What was your first digital camera with changeable lenses?
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Nikon D100, 6mp, costing around £1200 I think
The 1gb microdrive was £240, for comparison, my last SD card was 128gb costing just £18 !!!
The 1gb microdrive was £240, for comparison, my last SD card was 128gb costing just £18 !!!
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The then brand new Coolpix 990.
You didn't change the lens but screwed the converters over the fixed lens, which came to the same thing...
I then went to an Olympus E20P which used a similar system...
and then the excellent Sony R1, which again, took a range of front lens converters,,,
My first "true" DSLR was a Canon 10D - something of a comedown after the Sony!
You didn't change the lens but screwed the converters over the fixed lens, which came to the same thing...
I then went to an Olympus E20P which used a similar system...
and then the excellent Sony R1, which again, took a range of front lens converters,,,
My first "true" DSLR was a Canon 10D - something of a comedown after the Sony!
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Canon EOS 20D which has since been converted to infrared and is thus still used,
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Canon EOS 450D, my son still uses it
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Used 450D in the very late 90's.
AFAIK it's still out there being used.
AFAIK it's still out there being used.
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My bad.... I was knew I got my 5D2 afew years afterwards. That was actually 2010. I, for some reason, was thinking 2000 not 2010
So late '00's
EDIT - That must have been quite new then when I bought it second hand. I didn't realise that!
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Canon EOS 300D
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It was in my opinion the first digital camera that challenged the results, from a film SLR in every way.
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It was the release of the D70S that caused significant reductions in the price of D70s. I was already a Nikon user and had several lenses so stuck with Nikon, having considered a switch to Canon or Pentax. After trying the options, the Nikon felt more comfortable - as had the F65 a few years beforehand when I went AF (and the F80 a couple of years later.) IIRC, the D70's body was based on the F80, so it's not too surprising that they felt similar!
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Olympus E300. Horrible thing it was too.
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Canon 350D
PS I was on the pre-order list at Park to get one of the very first ones in the UK. Of note it was from a batch where on the serial number label, the number smeared.....I covered it with cellotape before it rubbed off completely!
PS I was on the pre-order list at Park to get one of the very first ones in the UK. Of note it was from a batch where on the serial number label, the number smeared.....I covered it with cellotape before it rubbed off completely!
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We had one of the early Kodaks ones, nikon fit lens mount. Great in the studio or good lighting, rubbish once the light went. Then I think a canon 300d, miles better. Also had a Nikon compact, pretty good except the 2 AA batteries lasted about a half hour.
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Canon 300D.
This was an APS-C camera and I hadn't read up on them at all so when I mounted my lens I couldn't work out why 28mm didn't look like 28mm (on APS-C is about 45mm.) I went back to the shop and asked the guy behind the counter (Jessops) if he had anything wider than 28mm and he said "You're getting into fisheye there" so I never bothered. I assume he hadn't read up on APS-C either.
I used to do a daft thing in those days. I used to set the ISO and shoot all day with it. I used to think "Oh, it's a bit dull today so I'll go for ISO 400, or, oh, I'm shooting at a do tonight so I better select 1,600." It was only later that I realised I could change the ISO from shot to shot.
This was an APS-C camera and I hadn't read up on them at all so when I mounted my lens I couldn't work out why 28mm didn't look like 28mm (on APS-C is about 45mm.) I went back to the shop and asked the guy behind the counter (Jessops) if he had anything wider than 28mm and he said "You're getting into fisheye there" so I never bothered. I assume he hadn't read up on APS-C either.
I used to do a daft thing in those days. I used to set the ISO and shoot all day with it. I used to think "Oh, it's a bit dull today so I'll go for ISO 400, or, oh, I'm shooting at a do tonight so I better select 1,600." It was only later that I realised I could change the ISO from shot to shot.
