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I was just thinking about my first digital camera - I bought a Kodak DC215 when I bought my first PC from Tiny computers (remember them), I think it was December 1999 :thinking:.

It's a 1 megapixel camera if I remember rightly and it came with a 16mb card - fitted about 6 photos on and then needed a new set of batteries - my how things change, I've still got it somewhere.

I just wondered what you all had as a first digital camera and when?

Alison :)
 
fuji a500 compact 5.1mp
 
I bought a Kodak point and shoot - Don't know the make and model. I do remember that it was a huge 1MP and cost me £500! Oh how times change?!! Thank goodness.
 
I actually found mine the other day - I can't see it now unfortunately but it was epic. A very early Fujifilm 1MP camera. It used to take Iomega Klik! discs of 40mb, with no internal memory, it had a massive output of 800x600, took 4AA batteries that it flattened in seconds and used to take what felt like an hour between powering it on and being able to take photos.... I think I bought it about 7 or 8 years ago (thinks... 3 years in my current job, 2 years off on medical grounds, 2 years at CL and then it was 2 years before that... so 9 years ago...)

Annoyingly, I paid £500 for it at the time....

Ha! I was wrong - it was an Agfa CL30 ePhoto, not a Fujifilm, and I found it on Amazon....

I can't believe I used to own this!

Although this is the version up from the one I had.... they'd upped the resolution and changed the media from the one I used to own....
 
Kodak EasyShare DX6340 - 3mp - point and shoot - still got some cracking shots.
 
a Kodak dcs 520, what a numb lump it was, and all of 2 mega pixel. WOW. but it did the job.


cheers paul
 
Mine was a 'Premier' Branded one, used 2 AA batteries and had VGA 640*480 resolution, still worked until a few weeks ago , when curiosity got the better of me and I dismantled it.
 
Kodak CX6330 compact 3.1 mp
the battery door flaps are very weak on these camera's, they split eventually
 
Fuji 1300......1.3mp of pure camera porn! :p

I think it even stretched to 4x digital zoom.....this was before I was into this photography malarky mind you!

Here it is! I've still got it too...

Compared to virtually every digital camera on the market (and especially its 1-megapixel peers), this camera is a speed demon. If you don't need to use the flash, you can turn the camera on and take your first shot in under a second. There's virtually no shutter lag (the shutter clicks a split second after you press the button), and the camera is ready to take another shot in less than 5 seconds. Though some cameras' LCD screens are slow, streaky, or choppy, the Fuji has a fast, smooth display.
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So, still pretty good by today's standards too ;)
 
mine was a small chinese piece of rubbish that only took a picture if there was enough light entering the lens, i think it was 0.3mp

second was a little better as it had a flash, didnt have a brand name and it was 2.3mp with a 2x and 4x digital zoom

funny how we start aint it!!
 
A 4mp Pentax which my wife bought me for Christmas in I think 2004. After 50years I'd given up photography apart from the occasional read of AP and locked my SLR's and darkroom safely away. Digital just didn't interest me as the quality was too low and the cost to high. In desperation to agree on something for Christmas I thought of a Digital camera and as they say the rest is history. The darkroom and film SLR's are still packed away but I'm now on my 5th compact and 2nd SLR. I've also taken more photo's in the last 5 years than in the previous 50 and the joy of sitting in front of a PC rather than a cold dark bathroom to see the results is amazing. I almost could get enthusiastic again.
 
swag72 said:
I bought a Kodak point and shoot - Don't know the make and model. I do remember that it was a huge 1MP and cost me £500! Oh how times change?!! Thank goodness.
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I paid £400ish for my Kodak - we must have been mad :lol:

DJPooka said:
took 4AA batteries that it flattened in seconds and used to take what felt like an hour between powering it on and being able to take photos.... I think I bought it about 7 or 8 years ago (thinks... 3 years in my current job, 2 years off on medical grounds, 2 years at CL and then it was 2 years before that... so 9 years ago...)

