My History
1977 First Camera.
My dad gave me my first camera when I was six years old - it was an fully manual SLR named EDIXA. I had to learn photography from its very basics as this camera did not have any automatic functions. Exposure settings and every other value needed to be calculated and you would never see a direct result. That was REAL photography
2011 Canon DSLR 7D
After a history of several SLRs from Canon and Minolta I finally got my first digital camera in 2001 - a 1.3 Megapixel point and shoot camera. It was totally disappointing. Like many other photographers even the first DSLRs in my possesion did not really satisfy me. I would say - the Canon 50D was the first digital SLR camera I really liked as the shades of colours and light can now be interpreted much better by digital cameras resulting in more realistic pictures.