My first digital camera

[FowlersFreeTime]

I wasn't sure where to put this in the forum structure but I figure "macro & close-ups" seemed appropriate.

I found my first digital camera, a truly unremarkable lump of plastic now, but fun at the time, oh so long ago...

• ILCE-6700
• E 30mm F3.5 Macro
• 30.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/200 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-6700
• E 30mm F3.5 Macro
• 30.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-6700
• E 30mm F3.5 Macro
• 30.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

Definitely NOT a classic, by any means

 

[Unframed Dave]

Cool, it wasn't mine, but the first I used was a Sony mavica. It wrote to 3.5" floppies.

 

[iain clyne]

I had a Fuji, I think it was 1.3mp

 

[AlphaWorld]

My first was the first Canon Ixus - I think it was 2megapixel, JPEG only, and came with a Canon branded CF card which was an ENORMOUS 8MB (yes, megabyte!). It was pretty, and felt more metal than plastic. Solid little beast.

CF cards were large and thick, and had the fun feature of being able to bend a pin deep in the slot if you weren’t gentle inserting the card. I didn’t have that problem, but the dealer showed me a broken Ixus that someone had damaged on the first day they had it.

 

[Richard A]

My first digital camera was a Pentax *istD DSLR, however I was scanning film for about 6 years before that. The *istD was a pretty good camera back in the day. I took some great photos with it. Shortly after, I bought my wife an Olympus C-5060 WZ on the advice of someone from the club I was in. It was a terrible camera. It was full featured but we had no end of trouble with it. Would never consider an Olympus after that.

I can't say I ever had a problem with CF cards but you did have to be careful with them.