Fuji MX-2700! 2.3 MP when everything else on the market was still KP. Cost me about £600 and had a waiting list longer than a D4! My daughter still uses it although smart media cards are getting hard to find.
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Powershot A70, then Powershot SX10IS, then D700. I almost bought a 7D, woh, close call!
But the Canon powershots are very good for what they are, and I have been shooting manual exclusively for a long time.
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Mine was Panasonic DMC-FZ20 in 2005. :-) I had to return it tho (broken OIS), and got a Panasonic FZ5 a week later. Still have it going strong. :)
I'm thinking of converting it for IR photography..
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Sony FD- 95 -- no resolution, but still one of my favorite cameras.
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ultrataco said:
Nikon D50, a very good camera for what it is. After about 5 years, I finally replaced it a few months ago with a D7000.Great camera, that was the first DSLR I ever held. I shot a gig for a friend at high school using one of those bodies with a SB-600.
With no experience with a DSLR. Interesting.
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After a string of Nikons (Ftn, F2, F3), I began to see the binary writing on the wall around the mid-90's but didn't actually get to use a digital camera until the late '90's... I was doing computer animation at the time and a friend loaned me a Sony Mavica FD7 to shoot some photos of a building that I needed to get into the computer quickly to make a 3D model from. A side benefit was that I was able to use some of the images as texture maps as well... that saved me even more time. By the time I was done with that project, I was totally hooked on digital. Still couldn't afford a camera of my own tho... I kept shooting my F3 for a few more years, tho my friend occasionally loaned me the Mavica and another friend loaned me a Nikon Coolpix 950.
Finally, the time came to buy my own camera. No way I could afford a DSLR, and since none of the smaller cameras had interchangeable lenses I settled on the Minolta Dimage 7, which seemed to have about the widest range lens at the time (28-200). For years I carried that camera around and it was a true love-hate relationship. I really liked digital in general, especially the opportunity afforded to get out of the darkroom (tho these days I do feel a bit of nostalgic longing for the smell of chemicals). I also liked the small formfactor... leaving my 18 lb camera bag at home, I even began to take the Minolta with me on my bicycle rides. On the other hand, I had all the usual complaints that most film shooters had with digital compacts... shutter lag, focusing problems, too much depth of field, lousy low-light performance, etc. Plus the Dimage 7 had a voracious and infamous appetite for batteries... I always had to carry at least two extra sets.
Tho the Dimage was technically my first digital camera, I still felt like I was not totally committed... the versatility and speed of my film cameras, plus my stash of lenses meant that I still shot digital photos with a slight sense of longing and dissatisfaction.
That ended when I bought a Nikon D-80. Though the Dimage produced some good images in the years I had it, I still find myself thinking of the D-80 as my first REAL digital camera. It was what closed the gap between film and digital and made me feel like I hadn't compromised my work by making the transition.
And now I guess it's time to retire the D-80... my D-7000 arrived yesterday. Between the high-ISO performance and the AI coupling for my old lenses, I think this is going to be a fun ride. Last night I got out my old 50mm 1.4 and went out in the back yard and took a few photos by the light of the full moon... hand-held, wide open at 1/30th. They're not pretty, but it's something I wouldn't have even attempted with film. Ain't technology grand?
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Somebody (somebody else before you say me) ought to be correlating this stuff.....
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My first Digital camera was a Nikon D7Ts (D70s) that served me for more than 6 years.
Now I got a Nikon D7K (D7000) few weeks ago and I love it!.Before that, the film Nikon 8008s was the camera (Is still working!)
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HP-945
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Kodak DX6490 - cost me around $600.00 back in 2003.
It was an amazing camera back then, some of my favorite shots were taken with it.
