Digital Photography -- Our Early Years!

Merovius wrote in post #13379297
After I read this post I started digging through the archives looking for the really old stuff. My first digital was a Chinon ES-3000 back in 1995 (I think I still have it), but the pictures were so hideous and it was such a PITA to get pics off of that I didn't use it much. I got a Kodak DC-210 in '98, and it was better, but it didn't hold my interest either. It wasn't until I got my DC280 in 2000 that I really got into it. I actually took some reasonably decent shots with it...now if I can just find them...

Interesting story! And yeah, show us some stuff!

Fortunately, I began seriously organizing my photography once I jumped on Lightroom in '07, but my '00-'06 stuff is lacking on the organizational end. Fortunately it's all in Lightroom, though, so it's easy browsing through all the photos, ordered by capture date/time if I can't find a given folder. Keywords help a lot too!

keep in mind these shots were from over 10 years ago, when I was a silly teenager that wanted to spray paint things on my car and though it looked "cool". (I now drive a plain jane stock Impala... lol)

Anyways here is the SOOC shot from my $50 Walmart Cool-i-Cam. No re sizing required!!

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DStanic, yeah, I like how looking "back" can remind us of why we go "forward"! With me, my early digicams sparked enthusiasm, despite my lousy skills and the shortcomings of the early cameras!

My first was an Olympus D-450 Zoom. I got it after I got my first job out of college back in 1999.

Looks like early on I thought I would be taking a lot more pictures than I did, so I shot at 640x480 despite the max res of 1280x960!

One of my first shots of my buddies Mustang Cobra.

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A handfull of randoms from my Photobucket

FinePix A210 in 2004

Here are a couple from 2002, taken with my N*k*n Coolpix 990 (3MP).


Documentation of my setup for aligning a motorcycle crank:

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Cool stuff, peeps! Glad I'm not the only one who has some good memories!

You know, even though shooting with those cameras under bad lighting is, well, challenging, they still could come through when the light's right.

And, they're so handy! I could take mine anywhere, even the early compact that wouldn't fit in a pocket -- it was light enough so that I didn't flinch on outings, like these two outings with my sister and her family in '03:

In January of '03, I just had my first digicam for only a month -- my brother-in-law took this shot (I'm in the middle):

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I love going back through my old shots!

After some more looking and thinking, I have determined that I had the D-400Z and the 490Z, not the 450. Looks like I got the 400 in July of 99. Again, not sure when I got the 490 because of the lost files from 2000-2002.

So I pick up in 2003 with my 490Z. Went to a hot air balloon festival my home town has every year.

Wow, this thing blew that 400Z away!

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Nice ones, Randy!

Thanks for the kind words and for starting this trip down memory lane!

Wow - I actually DID find some the old ones I took with the DC280. The EXIF on these says 5-26-2000, but I think it was more like March or so. My niece, in the top photo, was born in January.

Cool stuff from Y2K, Howard! And civilization survived that year -- will we still be taking photos all the way through 2012?

tonylong wrote in post #13390671
Cool stuff from Y2K, Howard! And civilization survived that year -- will we still be taking photos all the way through 2012?

LOL! I still remember the questionnaire we had to fill out at work for Y2K emergency purposes...one of the questions was "Do you own a four-wheel drive vehicle? So, uhhh, the roads are going to collapse along with all the computers?

Even according to all the gloom-and-doomers, we should have at least 11 1/2 good months in 2012.

Continuing into 2004 and 2005. Went to an ice race with a college friend, who would become my brother-in-law a few years later.

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