kodak dc 4800 and vivitar 285HV external flash used equipment -- worth?

Any idea what these are worth used as separate items? Is the vivitar
flash still in any demand?

The camera has some extra accessories but I don't think that will add
much to its value. The vivitar has an L bracket w/ handle (don't know
what you call it) to combine the camera and flash together when you
hold the camera to shoot. This camera doesn't have any shoe for an
external flash so thats why the L bracket is used. Btw, what is the
proper name for this bracket ?

thanks.

doug wrote:
Any idea what these are worth used as separate items? Is the vivitar
flash still in any demand?

The camera has some extra accessories but I don't think that will add
much to its value. The vivitar has an L bracket w/ handle (don't know
what you call it) to combine the camera and flash together when you
hold the camera to shoot. This camera doesn't have any shoe for an
external flash so thats why the L bracket is used. Btw, what is the
proper name for this bracket ?

thanks.

not much, I just gave one away today to friend who doesn't have digital
camera, complete with tele and wide angle lenses, lens hood, close up
lenses, spare battery and camera bag, 64m & 16m CF cards, multi region
charger and leads for different countries.

the last time I saw a similar setup on ebay, it went off at under $200
for the lot, but that was a year or so ago.

It wasn't a bad camera for the time, but today its a bit slow in the
focus, slow in the card writing, small buffer, battery is not large
enough and doesn't last long with the rear display on, needs propriety
software on the computer in order to d/load the pictures (thats why I
always use a card reader).

its 4 years old, I have had a good use out of it, but I would not buy a
second hand one today when for $200 or less you can buy a brand new
camera of 3MP or more, with all the latest features and warrantee.

On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 15:49:17 +1100, zog wrote:

doug wrote:
Any idea what these are worth used as separate items? Is the vivitar
flash still in any demand?

The camera has some extra accessories but I don't think that will add
much to its value. The vivitar has an L bracket w/ handle (don't know
what you call it) to combine the camera and flash together when you
hold the camera to shoot. This camera doesn't have any shoe for an
external flash so thats why the L bracket is used. Btw, what is the
proper name for this bracket ?

thanks.

not much, I just gave one away today to friend who doesn't have digital
camera, complete with tele and wide angle lenses, lens hood, close up
lenses, spare battery and camera bag, 64m & 16m CF cards, multi region
charger and leads for different countries.

the last time I saw a similar setup on ebay, it went off at under $200
for the lot, but that was a year or so ago.

It wasn't a bad camera for the time, but today its a bit slow in the
focus, slow in the card writing, small buffer, battery is not large
enough and doesn't last long with the rear display on, needs propriety
software on the computer in order to d/load the pictures (thats why I
always use a card reader).

its 4 years old, I have had a good use out of it, but I would not buy a
second hand one today when for $200 or less you can buy a brand new
camera of 3MP or more, with all the latest features and warrantee.


Thanks for the reply. Not sure about the propriety
software on the computer in order to d/load the pictures as I thought
I used what I already had on my pc to do it but none the less, even
all the other points you mentioned prove your point.

I guess I'll check ebay to see if anyone is still selling and their
latest prices. I wanted to check here first.

thanks again for your info.

I just tossed my dc4800..old, slow, and 3MP.......great camera for it's
time. Just got an OLY SP-350 8MP for less them $300. Nice camera lots of
features...nice to stick in my pocket when I don't want to carry my D70
around.. Say bye-bye, and let her go :-)


doug wrote in message ...
On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 15:49:17 +1100, zog wrote:

doug wrote:
Any idea what these are worth used as separate items? Is the vivitar
flash still in any demand?

The camera has some extra accessories but I don't think that will add
much to its value. The vivitar has an L bracket w/ handle (don't know
what you call it) to combine the camera and flash together when you
hold the camera to shoot. This camera doesn't have any shoe for an
external flash so thats why the L bracket is used. Btw, what is the
proper name for this bracket ?

thanks.

not much, I just gave one away today to friend who doesn't have digital
camera, complete with tele and wide angle lenses, lens hood, close up
lenses, spare battery and camera bag, 64m & 16m CF cards, multi region
charger and leads for different countries.

the last time I saw a similar setup on ebay, it went off at under $200
for the lot, but that was a year or so ago.

It wasn't a bad camera for the time, but today its a bit slow in the
focus, slow in the card writing, small buffer, battery is not large
enough and doesn't last long with the rear display on, needs propriety
software on the computer in order to d/load the pictures (thats why I
always use a card reader).

its 4 years old, I have had a good use out of it, but I would not buy a
second hand one today when for $200 or less you can buy a brand new
camera of 3MP or more, with all the latest features and warrantee.


Thanks for the reply. Not sure about the propriety
software on the computer in order to d/load the pictures as I thought
I used what I already had on my pc to do it but none the less, even
all the other points you mentioned prove your point.

I guess I'll check ebay to see if anyone is still selling and their
latest prices. I wanted to check here first.

thanks again for your info.

Dave Mann wrote in part:

I just tossed my dc4800..old, slow, and 3MP.......great camera for it's
time. Just got an OLY SP-350 8MP for less them $300. Nice camera lots of
features...nice to stick in my pocket when I don't want to carry my D70
around.. Say bye-bye, and let her go :-)



I miss that camera. My old DC4800 served me well:
http://www.unclaimedmysteries.net/maunakea.php

Good wide-angle on the zoom lens. It had a pretty cool camera control
program included too. Download pictures and fire the shutter from a
laptop - quite convenient. I made a lot of immersive product shots on a
turntable with it. To learn that they made the control program only for
MS Windows versions *before* XP was infuriating. Eventually I gave the
camera to a neighbor. At last report, it's still chugging along.

Kodak would have done well to go further in the DC4800's direction. But
I was not consulted. Can you imagine THAT?

Corry
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