{"id":188,"date":"2019-12-12T12:24:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T12:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2026-02-17T11:04:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:04:04","slug":"2019-12-12-first-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"First camera"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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. <\/p>\n

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1\/250 – F 5.6 – ISO 80 Although this was most definitely shot in some kind of auto mode, don\u2019t even think this camera would have had a manual.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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That would be me at age 17 cracking a bullwhip in a local park. Good times. <\/p>\n

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 \u201cgraduate\u201d 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. <\/p>\n

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You can search for one too, not gonna host someone else\u2019s picture here and take a risk of copyright claim.<\/p>\n

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Good ol\u2019 point and shoot. I\u2019m not even sure if I still have this somewhere. If so it\u2019s in a box probably in a shed in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s 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\u2019t 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\u2019t quite few them the same way as I would a traditional camera. So we\u2019ll be skipping over those to get to something more important next time. The first camera I ever purchased with my own money. <\/p>\n

To leave off, here\u2019s another image I took with the Panasonic, although about 5 months later. Our dog Sandie.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1\/30 – F2.8 – ISO 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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