Can You Make Art with an Olympus C-4000z Digicam from 2002?

In which I put this creaky camera to the test, exploring the local suburbs and garden to capture images and ask the question, 'what is Art'?

[@adventure_anywhere]

Your references are out of this world! From Greek mythology to Nietzsche, it's awesome to see art and literature created with modest tools in everyday settings. Hope many people will see and appreciate this!

[@patternsinsand]

Just hope they can appreciate my tongue is firmly planted in my cheek!

[@josuerugerio8229]

I just picked up an Olympus C-3020 for about $2 in a flea market and im absolutely delighted by its performance, I lost my interest in photography in the last few years because I was just overwhelmed by all the new technologies and got trapped in the vicious circle of wanting to have the most up to date equipment because I felt otherwise my photographs were garbage. This camera sparked my interest in photography because of how easy it is to use and the personality of the camera, I for once stopped worrying about my photos being super high quality and technically correct and just started caring about taking photos that I would enjoy looking at and that I could share with my loved ones and my small group of friends. In the end it is a part of what photography does, it allows us to save a frame of the things we experience. I absolutely enjoyed your video and cannot wait to see your next one, you left me a lot of interesting things to think about and I genuinelly felt like I learned a lot from you.

[@patternsinsand]

Thanks Josué - just be careful another vicious cycle - you'll recognise it when you find yourself of hunting aroun flea markets for old digicams ;)

[@agentlevanto2964]

OMG …. Best review I’ve seen in quite a while, you take the piss like only an Aussie can…. Love your work, you make photography fun and serious all at the same time, no need for a 100000 megapixel camera … more vids please

[@patternsinsand]

Thanks so much! I do have a 1mpx Canon Powershot 600 from 1996 and I'm just working out a way to store and then retrieve the images. So expect a video when I see what I can do with THAT one!

[@agentlevanto2964]

My first digital camera was a Canon Powershot G3 back in 2002, 4 Megapixels, like you used to capture my kids early years….these days I use a Ricoh GRX, Nikon Coolpix P7000 and Canon Powershot G9 for fun walk around cameras

[@CarmineTavernaPhotography]

❤ yep, I understand you 💯 ❤

[@patternsinsand]

That'll be a first for this channel. Thanks!

[@jonlong1690]

This was my high end camera I used in 03. So glad I didn’t get rid of it. Time to break out some batteries and make art.

[@patternsinsand]

I have no doubt the C-4000z will inspire greatness!

[@robertjabara1003]

My wife got this camera while I was still using my film camera. I started using it and took a lot of pictures with it. These old pictures are very usable today and fun to look at. I think I will find this camera and start taking some pictures with it. Thanks for the very entertaining video.

[@patternsinsand]

Thanks. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

[@tundrusphoto4312]

Wonderful! A great video. Many thanks.

[@patternsinsand]

Thanks so much!

[@myashgarage]

how can i like this video more than once? the commentary is gold and I enjoyed every minute of it.

[@patternsinsand]

Thanks so much. That inspires me to keep going.

[@yohelnet]

Mark, your video just made my day today. And made me thinking about my photography and my life. Thank you!

[@patternsinsand]

I've I'd known it was going to be impactful I might have actually tried to be a bit serious about the topic!

[@protonpillpopper1]

Great video. I really appreciate your humor. Subscribed.

[@patternsinsand]

Thanks!

[@danoncho]

This was fun to watch! 😁 It is great to hear so many quotes about art, it is really different for everyone. As for my experience with cameras, I have Fuji S1500, 10 mp bridge camera from 2009. And several years ago I started liking photography, and tried to use it as the only "camera" thingy I had at the time. I was shocked by how astonishing images can be from CCD sensor with compact superzoom lens! Took some awesome photos with it. Lots of photographers tells that art is not megapixels, it lies in us, in our hands and skill by which we use our tools, cameras. I think this statement is truth! Thank you for your video!

