A wee bit off history to share with y'all ... and relatively short history I thought Part 1: History of Digital Photography Part 2: Digital Photography Timeline - 1990's Part 3: Digital Photography Timeline - 2000 And Beyond My first Digital Camera I bought approximately back in 1996. Was a 1 Mpix Cam with very limited internal memory which was good for about 10 to 20 pics, and no external memory card. The LENS was the equivalent of today's Pin-Hole with a form factor equivalent to a typical Point'n Shoot. Overall had less power than the Keychain Cams being sold these days, cost me around $100 ... and it's still around here collecting dust someplace {LOL} Never being happy with that camera it's needless to say about two weeks later I bought something better. This new CAM was of the 2 Mpix variety cost me near $600, but hey it had a removable memory card and a better LENS What was the worst CAM you had to suffer [size=1.20em][shadow=Orange,left]w00d[/shadow][/size]
I've never had a bad digital camera. My "lowest-end" camera is my Canon EOS 400D XTi. But I do remember the 110 film cameras (with the rotating flash cubes!) - YUK
haha, back in the days of FILM I never had to "suffer" 110 as I had (out of many) a decent 35mm SLR Canon (forgot the model) w/ a pretty decent LENS. Oh heck I've been doing photography since I took a Photographic High School Course back in 72 when I bought my first 35mm a Pentax, since then I've been hooked. Unfortunately the cost of Film & Development HELD me back allot but I struggle through until we were freed of that burden when Digital SET my People FREE ... Sorry couldn't help myself {LMAO} "SET my People FREE" well it was just after the 60's wasn't it
My first digital cam is still sitting next to me right now, a 1998 Canon A50 that was bought for $500.00, looks like it still holds 10% of it's value! http://www.amazon.com/Canon-Power-Powershot-Digital-Camera/dp/B00001P4YW It has traveled a bit of the world with me, did a couple of tours is SE Asia without a single problem, but it has since been replaced with a Fuji Finepix S1500, still low end, but gets the job done. http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-cameras/fujifilm-finepix-s1500/4505-6501_7-33529082.html
The Fuji FinePix's are pretty good, I had one the FinePix 2800 not as nice s1500 but in the day I was happy with it This was my last Point'n Shoot before I got my DSLR and I still have this camera. It's the SONY DSH H9 (Review), now this CAM if we looked at the documentation and looked at it's specs w/ it's Carl Zeiss Lens you would think you had a pretty good camera, err NO. It had ALL the right numbers but it's JPEG's left allot to be desired as the camera was way too aggressive with it's compression routines. Which made for a horrible picture allot of the time as it did too much internal prepossessing ... and NO option for RAW which was the "Nail in the Coffin" for many reviewers. This SONY proved the old adage that "you shouldn't trust in specifications alone" ... My older Fuji took a better picture! My current and obviously my favorite is my DSLR, the NIKON D90 (Review) w/ it's AF-S 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6 VR II DX Nikkor Zoom. NO that's not a KIT Lens and I know it can be somewhat low-brow bragging about the price but just for the Lens alone it did cost me near $800 CAD after taxes. As with any DSLR ya gotta spend the money on the GLASS ... [size=1.20em][shadow=Orange,left]w00d[/shadow][/size]
