Remember your first digital camera?

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I do, because I just found it in the garage, and the batteries were still working!
Cant remember the last time I used it, but I bought it in around 1997/8 at a cost of around £250. A massive expense for a 1/3 rd of a megapixel output and no flash. You could swivel the lens though and photograph yourself, if you were that way inclined. It even has a macro setting
Memory was a massive 96 pages ( images) and internal only but the quality wasnt brilliant. At the time, it was cutting edge technology and I remember the excitement when we had a Japanese student staying with us using the first digital camera I had ever seen.
Its amazing whats available now, just 14 years on with full frame sensors and more knobs dials and buttons than you can shake a stick at.

Here it is in all its glory....

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Still working perfectly as well.

Allan
 
Hi

Yes was a Fuji Finepix 2400

And I've still got it :thumbs:
 
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Called Canon Ion in this country.

Did not actually own it as it was on loan to the shop I worked in so borrowed it a couple of times. Stored its images on a floppy disc.

Did not sell any from what I remember.
 
Yup - a Pentax K20 about eighteen inches from my right hand. Two years old and still very much in use. :D
 
My first was a Fuji Z1. It lasted a good 4 years before the zoom plate broke - no doubt not helped by me dropping it - but still got £16 for it for spares.
 
Mine was Nikon D50 - loved it, and on the lookout for one too!
 
Mine was a Fuji 602 pro zoom which took nice pictures but took an age to meter and focus and was therefore useless for anything that moved. Manual focus was difficult too as there was sooooo much movement on the focus ring.
 
mine was a boots DC640, that doubled up as an MP3 player too, had a 32MB CF card for it, even though it had about 8MB on board I think

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still have it in the drawer
 
I had one of the first digital cameras years back, I am sure it was a fujifilm but I always remember wherever I went people were like....

"Ohhhh.... look that has a screen on the back" people were mesmerised by it
 
A Fuji Finepix 1400z, a 1MP camera I got on sale from Amazon at a bargain £170

Higb
 
My first camera was a D50, and my second was my D700! Quite the jump!

Bloody love the D50, even now. Still a pretty capable little camera, and will eventually buy another :D
 
The Olympus Camedia 800L, which I think was the first digital camera available on the market. I bought it as soon as it was available in 1996 I think.

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The quality was awful with a sensor of less than 1 mb, but a minor miracle, and they were snapped up despite the image quality, and you couldn't even think about using a digital camea for serious applications. Printers were a joke around that time too, but look how far we've come.
 
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Called Canon Ion in this country.

Did not actually own it as it was on loan to the shop I worked in so borrowed it a couple of times. Stored its images on a floppy disc.

Did not sell any from what I remember.
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Strangely, I now want one!
 
Mine was a Nikon Coolpix 880. It's been handed down to family now and as far as I know it still works.
 
The first digital camera I used was a Casio QV-10, very similar to the one Allan posted in the OP. It was in about 94/95 and belonged to my work. It was way out of my budget to own.

It took 320 X 240 pixel photos!!

Here is a photo of my daughters I took with it at original size.


Early Photo by jomike, on Flickr
 
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I bought my first digital to take shots of my paintings for my website, £250 for a Traveller SX410z. I didn't make the switch from film until about four years later with a S/Hand Canon 350D

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I had a phonecall from a friend whos son worked for Jessops,and he asked me if I would be interested in a digital camera. It was a Nikon Coolpix 4300 for £130. They were selling stock with damaged packaging,to employees I have still got a brochure showing the camera for sale for £340. I said yes and never regretted it,and it still takes very good photos.
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This one was taken from the London Eye.
 
Still got my first digital camera - a Nikon Coolpix 3100. Still got my first photo I took with a digital camera up on the wall too - taken with my Dad's old Minolta DiMage 5.

My wife still uses the Nikon and when I find the Minolta, I'm packing it up to send to Julian for his stroke photo group to use.
 
Canon D60 the guy I was doing part time weddings foe decided to go digital and it cost over a grand,took some great shots though and the mate I later sold it to is still using it regularly
 
A friend bought a Canon Powershot S30, I had to have one so got the S40 for a collosal £520 back in 2001-2. Still use it sometimes. And so the digital camera collection started...
To think what you can get for that money now.
 
Canon A40. Cost me nearly £300 which was a small fortune at the time. Cracking little camera that really got me back into taking pics for the fun of it. I bought a 160mb card a few months later for £80!
 
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Mine was a FujiFilm finepix 2200 as well, cost £350 at PC World in Dec 2000. Managed ten large/fine JPEGs on the supplied 8Mb Smart Media card. :D

Still have it too, all the latter ones were sold but this one has remained and still works.
 
Minolta Dimage 7i. Slow, but a good camera and I still use it occasionally. I can't remember the name/brand of the first digital camera I ever used, but it took one shot on a 1.44MB stiffy disk.
 
Kodak DC40 1995. Still got it!



KODAK DIGITAL SCIENCE DC40 Camera
SpecificationsType CCD still frame camera
Image size 756 x 504 high resolution
Bit depth 24-bit color
Speed With flash—pictures can be taken every 8 seconds
Without flash—pictures can be taken every 5 seconds
Operating environment Temperature: 0 to 40ºC (32 to 104ºF)
Humidity: 20 to 95 percent, noncondensing
Power sources Batteries: 4 AA batteries—lithium, NiCad, or alkaline (3.6 V DC - 5.4 V DC)
Power Adapter: 4.5 V DC/1.75 A to 8.0 V DC/1.0 A (surge protected)
Power consumption Standby: <500 mW
Operating: <4.5 W
Dimensions Approximately 6.1 x 5.3 x 2.2 in. (155 x 135 x 55 mm)
Weight Approximately 1 lb (0.5 kg)
 
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Mine was a Kodak DC260, in the mid/late 90s, bought in the United States on my behalf, for £500. They cost £800 over here at the time! Still got it too.

I saw one sold on eBay recently.. for 8 quid :lol:

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Nikon Coolpix 885,used it also for digiscoping.
 
Mine was a Fuji S602, it was offered via Oxford Freecycle. I picked it up well wrapped from behind a flower pot by the previous owners front door 6 years ago. I've still got it somewhere.
 
My 1st was a Kodak DC215. My 2nd which i still have is a 2.1 million pixel Fuji Finepix 2800Z. Great camera that served me very well. It had a built in evf. Now i have found it again i think i'll try and use it again. Trouble is it takes the old 128mb smart media card and i don't think i have a reader for that any more plus i doubt i have the USB cable. I had better get looking!:D

EDIT: I have found a card reader so i can go shooting now. Woo hoo!!


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My 1st camera- Kodak DC215
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I got the Fuji MX1200 some time around September 2000 and really liked it.
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I got it as I had not really used a camera since about 1983 when I purchased an olympus OM10 but it never got much use (not sure why).
Anyway I really liked the simplicity of the camera, and I liked the way it had a fixed lens rather than a zoom (5.8mm !!) It had a 6x crop factor but took very good pictures for such a basic cam. It came with a 2MB (yep MB) smartmedia card.

A couple of shots here:
(Vegas)
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(Flying over Greenland)
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Some of these cameras produce pretty good results! I think we should start a thread of images from old digi cams.
 
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