How quaint...

Today I realised that I've been shooting digital way too long! It's funny how these realisations always sneak up on you and smack you in the face.

http://borrowedmoment.​com/2010/09/how-quaint.html

How long have you been shooting digital?

Actually I feel the opposite! Perhaps it is just because I didn't really care about photography before, I got my first real digital camera around 2003 I would have been 20. I do still have my first camera (ever) which is a Minolta SLR I got when I was in highschool, but I just used it for vacations and occational snap shots. Anyways, it feels like the abundance of P&S cameras and cell phones have been around for an eternity. But when I look back at the history of DSLRs, it's really not that long! With the first mainstream DSLRs being introduced in only 2003/2004 (300D and 20D) and the Nikon D40/D100 being even newer then that, common DSLRs have not been around for very long, even if they seem like dated models.

Heh! The Canon D30 came out in '00, and the 10D came out in '03. Back then, the 10D made quite a stir -- P&S and compact digicams, as well as the D30 and D60 had been out for some time, but the 10D made a uniquely serious splash among professionals -- I saw a sea change happen among, say, wedding and portrait photogs who saw for the first time a digicam that they felt actually competed with their 35mm film shoots. It was something to see this taking place amongst a crowd who had for all that time been "dismissive" toward digital cameras as not being capable of being taken seriously!

Yep. I bought a Nikon Coolpix 990 in 2000 (and shot my first digital wedding with it - the client requested it), and a Canon D30 in 2001, when the price dropped somewhat. The last time I shot film was sometime in 2003. Kodachrome 64. Still in my fridge.