Do You Still Use the Camera?
I do carry it in my big camera bag for a backup with a 128 MB card in it.
Do You Remember the Camera's Price?
Yes, at the time that I purchased it was $425.00.
Describe a Favorite Photo Shot With That First Camera
I went in 1999 for the first time to the Adirondack Balloon Festival in Queensbury, N.Y., and took a picture of three balloons next to each other: A Smiley Face Balloon, the Purple People Eater Balloon, and a Pink Elephant Balloon.
My First Digital Camera's Brand, Model, and Specs
My first digital camera was a Kodak DC210+ Digital Camera with a picture pixel resolution of HIGH - 1152 x 864, STANDARD - 640 x 480. CCD Resolution - 1160 x 872. COLOR - 24 - bit, millions of color. POWER - 4 - AA Batteries. WEIGHT - 11 oz. APERTURE - Wide - F/4 to F/13.5, Telephoto - F/4.7 to F/16. FOCAL LENGTH - 2X zoom lens - 4.4 to 8.8 mm. DIMENSIONS - 5.16 X 1.87 X 3.20 in.
Why, How, and When I Switched From Film to Digital
The change came back on January 11, 2005, when I just purchased my Konica Minolta 7D DSLR Digital 6.3 MP Camera. I have been shooting film since 1972 doing Fire Photography for my department. When I purchased my first Kodak digital back on December 4, 1998, I did both film and digital gradually, doing better with the digital than film. Since I have had my 7D I have yet to shoot a roll of film. I still have all eight of my 35mm camera's and several AF and manual lenses. I have shot over 30,000 digitals with my 7D and I am ready for a second DSLR that will work with all my Minolta lenses. Been looking at the new Sony 330L or 500 model. Probably, I will not go back to film. For as many pictures I now take it would cost way to much to get pictures printed and a lot of stores no longer do prints. My 7D is like heaven. I can take 2,000 pictures on a good weekend and don't have to pay 40 cents a print to have processed. I only print what I want. Everything is on DVD and viewed from computer where the photos will never yellow.
Lessons Learned
- 1, Paid to much 12 years ago for an really out of date camera now.
- 2, Never like waiting 15 to 20 seconds for picture to download.
- 3, Take too many pictures now for this to work, would need 50 batteries for the job instead of one every 600 photos.
- 4. Don't forget the extra batteries for this camera, you never know when they may come in handy!!
- 5. Keep your lenses clean, with soft lens cleaning cloth.
