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

[Peter Rockstroh01]

Agfa ISO RAPID. I still have the camera and some of the photos. It was surprisingly well manufactured and still in perfect working order.

 

[Luis-F-S]

First I can remember was a Pentax K1000 back in my high school days!

 

[barzune]

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.

 

[Bill Burk]

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!

Do you think it might have been a Japanese HIT camera?

 

[DWThomas]

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!

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.

 

[PCC]

Do you think it might have been a Japanese HIT camera?

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.

It was something along those lines.