Your First Digital Shot

[The Vulcan]

It's wet, miserable and I'm bored.

With nothing better to do I was reviewing my image catalogue and came across what I believe is my first digital image.

I'd just returned from the shop with my new Olympus c2020 (2 megapixels !) and whilst setting it up for a shot of my friend I accidently pressed the shutter.

I liked it.

Shot in jpeg mode as well.

Have you got yours to show?

Just a bit of fun in the wet season

Edited June 2, 2009 by The Vulcan

[The Vulcan]

And I think this is the second one I took at a nearby cafe where we went for lunch.

Again, jpeg mode, Olympus C2020 blah de blah

Interestingly (at least to my eye) the colours and contrast seemed a lot more film-like in those early digitals - not like the "plastic" images we get now!

[The Vulcan]

And finally - the 3rd shot when the drinks arrived

Well, you do - don't ya

[astral]

Nothing very spectacular, mind you the camera was only a Kodak freeby that came with the new notebook.

[Kan Win]

Hi 'The Vulcan',

Good topic for these rainy days.

Not me first photo taken, but me first Digital camera

The Olympus C-2500L is a true SLR (thru the lens) digital camera with a 3X optical (36-110mm equivalent) f2.8-3.9 zoom lens. It features a 2/3-inch progressive scan 2.5 megapixel

Taken 07-JUN-2002

Olympus C-2500L

1/400s f/7.8 at 28.0mm iso100 hide exif

Date/Time 07-Jun-2002 16:51:41

Flash Used No

Focal Length 28 mm

Exposure Time 1/400 sec

Aperture f/7.8

ISO Equivalent 100

Exposure Bias

White Balance (-1)

Metering Mode center weighted (2)

JPEG Quality (6)

Exposure Program program (2)

Focus Distance

Yes I know 'astral' told me already many moons ago me photos are a little list

Just found an earlier one

24-MAR-2000

and many more on me Webpage

Unseen in Thailand

Panoramic shot

(looks big, but small file size)

Thank you 'The Vulcan', it brings back many happy trips around 'Thailand as I see it'.

Yours truly,

Kan Win

[svenivan]

Not my first but my second!

The first one is probably deleted!

Sony Cybershot DSC-V1 year 2003

[canuckamuck]

My first digital shot was with an $80,000 Dicomed digital back on a Hassleblad. It took a red green and a blue shot with about 5 second delays between. 40 MP full frame 2 1/4" CCD that was sensitive to heat and a real dust magnet.

That was early 1998 I believe. Some of the pics were stunning once you lined up up the red, green, and blue channels.

I haven't kept any images from that era. But the camera made our business a success and unique until the H1 arrived.

[The Vulcan]

I remember seeing this shot in c.1998. I hasten to add that I was NOT the snapper.

It's a massive original file of some 500+mb. I obtained a copy of the original on a CD and couldn't even open in my windows 3.xxx machine!

It was about 5 years later before I could review it in all it's glory.

It was shot on a Linhof 5x4 with a Dicomed digital back and it blew me away.

Pity I can't upload the full version here but believe me, the detail and clarity is stunning.

Suffice to say my first action was to quickly sell all my darkroom stuff whilst it still had some value!

[canuckamuck]

Yep we were stunned as well when we saw the first Dicomed images. We were shooting very old currency and very expensive old documents for an auction catalogue. We tested on a regular five dollar bill and when we saw the result we knew our path was digital.

We still shot film for many years, even some 8x10 stuff. But when we got a contract to shoot 6000 pairs of eye glasses for a web site, we went and got a Nikon DSLR with a 32MB card. It was a piece of crap, but for web stuff it was like printing our own money. Prior to that each shutter snap represented a dollar in cost, now shooting was free like air.

The Achilles heal of the Dicomed was motion. even a subtle ground vibration would cause the color channels to be misaligned, so you had to nudge all the channels in the computer until they lined up on almost every shot. Another problem was your lights had to recycle quick enough to get the next of the three shot cycle. any variation ruined the image, sometimes lights just give a brighter flash. Nothing in motion could be photographed, even a drop of condensation that moved down a glass while the shot was being taken would caused a flourescent colored ghost image where the motion was. The sensitivity was so low we rarely shot over f8 which really hurt depth of field.

We used it for four years, and when the H1 showed up the Dicomed found a place on the shelf as a very expensive door stop.

Edited June 5, 2009 by canuckamuck

[Digitalbanana]

It's wet, miserable and I'm bored.

With nothing better to do I was reviewing my image catalogue and came across what I believe is my first digital image.

I'd just returned from the shop with my new Olympus c2020 (2 megapixels !) and whilst setting it up for a shot of my friend I accidently pressed the shutter.

I liked it.

Shot in jpeg mode as well.

Have you got yours to show?

Just a bit of fun in the wet season

The earliest digital photo on my PC is from 11 years ago. I took it with a Casio QV100 VGA camera and it shows Klong Saen Saep in Bangkok.