As I mentioned in another post, I had a chance to shoot some film this week (in the weirdest of ways) and I really enjoyed your comments. It got me thinking, when did you finally break down and get your first digital?
For me it was 1999. I had been using Photoshop 5.0 for a year, but was scanning film to create digital copies. I had started a new company called Brag Tags (custom college logo dog tags) and needed to get some images to my web designer. So, I did some research and bought my first digital camera: a Nikon Cool Pix 950. At the time it was cutting edge technology at a whopping 2.1 Mega Pixels! (my iphone does this now) and cost a barely affordable $700!! The memory card was HUGE, 8MB, but I found a 32MB card on ebay. It wasnt the first digital camera I used, that would be one of those Sony Mavica’s, it shot directly to a 3.5″ floppy disk at about .2 MP. Jeeez….times have changed.
The weird thing is…I used that Coolpix right up until 2004, when one of my MBA buddys asked me to shoot some engagement shots for him. By then, it was barely holding together (literally with tape). My friend was so happy he offered me $500 to shoot his wedding and I put it towards my second digital camera, a Canon 10D, hence…the beginning. 🙂
that is so neat to hear and learn abotu you michael, GREAT things come from small beginnings. very inspirational for us newbies :)!!
What a good Q… Hmm… I had film in High School… And never paid to get film processed. I think I must have gotten the digital just after College Graduation. I started traveling for work and taking cruises, and I wanted something that I could email from. My fancier point and click, came three years ago on an Alaskan Cruise when a float plane pilot hooked my camera bag when we landed in the fjord. He wanted to do some fishing while we were there and hooked my camera bag as he pulled his pole out. We lost all the images from the first half of the trip… they were stored on the camera’s memory. The Memory Card was fine. We hopped a shuttle to Wal-Mart to get another camera… his treat. I made three coffee table books from that Camera, still like it alot for a point and shoot (Kodak Dx7590 38mm-380mm 5mp). Funny thing I didn’t learn what the P,A,S,M,C letters were for, till after I bought my Canon 50D in Dec of 2008, and found MA. Now I like the little Kodak even more that Michael has taken me to school!
I have never shot in anything but M, with my Canon 50D… Thanks MA!
I’ve always loved photography. In college, I took a photography class to learn as much as I could, and it was, of course, film. I then bought a Nikon N6006 which was a great camera for me, and all I could afford at the time. Around 1999 or 2000, my company bought a Minolta DiMage 7, which was 5 mp and I used it all of the time for personal pictures. I couldn’t afford a digital SLR, so then bought a Sony Cybershot DSC-T1, also 5 mp, in 2004. A month ago, I finally was able to purchase a DSLR – Canon’s 50D. I also bought the 24-70 2.8L lens. Of course, I bought your crash course DVD – great job MA, I need all the help I can get.