So where did you start in your journey into the digital age? ; Anyone got a strange and unusual piece of "retro" gear? My quest began in 2004 with the Kodak EasyShare CX7300: 3.2MP, 37mm f/4.5 fixed lens: It all started with a Kodak by rickenmartin78, on Flickr Shot with ye olde iPhone 4.
I got a D30 as a gift. But I was also using an Olympus c-2020 with smart media cards! Of course this was back when an industry rep said there would NEVER be a reason for anyone to need more than 3 megapixels. And Canon was a rebel for using CMOS when everyone else was CCD.
My first "digital" camera was a 0.31MP Aiptek Pencam II, purchased on QVC. ; It only had internal memory and if the battery died before you could transfer the photos, you lost the photos. ; Used it for about six months before buying something else. ; Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
I had a Sony Mavica that used 3.5" floppy disks. I was amazed at how many photos could fit on that huge card. Erich
1997 - Sony Mavica FD91, 1MP floppy disk camera. ; Started with this cam alongside my SLRs, which I was still shooting at the time. ; In 1998, I added a camcorder, which I also took stills with since it too was 1MP...but the Mavica had better controls. In 2003 I moved up to a much more advanced digital cam, the Sony F717, with a nice F2.0 lens, 2/3 sensor, 5MP, and nice manual controls, and that started to spell the end of my SLRs - my last film SLR shots were in 2006.
I started with an HP Photosmart 215. ; It had 1.3 megapixels (it came with a 4Mb CF card!), drained the batteries after a handful of shots and the viewfinder and lens did not point in exactly the same direction. ; A real marvel of engineering incompetence.
I borrowed a Sony Mavica from work-that was back when I was on dial up and still with AOL- out here in the middle of nowheres-LOL First one I owned was a Canon A85 - followed by a Nikon Cool Pix with a swivel head and nice zoom at the time- have tipped toe my way like most of you through a few more. :
polices get the idea that taking evidence and scene photos are good ideas, then someone, usually in the command structure gets the idea, that we can save money by getting something so easy to operate that all the force can use it, so they usually get a point and shoot and put it on green box, and then wonder why the photos don't look as good when they get the local pro on retainer/per diem, or maybe are lucky and have access to a trained crime scene/forensics team, and you wait for them to get there, provided they are not out on a fatal at the other end of the county 60 miles away, and just got there. maybe if you are lucky someone actually listens and you get at least a entry level dslr with a kit lens and the popup flash, then they throw it to you and say, here you go, we know you take pictures for a hobby, show the guys how to photo a crime scene. and this being a government entity, you are stuck with whatever you have until you can't get film for it, can't get media for it, or it just plain dies, before anyone will listen about updating. TIM, am i right or am i right
