Cameras with a special place in your heart.

MontanaJay · May 15, 2023

My grandfather gave me his Kodak 3a (and a cigar box filled with the postcard-size negatives} when I was still in grade school in about 1960.

And when I did a high-res scan of one negative I got a photo of him, grandma and my mother (in the baby carriage at left) taken in the fall of 1911.

And it makes me wonder how many family legacy photographs taken today will even exist in 100 years.

Disconnekt · May 17, 2023

First slr camera I got was a Sears TLS & Auto Sears 50mm f1.7, my mom paid for it (I think it was ~$25 back for the camera, lens, & everready case) for some photography classes (some were film classes) I was taking at my local community college. It worked great when I got it, meter worked too. Got it CLA'ed & the slight dent it had on the front of the lens (wasnt too bad, was dented enough to where I couldnt screw a filter on it) few years ago, mainly cuz I didnt know the past history of it, figured it wouldn't hurt to get it some tlc. My mom passed away a few years ago, so its something I plan to keep forever.

rodstew · May 18, 2023

koraks said:
Mamiya old ZM. There's something about how it felt, and handled. It had this tactile quality to it that I really liked. This was my main camera for a couple of years and I took it pretty much everywhere. Sadly, the build quality wasn't quite up to that kind of intensive (ab)use and ultimately it suffered from several problems that were increasingly difficult to fix. I may still have it in a box somewhere, although I'm not entirely sure - perhaps it's gone now.

One of the images I made with it:

It's a small photopolymer intaglio print of a digital positive, the original negative being exposed on TMY2 in the medina of Fes, Morocco, about 8 years ago. It was the last trip abroad I took this camera on.

A truly beautiful image!

rodstew · May 18, 2023

MontanaJay said:
My grandfather gave me his Kodak 3a (and a cigar box filled with the postcard-size negatives} when I was still in grade school in about 1960.

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And when I did a high-res scan of one negative I got a photo of him, grandma and my mother (in the baby carriage at left) taken in the fall of 1911.

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And it makes me wonder how many family legacy photographs taken today will even exist in 100 years.

Lovely camera, interesting story and very cool image!

rodstew · May 18, 2023

BAC1967 said:
I have several, I like to hang onto things.

My first camera, got it for my birthday in 1978.

Kodak Instamatic X-15F by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

My second Camera, belonged to my uncle before he died in 1968. My grandmother gave it to me several years later.

Kodak Duaflex II by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

My fathers camera that he let me use for high school photography class. He finally gave it to me a few years ago.

Minolta srTsc-II by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

Bought this from a friend in college, he needed money for weed. I've been using it since the 1980's.

Chinon SLR by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

My mothers old camera. I got it a few years ago after she passed away. I also found some negatives she shot with it, pictures I had never seen before. The strap made of yarn looks like something she would do.

Kodak Brownie Reflex by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

I also have my fathers Bell and Howell 8mm movie camera I used in the 1970's.

A collection of fine cameras and priceless memories! Thanks for sharing!

dave olson · Jun 3, 2023

My Canon T 90's. Next my Leica M2

Philippe-Georges · Jun 4, 2023

Minox · Jun 5, 2023

My first camera, a Smena 5, from the times when I was a student in the high school, ages ago. The high school lab was a place where everything was scarce. Nothing fancy, just the usual Russian camera and film, the (almost) only stuff you’d find in a communist country in the early 80’s. A Smena for a camera and Svema FN64 for film, this was all I had to learn photography with. I remember the lab, somewhere in the basement of the dorm building, cold and humid. That place is long gone now.

My first SLR was an OM1, during the early 90's, and then other cameras followed, but this Smena 5 retained its place in my memories as the first one. This camera was what put me in the photography's way. Still have it, though I haven't used it in the last 20 or so yrs.

Gary_QH · Jun 5, 2023

My Nikon FG. My mother bought it for me brand new for my birthday around 1983. I still have it. This little camera watched my kids grow up until I went digital around 2008 when I packed it away. Got it out last year to play with film again and it no longer works. Now it sits on a display shelf.

Sirius Glass · Jun 5, 2023

Gary_QH said:
My Nikon FG. My mother bought it for me brand new for my birthday around 1983. I still have it. This little camera watched my kids grow up until I went digital around 2008 when I packed it away. Got it out last year to play with film again and it no longer works. Now it sits on a display shelf.

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Gary_QH · Jun 6, 2023

Sirius Glass said:
Welcome to ~~APUG~~ Photrio!!

Thank you!

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