I started shooting digital in 1999 with the Sony DSC-F505 pictured above. It was a revolutionary camera in its day offering a whopping 2.1 Mpixel sensor! I eventually moved from Sony to Canon’s line of DSLRs maxing out with the 50 Mpixel 5Ds and now am down to just the 30 Mpixel 5D Mark IV.  Recently, I started moving back towards Sony and currently have a pair of a6300s and an RX10 Mark III. My only Nikon is the inexpensive AW120 which I use for underwater photography.

In order to keep up with the state of the art, I have bought and sold nearly 50 cameras over the last 18 years (see a partial list of the ones I remember below, in some cases I owned multiple copies). Needless to say, I have become something of an expert at buying and selling cameras and have generally recovered more than 80% of my purchase price on new cameras and closer to 100% on the ones I purchased used.  This list of lenses I have owned is even longer and may be the subject of a future post.

• Canon: 10D, 20D, 30D, 40D, 50D, 70D, SL1, 5D, 5D M2, 5D M3, 5D M4, 5Ds, 6D, 7D, 7D M2, 1D M3, M5, G7X, S5 IS, S90, S100, SX10 IS, SX100 IS, SX110 IS
• Sony: F505, F707, F717, H5, RX10, RX10 M3, RX100, RX100 M3, T11, a6300
• Panasonic: FZ150, FZ200, FZ1000, G3
• Nikon: AW120

I enjoyed this trip down memory lane while waiting for the rain to subside this morning so I could tackle the replacement of another pair of window sills.