{"id":2493,"date":"2010-12-13T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T08:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2010-12-12T19:13:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T03:13:15","slug":"my-first-digital-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=2493","title":{"rendered":"My First Digital Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can you believe a 14 megapixel camera? Apparently they’re available now. I’m not a professional nor a “prosumer,” so I don’t follow digital photography updates as closely as that crowd. But 14 megapixels? Holy cow
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\nThe guy who has the 14MP camera is a quasi-professional. He thinks of himself as a amateur, but he’s really good.<\/p>\n

I’m sitting here looking at my Canon Digital Rebel, which I believe is only 6.3 megapixels. A pittance. Well, it was stunning for 2004 when I bought it.<\/p>\n

Has it been that long?<\/p>\n

I remember back to my first digital camera.<\/p>\n

Photography was my thing before computers. I still have a “real” darkroom setup: An enlarger, trays, timers, jugs for chemicals. All that jazz. I don’t know why I hang on to it; I haven’t developed a picture since about 1987 or so.<\/p>\n

Being a quasi-photographer, I’ve always had a nice camera on hand. I still have a really nice Canon SLR with several lenses. And I used that camera up until I bought the Digital Rebel in 2004. Now it sits on a shelf.<\/p>\n

Digital photography came to the masses in the 1990s. That’s the first time that you could buy a digital camera, but the cameras available back then were really jokes. You can find a better camera inside a Barbie doll today.<\/p>\n

My first digital camera was an Epson-something. I don’t remember the specifics. It had two modes: 640-by-400 pixels \u2014 which was the high-resolution \u2014 and 320-by-200 pixels. The thing cost me $600.<\/p>\n

The camera didn’t have removable media. It didn’t have a USB cable. (Remember, this was back in the 1990s.) Instead, the camera had a serial port adapter you could use to beam the pictures into your PC. And, of course, Epson had some silly “photo editing” and photo gallery programs.<\/p>\n

Images were saved in the camera using the GIF file format. Here is such a picture that was taken with the camera back in 1999. That’s me at my son Jeremiah’s birthday party. The image is cropped from its original size.<\/p>\n

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A GIF picture taken with my first digital camera.<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s amazing how silly that shot looks these days, and I’m not talking about my cheesy facial hair. But back in the day, if you wanted a “digital” camera, you paid good money to get something that took awful, low-resolution images. That’s how it all began. And it was impressive back then, just really silly today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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