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Cameras with a special place in your heart.

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.
 
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.
 

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A truly beautiful image!
 

Lovely camera, interesting story and very cool image!
 

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