Before I can even talk about the first camera I ever purchased, we should go back briefly to the first camera I ever owned. No idea when I received this camera, probably in my teenage years for either a birthday or Christmas. But I have dug through my archives to locate the absolute oldest photo I can find.

That would be me at age 17 cracking a bullwhip in a local park. Good times.

But as far as the camera goes, I think I had it for a while at this point. It did not get much use sadly, but at the time I was enjoying video games and studying to “graduate” my homeschooling. The camera in question, thanks to EXIF data, was a Panasonic Lumix DMC-L73. Does that mean anything to me, no not really. But I recognized it when I googled for an image.

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You can search for one too, not gonna host someone else’s picture here and take a risk of copyright claim.

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Good ol’ point and shoot. I’m not even sure if I still have this somewhere. If so it’s in a box probably in a shed in North Carolina.

So that’s the first camera I ever owned with the oldest picture I have from it. I assume there were others that have been lost to time and hard drives long gone. Carrying over data would have required things like a flash drive. Certainly didn’t have any external storage drives. I think a lot of stuff would have been carried over from my phones, I do have quite a few pictures from my first phone with a camera. A blackberry, followed by another blackberry. But I don’t quite few them the same way as I would a traditional camera. So we’ll be skipping over those to get to something more important next time. The first camera I ever purchased with my own money.

To leave off, here’s another image I took with the Panasonic, although about 5 months later. Our dog Sandie.