[@patternsinsand]

Couldn't agree more. Enjoy your own photographic journey!

[@ComblessMan]

Nothing like a liberal use of the polysyllabic to make the mundane extraordinary. Demonstratively raising the banal to level that even Jeff Koons would envy. Hats off to you sir. I subscribed and hit the bell icon. My first digital camera was the Apple QuickTake (potato), my third, after a not so brief passionate affair with a Sony that used gum sticks as memory, was the Olympus 2020. Good memories with this video. I'm not afraid to say I shed a tear. " A poor carpenter blames his tools." I live by this. I actually am a cabinet maker and it seems appropriate to use the adage. I think any medium that can be had can be used to document and express the moment as captured as important to the one who directs our view to what this person viewed as relevant. It makes those who shoot the photo, paints the painting, draws the drawing and molds the clay as a storyteller and provides us with an entryway into another individual's perspective. Not necessarily defining them but allow us to see them as unique and simultaneously on par with us as the viewer. On the subject of older cameras, just today I found a camera, Panasonic DMCZS9 that had been lost in the chaos of my closets. I was looking for a flash head I seem to have lost. Great video, really a pleasure to sit back and enjoy and if you have any ideas of where I put an old ttl flash device, please let me know.

[@patternsinsand]

Thanks for the positive feedback. I think those old cameras are starting to have a comeback so ride that wave. I'll keep an eye out for that flash head. Have you looked under the bed? That's where most things seem to end up.

[@NewWorldFilm]

My first digicam was a C5000 Zoom I bought used in 2005. I took hundreds of photos with it and used it until around 2013 actually. By then my smartphone camera was more convenient. Hilarious video btw. This is how I see most artistic photos. Ordinary stuff described with flowery words. The photos were actually quite good.

[@ccderik]

Lovely shots and "behind the image" comments that inspire! I've recently been testing the older Olympus C-2100UZ and it's cool to see some other example of these early Camedias. The C-3/4/5000 etc. have a high end vibe that still attracts. 🙂

[@patternsinsand]

Thanks Erik. Hi praise from a digicam aficionado.

[@pandaparad0x]

I've only just met you but I fkn love u . Excavated this from my parents' coat closet today. Born in '99 like your daughter but my dad used it to take pics of cars/drums haha . YT algorithm fittingly sent me here: right-brain creative expression and metaphysical/ontological discussion". Trying to 'arrest the enigmatic ephemeral expression of existence" is futile regardless of cam specs and making art is absurd,. Still, I just keep rolling the boulder up that hill like Sisyphus with a 15 yr ol Canon Powershot & a vision. Keep being authentically u

[@patternsinsand]

There is no fate, there is only the KZbin algorithm. Tomorrow you will meet a tall dark film camera and find a naff review of it.

[@robstammers7149]

Well, this discussion was very philosophical in its content, interesting, very. Especially in relation to the older, early digital cameras. I use a Camedia C8080, and I just love it. Fantastic video, thank you. Regards Rob (UK). Subscribed.

[@patternsinsand]

Thanks, Rob. The C8080 looks like quite an impressive camera for 2004. I'm in the process of putting the finishing touches to a video on the Canon Powershot 600 from 1996. Half a megapixel! Not sure I can make art out of that but we'll see ;)

[@freddymuggs3902]

Beer and your channel go good.

[@patternsinsand]

beer and lots of things go good!

[@wiggyjones]

I'm weeping.

[@patternsinsand]

That's not the first time I've invoked that response.

[@juanluisgomezregalado6434]

This is just as great as a good old episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Fuckin' art.

[@patternsinsand]

So glad you enjoyed it!

[@peterphoto7732]

I'm a clever Pomi B. I can name all the Australian states and their capitals.😊😊😊 Thanks for the video.

[@patternsinsand]

Ah but does that include territories??

