7MP … money bags over here
My first point-and-shoot camera was a 2MP Fujifilm that I paid about $300 for.
My first digital camera was a 1.3 MP generic no-name with a fixed-focus lens. But I was like 12 and my parents weren’t about to drop hundreds on me. Plus it was the year 2000, so anything over a megapixel was amazing.
My camera before that was a Game Boy Camera. It was so bad that you could only really take selfies with it. Anything else was unrecognizable 8-bit pixel-puke. Plus the cartridge held less than 30 pictures and the prints faded within a couple of years, making it impossible to preserve any shots you took with it.
My first digital camera was a Sony Mavica that used a 3.5” floppy disk for storage. shot 0.3 MP and could store ~10-15 images per disk
Same! I really don’t want to tell you what I paid for it, it was a ridiculous amount. But, it did pay for itself when my son was born and while he was in the nursery (a bit jaundiced) I could take pics and bring them to show my wife that he was OK. Plus send pics to the grandparents on another continent.
So in the end it was worth it.
My dad was a professor of photojournalism at the time, so he had a bit of a budget to buy fun toys to experiment with.
That camera didn’t make it into the mainstream curriculum, but he did eventually flip the whole department over to DSLRs and had a fleet of cameras to loan out to students
