[BigMackCam]

I'm continuing to find some great stuff in the old storage boxes I'm currently sorting through. Today I found my first ever digital camera! It's an Olympus C-120 that I bought around 2002 or 2003. It has a 2.0 megapixel sensor, a 4.5mm (35mm equivalent on 135) f/4 fixed focus lens, a decent optical viewfinder, flash, and a 1.6" LCD for accessing the various functions and reviewing photos. It uses long-superseded "Smartmedia" cards for storage, and the 64Mb card in mine is good for 128 photos The IQ isn't bad at base ISO 100 - I took a couple of pictures today (see one of the back of my house, attached - you can tell that it exposes for the highlights!), and I was quite pleasantly surprised! At ISO 200 the noise - both colour and luminance - starts to ramp up noticeably, and at the maximum sensitivity of ISO 400, things look really grainy!! The JPEG files tidy up quite nicely using Lightroom and Photoshop Elements 14, and with a little tweaking and sharpening of photos, this is still a useable camera for snapshots - even if it's just for a little nostalgia!

Anyway, that's my first ever digital camera. What was yours, and do you still have it?

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[Adam]

This was the first one that I used, the Casio QV-3000EX:


The first one that I owned was the Casio EX-P600, a pretty big step up back then, with 6 megapixels.

I still have a number of galleries taken with it. Looking back, it looks like the camera would have really benefited from an electronic level
Poland Gallery - Photography by Adam Oest

Some of the EX-P600's features were so cool that I decided to hang on to it. It had a 1/1.7" sensor and full manual control, so it was pretty good for its time.

[jatrax]

Sony Mavica about 1999 I think

[miner74]

The first digital camera I owned was a Sony Mavica. Don't remember the resolution (it wasn't much), but the storage media was 3.5" floppy discs. Still have several boxes of discs stored with pictures on them. They are all backed up to a hard drive, but I need to back up the hard drive since I don't use that computer much anymore. And the camera is still around here somewhere.

[victormeldrew]

It was a 1MP Oregon Scientific point and shoot. It was awful.

[aoeu]

An RCA VGA camera that still works. I don't use it anymore.

[timb64]

Canon PowerShot s70 in about 2006,part exchanged for a Panasonic DMC-TZ6 a few years later.

[aremmes]

Mine was an Olympus Stylus model similar to that C-120, but with reduced specs, 1.5 MP or thereabouts. It did... stuff. The Kodak Z712 that replaced it represented a big step up in nearly every metric except size and weight.

[C_Jones]

My first digital camera (digital sensor and used SD card) was the Pentax K-20D. It was one of the best items I ever bought.

[tvdtvdtvd]

My first digital camera was the Hewlett Packard Photosmart C618.

I remember it being almost $500 new. I chose it because I couldn't yet afford a DSLR, yet this compact allowed
for full manual control of exposure. And, it featured a Pentax lens!

Unfortunately the camera took very noisy photos, a problem that got progressively worse as the months went by.
About 9 months after I purchased the camera the noise had gotten so bad that I called in for a warranty replacement.
HP acknowledged the problem but informed me the camera was no longer in production and offered the C812
as a replacement. A decidedly inferior camera in every respect, except, as the HP rep kept insisting, it had
more megapixels. I insisted HP replace the C618 with the C850. We went round in circles over this for some time,
but in the end HP won out. I received a C812, plus all the accessories for it, (namely, a charger stand ).
I immediately resold the C812 and bought a Nikon 4500, a neat camera that I quite liked, despite having a complete
inability to photograph the color red correctly.

[08amczb]

The first digital camera was my first phone: a Nokia 3220, if it counts. I tried it and then never used. If it doesen't count, then my first digital camera was a Nikon Coolpix L19.

[Simen1]

Not counting webcams,
2002 Mustek GSmart Mini 2, My first digital camera. 1 Mp, viewfinder, no zoom, no focus, no image screen. Horrible camera, tried it just a few weeks.
2003 Canon Powershot A70 My first "real" digital compact camera 3,2 Mp, 3x zoom, viewfinder and screen
2006 Canon powershot A610 My first camera upgrade, 5 Mp, 4x zoom, replaced my A70 when the shutter failed for the third time within warranty and they didn't have a A70 to replace it with.
2007 Canon D30, My first DLSR, 3 Mp APS-C, quick buy and sell for the same price 200$
2007 Canon 300D, My first DSLR I got to know well and bought a couple of lenses for 6 Mp
2008 Pentax K200D, My first Pentax dslr, replacing the Canon since I was annoyed by several Canon system things that K200D solved (SR, WR, DNG)
2010 Pentax K-5, My first camera that made me really fall in love with Pentax

I have bought, tried and sold a lot since then, but my K-5 is the only camera that sticks with me.

[monochrome]

Olympus E-20N I bought on eBay for I think $750. At the time this was a really nice camera. F/2 - F/2.4 IIRC 9-36mm Zuiko Fixed Zoom (35-140 Equivalent). CF 1GB, SM 350MB or MicroDrive. 5Mp 2/3" CCD. Traded it in for $250 credit on the K10D.

[Jacquot]

Sony Mavica with mini disks for me as well... Our Mac Cube would load the disks.

[Fries]

Pentax K-200D. Chosen as a rugged companion for my hikes in the North Norwegian mountains.