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
Bought my GRD in Japan in 2007. Still use it regularly for macro work, although the sensor's limitation's pretty obvious when I want to print...

My M9's the first digital camera I own that I don't feel needs to get better. Oh, I'm sure the M10 will have a few stops extra dynamic range, and a few extra stops of high-ISO usability... but it won't be a no-brainer need to upgrade...
 
I have a working Pentax EI-100 which dates from 2001.
I believe it was the first Pentax digital camera model.
I use it as a paperweight and dust collector.

Chris
 
Third owner of my R-D1, now 6 yrs old. I've added 5k clicks to its tally. Second ownee of a Nikon D2x, which also sees regular use. I gave away a Casio Q4000 8 months ago to a charity in Mozambique, it was working fine when it left my ownership. Pukka little camer really, first 4mpx camera ever. Had it since new, 8 years or so.
 
Bought a Canon S400 in 2003 for our honeymoon trip to Paris. Worked great. A couple of years ago I dumped a canoe that my wife and I were using on the Russian River and the camera went to the bottom. I retrieved it and put it on the mantle above the fireplace. About 2 months later I had the ridiculous notion to try and turn it on. Fired right up and has been working since.

Cheers...

Rem
 
I never had a digital camera that lasted over 5 years. I voted 4 years as that was closer to the average. However, I've never owned anything beyond a point-and-shoot except for a Canon 300D. I didn't count the Canon as it was stolen about 7 months after I purchased it.
 
Nikon D1. Launched 1999.

It's developing hick-ups: I can only adjust shutter and aperture while slightly depressing the shutter release, else no display of numbers in the viewfinder. Every now and then it says 'error' but when I fire a couple of shots quickly it works again. The shots taken while 'error' is on display are not recorded.

Only use it gets is for online listing of stuff to sell.
 
a 2.1 mp nikon coolpix 950 from 1999. fell on the floor from the table some years ago. some part of the autofocus mechanism got loose but was fixed by a good local technician. loose battery door but it is still working and in heavy use for clinic macro work.
 
My Nikon D70 is the only digital camera I own, which I believe is about 5 years old. Don't use it all that often, but it works fine and I don't feel the need to upgrade anytime soon.
 
My 6 year-old Pentax *istDS is still going strong. It's largely relegated to backup but still the goto whenever I need telephoto or macro. Can't bear to sell it as it was my first DSLR.
 
My Canon Powershot A95 would be ~5 years old, now. An excellent camera, especially since I paid just $67 for it - and it came with a Loweprowe bag that has to be worth at least half of that! Good quality p&s digitals do not hold any value, which is great for the 2nd hand buyer.

dpreview liked it:

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/CanonA95/

I think it's a good idea - if you want a digital p&s - to get an older, good quality camera with not too many pixels. Good glass is always good glass, but noise is an issue with small sensors and more than 8 or 9 mp, often. If I were looking for a camera now, I reckon a Canon G5 would be a good bet.
 
I recently ebayed a Sony Cybershot DSCP41 P&S that I received for Christmas in 04...the camera was well used and pretty beat up cosmetically by the time I sold it but was still functioning excellently with the exception of the battery door which still worked but was about to puke. I "upgraded" to a similar vintage Cybershot that was considerably more expensive than the P41 when they were new. That is why I sold the P41. I gave $30 for the "new" used camera and I was rather astonished when the P41 brought $75 on Ebay. Turns out that particular model is extremely desirable to deer hunters who use trail cams.

On another note...my wife's uncle who is quite the photographer bought a D90 brand new when they came out...it quit working period this past spring. This is why I am really skeptical about DSLR's and digital cameras in general particulary expensive ones. I think a person can get a mint M6 for less than a D3 right and I would bet a bill that the M6 will be alive way longer than the D3???
 
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Olympus E1 with 15-54 - still produces beautiful colors, never skipped a beat even though it has had a pretty hard life. I thought about getting a Micro4/3 but this does all the digital I need (which is not too much admittedly!) and I'd miss it if I traded it.
 
To add a little to Mr. Wright's post just now...at the car lot where I work we have an old (04 or 05) Olympus P&S that has been used weekly since it was new to shoot pictures of used cars for our advertising...it is in excellent shape cosmetically, works beautifully, and will not be replaced till it dies...it is handled with kid glove hands I should add even though it is just an old Olympus P&S.
 
I was looking at some 11X14's I'd made over the years and was surprised to realize that some of the best (sharpness, color rendition, etc.) were made with my old Kodak DX6490.
God bless that old Schneider Kreuznach lens. Lenses don't get much better on a 4 megapixel camera.
 
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