Which was the first digital camera you ever owned?

[panblue]

Actually i just looked on Wikipedia..the Canon I had wasn't made until around 2005. Now I think it was one of the Kodak DC models that I had to begin with. Nice OTC monochromes!

My first "digital" camera was a Canon Powershot 600. That was Canon's first digital consumer camera and ... one of the first consumer digital cameras available from anyone. I think I still have it (it's probably burried in some bag somewhere. I know I never got rid of it.)

The thing positively gobbled through batteries (I needed to carry a lot of spare batteries with me.) Part of the problem was that I opted for a microdrive (a tiny physical hard drive which slid into the PCMCIA slot in the camera (no SD cards back in THOSE days!)

It got a lot of attention. People were fascinated by this camera that didn't take film. However... resolution was poor. I think it created 640x480 images and "technically" it wasn't really native resolution... it was a bit less and they did some software interpolation to stretch the image.

I still used my film camera (Canon AE-1) for most shooting and considered the Powershot to be more of an experimental thing that I toyed with.

Oh... the interface to the computer was also interesting. It came with a large bulky "dock" that you had to lock the camera into. That dock had a "parallel port" (like what would have been used for a printer in the 80's).

 

[Railphotog]

My first digital was an HP 215, with all of 1.3MP. Bought it as a curiosity/companion to my Canon SLRs, but used it way more that I intended to. Paid around $325.00 for it. Next one was an HP 715 with 3.3MP and a zoom lens, $300.00. My transition to all digital was all uphill from then.

Think my favorite is my current secondary digital, a Canon SX130 IS. With its 35X zoom (24-840mm), 14MP and most features of a DSLR in a smaller package, it goes with me most everywhere, reserve my DSLR for more serious photography. The SX30 is the latest in a line of superzooms, starting with a Kodak P850, to a Canon S5, then a Canon SX10.

A while ago I had an urge to had my early HPs as souveniers, picked up one of each cheap on eBay for my collection.

 

[sovietdoc]

My first digital camera was some point and shoot they sold in walmart back in 2003. I remember people asking me questions: "What is this picture on the back?" The lcd screen was like 1.5 inches wide

 

[IByte]

Out of curiosity..assuming that your got one quite early on, say around 1998-2002 or so;
which was the first digital camera you ever owned? And which point-and-shoot digital camera was
a past favourite of yours?

Kodak Easyshare which felt more like plastic toy more than anything. I had my trusty 512 mb compact flash card, ultra-mega powerful 3 megapixels!

 

[panblue]

I remember people asking me questions: "What is this picture on the back?"

 

[JClishe]

Olympus C3040. I might even still have it. Bought in 2002, I think.

 

[StandingBear1983]

Canon Powershot S5is - still got it, 6 years old already, working like new after traveling all around New zealand and taking about 10k photos

 

[Village Idiot]

Wow...what a bunch of oldies...I'm waiting for the first poster to say, "My first digital camera was a Nikon D3000" or something else from like last year!!!

What about a 300D?

 

[Mike_E]

D200 and I wouldn't have gotten that if a lab hadn't screwed up my film from a wedding that one last time.

Seriously thinking about going back and getting into the boutique thing now that Jobo is getting back into the market. Medium format and up though, the F&F thing still doesn't make sense $ wise.

 

[PlanetStarbucks]

Wow...what a bunch of oldies...I'm waiting for the first poster to say, "My first digital camera was a Nikon D3000" or something else from like last year!!!

Done...my first digital camera is the T3i I shoot with now. Up until a year ago I was still shooting film. Seriously...I've never put my hands on a point and shoot digital.

 

[panblue]

Up until a year ago I was still shooting film. Seriously...I've never put my hands on a point and shoot digital.

And what/which was your last film camera?

 

[Yantropov]

Canon A570 IS

 

[panblue]

Bring back optical viewfinders!

 

[snowbear119 50]

The first one I owned was a Nikon Coolpix 2200 that I got as a birthday present in 2005. My oldest son now has it. The second one is my current D40 (2007). The first ones I used were the Sony with the 3.5" diskettes as well as another (Olympus, I think) that were owned by the county I worked for, back around 1998.

 

[Yantropov]

Bring back optical viewfinders!

Hell no!!