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

Agfa ISO RAPID. I still have the camera and some of the photos. It was surprisingly well manufactured and still in perfect working order.
 
First I can remember was a Pentax K1000 back in my high school days!
 
I don't remember what camera my mother had, which I used, but the first one that I owned was a Kodak Starmite II, which was a Christmas present in about 1961 or so.
 
PCC said:
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!
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Do you think it might have been a Japanese HIT camera?
 
PCC said:
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!
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Hmm -- this reminds me of another camera early in my history that I overlooked (with good reason!) -- a Toyoca 16, purchased in a boardwalk junk emporium in a New Jersey (USA) seashore town.



That's a roll of 120 film sitting along side it! More shots showing its teeny tiny roll film and a few results in my PBase gallery. Still have it, the single non-bulb shutter speed hangs a bit -- needs a CLA! I doubt I could stand the tedium of trying to spool film for it.
 
Bill Burk said:
Do you think it might have been a Japanese HIT camera?
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It was something along those lines.
 
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