Remember your first digital camera?

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This is such a cool looking camera!!!:D
 
What a great thread! Thanks to who ever started it as it just got me to have a nostalgic moment!

My first digital camera was a Mitsubishi DJ-1000. 00.25MP no flash, no internal memory (it used CF cards) and nothing apart from a viewfinder, shutter release and on/off switch. Just dug it out and got the card (2mb) out of it and had to download the viewing software as it saved in .dat format which you could then convert to bitmap.
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My first proper bike, which I got in 1998 and kept for a year and probably got the camera about the same time
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And the first item I sold on ebay - its a tacho from a Piper Super Cub, sold for $38 from someone in the US, amazed it actually sold from that photo.
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A quick google and apparently that was the second worst digital camera ever made.
 
My first was a blue thingy that I got From Jessops, forgot the brand 640x480, it was stolen with my laptop, second was an olympus 1 mp that just stopped working, 3rd was a sony, stopped working too, 4th was my e410, love it, 5th is my canon powershot which goes everywhere in my pocket.
 
This is going back some :eek: bought this t70 in 1985 cant remember exactly how much I paid for it but I do remember it was **** loads ;) I wanted the t90 but couldnt afford it :( still got it with a 50mm lens if anyone is interested in buying :)

 
Mine was a Minolta Dimage 7, Ive just given it to my son who uses it for his skate boarding photos etc, etc.
 
Mine was an Olympus C2020Z. I was awarded a ticked at work for the GP and one of the guys I went with had one, the following day I was amazed at his photos, so being based just of off Tottenham Court Road I went out and bought one. 2mp, which was about 1999 I think.

Unfortunately I left it on a train, so replaced it with the model that superseded it, the C5050z which I still have to this day. Cracking little camera which is responsible for a few images on my Flickr account....

Steve

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allanm said:
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
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I had one of these as well. Bought it in South Africa for the princely sum of ZAR4,500.00 (about £400)
 
My first digital camera was a Fuji MX1200 with a 1.3mpx sensor, around about 2000.

When I look back at the photos it took they were awful. My current phone(n95) takes much better pics.
 
mine was the kodak dc215 zoom, 1mp, followed by a canon g5 which i still use as a second to the 50D.

still have the kodak, my son uses it.
 
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robrevens said:
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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I always like the look of them :love:
 
mine was a sony dsc-p50 which was 2.1mp back in 2000-2001
got it from jessops for about 500-00 with the sony case and extra battery
then a tiny sony dsc-u20 2.0mp which i got just because it was so small
 
Mine was a Kodak DX6440 got it in 2004 i think. It's still in my man draw.
 
AndyWest said:
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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that sounds like a good idea for a laugh
 
Olympus C-820L was my first digital camera - 810,000 pixels, f2.8 fixed length lens and it ate batteries faster than I can I could down a pint of Guinness. Still got a few shots on the computer from it - not bad for it's time, and I thought it was great until I got the Canon Ixus v3.

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another one for the Fuji MX1200. I found it while looking for something alse just a couple of weeks ago.

i set it aside, but havent had a play yet. got a bit of enthusiasm now :)
 
Sony Mavica that used floppy disks as storage. 640x480 max resolution.

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Casio SX7000. £650 in 1998. 1mp. I loved it. It had a swivelling lens and a huge screen. Unfortunately it only lasted a few months and was replaced under warranty by a newer Casio QV-2000.

Some years later, I was wandering the streets of the electronic district of Tokyo and came upon this one pictured on a side street market stall. Brand new and boxed - £40. I had to have it.

It's amusing to use it these days. The screen refresh rate is so slow I could draw the scene quicker.





 
First was like a toy camera, can't remember the name. Had no screen and held about 20 shots on best setting - you had to look through the viewfinder to review images!

Then I bought a Samsung digimax 360 for £200 and a 256MB SD card for £30!
 
AndyWest said:
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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Great idea. New thread being started, lets see how good these cameras were!

Allan
 
I had a Sony video camera with a 1 Megapixel still camera built in. I was told by the man in the shop that it was ideal for both video and stills and quickly got used to the simplicity of digital photos. My stupidity meant that I didn't realise how much worse than the cheap Pentax 35mm film camera it was I have very few decent pics of my first son between 2000 and 2003 when I got the Sony DSC-717 :love: great camera

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ShawWellPete said:
I had a Sony video camera with a 1 Megapixel still camera built in. I was told by the man in the shop that it was ideal for both video and stills and quickly got used to the simplicity of digital photos. My stupidity meant that I didn't realise how much worse than the cheap Pentax 35mm film camera it was I hav every few decent pics of my first son between 2000 and 2003 when I got the Sony DSC-717 :love: great camera

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It's the father of the NEX 3 & 5!! :D
 
Olympus Camedia C-2000 Z 2.1 Megapixels. Bought it in Singapore for about £500 in 1999. Still got it, brilliant for IR when fitted with a filter as here:

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This thread would be so much better if everyone in cluded shots taken with their original canera :D. I'm probaby too young to be taking part in this thread anyway :lol:.

The first digital camera I ever used was a Sony cybershot from around 2001-2002 when I was 14! I don't know what model it was because the exif data just says "Sony Cybershot" which I find very queer :|. Is there any other way to find out? My next digital camera was another Sony Cybershot, a 7.1MP DSC-P200, in 2003 and a very fine camera it was until its death. I don't think I've actually had a better (P&S) since!!!
 
Set_Nights said:
This thread would be so much better if everyone in cluded shots taken with their original canera :D. I'm probaby too young to be taking part in this thread anyway :lol:.
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I started a new thread for first camera pictures..

Allan
 
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