Yes, but can you hand hold it out a car window.... Where do you attach the quick release plate?
Your first Digital Camera was a ???
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A D700. After 45 years with film, the last 42 years with a couple of Konica Autoreflex, I finally took the plunge. A D700, with 14-24, an AFS50mm 1.4, and a 70-300VR. I still miss my Konica 57mm f/1.2, but the D700 (with the 14-24) is the only piece of technical equipment that I ever bought that still gets me excited after five months of use. I have absolutely nothing negative to say about this camera. I also find the 14-24 awesome beyond believe. The sales guy talked me into it, in lieu of the 17-35. He was right, but it depleted my cash. That's why I settled for the 70-300VR. Actually, it is better than its reputation. Still, I'm looking for something beyond 300mm that does not break the bank.
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Welcome to the forum Recent Convert :^)
Enjoy that D700!Posted 3 years ago # -
I had a similar story... Roughly a decade of shooting film on my minolta x-700 and Canon FD's (hate!!!) i decided to try digital. Although I never officially owned on I tried and shot with many(if not most) of the canon lineup for the past 2 years and hated every one from the rebel to the Mark III. They took too long to figure out and didn't "think" how I did. Well this summer I decided to try the nikon D90, figured it out in seconds (it was comfortable too and didn't dig into my hands or give me thumb cramps), and fell in love with it. Well as you know 1 thing leads to another and now I have a whole system(half of it being Fx lenses), and hope to get a D700 (or the rumored D900[pma?]) too.
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My first camera was a Ricoh 35mm film point and shoot, in the early 90s. First digital was a Kodak P&S (2004), cannot recall the model number. My first DSLR was the D80.
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Been shooting film since '68 and still doing it! My first DSLR was a D40, purchased to take to the British Isles on my honeymoon two years ago (didn't want to hassle customs with film). Took over 600 shots with it and was very pleased! Moved up to a D200, and now I've got a super D700. I still use, and love my FSLRs, though.
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My first is my Nikon D60, chances are I wont upgrade till the D400 comes out.
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First camera - Cosmic 35; brilliant little camera, made in the USSR and hugely subsidised by the USSR to prove how advanced their technology was (and it was indeed very advanced compared to the West!).
First SLR - Fuji ST705; one of the early cameras with a built-in light meter!!
First digi - Nikon Coolpix 950; good pics but sloooow
First DSLR - Sony a350; very disappointing
Second DSLR - D90 (hooray!)
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Unfortunately my first digital camera was a sony T7 Cyber Shot. I bought it for the look of it nice and slim but it produced awful images. Then I switched to a canon power shot IXY 800IS which I still use even today but just for its low quality video usually.
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started with an oly 730 superzoom... 3.2 mp and 10 times optical zoom. AND I could make a sequence of 3 pics at 3 fps!! And believe me, that thing was really wild at that time :D
Thereafter came my trustworthy D70, now on retirement untill my D200 drops dead or is replaced with an D900-alike (read 24mp FX equals ±10 mp DX...fare trade, no?) I can't help it, but I'm still more in love with my D70 then with the D200...dunno why...perhaps because it was my first SLR..who knows...Posted 3 years ago # -
first
Sony DSC-S75 - I still think it can beat any mobile phone's camera
SOny 828 - kick a55 camera - dont know why I sold it so soon after jumping on:
Nikon d80 - cant really say that i miss it - but it was the 1st real DSLR
Nikon D700 - mwwwaaaa!Posted 3 years ago # -
I love my D700 also and no matter what 2010 brings (PMA) I'll never jump ship! ^_~
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d200
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Nikon coolpix somthing somthing :) i forget its name.
then d90 with kit lens in oct 08. Nikkor 70-200 2.8 in June 09.
Picked up my Nikkor 50mm 1.4G This november
The Nikon D3 with the 24-70 2.8. I have a feeling this will be my camera for quite some time
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Canon PowerShot Pro90 IS, blasphemy I know but it seamed like a dream at the time.
Nikon D40 was my first DSLR and I still think it was a great camera.Posted 3 years ago # -
First dslr: D40x--> D200 (current)
First film slr: pentax from 70's---->>Nikon N75 (current)Casio exilim P&S POS from I dunno when. . .I'm due for a P&S upgrade, debating between Canon S90 or Panasonic Lumix Lr3 (with Leica f/2.0 lens)?
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Wow, lots of new members posting!
Welcome everyone!
And I've posted my first cameras already, so I'm not posting again.
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Canon Powershot A85. And Nikon D40x as first DSLR. But it all started 25 years ago in a pre-digital age with a Smena 8M :).
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Coolpix 5000. Of course, this was not a camera to take pictures of people, because by the time the shutter activated the people had lost patience and walked away, but the image quality was excellent, the 28mm lens equivalent + wide adapter for true wide shots made it suitable for documentary pictures for urban planning, my principal application. With the AA battery pack it would take pictures all day. After getting this camera, I almost never used film. For the same price, the D70 that replaced it turned my F100 and M4 to quaint historic artifacts that soon made it to eBay. Compared to about 25 cents per shot I was paying for film and prints, the Coolpix paid for itself in savings in less than a year.
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Hey mb, your right the D40 was a fantastic camera. I also had the D40x as well and they were great cameras to learn with. Very small, produced great images and all for a low price. I thought Nikon hit a home run with these models back in 2006. If I still had one, I'd probably hold onto it.
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kanuck said:
Hey mb, your right the D40 was a fantastic camera. I also had the D40x as well and they were great cameras to learn with. Very small, produced great images and all for a low price. I thought Nikon hit a home run with these models back in 2006. If I still had one, I'd probably hold onto it.I was a bit skeptical about digital SLRs at a time but D40 convinced me that film is the thing of the past.
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First P&S DC a Kodak DX4900
First DSLR Nikon D50
Inbetween a Sony F717 and now Nikon D300 & D700Posted 3 years ago #
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