When did you get your first digital camera?

craftytam

craftytam

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My husband bought our first digital camera in 1999 because he was starting to sell on ebay and digital images were so much easier to use. That camera was huge compared to cameras now! Bigger than an old Polaroid camera. The images were saved on a 3" floppy disc.

It was great to be able to see the photos right away. The bad thing is that the images were tiny! Most are (way) under 70kb. I don't know if it was just because he didn't know how to set it, or if that was as big as they could be. Thankfully most of the time, I had my film point and shoot when he was using his "toy!"

We didn't really use it many photos other than his ebay shots, but we did use it for my son's birth, and I (obviously) didn't have my camera with me.

My aunt, on the other hand, didn't make the switch to a digital camera until a couple of years ago.

So, when did you make the switch?
Have you started digitizing your old photos & negatives?
 
I got my first one 11 years ago. My parents bought me one a month before we found out I was pregnant

When we were doing film, we'd always get the disks. They get backed up, just like an HD when we get new ones.
 
Super topic Tammy.
We purchased our first in 2002 just in time for our daughter's HS graduation. It was a little Sony and a 3mp if I recall. At that time, I didn't 'get' how to DL anything on a computer much less edit a photo, so we would take the little dodad [memory stick] to Walgreens, and they printed the photos.
[fast forward]
Approximately 2003 I was starting to make digital titles and the journaling on the computer and printing them on clear sticker paper for my paper scrapbook pages.
2004- I started exploring my first version of photoshop elements and then....I started the digi DL on the computer!!!!

Oh how I wish we had digi sooner!
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Oh, this is too funny. I had my first digital camera for quite some time, but refused to use it. I just could wrap my brain around how a "digital camera" could take better photos then film. Now, I simply chuckle because I could never imagine going back to film. I love that you can instantly see the photos but also take hundreds and hundreds of photos without additional cost for developing like film.

We got our first digital camera (can't remember the brand or anything) in about Sept of 2005. I didn't really start using it until early 2006 and then I was hooked! The only reason I know the time frame as because my 3rd son was born in October of 2005.
 
littleradtrio said:
Now, I simply chuckle because I could never imagine going back to film. I love that you can instantly see the photos but also take hundreds and hundreds of photos without additional cost for developing like film.
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I couldn't imagine going to film either! My daughter (21) remembers film cameras, but doesn't really remember the limitations because she was young. We've tried explaining to my boys (13 & 14) how different it was with a film camera - not knowing if you took a good photo (so you took several of the same thing!) and only having a certain amount of pictures. They can't wrap their minds around it at all :)
 
For as much as I fiddle on digi settings in manual...I could not imagine film again. Although, I " knew" dark room...as did DH , my mom and my dad.
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I got my around 1999 or 2000. It was a sony that used the 3 inch floppy disk. I then got a better one that used the memory stick. The sticks cost around $50-$60 for a 128 mb. The cards are a lot cheaper now.
 
Good question! Sometime around 2000 I think..I know it was before my first was born in 2002, but can't remember how long before that. My memory is going...
 
My first digital camera was in 2000, maybe 2001 just a couple weeks before I took Rachel to her first diabetes day camp. The second day there we walked off from one station and forgot the camera and when we went back it was gone. :( Never saw it again. Hubby was far from impressed!!!

I do not remember when we replaced it, but it was about a year later.

And as far as digitizing, I have scanned nearly all of our pictures and my mom's pictures!! I have a box of negatives, not sure yet what I will do with those. :)
 
KatherineWoodin said:
I got my around 1999 or 2000. It was a sony that used the 3 inch floppy disk. I then got a better one that used the memory stick. The sticks cost around $50-$60 for a 128 mb. The cards are a lot cheaper now.
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Katherine, I was so amazed when prices just dropped on memory! They were originally SO expensive... now they are so cheap! I guess that's how all technology is, though.
 
missdamsel said:
My first digital camera was in 2000, maybe 2001 just a couple weeks before I took Rachel to her first diabetes day camp. The second day there we walked off from one station and forgot the camera and when we went back it was gone. :( Never saw it again. Hubby was far from impressed!!!

I do not remember when we replaced it, but it was about a year later.

And as far as digitizing, I have scanned nearly all of our pictures and my mom's pictures!! I have a box of negatives, not sure yet what I will do with those. :)
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I'll never understand someone taking something that is not theirs....if anything, you would think they'd try to find the owner or take it to lost & found.

You're doing amazing with your scanning! I'm just starting and it seems like I'm climbing Mount Everest! I'm working on my Grandpa's photos now, but I have BOXES of pre-digi photos and negatives to sort and scan!
 
