Originally Posted by Robbie

I started shooting with digital cameras in 1998 (owned content company Pure Candy Images).

I remember reading Phil Askey's website like it was the bible. He was way ahead of the curve on digital photography.

The first digital camera I had was a Sony that used floppy disks! I actually had a belt that I wore with 40 or 50 floppys as they could only hold 4 to 5 pics each with the cameras settings on high (1024 x 768 and as you said about a 450kb size)

Then I moved on up to one of the first Nikon Coolpix cameras in 1999. It cost $1,100 and was a huge step up since I was able to use a MASSIVE 128 mb sd card! And that sd card was about $400 lol

I still have that Coolpix camera sitting in a drawer in one of my file cabinets. I remember thinking when I retired it in 2002 that I would keep it in case I needed a spare...of course in this day and age my freakin' cell phone has a better camera in it! lol

It wasn't bad though. I used strobes with those early cameras and lighting it up nice like that made it passable. And it looked MUCH better than the early film to digital scanning that was being done back then. So it gave us a competitors edge over guys who hadn't embraced the new technology of the time.

Now I'm thinking I may need to replace my Canon EOS5D (I have the original, not the MkII). I bought it in 2007. I'm thinking that with the way technology jumps so fast I might be missing out.

BM, what new camera in that same price range (around $4000 to $5000) do you think would be worth me replacing this EOS5D?