Annoyingly, I paid £500 for it at the time....
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Know exactly what you mean about batteries - used to cost me a fortune in duracells :lol:

Edtog said:
Kodak/AP NC2000, great if you wanted a nice magenta cast on every picture :)
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"weighed 3.6 pounds and 7 inches high" - luvverly :)
 
Canon D30 and it cost an arm and a leg but I was helping out a wedding Tog at the time and he insisted,still despite being only 3MP the results we got from it were superb,and with the Canon 24-85 and 28-105 no L glass
 
purpleclouds said:
Fuji 1300......1.3mp of pure camera porn! :p

I think it even stretched to 4x digital zoom.....this was before I was into this photography malarky mind you!

Here it is! I've still got it too...



So, still pretty good by today's standards too ;)
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You can still buy yours then I see :eek:

David Thompson said:
mine was a small chinese piece of rubbish that only took a picture if there was enough light entering the lens, i think it was 0.3mp

second was a little better as it had a flash, didnt have a brand name and it was 2.3mp with a 2x and 4x digital zoom

funny how we start aint it!!
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0.3mp?? - yours must be the winner - even mine was 1 whole megapixel :D

velocette said:
A 4mp Pentax which my wife bought me for Christmas in I think 2004. After 50years I'd given up photography apart from the occasional read of AP and locked my SLR's and darkroom safely away. Digital just didn't interest me as the quality was too low and the cost to high. In desperation to agree on something for Christmas I thought of a Digital camera and as they say the rest is history. The darkroom and film SLR's are still packed away but I'm now on my 5th compact and 2nd SLR. I've also taken more photo's in the last 5 years than in the previous 50 and the joy of sitting in front of a PC rather than a cold dark bathroom to see the results is amazing. I almost could get enthusiastic again.
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Good to see you've got back into it - sounds like you're having fun with it as well :)
 
:D

It was about the size of an old Nokia 3310 remember those? and it ran on one AAA battery, was a terrible thing, think it was £89 in January of 2001
 
350D - took me ages to convert from film SLR to digital, and thank god I did otherwise who knows what rubbish I'd still be producing
 
Fuji 1200 1.2mp followed by the mighty Canon 300D----Now that was a stunning camera at the time. Wish I had never sold it.
Pete.
 
Mine was a Fuji Finepix 2800 Zoom. I've still got it, and it still works (I suppose it was only bought in 2002). A mighty 2.1MP, and a class-leading 6x optical zoom (before I knew what focal lengths meant). Having said that, it produces images that knock the socks off my 5.1MP Sony Ericsson camera phone, so it shows megapixels aren't everything!

Chris
 
Olympus C-2000Z. And it wasn't bad, I got pics published from it no problem at all at the time.
 
There seems to be a big KODAK thing going on here !!

Anyone would think they had the market cornered back then ?

Mine was a KOADK DC3200 :lol:

Came free with a pc many moons ago.

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Mine , well the family's Olympus trip replacement compact was the Fuji a201 because she wanted it, still going strong too after 9 years now it must be :lol: where has the time gone?
 
Mine was a Fuji 6900zoom 3.1mp and I got some cracking shots with it and it is still a sought after compact (if you call a brick a compact)
 
Borats Baby said:
There seems to be a big KODAK thing going on here !!

Anyone would think they had the market cornered back then ?

Mine was a KOADK DC3200 :lol:

Came free with a pc many moons ago.

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Seems like mainly Kodak and Fuji doesn't it?

Kodak seemed to be connected to new pc's back then, that's how I got mine, it wasn't free though - cost me over 400 quid just for the camera :eek:

Ajophotog said:
Mine , well the family's Olympus trip replacement compact was the Fuji a201 because she wanted it, still going strong too after 9 years now it must be :lol: where has the time gone?
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I know what you mean about the time, seems like only yesterday I bought mine - time flies when you're enjoying yourself so they say :)
 
Fujifilm FinePix F410 Zoom. Ordered it from QVC and used it first time at Donington park for MotoGp.
 
Casio QV10a back in 1996!

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A stonking 320 x 240 resolution - that's less than 0.1 Megapixels!

Remember paying £300+ for it too! Wowed everyone at the time.:naughty:
 
gemini said:
Oooh very posh :)



Did you get yours free with a pc as well then?
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i sure did to be fair i used it every day while listing tons of stuff on fleabay and it made its money back within a month or so, god though when i look back now it was the pits....even my battery back broke and i taped it up with brown tape what a mess but it got the job done aghhhhhhh memories
 
First digital I got me hands on was me ma's Fuji MX-2700
 
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