 50mm f1.4 for $4!","author":"Boon.Vong","date":"March 15, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Hello everyone, for these next series of posts I thought I would just post a few quick thoughts and images on photography gear and techniques I've been tinkering with. 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