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

John_Nikon_F

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My sister's Kodak Ektra 110 camera. First 35 was my Pentax H3v.
 

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My mother's Ensign Ful-Vue but I could never get the "Vue" right...

A Kodak Brownie Cresta of my own changed everything! At last I could see what I was hoping to photograph.

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I had a Kodak Instamatic 100 as a small kid. It had little disposable flash cubes.

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A Yashica FX3 with 3 lenses, I bought 2nd hand from a friend. Must have been in 1983??
 

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A Bainier, took 120 film, in '64 OR '65.
 

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It was a VERY long time ago and I have no real idea - a no-name plastic 120 camera. When it became apparent that I was not going to lose interest any-time soon I was bought a Kodak Brownie Vecta
 

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My first photos were of my dog. I used my Mother's Kodak Brownie box camera. she probly bought it around 1935. I still have it.

I was taking the pictures in my back yard. A neighbor looked out his window and saw me. About an hour later he showed up with a batch of back issues and his beloved Ciroflex.

When he left he took the camera and left the mags.Iwnder where he is now?
 

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My father's Kodak Flash Bantam 828. My first darkroom negatives were from this little rig and the optics were surprisingly decent when I look back at those old prints. Photo attached is one I snagged off the net just now as the camera is long departed. I built a small darkroom in the basement and saved up for a Spiratone enlarger (high school years in the 1960's).
 

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First camera I ever took a picture with was my dad's Yashica Electro 35, I remember him using it all the time when I was little. I later found out he never even had a battery in it, just kept it at the mechanical 1/500 shutter speed and guessed at the apertures. Took surprisingly good pictures, all things considered!

When I got a little older I was given my own Canon point and shoot for Christmas one year, which also took surprisingly good pictures for being fixed-focus, fixed aperture and shutter speed. I still have it somewhere, haven't used it since high school.
 

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A Brownie 127.
 

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It was a 120 folder that belonged to my mother. IIRC it had scale focusing, shutter speeds of B, 1/25, 1/50, and 1/100. Both the little waist level VF and a folding eye level VF. Probably a 3 element lens at best. 6 x 9 negatives, I processed the film in the old Kodak tank with the lasagna noodle like aprons, and made some muddy contact prints. Then I graduated to a Retina I bought second hand for $25.00 and my father and I set up a proper darkroom with and enlarger, etc. I still have both of those cameras, the Retina is only about 3 feet away. Sadly, while its shutter is just fine, there is a fingerprint etched on the lens. Mea culpa!
 

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Kodak Instamatic 104.

It was my first day of Kindergarten. Mom had me stand with my siblings, wearing my name and room card. After she took the picture, I told her I wanted to take a picture, too, and she let me take one of her and my siblings (like many beginners, I chopped their heads off).
 

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A Rolleiflex 3.5. It belonged to my Dad, but he upgraded to a Kodak 804.
 

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A Petri 35mm half frame camera my Uncle gave me back in the 60s. 72 photos per roll. Sheesh, I never thought I could get through a roll of film before it expired!!!!

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Me too!
Except mine was an X-15F, not that I had the flash to go with it...

I was at my local friendly camera shop the other day, someone had brought in a box of 30 year old films and they let me poke through it for free. Found a roll of 126 Vericolour with 1979 expiry, older than me. It's now loaded in and I've been taking some shots with it again!

Double Negative said:
Kodak Instamatic X-15! Still have it, too.



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