LFingar Loc: Claverack, NY

My first digital camera was a Kodak DC4800. Good camera. Small, light, easy to use, and good IQ to boot. If I remember right the card that came with it was 16MB! Bought it in early 2001 just before going to Bermuda. Bought an extra card also. On the trip I filled the first card, opened the brand new spare, put it in the camera, and nothing! My first, and only to date, card failure. Sandisk replaced it, no questions, but couldn't replace the shots I missed. Oh well. Couldn't find another card anywhere on the island. CF, as I recall.

NJFrank Loc: New Jersey

Congrats on your new find If you are happy with it than all is good with the world. I am just surprised you were able to find a charger for it and the battery still holds a charge. Who said at your age you needed to go mirrorless. Take some shots and post your results.

wrangler5 Loc: Missouri

All of my screen saver shots are of a trip I took in 2003, from a Minolta Dimage 7 camera. I believe it was a 6Mp camera, although the JPGs are all in the 2.6Mp range for size. They are lovely (to me, for the purpose) images that look great on the screens, although they don't stand up well to pixel peeping to count leaves on trees across a river. Both my wife and I had one of those cameras, which I thoroughly enjoyed using, but they had a specific, known reliability issue (IIRC) and when it popped up on one camera we pitched it and sold the other one.

The images from my first DSLR, a 6Mp Nikon D100, also hold up well in real world output, although they're nowhere near the resolution of the 24Mp D600 when it comes to pixel peeping. But I've learned to shoot RAW since I got rid of the D100 (you could brew a pot of coffee in the time it took to write a NEF file to the card, and IIRC the camera was locked up during the write) so I don't particularly miss THAT old camera from a user standpoint. The D70s, D7000 and D600 that followed were all better/easier to use, but I'm not sure the images (as I use 'em) are significantly better - except in very low light, where the new sensors are clearly superior to the old.

johnbhome2 Loc: Wyoming, Michigan

I still have and use my old Toshiba PDR M5 which was my first foray into the digital world.

henrycrafter Loc: Orem Utah

I also am 82 and I use both a Mamiya RB67 (for film) and my T5i for digital. I love the quality of both and have no intention of changing. Besides that my social insecurity budget won't allow it.

stage36

I agree. I still use a Sony F717, 5mp, and get excellent quality.

cambriaman Loc: Central CA Coast

When I graduated from high school (1954) digital-anything had hardly been invented!
My first exposure to a digital computer was when I was working on my MSEE and we had to don gloves and jackets and make keyboard entries on a machine-mounted keyboard in machine language. That keyboard was physically part of the computer mainframe cabinet in a room kept at a constant 50 degrees F. Punched cards were yet to come. Memory was large rotating magnetic tape devices. Flip-flops and gates were individual small circuits boards. Those were they days my friends! Now my iPhone does more than that cold roomful of hardware could do! AND, there was no Internet.

DannyKaye Loc: Sheffield now but soon moving to Blanzay

I wouldn’t be tempted, I would just buy a LOAD and enjoy the amazing film I used to love. But, KodaChrome being available means the real deal not some pale imitation.

Tim Stapp Loc: Mid Mitten

Hey, not Kodachrome, but Kodak is reintroducing Ektachrome.

berchman Loc: South Central PA

I'm 80 and I often pull my iPhone X out of my pocket instead of using the Fuji hanging by my side. But I don't think I'm cool even though I just got one of the best electric trikes made, an ICE Sprint with Shimano Steps 8000 motor and a Rohloff hub.