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 10/24/2007 02:06:16 AM · #1
Post the first photo you ever took with a digital camera. date and location. The one photo that started your photog addiction:)
Sunset on september 1, 2004 at schuette park in manitowoc wisconsin taken with a Olympus C960Z

Message edited by author 2007-10-24 02:21:58.
 10/24/2007 02:12:23 AM · #2
Took this the day my camera arrived, before I even went home from work -- we went to this club to hear a band. I had to try and read the instructions in that candlelight ... this was sometime in the Spring or Summer of 2000 ...
10/24/2007 02:19:08 AM · #3
I deleted my first one...
 10/24/2007 02:23:43 AM · #4
it was of my foot about 5 yrs ago and that sucker got deleted right away
 10/24/2007 02:26:39 AM · #5
I think this was it and oh my god... how horrible LOL. Taken Fathers Day 2003 at park in Sydney.

10/24/2007 02:54:40 AM · #6
Originally posted by Dirtypainter:
it was of my foot about 5 yrs ago and that sucker got deleted right away

See! And now you need it ... I just burn 'em all to CD and don't worry about having to decide which ones to delete 'cause I never delete any -- no chance of having a mis-take that way ... ;-)
 10/24/2007 05:04:18 PM · #7
Lets get this one going some more guys, Its pritty interesting to actually notice how far you have come.
 10/24/2007 05:36:15 PM · #8
My first Digital camera was the "Sony Digital Mavica" it held about 18 fine .jpg images to a Floppy and I thought I was in heaven.

First photo was either my foot or my wife with her hands hiding her face, the tradition continues with each new camera and lens.
 10/24/2007 05:43:03 PM · #9


Oddly enough, also my first DPC entry.
 10/24/2007 06:13:15 PM · #10
I don't own the first shots I took with a digital camera. I shot them for a local paper with their equipment. Wasn't anything I'd call special.

Some of the first shots I did with my own digital camera were wet t-shirt contests at a bar. Again, no0thing special.

I don't think I was happy with digital photography til I got back to an SLR.
 10/24/2007 06:18:55 PM · #11
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Taken with my trusty HP Photosmart 318 camera on 1/1/2001

At least thats the earliest one I have saved.

Message edited by author 2007-10-24 18:19:56.
 10/24/2007 06:22:38 PM · #12


Not the very first, but one of the first that I thought was good at the time.
 10/24/2007 06:30:45 PM · #13
Found it!

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Nikon CoolPix 950 6-28-2000. I had just gotten it (my first digi cam) and was hanging out at a bar that I worked at part time. The girl is a fellow bartender.

From that same day
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 10/24/2007 06:44:23 PM · #14

out of my window at work (at that time ) dec 7th 1997
 10/25/2007 01:00:51 PM · #15
I don't have it anymore. The first digital photos I took were in 1998-9 with a borrowed VGA-res (640x480) camera (don't remember the brand). The were pictures of stereo equipment and other stuff I was selling on eBay.

I got my own first digital camera for my 31st birthday in 2000, a 2MP Nikon Coolpix 800 (I think). I do still have the photos from that at home, if I remember I'll post the first one I took with that camera.
 10/25/2007 01:24:48 PM · #16
I don't remember the first I took. Sometime around 2000 with the school's mavica. It would be two years before the "bug" actually bit me and I decided to try photography.
 10/25/2007 02:01:03 PM · #17
Kodak DC-40 (~$700 I think) May 1996 (oldest so far?)
My son, Brian (looks like Riley, don't he?)

Had the Kodak for 4 years, used it for all company events at a software startup I worked for. Must have taken several thousand pics. ...about a month's worth these days.

Upgrade to Nikon Coolpix 990 (Superhigh-Performance - LOL) June 2000 Paid $1000
This is me in the mall parking lot right after I bought it. I loved that you could flip the viewing screen all the way around!


Yeah, I know, I haven't aged a bit! :)
 10/25/2007 02:01:45 PM · #18
I know that the first shot that I took with a digital camera is long gone... it would have been with a Sony Mavica in 1998.

But here's the first digital shot taken of me. I think it's significant because this was actually taken on July 10, 1988 -- almost 20 years ago!

We were in Los Angeles, and a guy was using it to take photos and make t-shirts out of them on the spot. If you asked nicely, he'd give you a print out, which was made on a dot-matrix printer:


10/25/2007 02:04:46 PM · #19
Originally posted by alanfreed:
... he'd give you a print out, which was made on a dot-matrix printer ...

I wonder if I still have any 4-color ribbons for my Apple ImageWriter ...
 10/25/2007 02:06:24 PM · #20
my 1st digital camera as well :)

Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Nikon CoolPix 950
 10/25/2007 02:09:09 PM · #21
Not the first digital photo I took but the first on the 20D I bought my wife as a gift. This is the 1st photo ever taken with the camera and still is one of my favorites to this day, a little bias b/c it is my dog but I still love it. The 20D really got me addicted to photography!
10/25/2007 03:09:56 PM · #22
I don't think it's the "first" photo, but it's one of the ones I took the day I received my first digital camera. When my hubby saw this one, he said "you have a good eye", and ever since then I was hooked. My life totally changed on that day.

Tiger Lilies

Message edited by author 2007-10-25 15:36:42.
 10/25/2007 03:22:23 PM · #23

I think this must be pretty close. Certainly within the first few hours with
my first camera. Same classic McGregor portrait style too...


10/25/2007 04:11:10 PM · #24
Taken sept 21st 2003

just passed my 4 year mark
haha

10/25/2007 04:19:47 PM · #25
Had to go digging, and think this is one of my oldest:

[thumb]604661[/thumb] <--over 8 years ago!

On a floppy drive no less.
AND
I still have some really "high quality" mpegs from that Mavica.

Message edited by author 2007-10-26 00:20:04.
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