The term ‘Vintage’ is often mis-used. If you ask a number of people how old they would think a ‘Vintage’ item should be to be classed as ‘Vintage’, you will get a variety of answers.
Take these two cameras, the EOS30 film camera and EOS20D digital camera.
I bought the EOS30 in about the year 2000, so nearly 25 years old, and the EOS20D 20 years ago.
Now in film camera terms, I wouldn’t class the EOS30 as vintage, almost too modern compared to a lot of film cameras people love to use these days. A lot of people think it is a digital camera when they first see it, but there’s no rear screen.
The EOS20D is old by today’s standards but is it ‘vintage’ ?
In my opinion it still takes great photographs, yes it might not be the best performer in low light or at high ISO settings. But for every day typical photographs taken in RAW mode it is pretty good. And at 8 MPS if you are only using the images for social media then it’s more than enough.
Batteries are still available and it takes an 8GB CF Card, but no higher than that.
What do you think a Vintage Digital Camera is? Please comment below.
