One of the first affordable consumer digital cameras from 1998, the D-600L boasts a 1.4 CCD sensor and retailed $1000 when it was new. We found ours at a thrift store for less than $10. Unfortunately its a bit of a flat and gray day today, so not the best shooting conditions, but we've had this thing for a few years and it was fun to take this thing around the block and finally get our pictures off of it since we now have a card reader that accepts the 4MB SmartMedia card the camera uses. Has 3 quality modes for JPEG output, SQ (640x480), HQ (1280x1024), and SHQ (1280x1024), with varying levels of JPEG compression being the difference between HQ and SHQ, though at this resolution there's very little difference besides filesize.
Good:
- Takes pictures
- Decent zoom range and lens quality
- Holds well in-hand despite the odd shape
- Renders colors decently
- Natively puts out images with a 4:5 aspect ratio which we like more than 2:3.
Bad:
- The viewfinder is TTL but it sucks. It just sucks, especially if you wear glasses.
- From what we can tell no manual control or exposure compensation at all
- Very little dynamic range, can't do anything to deal with this (see above)
- Eats through batteries too fast (May be our fault as we used what batteries we had, we've heard Ni-MH rechargeables are better for this camera)