What to do with a 2003 digital camera?

[Radio Fixer]

Are there collectors of these?

Fujifilm announced the FinePix S5000 Zoom on 29th July 2003. It represents an affordable, compact, lightweight three megapixel (SuperCCD pixels) digital camera with a ten times optical zoom lens and an SLR-like appearance. To my eye it's one of the best looking 'SLR-like' digital cameras of recent times.

Works sometimes but others the take a pic is blurry.  OK on saved images.

Just seems a shame to chuck it in the bin.

thanks Gary

[Murphyv310]

Hi Gary.
I still use my S5000, a good camera plus mine is the 5 mega pixel version. The USB connector went faulty years ago so I use a card reader.

[Richard_FM]

Maybe you could offer it on a site like Freecycle if you want it to go to a good home.

I still have a 2005 Konica Minolta around that works.

[BusyBee]

It sounds a useful camera to me, but I know from experience that they gather the dust. I have an Olympus C2500L 2.5 Megapixel which takes a beautiful picture but I seldom use.

I also have an S9600 which I presume is a later development of the S5000. If the S5000 has the same setup then for anyone so inclined the ability to fit filters plus the manual zoom and focusing are excellent for manual operation and tricky situations. - Quick check online on this , I see it has motorised zoom so not quite the same but there may be similar useful features (like manual focus)

Tracy

[Radio Fixer]

But the problem is that it is faulty and no point spending money to get it fixed.

Seems like the bin unless someone wants it

Gary