[@cmdrvex]

I have just bought the slightly newer Olympus c-5050, a "prosumer" camera costing 800-1000 pounds back in 2003 and in mint condition. Used, they sell for nearly nothing now. I already own a Fujifilm X-T2 which is a fantastic stills camera, but I wanted to strip away the pixel count and plethora of features to focus more on the point that you have just made (that triptychs can be cool). I really enjoyed your video. Cheers!

[@patternsinsand]

Gad you enjoyed it. It's amazing what you can still do with decent 20 year old camera.

[@charlespitts5901]

I have the Sony version of this camera (DSC-S85) and I'm impressed with the results of the CCD Kodak Kodachrome color profile. With the cost of film, I think cameras like these have a place in the modern day. For a photo artist, the real art is sometimes just realizing and selecting a picture that has "it" which invokes some strong emotional response out of the many pictures taken. Limitations makes one think and slow down, unlike today's "spray and pray" super fast cameras. I currently have a multiple exposure photo hanging in the Walt Disney Family Museum (for the next couple of months) taken with nothing more than a 1909 Kodak box camera!

[@patternsinsand]

Thanks for the comment, Charles, that's very insightful! One of the things I'm trying to do with my own photography at the moment is to see the emotion rather than just the subject in an image - it is definitely creating a more thoughtful process and making me notice different things.

[@into_lunch4556]

I recently bought the Olympus E 500, it’s quirky as hell with many of the shortcomings you ascribe to your c-4000. Love the colours though !

[@patternsinsand]

These are gems!

[@iainmc9859]

Yep, my Martin is definitely sub-Parr. My eldest daughter was doing a photography course at school, a while ago as my kids are basically the same age as yours (I really preferred them as toddlers), she lasted a fortnight, until she was introduced to the work of Martin Parr, then she dropped it; 'He's crap, he just points the camera at any old rubbish !' She never got as far as the delights of Eggleston. Laughed all the way through the vlog, having spent most of my life in 'The Arts' (when I wasn't in a secure psychiatric unit )I've made myself rather unpopular with my catch all response for pretentious crap 'Well, that was interesting .... ' And you've got a lurcher ..... mucho kudos mein comrade.

[@patternsinsand]

I can understand her opinion about Martin Parr. His photos certainly aren't always pleasing to look at but that's the point. I grew up near New Brighton in the early 80s where he shot Last Resort and he captured the grim desperation but deep resilience of the North of England perfectly and with great (satirical) humour. I'd like to think he would have a similar take on 'the Arts'. Dexter the lurcher (wolf x greyhound) sends hugs.

[@iainmc9859]

@@patternsinsand Parr is growing on me but think that is just nostalgia as well. I was at Uni in L'pool in the late 80's/early 90's. New Brighton - the San Tropez of the north 😉

[@outtathyme5679]

Can’t sneak a Neil Innis reference past me

[@patternsinsand]

Very astute!

[@user-mj4of5fi1g]

I wonder if there is any alternatives to ssfdc? Maybe even adapters for basic sd cause it’s really hard to find.

[@patternsinsand]

That would be great.

[@0rurin]

Would love to see more digicam coverage. I'm trying to find a balance between digital quality so shitty, that it resembles the flavour of film, and something that doesn't blur if my blood cells move. A video on something like the Olympus C-300, or the Canon Ixus 70 or 80 would be great, one of those are what I'm currently considering.

[@patternsinsand]

Love the 'ixi' - Ixus V was my first digital camera. Channel spoiler but I do have a Nikon Coolpix 450 that I plan on putting to the next some time over the next few weeks :)

[@gaile111390]

Hi. Is this compatible with rechargeable batteries?

[@patternsinsand]

I used standard AAs but it should be! www.betterbatt.com.au/s/digital-camera-battery/olympus/camedia-c-4000-zoom/bbcb-244/

[@gaile111390]

Thank you Sir. Great video by the way!

[@patternsinsand]

@@gaile111390 Thanks so much!

[@driverv86]

You do realize that some millenials grew up shooting film right lol. Good video though.

[@patternsinsand]

Fair call.