*** Mini-Challenge #700 Nostalgia: Your Early Digital Camera Pictures ***

This weeks challenge is a follow up to a previous MC #644, Nostalgia: Your First Digital Camera Pictures. This current MC all about photos you took when you had one of the earlier digital cameras or your first digital camera. Therefore, IQ is not the primary criteria. Composition, an interesting subject, reliving a fond memory, or the evoking of some other type of emotion are.

Some examples will follow.

This challenge will end on Friday, June 10, 2022 at 11pm Eastern time.

Challenge Rules:

The host gives you a topic and you post up to three images that fit. Remember, it's all about fun, sharing, and learning. Any picture you have taken in person is eligible, regardless of the time taken, camera, or post-processing used. The host chooses the winners and honourable mentions and posts those in a new thread. The host's decision is final. The winner of this challenge then hosts the next challenge, judges the winner of that one, and so on it goes. The winner of this challenge will have 48 hours to post the next challenge. If that doesn't happen, 2nd place will have 24 hours to do so, then it's up to 3rd place.

Submission Posting Guidelines:

Post each one of your three submissions in its own reply to this post. Give each post a unique Subject, please. It is best to embed an image in its post rather than linking to somewhere else. Feel free to post photos "for exhibition only" if you want to share more than three, or won't be available to host the next challenge. Try to preserve the EXIF please, so we can see which camera, lens, and settings were used.

Comment Posting Guidelines:

Feel free to post comments on the images or ask for comments. Don't hesitate to click on the green "Like" thumb on the top right of the post, so we know which images were most popular. Likes are appreciated as much as constructive criticism is. The host can make up his or her own mind without being influenced by that. I wish you all "good luck" and let's see some interesting pics.

Recent Mini-Challenges:

699: Picture of a Picture

698: Happy Faces

697: Music

696: Birds

695: Nature

694: Boats

693: Metal

692: There's "nothing" to shoot!
691: Favourites
690: Nostalgia
689: Winter

688: Travel/Vacation
687: Festive Lights
686: Animals

685: Plants

684: Night Scenes

683: Small machines (for work and leisure)

682: Autumn
681: Wabi-Sabi
680: Landscapes

679: One Dominant Color

678: Planes, Trains and Automobiles

677: Chocolate

676: Amusement ride

675: One lone flower

674: Food and/or Drink

673: The Road Less Traveled

672: Trees in Nature

671: Waterfalls

670: Mountains

669: Not Your Best Work

668: Speed

667: Round, or nearly round

666: Awakening of Spring

Some of the dates that show on these examples are the date that I transferred them onto my MacBook Pro rather than when they were taken.

The first time that I took a camera winter camping - Olympus P&S

1990's visit to Alberta badlands - Olympus P&S

1995 photo that got me hooked on birding - Olympus P&S

2003 - one of my first photos with my first DSLR

I had a little Kodak 5mp DX4530 P&S camera before my first DSLR. CA was a fact of life, but it was fun to play with. No card, just internal storage and a serial connection (IIRC) to access the images.

A view from Mt. Nebo in western Arkansas

We went to Mt. Nebo State Park near Dardanelle, Arkansas in November 2005. It's a nice little park, entirely up on the mountain with no through roads. Plus it has a nice view of the Russellville (AR) nuclear power plant!  LOL

Not every seven year old gets a ride in a Model T!

My daughter got to sit in a Ford Model T driven up the (steep!) road to the park by a local car collector. It was a thrill for her ...she'll turn 24 in August.

My "office" at the 2004 Texas Star Party

Here's my scope, canopy and whatnot at the 2004 Texas Star Party That's my new 14.5" TeleKit scope out front. Behind me were numerous other (larger!) scopes.

Great set Len !

Thanks for getting things kicked off.

Don

Len Philpot wrote:

I had a little Kodak 5mp DX4530 P&S camera before my first DSLR. CA was a fact of life, but it was fun to play with. No card, just internal storage and a serial connection (IIRC) to access the images.

A view from Mt. Nebo in western Arkansas

We went to Mt. Nebo State Park near Dardanelle, Arkansas in November 2005. It's a nice little park, entirely up on the mountain with no through roads. Plus it has a nice view of the Russellville (AR) nuclear power plant! LOL

Not every seven year old gets a ride in a Model T!

My daughter got to sit in a Ford Model T driven up the (steep!) road to the park by a local car collector. It was a thrill for her ...she'll turn 24 in August.

My "office" at the 2004 Texas Star Party

Here's my scope, canopy and whatnot at the 2004 Texas Star Party That's my new 14.5" TeleKit scope out front. Behind me were numerous other (larger!) scopes.

That’s a nice Dobsonian Scope. I still have have a 10” Coulter Odyssey I got in 1982. I met John Dobson once in the mid 80’s at an Astronomy Club meeting, very interesting man.

Thanks. It replaced a 10" f/5.6 truss Dob that I built around a Coulter mirror. The 14.5" has since been replaced by a 12" Dob, which is lighter than the 120 lb. TeleKit.

From 2002, shot with an HP PhotoSmart 210.  This was from a visit to northern New York State. This once was my great-great grandfather's farmland.

The exif says 01/11/200, but my files say this was 2003. Shot with a Premier  DC3300 which I apparently used for two years but have no recollection of. Don't remember where this location was, either.

From 2004. Shot with a Canon Powershot A75. You may have seen photos of this location previously on the internet. It's somewhere a bit north of Des Moines, Iowa.

The HP, Premier, and Canon were my first digital cameras. After that I graduated to s Fuji superzoom, than a couple of Panasonic FZ series, and then to Canon DSLRs.

That's a beautiful sunset. But then again in the year 200 there wasn't too much commercial development to interfere with the view. That's a very early digital camera!! LOL 😂

I've only been doing digital photography for under 5 years.

I'll look at my very  first (absolutely terrible) and my first DSLR pics.

Very nice Irv.  Great sunset.

Don

Jethro B-UK wrote:

I've only been doing digital photography for under 5 years.

I'll look at my very first (absolutely terrible) and my first DSLR pics.

Great.  That's why I added the "or your first digital camera".

Don

Nice set WB.

Yes, those initial digital cameras had small sensors.  I held out for my first.  It was an Olympus CZ750 and had 3.5 mp plus a 10x optical zoom.  I was amazed with the technology at the time

Don

Doesn't matter how many times I proofread, I almost never get it right. Exif says 2000. And that's the turth.

irvcobb wrote:

Doesn't matter how many times I proofread, I almost never get it right. Exif says 2000. And that's the turth.

All my early pics have the wrong dates!

Nice JP.

Don

My first Digital Camera was a Sony Cybershot I purchased in early Feb 2003, a bit of a learning curve from a film camera.

My very first photo I believe, from our backyard

My son’s Marine Corp Reserve Unit was activated for the 2003 Iraq War, he’s getting his equipment ready for his departure. He was gone for 9 months, a tough time for his mother and I. I think he said his backpack alone, not counting duffles, was 85 lbs.

Felling trees and clearing stumps at our retirement property in Oregon.