your oldest regularly used digital camera

[collum]

Betterlight scanning back , 2000

 

[ampguy]

I bought this new in Shibuya in 1995 for about Y60,000. We used it for a year or two before getting some Sony floppy based cameras, and then a 2MP Kodak DC280, followed by Canon A60, all along with film cameras for serious stuff.

We still use this, as a photo viewer, as it has protected images of our late pets and relatives who passed away in the mid to late '90s.

Previously I had used non-camera CCDs for an astronomy project, but it was not a camera at all, just image capture, then later viewing on a PC.

more photos here:

http://matsumura.smugmug.com/Journalism/Casio-QV10a/13099934_YWnKx#949682765_KBpFe

 

[jvan01]

A person in my local camera club brought a working Canon RC-701 (1986) to the last meeting.

 

[Chris101]

My oldest digital (still in use) is 15 years old! 😱

And it looks it!

 

[Tin]

My first one was the Canon Powershot S50. I voted "6 year", but it could be 7. It still works well, except that the white lettering on the mode dial has faded away long ago. Canon should have engraved the lettering rather than painted it on the dial.

 

[Keith]

My very first digital camera was one of those ugly square things from Kodak that came with a dock ... three or four magapixel from memory. It died within eighteen months and Kodak replaced it with a different camera because they had discontinued that model. The relacement which was also a piece of crap died within a year and Kodak weren't interested!

My A620 has been treated with no particular care and hasn't given an ounce of trouble ... I don't like Canon DSLR's much but their point and shoots are legendary.

 

[Thomas Turnbull]

Panasonic LC1. grea camera, though AF is far too slow. Lovely colors, great lens, very happy.

 

[SimonSawSunlight]

EOS 1D, about 10 years old. but sold now 🙂

 

[nakedcellist]

Nikon D1, used it recently for infrared photography, but mine is a bit broken, when I take a picture, sometimes it does DOF preview instead of taking the photo.

 

[konicaman]

9 year old EOS 10d still going strong and mainly used for family parties, and for outdoor shooting in rough weather or on trekking. As far as I recall, it is not even sealed very good, but it has withstood quite a lot of rough handling 🙄

Used to change my carry-at-all-times (when not carrying a film camera that is) camera on a yearly basis, but stopped doing that when Canon stopped putting viewfinders into their P&S' - now carrying an A590 3-4 years old.

 

[lynnb]

1992 Nikon Coolpix 4500, it doesn't get a lot of use in recent times but the 4Mp IQ is great and the macro performance is superb. It also has a slide copy attachment. But it takes around 1-2 seconds to lock focus. My daughter still uses my Fuji F10 occasionally.

 

[Richard G]

Nikon 4500 still used occasionally for it's great macro performance, and the waist-level finder. But Lynn I bought mine in around 2004 so I am thinking you could not have got one much before then.

 

[jesse1dog]

Recently picked up a Nikon 4300 in original box- of course not new but seller used the macro facility for his jewellery business. Yet to try it out because my Nikon 775 was at hand the last time I was out shooting. The 4300 must be older than the 4500, so it is probably pushing 7-8 years old.

jesse

 

[Fuchs]

I am regularly (almost daily)using a Nikon CoolPix 990 that I bought new in 2000 for about $1k. Its 3.4(?)MP are more than enough to document my patient faces on the clinic's medical records and its macro mode coupled with a +1D aux lens is perfect for clinical details. I am using it for 15-30 pics every day and it never quit working! One of the best investments, ie more cost effective, in my practice.

 

[migtex]

Nikon D2H from 2004. always there. always ready.
The coolpix 990 from 2000 has a problem with the battery door, but still works fine!

 

[Sonnar Brian]

The Nikon Coolpix 4500 was introduced in 2002.

This DCS200 is from 1992.

Big difference in 10 years.

 

[k.a]

my m8 is my only digital camera so that's the oldest and it's about 3 years

 

[TareqPhoto]

I have been started in 2005 with Nikon Coolpix 8800, in the same year at the end [I think on December] i bought Canon 350D, since that year i upgrade like a crazy, in 2006 i ended with 30D and 1D MarkIIN, 2007 beginning i've got 1DsII+5D both at the same time, in 2008 i think i got 1DIII and 1DsIII, 2009 i went with H3DII-39, and now in 2010 i traded-in my H3DII-39 to H4D-60.
Will see what will be in 2011, 2012,.....

 

[newspaperguy]

just realized that I have an Olympus C-3030 in the bottom of the hardsided cooler in the trunk of my Corolla... goes with me everyday, even if it's forgotten.

Oldest non-used: a couple of Sony floppy drives... they still work.

 

[Quinn Porter]

Canon 5D bought new in 2005. Never a problem with about 12,000 actuations.