Regulator75 said:
Kodak DX6490 - cost me around $600.00 back in 2003.
That was my first digital camera also!
My first DSLR was a D50.
Your first Digital Camera was a ???
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Sony Mavica - stored on a floppy disk. 640x480. I really did love that camera. (1997 - and it was actually big bucks for the time)
First DSLR was i think 5 years later, the Nikon d2h.
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Olympus Stylus 400, then a nikon D200 and a P7000. As far as a point and shoot the little Olympus is still pretty good, been to the top of a mountain in Norway and fallen upon several times skiing down.
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Kodak C310... bought by my parents as a gift circa 2005 or something. Oh man, going from that to the PowerShot SX120 I got after that was night and day. (Then going from that to a D5000 was night and day.) [Then going from that to a D7000 was night and day.] {Then getting professional glass was- oh you get it.}
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A 3 megapixel Canon Powershot (can't remember the model number) with a swivel screen (yes, I was stylingly sharp!). Followed by a D70, a D3100 (which not so gracefully took a nasty fall from a 9th story balcony) and now a D5100 (which will be replaced by whatever the D7000 replacement becomes, when it is hatched).
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FujiFilm Finepix 2650 - A whopping 2MP.
I walked down to Staples about 2 mi away from my house, cash in hand. Barely had enough after taxes to purchase it. I think it was about $220, back in 2002.
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Pretty amazing what we got back then. For my office party this year, we had a $35 gift limit and I found a 7.1 Megapixel Vivitar with a 5X Zoom plus 4GB memory card for exactly $35!
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My first digital camera was not a Nikon, but a Canon Powershot S 10 that was 2.1mp. I shot a picture and blew it up to about 3 ft x 4 ft on an Epson plotter at work. I could not believe how good it looked. I don't know how large the sensor is. Probably about 1/2.5 or so.
DaveO
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Just curious, does anyone still use their first digital cameras?
Stuff like the D1 and the D100. Judging from the picture a day thread, no one really uses the D2 series.
I'm sure the D70s are still being used, lots of you guys like the high flash sync.
I really haven't upgraded bodies but I went straight to lenses. So yes, I'm still using my first digital cameras, for both my point and shoot and DSLR.
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Being a Nikon DSLR film user since the 1950s, and a Cibachrome fan it was hard for me to even consider converting to digital for a long time. Nevertheless, the deed was done on a lark while vacationing in Switzerland. I saw a Sony DSC-F505 before it was available in the US. I paid well over a grand for it with the Swiss taxes, but happy to be able to show it to friends because it was not available yet in the US and it was small and looked fun for street shooting. It saved me a lot of time scanning and was really sharp for web shots. I still have it.
The body was aluminium & magnesium alloy released on September 21st, 1999 in Japan. The MSRP was $1,100 in US DOllars. The max resolution
was 1600 x 1200 with 1024 x 768 and 640 x 480 as options. It used a 4:3 format and 2.1 million CCD pixels. The CCD size was all of .5 inches manufactured by Sony.DPReview's rating of the Sony DSC-F505 was:
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Detail Rating (out of 10)
Construction 8
Features 8
Image quality 9
Lens / CCD combination 9
Ease of use 9
Value for money 10The Sony DSC-F505 breaks new ground in digital camera design, shocking at first it soon confirms itself as being well built, ergonomically designed and able to take excellent images. This camera is a serious contender to the Olympus C2020Z and Nikon Coolpix 950 which currently rule the roost. With it's bigger lens, hybrid LCD and InfoLithium batteries you could be forgiven for having it very high on your list. DO check out the image quality (next page).
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LOL. It was a super little camera for $1100 which inflation adjusted is now $1485. Today that buys a D7000 Kit so the camera manufacturers are giving us a good value for our money today. I still like the Sony F505 but did not buy another digital camera until the D200 which was and is a super camera in good light.Posted 1 year ago #
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