I got my first digital camera in 2001 and it was a 1mp Olympus camera. It wasn't mine, persae, but my fathers. He lent it to me so I could document my pregnancy and birth of our first child. Shortly after, I broke the lens of the camera and bought another digital camera, which I believe was another Olympus. When I bought the replacement, that is when I stopped taking photos with film. I bought my first DSLR in 2009 which was a Nikon D60. It has since broke and I just replaced it with a Nikon D3200. I would really like to invest in another waterproof camera, to replace my old Olympus Stylus Waterproof Camera that I bought in 2008, but I haven't found a camera that I like---yet! :D

When we moved my office out of the baby's room, my scanner broke and I've yet to get it fixed. I'm waiting for my father to come down and see if he can fix it, first. But before then, I was scanning photos so I could use them in my digital layouts. My father has started converting his photos over to digital the past year and said when he's done with them, I can have a copy of the photos since he calls me "the family historian" because I like to scrap :D
 
Neverland Scraps said:
I got my first digital camera in 2001 and it was a 1mp Olympus camera. It wasn't mine, persae, but my fathers. He lent it to me so I could document my pregnancy and birth of our first child. Shortly after, I broke the lens of the camera and bought another digital camera, which I believe was another Olympus. When I bought the replacement, that is when I stopped taking photos with film. I bought my first DSLR in 2009 which was a Nikon D60. It has since broke and I just replaced it with a Nikon D3200. I would really like to invest in another waterproof camera, to replace my old Olympus Stylus Waterproof Camera that I bought in 2008, but I haven't found a camera that I like---yet! :D

When we moved my office out of the baby's room, my scanner broke and I've yet to get it fixed. I'm waiting for my father to come down and see if he can fix it, first. But before then, I was scanning photos so I could use them in my digital layouts. My father has started converting his photos over to digital the past year and said when he's done with them, I can have a copy of the photos since he calls me "the family historian" because I like to scrap :D
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I still use a point-and-shoot camera...well I did until the screen cracked beyond seeing a couple of weeks ago. I've never gotten the hang of a DSLR. I would love to learn - it's on my bucket list...maybe before we start having grandbabies! :shh
I'm thinking of not buying a new p&s and just using a smart phone for photos.
 
I love this thread! i want to brag a bit about my father. He bought his first digital around 1996. You had to hook it up to the TV to see the photos and everyone was so impressed! It used a disc of some sort, but not the current type. At the time, he was 69 years old. He still had his Nikon that he knew how to use! He used to have a darkroom in our basement and developed black and white film while I was growing up. He ended up getting a newer digital camera when they quit making the discs for his. I had an early kodak digital with a zoom, and when it finally broke, i had a hard time finding one with a screen, a zoom, and a viewfinder. There weren't many options out there! I am just too old to use the screen. I still find it hard in a lot of light conditions. I ended up with a Nikon D60 SLR. I asked my husband how we could justify the big price considering i wasn't like my dad, i just didn't think i would use all of the fancy features. He said the biggest difference in it and the point and shoot types was the lens. So we waited for a great sale, and got it. I am so glad i did! What a difference in the photos.
I still have a ton of my dads negatives and slides to scan. That project was waiting until the grand kids were in school full time- well that is this year:) Hopefully I will get to it soon.
 
I got one in December 2005 - an Olympus "bridge" digital camera, which I still use today. I also have a Canon 5D Mark though - LOL. The bridge camera is much smaller for when we're at places like amusement parks so I don't haul my big camera around for places like that.

It took me a long time to switch to digital because I was a die hard film person. I grew up from a very young age using "pro" cameras because my dad was a photographer. I had a Canon F1 and a Canon AE-1 for years and I was so against going digital! I was shocked the day my father switched and he raved about it so I made the plunge and of course never looked back.
 
catschwartz said:
I love this thread! i want to brag a bit about my father. He bought his first digital around 1996. You had to hook it up to the TV to see the photos and everyone was so impressed! It used a disc of some sort, but not the current type. At the time, he was 69 years old. He still had his Nikon that he knew how to use! He used to have a darkroom in our basement and developed black and white film while I was growing up. He ended up getting a newer digital camera when they quit making the discs for his. I had an early kodak digital with a zoom, and when it finally broke, i had a hard time finding one with a screen, a zoom, and a viewfinder. There weren't many options out there! I am just too old to use the screen. I still find it hard in a lot of light conditions. I ended up with a Nikon D60 SLR. I asked my husband how we could justify the big price considering i wasn't like my dad, i just didn't think i would use all of the fancy features. He said the biggest difference in it and the point and shoot types was the lens. So we waited for a great sale, and got it. I am so glad i did! What a difference in the photos.
I still have a ton of my dads negatives and slides to scan. That project was waiting until the grand kids were in school full time- well that is this year:) Hopefully I will get to it soon.
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Wow! You're dad is awesome! It took the "older" people in my family forever to go digital. My aunt, who travels a lot, just switched a couple of years ago.
 
I was obviously behind the times...I didn't get my first p&s digital camera until around 2006!! I got my DSLR in 2009, I think. I hardly use my p&s anymore because it was only a 5 px. I have used my phone quite a bit, but I hate what a pixelated picture or blurry picture it usually takes. I have an iphone 4 and I get some good ones outside if nobody is moving, but go inside or add movement, and it is not great. I am sure it is user error, but I am not sure what I am doing wrong. One my lenses on my DSLR has been broken, though, so that is why I have been using the phone so much. I just got it fixed and get to go pick it up this week sometime, so I am hoping for more good quality photos again!! :D

As far as scanning, I have done very little....I need to get a new scanner that does a little more a of a quality scan than my scanner now!
 
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