My first digital camera was a Kodak DSC 3200, purchased in 2002, I think. It seemed like magic at the time ~ the fact that I could make photos and NOT have to pay to have film developed was pretty amazing. Even better – I didn’t even need to go to the trouble of using a flatbed scanner so I could transfer them to my computer! In a world saturated by digital imagery and modern cameras that can almost see in the dark, this all seems rather quaint.

My Kodak camera might have been magic in my hands, but it was also really frustrating to use – AA batteries that seemed to be good for only a dozen photos, limited internal storage, and a serial cable connection that took an age to transfer files. Still, I was pretty happy with it, and 1 megapixel seemed like a lot at the time. Here are some old photos made by the Kodak DSC 3200 I happened to find: