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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: Rob C on February 29, 2020, 10:49:08 am
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Peter Ait has posted his first digital "keeper" in a new thread he's started in connection with a request for vanity book information.
Not to mess with that thread, it struck me that it could perhaps be interesting if folks were to show the first digital capture that they retained.
This one was on my brand new D200, probably with a 35mm Nikkor, and made one Sunday morning at the market in Pollensa, Mallorca. Used to go there faithfully, every single week for many years...
Rob
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Made this one in April, 2000 with a Casio QV3000-EX, a 3.3 mpx point-and-shoot. This Casio was the first digital out there with enough pixels to make the results reasonable. I have 17 x 22 inch prints I've made from some of the shots with the Casio. If you examine them with a magnifier you can see that they're not perfect, but Photoshop and Camera Raw can overcome many a shortcoming.
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I was late to digital, 2009 to be precise.
Hasselblad h3ii-22, hcd 28mm, processed in Phocus.
(https://www.keithlaban.co.uk/First_Digital.jpg)
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It wasn't until 2004 for me.
Here is my very first semi-keeper from January of 2004.
All my digital images are stored in folders by year now. Ironically, that first year's worth I stored in a folder called "Junkpix."
Obviously, I didn't have high expectations for this new medium.
Camera was a Canon 20D.
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Though I have earlier digital images and captures from the 1990s, probably floating around on a CD or DVD, this one was an improvisation and is on my minnie JBOD farm beneath my desk.
It's from a Nikon Coolpix 775 with all of 2 mp, jpegs, and a 38-115 equivalent lens, not wide enough for me. Memory cards were about $100 for 128MB at Costco back then...
I was driving on a warm summer evening, 5 o'clock somewhere, middle of July 2002... I knew about the Longbranch Saloon in Nevada. It always appeared closed when I would be passing through, usually earlier in the day and heading to somewhere else in the Great Basin.
The Longbranch Saloon was in Luna, Nevada, along US 95, the main western Nevada north-south highway and about half-way between Reno and Las Vegas. The front door sat about 5-6 feet from the curve of the busy highway. I think I was heading home from Arizona and Las Vegas after shooting an assignment for a magazine that grew too fast and pulled the plug the next year. That would lead to another opportunity and subject for another story.
This drive-by would be different and it was open! I stopped across the highway and grabbed the least intimidating camera I had, the Coolpix 775 and not having a wide angle lens, did what I could to record several beats of the clock, one frame at a time. In the photo are three characters who have since departed the earth :-(, bartender and owner Dick Pegg, USN, Retired, is on the right, with two of his patrons, Bonnie Sichra of Mina and David Hasley of nearby Mina for their afternoon cocktails. The photo would later be a winner in Nevada Magazine.
I later brought back photos for the three after the photograph graced the pages of Nevada and all were tickled to have graced the pages. The following year, I photograph The Long Branch Saloon and Dick Pegg and both Bonnie and David for America 24/7 and it was further imortalized on the pages of the Nevada volume. Later, I heard from the woman's daughter that she had died and if I could send along a photo of her mother who cherished this photo which I gladly did.
In many ways, this little digital camera became the "Polaroid" and visual note-taking device of the new century.
So despite newer, better, more, etc., the best camera is the one you have with you and it will capture the moment if you will simply be creative and just use it.
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Shot 1997 I think but I don't have the original any longer and the metadata shows only date this version was created. DCS420. Every now and again the camera would freak out and produce a file like this. Never worked out why. You would have to shut down both the computer and the camera, unplug the scsi cable, turn camera on then off again while disconnected, reconnect and start everything up again. Very irritating. At this point in my career I was shooting commercially almost exclusively on this camera and a DCS460. Only product pack photography as I had landed a contract to digitise the countries largest retailers image libraries. On the occasion this image was made I was shooting these two peppers for the fresh produce section when the camera did its thing and I thought the image was kind of interesting and kept it. Somehow it survived countless moves and migrations from optical discs to various kinds of media.
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One of my very first
Olympus C2000Z
1/400 f 7.0 ISO 100
Original 1600x1200 px
Iguazu Falls from the argentine side
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My digital began in 2002. I was heavy into medium format film with a full in-home darkroom. With that huge investment and a large library of MF negs, I started by trying to scan negs. Lots of research on scanners. Sent some negs off to a scan service that used a high end drum scanner. Bought 1 flatbed. Spent hours in Photoshop trying to "rescue" those scans. T'was very time consuming, very frustrating, and not very rewarding.
So, in 2003 I bought a 5 mpix Canon Powershot G5 for about $750. I quickly fell in love with the immediate gratification and never looked back. Less than a year later I received a small inheritance, went crazy, and bought a Canon 1DS and new lenses. About $10k and 11.2 megapixels. Two gigabyte CF cards cost $250. Dumped the medium format gear and shut down the darkroom. I realized I never liked the smell of fixer in the morning.
My first Canon G5 keeper. This grandkid is now a 17 year old, 5'11" beauty queen and math prodigy, trying to decide on a university.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-jfShJDb/0/cdaae993/X3/i-jfShJDb-X3.jpg)
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My first digital camera was the Canon Powershot Pro1, bought in December 2004. So this is one of my first photos (January 2005). At the time I was living in Muscat, the shot is from the annual traditional market.
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My first digital camera was the Canon Powershot Pro1, bought in December 2004. So this is one of my first photos (January 2005). At the time I was living in Muscat, the shot is from the annual traditional market.
That guy's in grave danger of circumcising himself. Or worse.
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The first digital camera i bought was a Fuji FinePix S2 Pro. About 2003, it had a F-mount and was 6MP. At that time it was the best digital f-mount camera. But DX-sensor- already Sony i just read on wikipedia.
The colours were on the red side. ( red sensitive sensor) Liked it a lot- in some ways it had a better quality than the analogue Nikon.
I still have it... should have sold it when it was due...
Some years later my dark room was converted to a 44 inch HP Z3100 printer... ( still works )
Never looked back!
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My first digital camera was a pocket casio X-???? who remembers. I bought it for it had 6.3 MP this is one one of my first digital images. It was a great camera to start with. When the Canon 5D was introduced in the summer of 2005 I was all in from then on.
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Maybe not the first but an early one - taken in Turkey, Texas.
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Maybe not the first but an early one - taken in Turkey, Texas.
Nice, clean shot. What were you using back then?
Rob
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That was a Nikon coolpix.