first digital camera 10 years ago today
first digital camera 10 years ago today

first digital camera 10 years ago today

On September 5, 2002, I bought my first digital camera, a Sony DSC-S75 which I still have today. back then it was 360 dollars, and considered high end for a point and shoot and the first one that was able to have an attached wide angle lens. It was a whopping 3.2 megapixels and and came with an 8mb memory stick!. 10 years later you can still buy the camera on Amazon, but now it’s just 30 buckst They don’t even make the memory sticks anymore, which was a max 128mb. Ironically, point and shoots haven’t gotten much better except for zoom lenses, despite getting 12 megapixels plus now. I still think this Sony has better colors and contrast than many 2012 cameras

That day I just went around town and took a bunch of shots and all of them are in this Flickr set

Here’s a small sample from that set

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