PhotographyBLOG: Your First Digital Camera

August 12, 2004 | Mark Goldstein | Digital Compact Cameras | Comment |

Minolta DiMAGE 5In a blatant rip-off of a story that was on Engadget yesterday about people’s first ever cellphones, I thought it would be interesting (and a bit of a laugh) to find out what was your first ever digital camera. I was late to photography, never-mind digital cameras, so my first digicam was the Minolta DiMAGE 5 (pictured), a 3 megapixel model that I bought because it offered a lot of photographic control and because I couldn’t afford the 5 megapixel DiMAGE 7. The Minolta DiMAGE 5 cost me about ?500 a couple of years ago - how times have changed!

So what was your first ever digicam, or are you too embarassed to own up to it? :-) Post a comment below and share it with everyone…

UPDATE 11/08/04: As this story has proved so popular, I’m promoting it to be the lead story for the next few days :-)