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

Pioneer · Feb 26, 2015

Kirks518 said:

I finally gave mine away Kirks518. I could never seem to get decent prints.

MontanaJay · Feb 27, 2015

MartinCrabtree said:
Do you have the photograph?

Yes, it's in one of the family albums. I can't scan it right now (new computer) but it's a run-of-the-mill, through-the-window shot of Marine 1 just lifting off.

RalphLambrecht · Mar 1, 2015

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.

aBalda II 6x9 box camera from 1923; a hand-me-downfrom my grand mother.

Роберт · Mar 2, 2015

Lubitel from my father: 1967.

Here one of my first shots:

pentaxpete · Mar 2, 2015

My Mum's Kodak Brownie 'Hawkeye' box camera from the late 1930's got by saving up 'Black Cat' cigarette coupons and as she didn't smoke it took a LONG TIME !! When I joined the School Photo-Soc in 1951 ,I used to cycle over 4 miles to a wonderful 'Emporium' in East London , Leytonstone, called 'Marston & Heards' where the Ancient Proprietor stocked all manner of Government Surplus WWII films, papers and chemicals and would blow off the DUST as he handed you your purchase !! I bought Ex-RAF WWII B&W film there .

sagai · Mar 2, 2015

We all do remember the first one of course
That was mine, the smena 8m
http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Smena-8M

I also remember my first roll was actually confiscated by the head teacher, well ... My candide class room shots should have been prepared a bit better .

scheimfluger_77 · Mar 2, 2015

my first was a Kodak Brownie Starmite using 127 film. A Christmas present in the mid '60's. Followed by an Instamatic 404 126, purchased with paper route money. It had an Ektar lens, a spring wound motor drive, and a spinning flash cube. Arrr!

phil0 · Jun 3, 2015

Brownie Hawkeye.

R.Gould · Jun 3, 2015

Brownie starmite

Jim Noel · Jun 3, 2015

A Univex taking "00" B&W rollfillm.

JacobKlee · Jun 4, 2015

A Kodak X-15F.

Slixtiesix · Jun 5, 2015

It was a green plastic camera for 35mm film that I got on my 6th Birthday. When you pushed a button on the front it made various sounds from either a police car or fire brigade siren, a helicopter, a cow moo-ing ... and then some, with red and green lights flashing.

alanrockwood · Jun 6, 2015

Slixtiesix said:
It was a green plastic camera for 35mm film that I got on my 6th Birthday. When you pushed a button on the front it made various sounds from either a police car or f?ire brigade siren, a helicopter, a cow moo-ing ... and then some, with red and green lights flashing.

Did it take photos too?

AgX · Jun 6, 2015

Yes, I got several of these, with slightly different annoying sounds than Slixtiesix described

I'm not 6 years old though.
I guess that's why i find them annoying.

Well a man has to do what he has to do: Collecting cameras he dislikes.

Slixtiesix · Jun 7, 2015

Did it take photos too?

Yes it did! You could even set different iso (100 and 400 if I remember right) and it hand an in-built flash.

spicetin · Jun 7, 2015

Canonet 1961

My first camera, my Dad's Canonet 1961. First used it 29 years ago, still use it. It is always loaded with film, currently HP5.

rthollenbeck · Jun 7, 2015

Brownie Bullseye

RalphLambrecht · Jun 8, 2015

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.

a MF folderhard to focus but good image quality

baachitraka · Jun 8, 2015

EOS 650 + EF 50mm f/1.4 + Delta 3200.

Colin DeWolfe · Jun 8, 2015

Kodak instamatic 110

Paul Verizzo · Jun 8, 2015

A Kodak box camera, ca. 1952. Probably 620 film. I presume my father developed it in his darkroom, he was a professional.
And, yes, I have the prints!

PCC · Jun 8, 2015

Back when I was five or six years old there used to be these tiny little toy cameras that came preloaded with film. It was smaller than a Minox, much smaller. I don't even remember if we processed the film or not. I had taken photos with various cameras that my brothers and sisters had bought, mostly 110 and 126 film cameras. The first 35mm camera that I had used was a Nikon FM black that I had to place a deposit to use during photography classes in high school. I bought my FE2 a few months later.

AgX · Jun 9, 2015

I guess you mean those "film with lens" devices. Actually a small body containing a lens and shutter clipped onto a larger type 110 film cassette, together forming a camera.

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PCC · Jun 9, 2015

No, I mean a tiny camera that looked like a miniature SLR. You have to remember that my memory is fading as this was over 42 years ago!

bdilgard · Jun 11, 2015

What a fun thread. Mine was a Kodak Hawkeye Funflash II. I think my grandmother bought it for my birthday with cereal box tops and some Avon lady money. My dad shot 8mm home movies and my mom only used slide film so my photos were the only prints around the house.

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