Drip Dry McFleye

Mine was/is a Nikon D90. I was coming from a Canon AE 1 film camera. The first shots I made with the D90 were taken at Shilo Battle Field National Cemetery with camera on full auto and they just blew me away.

Fotomacher Loc: Toronto

[quote=Basil]Got to thinking about the cameras I've had over the years and thought I'd pose the question - what was the first digital camera you bought?

In 2000 I came back from a 19 day trip with 32 rolls of exposed film to have processed and printed. I used a Nikon N2000 (F401) body and a few Nikkor lenses. When my wife saw the cost of the processing and printing, she suggested trading the film equipment for the just newly fangled digital. I traded my Nikon kit for an Olympus C2500L DSLR with a fixed mount zoom lens, a CF card slot, a SD card slot and a whopping 2.5MP of resolution. I used it for years until I sold it to buy a Nikon D70s so I could interchange lenses and get more ooomph from its 6MP sensor.

PHRubin Loc: Nashville TN USA

In spring of 2005 I moved from Long Island NY to Nashville TN. In June I got my 1st digital camera. Having been a 35mm SLR owner, I went immediately to a DSLR. I can't sat now why I chose Canon over Nikon, but I ended up with an EOS Rebel XT with an 18-55mm kit lens and 550EX strobe. I since went to an 18-135, then 18-250mm lens. I've since sold that camera and 18-135mm lens after buying the T2i. I've added a SX50HS and 80D to the collection as well as a Canon 70-300mm zoom.

Here is an early shot of our back yard.

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KAT007 Loc: Waukesha, WI

It took me awhile to make the move from film to digital. I had imported some pics from my daughters inexpensive point and shoot years ago. I mistook some of her shots with some that I had taken with film. At that point I made the decision to purchase one for myself. When visiting my daughter in Vegas, I would have 2 camera bags. One for my film camera (Canon EOS Elan 7) and one for my 8 mm video camera. Very cumbersome and clumsy. Ultimately, I purchased a Canon Powershot G9. It's built like a tank, has an optical viewfinder and a hot shoe. It certainly has some lag time, but it takes some very nice photo's and video. Convenience wise, what a difference. I still use that G9 to this day. A little over a year ago I also treated myself to a Canon EOS 7D II. I have a Canon EF-S 17-55 IS f 2.8 mounted for the walk around lens. Quite a dramatic difference in every aspect, but I just want to say how impressed I am with my little Powershot G9 to this day. I took this shot of Caesars from across the street at the upper level of Margaritaville and was very lucky with the time of day.

jamesl Loc: Pennsylvania

My first digital camera was a "Sony Mavica MVC-FD92" that I bought around the end of 2001 or beginning of 2002. If I remember correctly it was around $550 - $575 at that time.

chrisg-optical Loc: New York, NY

The Sony Mavica was one of the very early digital cameras that I could remember (but did not own)...years ago when I bought a brand new 1991 Maxima (late 1991), I had to take it to get photographed by the insurance company since I had collision and comprehensive coverage. To my surprise the photographer had one of the very early Sony Mavicas - I happen to peek at it - said 0.3 megapixels (300,000 pixels) on the front and had a slot on one side for a recordable Sony mini-disc to store the pics!! I think it was a proprietary Sony format. Now those were the digital pioneering days! It wasn't until 2000 when I got my first digital (Oly Camedia 3030 with Smartmedia cards) - those cards were nice and thin but a pain to format and sometimes flaky. A couple years later got very hard to find a reader for it as SD, xD, CF and other formats became more popular.

paulierocks

I also bought the original Canon Rebel and loved it at the time. It was a great introduction to digital. I didn't realize then how profound that purchase was since I have been a dedicated Canon shooter ever since. I thought about switching over to another brand a few times but I'm so comfortable with the Canon controls and invested in lenses that it didn't make sense to do so. (I'm sure that's exactly what Canon wants to hear!) Just bought a new 80D over the holidays from B&H and love it!

Pixelmaster Loc: New England

It was 1993 and the Navy Deep Submergence Unit was going to support Dr. Robert Ballard (He found the Titanic) and his new assignment was to take a look
at volcanic vents off the coast of Mulege in the Sea Of Cortez that were 7000 feet down. My task was to put together a way of recording events on the research vessel Laney Chouest and find a way of uploading the images to the Pentagon from the ship. After approaching Kodak they said they would support the mission by lending me a
camera that was a modified prototype camera. It shot black and white, came with a huge aluminum case and the camera was attached to a large video
recorder that I had to wear over my shoulder with a tv screen on it of just a few inches. Then I had put together a Mac laptop with Photoshop and Timbuck Two software to transmit the images.It all worked out in the end and the Navy released the images to the New York Times who published them after I sent the images from the ship while I was thirty three miles out to sea.
Did I mention I had put up a promissory note payable to Kodak for $10,000 in case the camera was lost?

jamesl Loc: Pennsylvania

Yea, the one I bought used either a 3 1/2 inch floppy disc or a Memory Stick to store pictures. A fried of mine bought the mini-disc model shortly after I bought mine. The slot to insert a floppy disc was on the right side and there was a door on the back on the right edge where you could use a Smart Stick.

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ecar Loc: Oregon, USA

That Nikon was Amazing!!

rastokirn Loc: Maribor, Slovenia

Yes, Apple QuickTake 100 from 1995 What a proud owner I was! One could shoot about 16 (!) high definition photos (640 x 480), if I remember well. Some of the photos don't even open any more Below the look from my flat (that time living in Vienna city).

mickeys Loc: Fort Wayne, IN

Nikon d40

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Yea, mine only did the 3-1/2 inch floppy. I found an adapter that put a memory stick in a 3-1/2 inch "floppy" to use in the camera instead of a real floppy disk. It worked great.

snfapm1983

Mine was a Kodak DC 4800. It was the bomb in 1999!

CRoy

Nikon F2. That camera was a tank, and I used it over 20 years having taken thousands of photos with it. Completely manual, heavy duty. I dropped it on more than one occasion, but that camera never failed me.