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7MP .... money bags over here
My first point-and-shoot camera was a 2MP Fujifilm that I paid about $300 for.
My first digital camera was a Sony Mavica that used a 3.5” floppy disk for storage.
shot 0.3 MP and could store ~10-15 images per diskWow ... never knew these existed. But you would have a better resolution and quality if you just took the time to draw the image with paper and a pencil.
Same! I really don't want to tell you what I paid for it, it was a ridiculous amount. But, it did pay for itself when my son was born and while he was in the nursery (a bit jaundiced) I could take pics and bring them to show my wife that he was OK. Plus send pics to the grandparents on another continent.
So in the end it was worth it.
My dad was a professor of photojournalism at the time, so he had a bit of a budget to buy fun toys to experiment with.
That camera didn’t make it into the mainstream curriculum, but he did eventually flip the whole department over to DSLRs and had a fleet of cameras to loan out to students
They were amazing for us in the kitchens to plate up & have a demo for the cooks the same day. Game changer for modern chefs. So fun.
That’s an awesome use! Particularly in the late 90s/early 00s
Absolutely, then imagine us putting those photos on page with a description of the dish, in the same order as the catering menu so people can see the dish and order accordingly.
Early 2000's I learned enough digital photography, manipulation & excel to serve me the next 24 years...lol
I have love for the FD Mavica. I have a Sony CD Mavica and have been using it quite a bit lately. It actually takes very nice photos for what it is.
I was going to post a photo of the camera but my account is too new.
damm this is fucking sick
Your friendly reminder that the Mars rover main cameras are only 2MP. They probably have better quality sensors though.
My first digital camera was a 1.3 MP generic no-name with a fixed-focus lens. But I was like 12 and my parents weren't about to drop hundreds on me. Plus it was the year 2000, so anything over a megapixel was amazing.
My camera before that was a Game Boy Camera. It was so bad that you could only really take selfies with it. Anything else was unrecognizable 8-bit pixel-puke. Plus the cartridge held less than 30 pictures and the prints faded within a couple of years, making it impossible to preserve any shots you took with it.