My very first

[chipman]

I was 16, she was... OOPS! Wrong story.
Digging into some old storage and found my very first digital camera -

• Canon - Canon EOS R7
• RF-S18-150mm F3.5-6.3 IS STM
• 79.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/125 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• -0.7
• ISO 1250

I thought this thing had been sold years ago.
Bought this after the SLR we used for 20+ years developed light leaks.
There was the books, which you don't get any more =

• Canon - Canon EOS R7
• RF-S18-150mm F3.5-6.3 IS STM
• 100.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/160 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• -0.7
• ISO 1250

and a compact flash card still in the camera -

• Canon - Canon EOS R7
• RF-S18-150mm F3.5-6.3 IS STM
• 150.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/250 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• -0.7
• ISO 2500

Check out those specs - 48 meg., 4X speed. They don't make them like that anymore.
The battery was dead, totally. But after two hours on the charger -

• Canon - Canon EOS R7
• RF-S18-150mm F3.5-6.3 IS STM
• 70.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/125 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• -0.7
• ISO 1000

in the sink, as I didn't want to burn my house down from charging a 20 year old dead battery, it fired up and works. Kinda -

• EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY - KODAK DC4800 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA
• 17.7 mm
• ƒ/4.5
• 1/90 sec
• Average

At first it wouldn't focus. A little soft hammering on the lens loosened up enough for the wide end. The tele end is not so good yet, but maybe it will come around.
Frankly, I'm surprised it came on at all. There was a time when Kodak knew how to build a camera.

 

[grsnovi]

Announced for sale June 6, 2000. That's pretty early in the digital line. My first was Sony's DSC-F717 from 2002.

 

[chipman]

Does it still work?

 

[grsnovi]

It's long gone At the time I also had a dye-sub printer.

Very cool that yours still works.

I do have working copies of my very first film cameras (Canon FTb and Voigtländer VITO CLR) each of which had a roll of Ilford HP5+ pushed through them about a year ago. Made me remember what it was like shooting where you only had a limited number of shots and (usually) had to send out for developing and prints (although I did have a darkroom and enlarger back in the day).

 

[Hike Pics]

Great your DC4800 came back to life and is working. I hope you'll post some photos with it here. It sure has the classic Kodak look.

I have 3 of them, along with the lens adapter and accessory lenses and a few batteries. Two of them have the problem of crashing when zooming in LiveView, the other just doesn't have LiveView at all. All three have the very common issue of cracking around the screen. Still, it's a fun camera to take out and the photos are fabulous!

 

[chipman]

Just a quick shot - checking to see if the battery held charge overnight.
The focus seems to be better.

• EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY - KODAK DC4800 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA
• 17.7 mm
• ƒ/4.5
• 1/45 sec
• Average

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