your oldest regularly used digital camera

your oldest regularly used digital camera

  • 1 year

    Votes: 33 6.0%

  • 2 years

    Votes: 47 8.6%

  • 3 years

    Votes: 57 10.4%

  • 4 years

    Votes: 67 12.2%

  • 5 years

    Votes: 91 16.6%

  • 6 years

    Votes: 70 12.8%

  • 7 years

    Votes: 51 9.3%

  • 8 years

    Votes: 49 8.9%

  • 9 years

    Votes: 23 4.2%

  • 10+ years

    Votes: 61 11.1%
  • Total voters
    549
Five years!

Five years!

I use my D70s bought five years ago. I shoot every few days and larger projects on weekends. It has 29,000 plus actuations.

I have been looking at upgrading but shelved the idea. I would like a larger LCD screen but then remind myself that I shot film for years without instant replay. Sometimes more pixels would be helpful when cropping.

On the other hand, I might just replace my P+S which is a Minolta G400. It has been acting up lately. Seems be a sensor problem.

In 2002 (I think) I bought a Canon G2 that got heavy use. I gave it to my wife who is a frequent user.

Both take great pix. Have made excellent 8x10s from both cameras.

I did sell my first digital, a Kodak 4800, 3.2 megapixels. No manual focus drove me nuts. But it also took excellent pix.

It's hard not get sucked in by ads for the new models. But I keep an eye on my bank account and there are other priorities.
 
My digital cameras are:
  • a Logitech "ball camera" from 1996, used as a security camera in my office
  • a Coolpix 950 from 1999, for web images and macros
  • a Nikon D100 from 2002, used as a general purpose camera
  • a Nikon D70 converted to IR in 2005, and
  • a Nikon D2x used as a copy stand camera which I got a couple months ago, used.
On the basis of the first two, I said 10+ years.
 
A 10-year-old Fuji 4700 that I bought new in 2000 with a massive 2.4 MP resolution!

The Fuji was my FIRST camera of any kind, let alone digital! (Never used film, never will - obsolete, dead technology as far as I'm concerned...)

I only use two cameras - the Fuji and a Leica M8. I keep the Fuji because the Leica is rubbish at taking photos of small objects for eBay, and it takes better photos than my higher-resolution phone!

My olde worlde Fuji...
 

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I think it is 9 years old - I cant remember.. I do know that I stil get the odd full page spread out of it...

Gary H
 
Leica Digilux 2: 7 years and counting

Leica Digilux 2: 7 years and counting

I use a Digilux 2 on a regular basis - it is a very nice camera, and even though it's only 6MP it can still generate nice pictures. My guess is that I'll still use it for another 3 to 5 years.
 
You can't think of a digital camera as a 'camera' so much as a computer...you have to replace your computer a lot more often for much the same reasons.

(Oh, and a Nikon D2Hs. The files really show its age, I'm sad to say)
 
Mine is a five-year-old Lumix FX-01, a small point and shoot. I have owned the camera for five years, but I see from DP Review that it came out in 2004.

At the moment, it's my longest continually owned, original owner camera. It's great.
 
I still use my Panasonic LC1 (Leica Digilux 2). It's 6.1 mp but the files have a very unique look to them. And that summicron lens....

Bob
 
i have and use only one - lumix lc5 - i bought it when it was already outdated but i love the results with it - especially at iso 200...
 
The Canon Powershot S70 I bought new in summer 2005 still works flawlessly. Built like a small tank, but quite heavy compared to th new S90, which i also bought!
 
I jumped into the pond very early and very late. My original digital camera was given to me in lieu of payment for a magazine assignment I did in the mid-90's. It was a Kodak model that featured a serial connection. With files that weighed in at less than 1 megapixel, that was fast enough for its era. The image quality couldn't really even be thought of in those terms, but it was an almost charming little snap shooter.

I took a break from digital until two years ago when I got an M8. I really like it, even though it's been succeeded by the inevitable march of progress.
 
My son still uses a little Canon SD400 that I think we got in 2005 or so; also I still regularly use my Nikon D200 from 2006. I have a Nikon E800 in the garage from 2000/2001, 2MP and still works but is sluggish and lacking much manual control and thus too frustrating to use.
 
I've been using a Nikon Coolpix 775 this weekend - 1992 and still going strong. All of 2MP too. I keep asking other digital users what do they do with all the megapixels that they have - no great answer yet.
I know I'm not the only RFF member with a 775 because 'Mangie' was using hers at Ironbridge on this Monday! Although she did have her OM10 with her as well!

jesse
 
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ehh

ehh

more like 2001.

I'll post a photo of the first high volume consumer digital camera later today if I get time.

jesse1dog said:
I've been using a Nikon Coolpix 775 this weekend - 1992 and still going strong. All of 2MP too. I keep asking other digital users what do they do with all the megapixels that they have - no great answer yet.
I know I'm not the only RFF member with a 775 because 'Mangie' and I were both using ours at Ironbridge on this Monday! Although she did have her OM10 with her as well!

jesse
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