bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

My first digital camera was one of the Kodak point and shoots in 2003-2004. Something like $260 I believe. I used it to photograph breeding livestock then email the image to the potential customer. About the same time we got a Sony Mavica at work with its floppy disk that would hold an astounding 6 images! I think it was like $700! 2006 i upgraded to a Fuji S5100. Cool camera but slow focusing made it useless for anything moving. For Christmas 2007 my kids gave me a Nikon D40. $450-475 I think. That’s when I found that digital cameras could actually be competent devices.

popheizz Loc: berks co., pennsylvania

I have a friend in MD that still uses his Nikon D40. He, the camera and 18-200 zoom lens take beautiful shots.

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

I got a Nikon P4 digital camera at work sometime around 2005. It was useful for a few things, but we wanted photographs of our equipment and machinery in operation. The P4 wouldn't autofocus on moving equipment and had no manual options, so it was replaced, also by a D40, which was much more useful.

A little later, I bought a Fuji S3 Pro on a closeout deal at my local camera store along with a Nikkor 18-70mm DX zoom. That camera had a sensor with dual pixels and produced beautiful images, but was incredibly slow at everything it did and ate rechargeable AA batteries for lunch, so I moved to a Nikon D200, which I used with that same 18-70mm lens. A trip to a railroad hobbyist convention in Amarillo led to the discovery or realization of the many shortcomings of that lens. The 17-55mm f/2.8 zoom that replaced it served with the D200 for about 10 years.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Dec 2006 with a 10MP EOS Rebel XTi for a camera model that was released in August that same year. My interest in film had waned a few years earlier with mostly manual focus equipment dating back to the 80s. That first DSLR lasted just over 6-years until Jan 2013. I hadn't really outgrown the camera, but a touch of GAS caught me. This time I've made it 8-years (and counting) with the same body, third DSLR overall.

JimmyDK

Retired my Nikon FTN in 2000 for a Nikon Coolpix 990 at a whopping 3 MP. I still have both cameras.

ORpilot Loc: Prineville, Or

I first used a digital camera in Grad School in 1989. The schools video department was sponsored by Sony. So we in the photo department had access to the prototype of the Mavica. Post processing was extremely slow and printing was even slower. It could take an hour or more to print a 5x7 even thought it was less than 1 mp. I was sold on the future. All of my professors with the exception of one did not feel that digital would be the wave of the future. Needless to say they were wrong. Over the years I have used most brands and now primarily use Sony. In the words of a cigarette advertisement.... "we've come a long way baby"

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When I no longer had a photo lab "courtesy of" my employer.

JimmyTB

My grandson rowed HS crew from 2010-2014. The first 3 years I shot a Canon EOS 650 with a Tamron 70-300 and spent a fortune on film and developing. The summer between his junior and senior years I got a T5i and shot more frames that year than the previous 3 years combined.

cmc4214 Loc: S.W. Pennsylvania

My first digital was a Kodak Z650 6.1mp 10x zoom, I really liked that camera for the first year or so, but then started getting frustrated with the lack of control, especially the lack of manual focus, My second was a Nikon D90.

nimbushopper Loc: Tampa, FL

My first foray into digital was a fuji S7000 bridge camera I bought new for $500 in 2004. Then I purchased nikon D70s in 2006 for $700 because I had many film Nikons and lenses. I eventually sold all of my Nikon film bodies and stayed with Nikon because of all the lenses and presently have and use the D300, D7000, and D500. I have 6 primes and 6 zooms covering from 12mm to 600mm.

pahtspix

How about a 1.3mpxl Kodak in the late 90's that sold for over $800 USD!!..BUT..I was earlier scanning film and slides with a Microtek 4000 DPI scanner that had a "scuzzy" interface, which I don't believe any computer can use today! I was then printing out these scanned files via an early Epson 1200 dye based printer! (If someone can tell me how to add a scuzzy interface to a windows 10 pc with an intel 7 series processor I would certainly love to hear from them, as I would like to power up this scanner!( or sell it to someone who has an exiting Scsi interface! This was lightly used and originally cost me over $1400!!

LFingar Loc: Claverack, NY

Spring of 2001. A Kodak 3.1MP DC4800. Came with an 8MB CF card. Wife and I were taking a cruise out of NYC to Bermuda so I picked up an extra 16MB card. Never even opened it till I filled the other card. (Last time I ever did that). It was a brand new but totally useless card. Couldn't find another one anywhere on Bermuda. I think the 8MB card held 30-some photos so that was all I ended up with for the trip. Sandisk promptly replaced the card but the missed photos are still.....missing.

yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey

After years of using my much-loved Canon A1, I bought a Nikon D70 in July of 2004 for my 50th birthday. Originally, I had intended to pick up a Canon Rebel, but the Nikon just felt so right in my hands. Once I went digital, I never looked back. The ability to process and print my own images was magical.

Paulco2 Loc: Gettysburg PA

My first digital camera was a Nikon Coolpix 3100 in the early 2000's.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Around 2002 someone gave me a Sony Maniac 2.2mp while it was interesting it was a PITA for many of the obvious reasons, but the main things the low IQ.
I had stated years before when digital produced 35mm quality images I would switch from film.
At the time I was a Pentax owner so when Pentax came out with the iSTD (2003 or so) I went to the local camera shop and ask about one, the salesman said shipment had just come in but it wasn't unpacked yet, I ask him one question: Do you want to sell a Pentax today?
20 mins and $1900.00 + batteries and a 512mb CF card I was cooking with gas (Pentax at the time) was also the only Mfg. that used their film lens on the new cameras.
Some months later on a trip I opened the back door of my car and out rolled my camera bag, nothing damaged, yeah right it, just didn't show, when I got home none of the days images were in focus, however they were in focus in the view finder so a trip to Pentax was the next step,
Enter NikonD70, a body and lens was $700 lower in price and it has been Nikon since that time.
I gave the Pentax to a very special lady friend along with all the lenses. BTW the iSTD used non-rechargeable batteries @ $9.99 each which it devoured very rapidly.