I recently had a three-year-old Acer laptop go belly up on me, I had numerous JPEG files on its old hard drive. Happily, many of these are duplicated in at least one other external drive so all was/is not lost, but they are not as easily accessible since they aren't right under my fingertips.
I was reminiscing this afternoon in my own mind about the time I bought my first digital camera - the Canon PowerShot G6 - seems like that was many moons ago but it was only the fall of 2004. At that time, it was the leading compact camera on the market with is 7.1 MP sensor. The G-series were (and are) enthusiast compacts, we are now up to the G12. Many still claim the G6 was one of the best (if not the best) of the bunch, it sported a fast f/2~f/3 aperture for shooting in candle-light plus the sweet swivel screen.
None of this cramming 14MP on a tiny sensor foolishness back in those days......
I bought into the G6 "system" - accessories such as the dedicated lens shade, filter adapter, close-up lens (250D) and even an external Canon flash. I sunk about $2000 into that little camera and extras, and sold it in 2008 for $400. The new owner still uses the venerable tool (I had 26K shutter firings on it when I sold it!) and now takes wonderful pics of her new baby boy with it.
The sifted through the Seagate drive and found some nice captures recorded with the G6, I thought some of you might like to see what I had in my old shoebox from the past.
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