Community weekly poll: How many digital cameras have you owned?
- 4/6/06 10:28 AM
4 and hopeully the last for a while
by himmy1 - 4/7/06 4:42 AM In reply to: How many digital cameras have you owned? by Marc Bennett
Started out with a Pentax many years ago, still in the days of Win 3.1! Took forever getting the pictures onto the computer. Next was a Sony Mavica which cost $800 way back when, still with hardly any mgx, resolution 640 x 480. Went to a 3.1 mpx Olympus Ultra Zoom with 10x Optical, was very happy with it for a long time. Just bought a Panasonic DMC-FZ30 with 8 mgx and 12 x optical zoom. Had to search hi and lo for this camera, couldn't find it in Canada and ended up having to import from the US. Closest to a dSLR you can get and am still learning all the manual functions, but very happy with it so far.
My first and only digital camera.
by gblayne - 4/7/06 4:46 AM In reply to: How many digital cameras have you owned? by Marc Bennett
Three years ago I deside to go digital.After reading a lot of reviews I picked a Fujifilm 3800 fine pix camera.It is a 3.2 mega pixel with 6x optical zoom.I am just an average Joe at picture taking and the camera has produced a lot of high quality pictures of my family.I have even been asked a few times, who did you have take those pictures!When they found out it was me with a digital camera ,they found it hard to believe!It has been a good sturdy camera,as it has been droped and probley not takin care of as it should be! I do want to move on up the digital camera ladder at some point,but I will not get rid of this camera as it is a pretty simple pint a shoot!
Canons!
by mcgeheep - 4/7/06 4:48 AM In reply to: How many digital cameras have you owned? by Marc Bennett
Started with an A40 (still in use) in 2002 and moved up to a Rebel XT w/17-85mm USM IS this year. I used and still have a Canon film camera prefering digital now (for many reasons) even though film quality still surpasses digital on the pro level. I prefer the technology of the digital camera AND darkroom (PhotoShop).
Number of digital cameras I have owned.
by shecal - 4/7/06 4:55 AM In reply to: How many digital cameras have you owned? by Marc Bennett
I have had an Olympus Stylus 400 for 2 1/2 years, and am still perfectly happy with it. I am not a camera expert by any means, but I found this one easy to learn, and I get better results than lots of my friends who have other cameras - even those with higher specs. It seemed expensive at the time, but I can't imagine having to buy another for a long time, so it is value for money.
Two
by malruck - 4/7/06 5:00 AM In reply to: How many digital cameras have you owned? by Marc Bennett
Olympus D-360L 1.3 Megapixel (RIP)
Olympus D-380 2.0 Megapixel
Most of what I use a camera for is travel snapshots and at 2 Megapixels the D-380 suits all of my needs. My concern is if I ever trash it (the D-360L was fine for me until my now-ex dropped it), I can't get another one and will have to sort out all the latest and buy one with a lot of techno-crap that I don't need and will never use.
Still on my first one
by azoric - 4/7/06 5:06 AM In reply to: How many digital cameras have you owned? by Marc Bennett
a Fuji FinePix S3000
It's a good camera and best for photos of people or outdoor shots where light is plentyful.
One thing I take a lot of pictures of is bands in bars... well lead singers, guitar plalyers etc, like to jump around on stage and this camera has a HUGE shutter lag.
if you can get someone to pose for a picture it's great.
I just haven't found the digital camera that doesn't have a shutter lag yet.
Still on my first one
by goanphil - 4/7/06 5:11 AM In reply to: How many digital cameras have you owned? by Marc Bennett
Olympus C-5060 Wide Zoom,looking for one to do twice as much @ half the weight....................yea,right.
First Digital Camera - Epson Photo PC 500
by jtg61 - 4/7/06 5:11 AM In reply to: How many digital cameras have you owned? by Marc Bennett
I purchased my first Digital Camera, an Epson Photo PC 500 in 1997 for $299. The optional LCD monitor was an additional $149. It took a 640x480 24-bit image and could hold 30 with the 2 MB internal RAM you downloaded through the serial port. It was clunky but the Sony Mavica was twice as much money at the time.
I still have the pictures I took with this camera burned to CD-R. I once took this camera on an un-pressurized military transport plane to Australia and the CCD sensor died. Epson was really good about fixing the camera under warranty. Now I use a Sony DSC-W5 which is half the size and was half the price.