Killer specs too! LOL
# 4-megapixel CCD for prints up to 20 x 30"
# 10X Schneider zoom 38 - 380 mm (35mm equivalent)
# High-speed precision, low light auto-focus
# Big 2.2-inch TFT color LCD, indoor/outdoor type
# TTL Multi-pattern, center weighted, center spot metering
# ISO equivalent of 80, 100, 200, 400, 800 or automatic
# White balance: automatic, daylight, tungsten, fluorescent
# Color mode: b&w, sepia, saturated or natural color
# Adjustable image sharpness
# Exposure modes: Auto, sport, portrait, night, program, aperture & shutter priority,
# Burst mode captures up to 6 pictures at approx. 3 fps
# 320x240 movies w/sound length limited only by memory
# 16MB internal memory, SD/MMC card slot
# Powered by proprietary lithium battery pack
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i'm surprised how few digital old timers there are on here!
i had a logitech fotoman in 1991 or early 1992. .09MP greyscale images stored on 1MB of internal memory. i was in high school at the time - we had a lot of fun with it.
second digital camera - and the one that actually got use as a real camera - was a canon powershot 600 in 1996. .5mp color images, iirc i had an 80mb PCMCIA type II hard disk for it.
since then have had a coolpix 900, 950, 995, 5000, d100, d200, d300, d700, d7000 and a couple of the pocketable canons alongside.
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My first digital camera was a Canon Powershot S 10 with 2.1 megapixels. I took a picture of a distant oil rig and blew it up on a plotter to about 3x4 feet. I couldn't believe how good it looked. I guess it was the Canon lens. You could see the stair stepping on a diagonal wire on the rig. Other than that it was stupendous.
DaveO
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Sony Mavica FD-92 1.6MP used the 1.44Mb floppy discs
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First digital camera:
Panasonic DMC-FZ1
First DSLR:
D200
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First digital camera:
Cannon Elph circa 2001First DSLR:
D7000Posted 1 year ago # -
Leica D-lux ..
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First digicam was an Olmypus C-750 with 4mp and a 10X zoom in 2003. Other than huge shutter lag and poor ISO sensitivity, it still takes nice pictures.
First DSLR was a D-80 in 2006 which I still use today.
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My first DSLR was the Nikon D100. The screen was so bad it was amazing. Comparing it to my F5 and even F100. Then I got a D70 and a D200. The D200 is still shooting every week. I myself am using D300 and D90 and D700. I now believe HD video is one feature I have to have on my DSLR cameras and some subjects require motion. I photograph a lot of trout and salmon from above them looking down into the water. There you need video, stills just do no justice to that subject as the moving water surface causes the image to be squiggly. In video they look just the way our eyes see them. I also way prefer video for fireworks at night. I have also learned the sound recording feature can be a big plus, and sometimes the sound is too distorted by wind, etc. but when the sound is good, it is very useful. My D100 still works. However it is not used, just kept as a milestone.
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I also keep my D70 Nikon as a milestone. It serves as a reminder that an underwater camera housing better be fully buttoned up and not leak or worse yet have the camera get washed downstream. That happened in Alaska in 2007 and I got the camera back after it had been underwater for 33 days. The camera body was full of fine gravel. The type 1 capture card images were still totally intact although the capture card itself was bent. I have since talked to many who have "tested" their capture cards by running them through a washing machine (by accident). I cannot use a very expensive DSLR in a UW housing because of the risk of another such accident.
All of my DX DSLRs are used in somewhat high risk settings in field work and my D700 with bigger lens is kept for safer uses.Posted 1 year ago # -
My first digital camera was the Casio QV-10 (VGA resolution, no LCD display, no flash, no memory card slot, .CAM files only!). It was about USD. 100.00 on sale, around 1999 (?).
My first DSLR was the D70 in 2004. Don't ask me how much it was! It still hurts to think of how much it depreciated over the years.
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Canon Powershot A75.
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Purchased in May 2002 a 2.2 megapixel (which interpolated it to a 4 megapixel file) Fuji Finepix 4900z. An ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC digital camera at the time. the images, which I still have in my LR catalog still look awesome!
Boy, that brings back memories....
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My first one was Pentax Optio S, and shortly after that Canon G5, but little over year ago I bought my first DSLR Nikon D5000, few months later I upgraded it to D90, and I was within the first ones here In Finland who got the D7000.
Now eagerly waiting for the D4 or even D800. Never kept the old cameras, always changing to new one.Posted 1 year ago #
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