First real camera that allowed you to take pictures with control
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it was later than I recalled.
Nikon FM2 that I bought new in 1985.
My first "real" camera, was a Yashica TL Electro X. 50mm 1.4 Yashinon, and a Yashica 70-200mm zoom. Purchased it from the Base Exchange in Nha Trang Vietnam in 1969.
Still have some of pictures I took with it. Upgraded to a Canon A-1 in 1981, and sold the Yashica in 1983. Still have that one.
Just picked up another Electro X in a lot of old cameras that I purchased. It's almost like the old days.
Still have some of pictures I took with it. Upgraded to a Canon A-1 in 1981, and sold the Yashica in 1983. Still have that one.
Just picked up another Electro X in a lot of old cameras that I purchased. It's almost like the old days.
My dad's old Argoflex when I was about 11. Didn't get to use anything with a meter until I was 15. Until then it was walking around with the little paper insert. Made things a bit tricky with the Argoflex, which had a different f/stop progression (4.5, 6.3, 9, 12.7, 18) and shutter speed choices (10, 25, 50, 100, 200), than the Kodacolor or Verichrome Pan inserts. Did ok, though.
An Argus C3, the famous brick.
A Nikon D3100.
Although now my primary shooters are my Speed Graphics and my F3/F4.
Although now my primary shooters are my Speed Graphics and my F3/F4.
A pentax k1000
My Dad's old Argus C at Expo '67.
It was an early one without a coupled rangefinder.
Shot a whole role of Kodachrome 25 and they all came out, more or less.
It was an early one without a coupled rangefinder.
Shot a whole role of Kodachrome 25 and they all came out, more or less.
A Kodak Tourister 620 folder when I was 12ish.
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Exakta VX iia when I was 19 years old. It was used and came with a 58mm f/2 Zeiss Auto Biotar and a 90mm f/3.5 preset Schneider Tele Xenar.
Before that, when I was about five or six years old I got a simple box camera by sending in two cereal box tops and $1. My mother said the camera would never come, but it did come and I loved it.
Before that, when I was about five or six years old I got a simple box camera by sending in two cereal box tops and $1. My mother said the camera would never come, but it did come and I loved it.
An Olympus OM10 with the manual adapter...
Marc!
Marc!
An Optina. Not sure what model. Lent to me by a family friend to get me started. I was 14 I think.
First serious camera..... a Pentax P30t, bought from a friend's dad. Sadly this one got stolen at knife point...
No it doesn't because the OP says the first camera which allowed to take picture "with control". My Kodak instamatic 36 had only 1 control: "sun" or "cloudy".
I also had a Polaroid which had a strange knob on the front of dubious utility.
Power is nothing without control.
Agfa folder of some sort. I bought it in a junk shop for the sensible reason that the shop owner's daughter was (still is!) drop dead gorgeous - I needed a reason to be in there (too shy to tell the lass the real reason) so I bought the first thing I saw. That was 1969 - I had no idea what all the levers did, and it was missing the folding viewfinder but I managed to produce some half-decent pictures with it. Replaced it with a Zenit E in 1973.
And the daughter?
Voightlander Vito B, bought second hand in the early sixties as I was showing a greater interest in photography and only had a brownie Starmite at the time, I still have and use that camera
Richard
Richard
Nikomat FTN in 1973. I still have it. I was amazed at the quality of the images.
My Voigtlander B is my second favourite camera that I now own - after my Voigtlander Vitomatic II
Yashica Electro 35 GSN, with a 50mm, 1.7 lens, in around 1975. Took some great pictures, then moved up to an SLR, Nikon FM and then an FE to go along with it. One for Tri-X and one for Kodachrome.
Sigh.
Sigh.
Canon Eos Rebel with the awful stock lens kit on it. Produced good enough images to get me stuck in the analogue world despite, at the time, the appearance of the first competent digital systems.
Snap, My Vitomatic IIa is my favorite 35mm camera, very closely followed by my Vito b, and my to Vito folders are very very close equal third,
Richard
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