burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Digital Bitmap Printing, 1986
Digital Desktop Publishing, 1986
Digital Halftone Printing, 1988
Digital Typesetting/Imagesetting, 1989
Digital High Speed, On-Demand Document Printing, 1990
Digital Flatbed Scanning, 1990
Digital Color Printing, 1994
Digital Photography, 1995 (Early experiments)
Digital Film Scanning, 1996
Digital Silver Halide Printing, 1996
Digital Photography, 2002
I switched my personal work to all-digital in 2005.

I was lucky to work in a large professional portrait photo finishing lab for three decades. Most of my work there was project and people management, but I was very hands-on with the technology, both in the film/optical printing lab, and in the evolution of the digital photo lab. "Going digital" wasn't a sudden or one-time thing. It was a process... Research, test, deploy, evaluate, repeat...

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

My first digital camera was a Sony Mavica CD-300 and it held around 150 photos per disc. I got it in the spring of 2001. I still have it and it still works. I bought my first Canon digital camera, an EOS 10D in 2003. Prior to digital I shot a Canon A1.

gwcole

I smile when I remember my first digital camera. I used to check a website that offered a variety for very low prices and most items had a rebate. One day in 2002 I spotted a yellow plastic digital camera. The pink model was a Barbie Camera. I bought the yellow model for $5.95 and sent in for a $20 rebate. After the camera, shipping, and rebate I ended up being paid for buying it. Not long after I bought a Toshiba digital camera.

lensmaster Loc: Chicago

full digital: 1997

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

Yup, a Kodak then a Mavica but then I went the Canon route until about 2013 when I moved to Sony.

bwa

David in Dallas Loc: Dallas, Texas, USA

First digital camera was a Kodak DX7630 PaS. I bought it in 2004 for a tour of New Zealand, but I took my Nikon FE and N70 cameras along as backups. The Kodak took good pictures (6 MP) but the delay between pressing the shutter and actually taking the photo was very upsetting and resulted in a lot of blurred photos (moving the camera too soon), and the low-light capability was poor. My Best Friend was a USAF photographer and they'd begun using digital in 2005--he recommended I get a Nikon D50, which I did inn 2005, retiring the DX7630 (I still have it somewhere, and the film cameras).

The D50 was an excellent camera and took good photos, but I was not satisfied with its low-level capability and later cameras had improved in that area, so in 2013 I moved up to a Nikon D7000. The D50 had been using the 18-200VR lens and I moved it to the D7000. The D7000 succumbed to salt air damage and in 2016 was replaced by a D7100; the 18-200VR lens was also showing signs of damage so was replaced by the newer 18-200VR2 lens at that time. (I kept the original lens as a backup.)

In 2019, for a tour of Kenya, East Africa I rented a second D7100 to wear the newly-purchased Nikon 200-500VR zoom lens--didn't want to have to change lenses in the field. That worked so well that for my tours in 2021 I purchased a second D7100 for that purpose. I am currently using 2 D7100 cameras in my travels, one with the 18-200VR2 and the other with the 200-500VR lens. I carry the lighter one on a strap around my neck and put the big one on the seat beside me.

niteman3d Loc: South Central Pennsylvania, USA

You got me curious and it would appear that at least some SCSI devices are in use or can be adapted. Do a search on "SCSI to USB adapter" and see what you get.

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

A lot of interesting stories! Great! Summer of 2007 was my last year for film. Went on a motorcycle tour with my old vivitar 220sl and a Honeywell Pentax, each with different speed film. The vivitar started leaking light and the Pentax shutter started sticking, may have had something to do with the 103-107 temps on that trip. Plus the made in China Kodak film was really crappy stuff unlike the real Kodak film. So I was overjoyed when the kids got me the D40nikon.

Billynikon2

I was shooting Christmas scenes with my trusty Nikon F when a guy came up to me and asked if I was still using film. He had a D40 and said it would let you do processing with the computer. So I got a D40, then a D60, then a D200 and the F went into retirement mode. Now I have major GAS attacks when a new one comes out.

RightOnPhotography Loc: Quebec,QC

My first digital camera was Olympus C5050Z, a 5Mp point and shoot, purchased in January 2003. Being a devoted Pentax shooter, later this year I got the very first Pentax DSLR - *istD (6Mp), as soon as it appeared in our local camera store, paid $2600.
These were surprisingly good cameras.

rbtree Loc: Shoreline, WA, United States

First was a 4 mp Canon G2 spring 2002... then a couple more compact cameras. I upgraded my Canon 1N to a 1D Mk II in 2005, and have since progressed to 5D II, 7D, 5D III, 7D II, 5D IV and now the R5, while still using the 5D IV and 7 D II.

rlscholl Loc: California

When Kodak stopped making Kodachrome.

buzzerbill

It was, I think, 2004, a Fuji Finepix S3 with interpolated 12 MP. Outstanding camera, great color rendition. I still have it, and use it. (My current camera is a Nikon D850.)

I do still shoot film.

Mr Bill 2011 Loc: southern Indiana

my first digital camera was an Olympus D-400z; I believe I got it around 1998; don't remember what it cost, but I justified it because I could use it at work. 1.3 megapixel, 3X optical zoom. It takes 4 AA batteries and has a 32MB Smart Media card in it, and it still works.

wjv

I started my photography journey in 1965 with a 35mm Olympus, then moved on to a 35mm Pentax SLR Spotmatic in 1971. My first digital camera was an Olympus 2.1 Mpixel zoom Camedia that took photo or video. My next digital camera was a Canon compact then a Panasonic ZS15 compact zoom. I now have a Lumix DSLR G85 with a couple of zoom lenses that I use for serious picture taking.