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It took me a little time to grasp the fact that this is a list of cameras that the website author OWNS rather than a list of all cameras that existed in 'antiquity'.

Once that sunk in, I was considering offering to send him my old Canon Digital IXUS II and my wife's old Fuji digital camera which we have the orginal packaing and manuals for, but it seems the owner is planning to sell up so I decided against making the offer.

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Occasionally I toy with the idea of fitting a job-lot of Powershot digital cameras onto a frame and doing insanely-HDR shots of scenes. Or 3D composites, or instant 360 degree panos.

Time for another browse on eBay!

"instant 360 degree panos"

Or get the timing right and you could get Matrix style "bullet time" effects:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_time

Maybe just kicking strings that pull the triggers in zoopraxiscopic[0] style works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallie_Gardner_at_a_Gallop

With some processing, you can capture a light field and get holographic data for a volume of space. https://www.blog.google/products/google-ar-vr/experimenting-...

It looks like the site is dead anyways, the "for sale" page says "-2010"

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