What was the first camera that you've ever used?

dehk · Apr 18, 2014

What was the first camera you've ever used?

I"ll go first.
As far as I remember, it was a Red Konica Pop.

padesig · Apr 18, 2014

Yashica FX3

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benjiboy · Apr 18, 2014

An Ensign Fullview https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=e...9z4NML-OfLQgcgD&ved=0CC4QsAQ&biw=1680&bih=925 my family took on holiday in 1947, we actually had a Zeiss Contax that my dad brought home from Germany after the war that I still have, but nobody in the family knew how to use it in those days.

ic-racer · Apr 18, 2014

dehk said:
What was the first camera you've ever used?

I"ll go first.
As far as I remember, it was a Red Konica Pop.

This:

Rick A · Apr 18, 2014

Kodak Brownie Holiday flash 127 circa 1962.

MattKing · Apr 18, 2014

I used to think that it was a Kodak Brownie Starmatic, but I think now that it was a Kodak Brownie Starmite II:

jcofer · Apr 18, 2014

Kodak Brownie Holiday, not flash model. 1955.

Chrismat · Apr 18, 2014

The first camera I ever used was my family's Kodak 126 Instamatic, but the first camera I ever owned was a Polaroid Super Shooter I purchased in 1975.

WetMogwai · Apr 18, 2014

I have no idea what the first camera I ever used was, but the first camera of my own that I ever used was the Kellogg's Corn Flakes Mini 110. I wanted a camera and a darkroom but my parents never cared about my interests, so when I could get a camera for just the cost of shipping, I did.

Double Negative · Apr 18, 2014

Kodak Instamatic X-15! Still have it, too.

Kyle M. · Apr 18, 2014

Canon AE-1 Program that dad gave me back when I was 15 in 2005, yeah I'm young. He wouldn't let me touch his Yashica LM or 124G, so I got the Canon.

hooograa · Apr 18, 2014

A Canon EF with a 50mm f1.8

gone · Apr 18, 2014

Kodak Brownie box camera. That backwards image in the teeny viewfinder really threw me. I sent the prints out, and they came back very nice.

sgbode · Apr 18, 2014

Yashica 35 gsn

bsdunek · Apr 18, 2014

Brownie Target 620. My Grandfather gave me one for my eighth birthday (that was 67 years ago). I still have it and it works great! I shot a roll of film, and my Dad showed me how to develop and print. He always had a darkroom. I've been doing that ever since. My cameras are a bit newer though. Nikon F's, Mamiya Press 23, Rolleiflex, etc. Still all film except for one simple digital for web purposes.

bdial · Apr 18, 2014

First camera that I remember using was a Kodak Brownie 127, sometime around 1960.
My mother got it from a camera store that was giving them away as a grand opening promotion.

Bought a lot of film and other supplies from that shop for years afterward, so I guess it was a good deal for them.

BradleyK · Apr 18, 2014

First camera: a Brownie (model unknown); first serious camera: my father's Canon Ftb QL w/24, 35, 50 and 135mm Canon FD lenses.

snapguy · Apr 18, 2014

first

Brownie Reflex circa 1947. I am still amazed at how good the prints from that camera were. In 1956 I won a Rolleiflex 3.5 in a raffle for a buck. That got me into learning how to be a pro photog.

Lee Rust · Apr 18, 2014

First, a Kodak Brownie Holiday that I inherited from my sister in 1960. Then my first new camera, a Brownie Starflash, for Christmas 1961.

Jeff Kubach · Apr 18, 2014

I don't really remember the first camera (might have been a Kodak Instamatic). My first good camera was a Canon AE-1.

Jeff

Truzi · Apr 18, 2014

A Kodak Brownie Holiday (at least I think it was an Holiday). It was my mother's when she was a kid.

drkhalsa · Apr 19, 2014

Kodak Brownie Starflash. I can still smell those flashbulbs.

aRolleiBrujo · Apr 19, 2014

a point and shot throwaway my big sis bought me back in 1986 October, for my 10th bday! My next camera was a point and shot digicam back in 199x, then, my "real" try at SLR was the Canon FTQL with a 50mm 1.4 lens, bought at a flea market, for $45! I sold the 50mm 1.4 for around $100, and used the proceeds to get serious, and found a nice Canon XSI with lens, for way under market price, sold it, bought a Canon 5D MKI, loved it, used it, and the rest is history, until I came back to film, in a big way, as in medium format big, lol!

ozphoto · Apr 19, 2014

My mum's Brownie Starlet 127 - loved it to bits!!!

Still have it - it takes pride of place in my display cabinet. If I could lay my hands on some 127, I'd happily take it out for a day.

Pioneer · Apr 19, 2014

My mom's Bell & Howell 424 movie camera. She loved that thing.

The first still camera I remember using for any period of time was the Minolta SRT-101. I was taught to use it as a Junior in High School so I could be a photographer on our high school yearbook.

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