I was recently going through some backups I created back in early 2000, when I discovered some pictures I'd taken with my first digital camera. I have no idea what the model of the camera was, but it was very much first generation. My grandfather loved technology, and I would often get hand-me-downs from him, one of which was this camera. It's shocking how far the technology has come since that time.
The pictures below are not spectacular, and were at full resolution only 420x240 (.1008MP) pixels, 24bit color, and only about 30kB in size.
In comparison, my current phone takes pictures many times larger than that (5MP), with better color depth, and with a bigger lens. The pictures are all from, I think, Cypresss Gardens (SWAMP), a place my mom and I visited on one of our many trips to Folly Beach, SC. I have many fond memories of going to the beach with her, and it's a shame these are the only pictures that I know of. Neither of us is actually pictured, as I think we both felt about the same way about cameras. I'm pretty sure the location where these were all taken is somewhere around here:
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I've included all of the pictures at full original resolution purely as an illustration of how far technology has come.
Obviously slow shutter speeds and sensors - my foot is a ghost despite the bright lights.
Look, a lizard! I don't think the camera had any sort of zoom, either.
I think that might actually be a snake going across the path.
Turtles?
There was an old cemetery on the grounds.
I think we hoped to actually read this again. Information about the graveyard.
