In 1998 I got my first digital camera. The photo above shows the DC290, but I actually bought the DC260, ordering from Gope's Photo Store in Tanglin Shopping Centre and good friend HYK couriered it to Perth on one of his trips here.
I remember him telling me he studied the operating manual on the plane in case customs queried his ownership of the camera.
The DC260 had 1.6 megapixels and cost a whopping $1600 - for which nowadays you can get an SLR like the Canon 60D. In those days, of course, SLRs cost well over $10,000!
The DC260 died after a few months and Kodak compensated me with its successor, the camera above, the DC290. This one had 2.2 megapixels.
Some of my favourite photos from DC 260 (these two taken on my daily bicycle commute to work through the Canning Regional Park):
From DC 290 (WA Foundation Day celebrations, Canning Regional Park):
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