Doug Kerr
Well-known member
I bought my first digital camera in late 1997.
My first wife, Bobbie, had died in the aftermath of bypass surgery following a heart attack. She had been in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit for 42 days. We had been married almost 38 years. It was a very low time for me.
A few weeks later, though, I was in Florida, doing an engineering seminar through a university for a telecommunications firm, scheduled some while in advance. I was pretty low, but I was committed to go (and I needed the revenue—I was sitting on a USD 800k medical bill).
I had thought about getting a digital camera, but not much—I knew essentially nothing about them. One night, to occupy myself, I went into an electronics store (likely Best Buy) and looked at digital cameras. I ended up buying a Kodak DC210.
I did not realize at the time that it was fixed focus (imagine that)!
But it was really nicely made, and did what seemed to me to be really good work.
I still had it in the spring of 1999, when I first went out with Carla (herself then just recently widowed).
The night of our third real date (one week after the first real date, and 12 days after "date zero", when she rode along when I went with some mutual friends from church to a musical recital), I asked her to marry me, and she accepted.
The next morning we put the DC210 on whatever tripod I had (I think a very ancient one inherited from my father) and used the self-timer to shoot this:
Douglas A. Kerr: Just Engaged—March, 1999
The rest is history.
Best regards,
Doug
My first wife, Bobbie, had died in the aftermath of bypass surgery following a heart attack. She had been in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit for 42 days. We had been married almost 38 years. It was a very low time for me.
A few weeks later, though, I was in Florida, doing an engineering seminar through a university for a telecommunications firm, scheduled some while in advance. I was pretty low, but I was committed to go (and I needed the revenue—I was sitting on a USD 800k medical bill).
I had thought about getting a digital camera, but not much—I knew essentially nothing about them. One night, to occupy myself, I went into an electronics store (likely Best Buy) and looked at digital cameras. I ended up buying a Kodak DC210.
I did not realize at the time that it was fixed focus (imagine that)!
But it was really nicely made, and did what seemed to me to be really good work.
I still had it in the spring of 1999, when I first went out with Carla (herself then just recently widowed).
The night of our third real date (one week after the first real date, and 12 days after "date zero", when she rode along when I went with some mutual friends from church to a musical recital), I asked her to marry me, and she accepted.
The next morning we put the DC210 on whatever tripod I had (I think a very ancient one inherited from my father) and used the self-timer to shoot this:
Douglas A. Kerr: Just Engaged—March, 1999
The rest is history.
Best regards,
Doug
