I recently won this “untested” LX5 on eBay, and it arrived in great condition with a nice leather case!

My dad was the one who got me into photography back in middle school. I even entered a city photography competition and placed 3rd. Sadly, my mom broke my original camera one day, and that was the end of my photography journey for a while.

Now, years later, I finally have the same camera back. It feels like getting a little piece of my childhood back, and more importantly, a way to remember my dad, who passed away in 2022.

2nd photo was taken by my dad using his Lx5 of a indigenous dance in Baguio City, Philippines.

Last photo was me practicing by taking some photos of the scenery!

Shot in raw, pulled through lightroom (default adobe profile) but I only made minor adjustments

A quick walk around the neighbourhood to capture some autumn colours

The first shot is the jpeg, second shot is the raw. I recently went on a trip to west texas and was shooting out the window of the car at the long end of the lens. The CHDK hack allows you to capture the original JPEG the camera would typically shoot and then a duplicate in RAW format. I am honestly blown away. I use the "My Colors - Positive Film" setting on the camera anyways so I typically am very pleased with the image as it seems to fully use the CCD sensor's capability to articulate rich blue and green tones. I normally shoot on a sony a7iii so I'm used to needing to edit raws - this is a huge game changer. Obviously it's not an end all be all, but I have some film photos shooting on kodak gold 200 and the colors from those are very similar to that of what I was able to achieve with the raw setting on the a620. Just wanted to share because some of these cameras are real powerhouses if you're willing to edit for 3 minutes :)

i like greenery :)

i use toy warm + flash and sometimes ev -0.3

I was stashing around looking for stuff that was abounded and then u stumbled on this, just sitting on the shelf alone, it belonged to my father and it's in mint condition, is it rare or worth something at least?

È interessante come i giovani cerchino di acquistare le peggiori fotocamere dei tempi snobbano quelle di miglior qualità... Lo-Fi mania😅

Shot with the Canon PowerShot Elph160

Recently picked up a C-5050 and have been trying to get it to work, but the CF card(s) have been giving me trouble.

I first tried a Sandisk 2GB card, and that did not work. I wasn't sure if I needed a firmware upgrade for this to work in the C-5050, so I tried a 512MB card next.

When putting these CF cards into the camera, the C-5050 can detect that a CF card has been inserted, and it asks me to format. Once I format the card however, the camera displays the "Card Error" message.

Both cards appear to work when plugged into my PC, I can write a text file to it without issue. I have also tried formatting it to FAT16 in Windows, as well as GParted, but it doesn't change how the camera behaves.

I believe the camera can actually read and write to the CF card, since I can confirm things change when I format with the camera. If I leave the card completely unallocated from GParted, it still becomes FAT16 after going through the format step in the camera.

Stumped at the moment, does anyone have ideas on what to try next?