What was your 1st digital camera?
Sep 20, 2015 21:51:11 #
Mine was a Ricoh RDC-2, bought in 1996. Cost about $600, with the 1.8" LCD screen being an optional feature. It had a 1/4" CCD sensor with 410 thousand pixels, so the resolution was not even 1 mp.
There were not too many other digital cameras available at the time besides the Sony Mavicas, and I just did not like looks of them.
So you could say I was an early adopter of digital camera technology.
I had fun with this camera and got a lot of comments and questions when people saw me using it.
So what was your 1st digital camera?
will
Ricoh RDC-2 Digital Camera from 1996
There were not too many other digital cameras available at the time besides the Sony Mavicas, and I just did not like looks of them.
So you could say I was an early adopter of digital camera technology.
I had fun with this camera and got a lot of comments and questions when people saw me using it.
So what was your 1st digital camera?
will
Ricoh RDC-2 Digital Camera from 1996
Sep 20, 2015 22:11:41 #
Canon Power Shot A95. This was revolutionary, compared to my film cameras. Not yet sold on the concept.
Sep 20, 2015 22:14:08 #
Sony Mavica, 1999 got it for $99.00!!!
Piece of junk, ended up as a gift to a niece who needed something 'digital'. Not sure where this one ended its life.
The next one was a Fuji Pro S2 (2004). Ended-up gifted three times!!!
1) 'Too heavy' - Gave it back
2) 'Does not work!!!' - Gave it back - The 123 battery gave up the ghost :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:
3) Gave it to a hunter last year. Now he wants a better camera! (Will I see it again?)
Piece of junk, ended up as a gift to a niece who needed something 'digital'. Not sure where this one ended its life.
The next one was a Fuji Pro S2 (2004). Ended-up gifted three times!!!
1) 'Too heavy' - Gave it back
2) 'Does not work!!!' - Gave it back - The 123 battery gave up the ghost :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:
3) Gave it to a hunter last year. Now he wants a better camera! (Will I see it again?)
Sep 20, 2015 22:26:31 #
Sep 20, 2015 22:33:06 #
kodak dx3600 in 2002ish - not just my first digital camera but actually was my first camera. funky looking in the day, looks more like it was designed by playskool now.
Sep 20, 2015 22:35:26 #
Sony DSC-S85, a 4MP CCD camera with a Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar 34mm to 104 mm (35mm equiv) lens. I had been using single use film cameras for snapshots for about a decade. This camera got me back into photography as a hobby and gave me the incentive to build a web page and post digital pics, that I would crop in the Windows Paint program.
Bob
Bob
Sep 20, 2015 22:39:12 #
Soul Dr. wrote:
Mine was a Ricoh RDC-2, bought in 1996. Cost about... (show quote)
Mine was a Megavision back for my Mamiya RB67, around that same time. It cost around $8000, and was all of 6 megapixels. But it did have sophisticated white balance software, and would do good quality studio portraits. I finally replaced it when the Nikon D2X first came out.
Sep 20, 2015 22:52:13 #
Mine was an I don't even remember what it was. It was only $10.00 at Wal Mart and it took 1.2 mb pictures. It didn't even have a memory card. It had a cord that plugged into a usb slot.
Sep 20, 2015 23:09:57 #
Soul Dr. wrote:
Mine was a Ricoh RDC-2, bought in 1996. Cost about... (show quote)
It was an Olympus with 1.2Mp with a 3x optical zoom and bought it in 1998. I remember it taking about 4 sec from the time I pressed the shutter until it took the picture.
I also remember trying to shoot stars at night. The noise levels drowned out the stars by a good margin. It didn't take long to realize that was futile.
The pictures looked reasonable when taken in good light, but it was sure a long ways from today's cameras.
But never-the-less, my Minolta Maxum 7000 started seeing a lot less use as I was having a lot of fun with a new technology.
Makes me wonder if there is technology coming in the future that is so good that it render todays best cameras to the same trash heap that today's camera have rendered to these old digital cameras?
Also makes me think how I have a 3 Mp camera, Olympus D-400 Zoom, that replaced the first one that is now in a closet upstairs and has not been handled in years, and then an 8Mp camera that hasn't left its case in many years also.
Sep 20, 2015 23:56:59 #
Sep 21, 2015 00:39:21 #
Panasonic DCM-FZ10 Great picture, high quality lens with great stabilization and zoom range.
Sep 21, 2015 02:01:07 #
Mine was a Fuji Finepix, 3.2 megapixel. Still works well and in good light takes decent pictures. The EVF was quite poor and it was noisy over ISO 400. Also had frustrating shutter lag rendering it no good for action.
Sep 21, 2015 04:58:11 #
Mine was a Nikon D40. I bought it at Circuit City when they went out of business. I passed it on to a former student who is now in college and she loves the camera.
Sep 21, 2015 05:18:58 #
Sep 21, 2015 05:43:19 #
I held on to 35mm film cameras for a long time because film had a superior dynamic range than early digital cameras. My first digital was a Nikon D90.
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