Who's got the oldest photo?

[Artshot]

Ignorance is bliss. I've been looking back at the good old days(2017) when I imagined i was taking great photos.

Wondering who has the oldest digital photo?

My oldest examples are lost but this is with a Coolpix 950 in 2000.

[Shadowman]

I didn't join the revolution until 2005 so you've got me beat.

[James G]

2002 with a Fuji bridge camera... my wife was using a P&S to get 'evidence' of progress in the classroom from about 1999-2000.

She taught young adults with learning difficulties, Autism Downes etc and used photographs to record their progression.

[Rita]

You have me beat by a long shot. I didn't buy a camera until May 2013.

[James G]

I didn't buy a camera until May 2013.

Ah.... if your talking first camera .... that goes back to buying my first SLR about 1967, with my first 'decent' camera, an Ilford Sportsman, in 1965.My first print would have been about 1965 as well, but my 'earliest' print that I still retain is of my sister somewhere about 1968.

Suddenly I feel ancient!

[Shadowman]

Ah.... if your talking first camera .... that goes back to buying my first SLR about 1967, with my first 'decent' camera, an Ilford Sportsman, in 1965.My first print would have been about 1965 as well, but my 'earliest' print that I still retain is of my sister somewhere about 1968.

Suddenly I feel ancient!

I think he meant photo from a digital camera however a scanned film negative could qualify as a digital photo.

[Cogito]

I can just manage last century! These 2 taken with an Epson 850Z which our first digital camera and served us for many years..





Both taken 03-07-1999

[Artshot]

Yes I did mean from a digital camera. I actually test drove a Sony mavica about ten years earlier, but that was a Still Video camera. The photo above was taken in TIFF format, and the original card would hold one photo on high quality. The photo is half it's original size.
I am hoping someone has some examples from the 90's.

[Artshot]

Nice quality photos at any age. Interesting to see how these digital files are surviving the years.
Didn't know Epson made cameras, but then I did own a Hewlet Packard 1 mega pixel.

[Geoff F]

It was 2002 when I first went digital. I was getting fed up with my local film processing shop which started using an auto ' image improvement' processing machine which always gave over saturated images. For example, a shot taken with a grey sky and green sea would come back bright blue.

Then a friend purchased a Canon Powershot G2 for his business but found out that this new camera wouldn't do what he required. It cost him a staggering £700 back then, so he sold it to me for half price.

Took me a while to work out what settings to use and how the auto focus worked. Here is one taken on my fishing boat with my crew holding a good sized blonde ray.



I soon worked out how to digitally manipulate images; as shown with this parachuting teddy bear.



The parachute was attached by fishing line to a pole tied to a step ladder so it gave me a static subject with the sky as a background.