My first camera, a Nikon D50 went to Iraq with me the day I purchased it. I paid for it at the camera shop and then it was straight to the airport to get on a plane to go back to Baghdad to finish my tour. In the remaining 9 months of my deployment, that camera saw over one hundred patrols and some ten thousand photos. Even for being a low end DSLR, it survived being stepped on, rattled around the back of a humvee and even an RPG attack. I'm not keeping the camera, but I know that my brother will give her a good home. My D1X has slid comfortably into the role of workhorse for me (10k photos and counting since August last year.) Yeah I love Nikon, since that's what I held as my first camera on my first deployment.
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My first camera
Nikon
27 October 2007
My first camera, a Nikon D50 went to Iraq with me the day I purchased it. I paid for it at the camera shop and then it was straight to the airport to get on a plane to go back to Baghdad to finish my tour. In the remaining 9 months of my deployment, that camera saw over one hundred patrols and some ten thousand photos. Even for being a low end DSLR, it survived being stepped on, rattled around the back of a humvee and even an RPG attack. I'm not keeping the camera, but I know that my brother will give her a good home. My D1X has slid comfortably into the role of workhorse for me (10k photos and counting since August last year.) Yeah I love Nikon, since that's what I held as my first camera on my first deployment.