What was your first digital camera?

[JaGWiRE]

First one was a Canon Elph S100 2mp. latest purchase was a Canon 30D.

Sad, but true for me:
Rebel XT, replaced by Canon 30D like 2 weeks later when I realised I needed the damn thumb wheel. I jumped straight into SLRS and skipped point and shoot. I've been shooting 3-4 times a week now, and am actually buying a few flashlights and laser pointers for photography.

 

[PEU]

My first digicam was a Kodak DC20, I purchased it around 1996 in a computer expo in Sao Paulo/Brazil

Its capabilities were 8 photos in 640x480 or 16 in 320x240 no memory expansion or display on the back

Purchased it for about $400 sold it to a friend in 2001 for $50

Now I have a Panasonic Lumix FZ7 and looking into DSLRs


Pablo

 

[Elmie]

Sad, but true for me:
Rebel XT, replaced by Canon 30D like 2 weeks later when I realised I needed the damn thumb wheel. I jumped straight into SLRS and skipped point and shoot. I've been shooting 3-4 times a week now, and am actually buying a few flashlights and laser pointers for photography.

Hahaha...actually heres my list of cameras purchased in order:

Kodak DC 210 - 1.0mp with 2x optical zoom, price paid $300
Canon S100 - 2.0mp with 2x optical zoom, price paid $800
Canon G3 - 4.0mp with 3x opitcal, $1300
Canon 10D - 6.3mp, $2300
Canon 30D - 8.3mp, $1150

Lenses for SLR:
16-35 2.8L, 50 1.4, 70-200 2.8L IS tally upto over $4000

Stupid digital got me into cameras!!!

 

[PlayboyJoeShmoe]

Sony FD90 Mavica 1.3mp. Gets a whopping 4 shots at max res. Quality stinks at 640.

edit> oh yeah, it was first and still ONLY digital I own.

 

[Coop]

Trust F@milycam 500 Flash. Some 1.3 megapixel piece of junk. Got it for free with some softwarebundle... Only thing it's good for is to use it as a webcam...

 

[geepondy]

1998, Nikon 1meg CP900, what I consider one of the first "real" consumer digital cameras. Cost just under a grand. 48 meg compact flash for it was about $300.

 

[Pellidon]

HP 500C I think 3.1 MP. Looks like the old Argus C3 brick range finder camera. Could take seven or eight shots and the batteries would be reported dead due to a firmware bug. Sold it to a co worker that needed a cheap camera. From there it has been downhill.

Nikon S2, 4500, 5700, 8700, Minolta 5i, Sony F828, DSC-R1, DSC-V3 (those 3 I still use), Several point and shoots up to the Cannon A80, and a Nikon D-100. I have a Panasonic 2MP with the Leica lens that took great pics for a 2MP but eats batteries like a drunk at a distillery.

Film I have cameras from Nikon F to F3 and Hasselblad with large format thrown in.

Pellidon: camera, gun, flashlight, guitar nut.

 

[DieselDave]

I remember it well. Dec. 2005. It was 2-3 weeks before the official release of the Kodak DC50, follow on to the DC40. It was cool to get it before it hit the market. It cost $970 delivered. It used a floppy and you could buy memory for it. Memory was so expensive I never got it, at least I never got one that worked. A 4mb stick cost about $250 back then.

 

[benh]

My first digital camera was a Canon Digital Elph S110, 2 megapixel. That camera went many places, including Austria, Switzerland and Holland.

It went to my mom (and she still uses it) when I got a Canon PowerShot S45, which was eventually replaced by a PowerShot S70, which I carry around with me most of the time.

My most recently acquired digital camera is a Canon Digital Rebel XTi, with the EF-S 17-85 IS USM lens and a Speedlite 430EX.

I've still got my old Canon AE-1 Program, too.

I'd like an EOS 5D, but can't justify the expense. Yet.

 

[chevrofreak]

This

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005B13M/?tag=cpf0b6-20

I paid $80 for it at Walmart. The pictures were absolutely terrible and almost never focussed right. It did somewhat decently outdoors, though, due to the vastly higher light levels. I sold it a couple years later on Ebay for around $60 after purchasing a Sony DSC-S75. I've recently replaced my DSC-S75 with a Canon PowerShot S3 IS. My mom has the Sony.

 

[Eugene]

HP C500. It was a $500 2.1MP in 1999 but the CCD was pretty high quality so its 2.1MP pictures look just as good as our little Nikon'2 5MP pictures.
It would really give batteries a workout though, I bought the highest capacity NiMH's I could get at the time, IIRC they were 1650mAH Sanyo's and they would self discharge in a week to where the camera wouldn't even turn on but could fill up the 8M CF card right after they were charged.

 

[CM]

Canon Powershot S10. 2.1MP, crude CCD that was predisposed to saturation, crappy NiMH battery pack that required constant replacement. I just gave it to my 10 year old to play with.

 

[IanJ]

Another vote for the Canon S110. I loved that camera, when I got it (~2002, I think), it was among the smallest "full featured" cameras I was considering. I don't have any recollection of what I paid for it, but I think I got it used on Ebay. My favorite features were the optical viewfinder (LCD-only cameras still bug me, they use battery so fast), and the compactflash memory.

I liked it enough that when time came to upgrade (and free up the 110 to be given as a gift), I found an S410, which I still have. Still has the optical viewfinder and CF memory. It's no longer the smallest game in town, nor the most featureful, but I'm so used to it at this point that none of that matters. It shoots 4MP, which is about 2x more than I need, but I'm not that bothered by it. It normally lives with a 512 MB CF in the port, and a 256 on standby in the case. I've only filled the 512 once, and that was near the end of a week-long trip through Montana.

My next digital camera is very likely to be a DSLR, but that's still a ways off. Most of my photography is of the "hey neat, snapshot!" variety, and not "I'm am an artist!" I still have my film SLR (old Minolta beast built in the 70s). Some day I'm going to pick up my grandfather's 4x5 field camera again, but that's also a ways off.

 

[22hornet]

Leica D-lux.3.2mp Bought it in July 2004. Cost 995 euro.
I saw it on the internet at the Leica site and fell in love instantly. I thought it was very beautiful and cool looking. I still use it and like it a lot.

 

[22hornet]

Leica D-lux.3.2mp Bought it in July 2004. Cost 995 euro.
I saw it on the internet at the Leica site and fell in love instantly. I thought it was very beautiful and cool looking. I still use it and like it a lot.

 

[Screehopper]

Olympus D-360L 2.1 megapixel. That think ate batteries so fast that it seemed like I could only get 30-50 shots.

Digital camera technology has improved greatly since.

 

[PlayboyJoeShmoe]

Oh yeah, while I still have my first and only (so far) digital (Sony FD 90) if I'm going to take GOOD pics my Canon EOS650 and/or AE1 Program will get the nod!

 

[Closet_Flashaholic]

1986: Canon EOS 650 (film - first EOS camera)
1987: Canon EOS 620 (film)
~1996: Oly D600 (1.3MP)
~1998: Oly C2000Z (2.0MP)
2003: Canon EOS10D (6.0MP) I also caught the "L" disease at this time
2004: Canon 1DMII (8MP)
2005: Still buying L lenses
2006: Still buying L lenses
2007: Still buying L lenses...... Have not been able to shake the "L" disease yet. I have seen several doctors, there is no known cure.

"Cameras are what you get each Christmas, Lenses are forever.." - unknown.

 

[yybug]

hp 618 as i remember..paid $300 from dell.com

 

[Stormdrane]

My first digital camera was this Minota Dimage. Taking 20 photos would kill four AA batteries.