Camera Inflation

Jan

26th

2008

The results of an interesting poll were published over at digital-photography-school.com this week. It’s an interesting website dedicated to teaching amateurs like me how to use a digital camera. The authors polled readers on how much they spent on their LAST digital camera. The most popular answer was in the $1k-$2k range.

But, while implementing my Freedom Filer system today, I ran across a receipt from 1998 where I bought my FIRST digital camera. It was/is a Sony Mavica FD81. As I recall, it was the first camera that had an external storage medium…namely, a floppy disk drive. Yep, that’s right, it held a whopping 1.4 megabytes of digital imagery. I was proud of it at the time.

The receipt says I paid $865.99 for the camera. Today, you can buy a nice DSLR camera and a 4 gigabytes worth of SD memory for that much. Amazing how technology changes in just 10 years….

I still have the camera. It’s been sitting in a file cabinet for a long time now. It’s rather ironic that I know exactly where to find it, but finding a floppy disk would be next to impossible in my house.