My First Digital Camera

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My First Digital Camera

Canon RC260 - Still video

saved me a fortune in film & developing costs & gave me immediate access to some of the worst quality digital images I've ever seen or taken especially when capturing off video tape

still it paid for itself within a year & also saved on delivering & collecting from the photo lab



 
Sony DSC-50, still have it, and still works !!

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Kodak DC-260, which cost me about $800, and a 32 MB (that's MB, not GB, and it was fast in it's day - rated 4X speed - oooohh!) Compact Flash that cost another $200. I sold the camera for around $30 a few years ago, and the CF card was not worth first class postage, so I think I may have used it as a doorjamb.

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There are several of these on ebay right now for $20-35 including shipping. I wish them luck, that was what it was worth 3-4 years ago.
 
This was the first "pro" digital camera to reach my household. My dad bought it. I was 18 years old or so. Before this one he bought a Hewlett Packard one cant find the model online it was 2 megapixel and even bigger than a entry dslr.

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I was a little late to enter the digital age but my first digital camera was a rather nice Olympus... Only 5mp but I still have 20x30 inch prints on my wall that look very nice indeed.... Of course that was a serious camera but not really compact....

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I still own an E-1 - and believe it or not, I just bought that 14-54mm lens last week to use with my OM-D E-M1. Paid $108 for a clean used copy - and, it's a weather-sealed lens. I might even still use that E-1 if I had occasion to take pictures in a downpour, or partly submerged. Back in the day, that was a $500 lens, and the OM-D E-M1 gives it new life, as all the automation works, and it's significantly faster than the current kit lenses - it's arguably a legitimate alternative to the new 12-40mm f2.8 Micro 4/3 lens, for 1/7th the price.

But the E-1 was nowhere NEAR my first digital camera. Not even my first DSLR (that honor goes to an Olympus E-10, followed by an E-300, then the E-1).
 
My first digital camera (I've forgotten the maker) was 0.3 MP which produced an image of 640x480 pixels (VGA in computer terms). It had a small fixed lens and no LCD screen so framing was by a crude OVF. It cost me about £90 and to all intents was useless, however it started my interest in digital photography which over the years has brought me to SC.
 
My first digital camera: a Nikon Coolpix 600. I still have it, it still works, but it's hardly usable by today's standards (it takes several seconds to store a single picture - and completely locks up during that process). Only 0.8Mpx resolution (1024x768px) - it does render colours nicely enough, though.
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Funnily enough, in its time, it was considered quite a "serious" compact ... it was Nikon's first digital compact, in fact.

M.
 
Bruce, every time you share those photos of that Contax, I go off in search of one (hoping I can find one cheap). There are none anywhere.....at least not for what they SHOULD cost considering the age of the technology. This is one BEAUTIFUL camera.
 
I was a late adopter of digital. My first was the original Canon EOS Digital Rebel (300D) which I bought in the fall of 2004. Terrific image quality (for 6mp) but noisy above ISO 400 and slow as molasses. I do not have a picture of the camera, but here's a couple of shots taken with it in Saint Gimignano and Venice, Italy:

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Cheers,

Antonio
 
My first digital camera (I've forgotten the maker) was 0.3 MP which produced an image of 640x480 pixels (VGA in computer terms). It had a small fixed lens and no LCD screen so framing was by a crude OVF. It cost me about £90 and to all intents was useless, however it started my interest in digital photography which over the years has brought me to SC.

I had something similar, I believe it was a Relisys Dimera 3500. More a toy than anything else but I used it a lot for eBay pictures and was still shooting film for real pictures then.

I think my first real compact was a Finepix 4700 and my first DSLR was a Fuji S1.
 
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