My first!!!!!
by dianaz - 4/7/06 5:12 AM In reply to: How many digital cameras have you owned? by Marc Bennett
I have a samsung digimax 530 and it is a 5.1. I love it!
Only one - First digital camera - Sony
by Tootsie44 - 4/7/06 5:20 AM In reply to: How many digital cameras have you owned? by Marc Bennett
Bought it while on vacation in Florida almost three and a half years. Will think twice about buying one again. Went to Europe nine months later. Left the charger at home. No one in Portugal carried a spare charger much less a battery to fit. Even the Staples in Portugal didn't have them. Also, checked with several upscale electronics and camera stores. No Luck.
Did find out that the camera that I bought nine months earlier was no longer being made and obsolete. Really ticks me off since I paid Best Buy well over $600 for a camera that was obsolete. Wrote to Sony when I got home from vacation and got an automated message telling me to go to there website to buy stuff. Not a chance.
Two so far
by Proud Texan - 4/7/06 5:29 AM In reply to: How many digital cameras have you owned? by Marc Bennett
The first was the SONY that used 3.5 inch floppies. It
works great for most pictures that you take, but the
low max resolution and limited nunber of pictures
per floppy was a limitation. I currently have an
Olympus c5000, 5 megapixel. With 256mb of memeory,
I can take about 400 at max resolution. As with most digitals these days, It comes with a USB cable that allows dumping the pictures to my computer. The
software from Olympus is somewhat limiting, in that it is more complcated than it needs to be.
Also, as with most digital devices these days, it has more options than it needs which makes doing simple tasks more complicated.
This being said, it takes great pictures of my 5 month old grandson and my Chevrolet Corvairs. In fact, I was
able to capture a Hummingbird in mid-hover.
Thanks
Proud Texan
About 15 digitals through the years...
by heikel - 4/7/06 5:32 AM In reply to: How many digital cameras have you owned? by Marc Bennett
I bought my first digital in '94, twelve years ago to take pictures of trucks I was exporting. With a little help from my kids, who dropped a camera in the sea, lost one in the snow, had one stolen, fell while holding a camera, left one in a taxi, I have changed to new, better models every year. Just love them. My wife and kids take lots of pictures and we share them with friends and family.
Just One - Sony DSC F717
by Steve Whitehead - 4/7/06 5:43 AM In reply to: How many digital cameras have you owned? by Marc Bennett
I got my Sony in December of 2003 after the birth of my daughter. I had been using a 35mm Minolta and always shooting a ton of film. It seems I was the only one with a camera at all family functions. With the Sony, I have had no problems with this camera, taking and transfering to my PC almost 6000 photos. The camera is 5MP and, I use a 1GB Memory Stick. A lot of people have commented that my photos look like a professional took them. I have even photographed a wedding for a family friend. No problems shot at the highest res and printing the larger prints (11x14). I also have to give some credit to my editing software, MS Digital Image Suite 10.
In the future I think that I might like to move to one of the DSLRs. Not sure which yet, it would be great if Sony moved into that market instead of staying on the fringe. I guess I'll just have to keep checking with CNET to see! You can see some of my work at www.acsimage.com
Sony 717
by Ulkesh - 4/7/06 8:44 AM In reply to: Just One - Sony DSC F717 by Steve WhiteheadI bought the Sony DSC F717 and an very happy with it, the lens is excellent.
BUT
the lens is also huge and makes this camera anything but portable. I found that it is just too big for outdoor activities such as difficult-level hiking trails.
So I just got a great, pocket sized camera, the Canon PoweShot a530. It gives good pics with 5mp AND I can carry it easily while hiking or tramping thru the woods.
Prefer film
by Bageech - 4/7/06 5:47 AM In reply to: How many digital cameras have you owned? by Marc Bennett
I bought a digital camera and it is a good one by Olympus (Stylus 400). But I prefer my film camera (Olympus Stylus 150). It is more durable. It doesn't have a screen that needs to be protected. It is easy to set and shoot. When the film is full I take it out and get it developed. When the batteries get weak, I replace them. This works any where. I don't have to have a charger and the correct current and adapters and a place to plug it in.
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