What was your FIRST 35mm and how old were you?

nicefor88 · May 2, 2009

Your question/poll should trigger lots of answers...

My first SLR was a Yashica TL electro, in 1975.
My first quality camera was a Nikon FE in 1978 (I still have it) with a 35mm f2
My best camera ever is a F3HP (I still have it)
My dream camera is a Leica M6 TTL (I still have it but I find it increasingly difficult to focus due to eye fatigue).
My worst camera a Kodak Polaroid.

MaLo · May 3, 2009

My first camera was some kind of plastic thing I won in a comic magazine but my first SLR was a Chinon CM-4s and I was 14 but i never had an interest in taking photos only in the mechanics. My dad was a photo nut with several Hasselblads but he could never get me interested in photography.

Dan Williams · May 3, 2009

The first 35mm I bought was a Honeywell Pentax Spotmatic with a 50mm f/1.4 lens. I think that was about '66 or 67 so I would have been 24 or 25. I later sold that camera and, through my brother who was in the Air Force, I bought an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic seven Takumar lenses at a very low price from Japan. I still have and use this camera though my main 35 is now a Cannon EOS-1.

My Latest 35mm purchase was a KidzLabs plastic snap-together pinhole camera. It is still in the unopened box. One of these days I will put it together and run some film through it. I have other pinhole and zoneplate cameras that I do use frequently but they are larger formats.

Dan

John Koehrer · May 5, 2009

Tower 35 in 1954 ish.

kokoo · May 5, 2009

I'm a young-ish or so 22 yrs photog

The first 35 camera i've bought myself was an Olympus Xa

Later i've bought some M42 lenses, and recently i've tried to bought a Mamiya DSX 1000...which seems to have disappeared through shipping. Neverthless, i've tried again and i've picked up a Fujica AZ from Ebay. If it will arrive i'll start using my lenses

MattKing · May 5, 2009

kokoo said:
I'm a young-ish or so 22 yrs photog

The first 35 camera i've bought myself was an Olympus Xa

Later i've bought some M42 lenses, and recently i've tried to bought a Mamiya DSX 1000...which seems to have disappeared through shipping. Neverthless, i've tried again and i've picked up a Fujica AZ from Ebay. If it will arrive i'll start using my lenses

Welcome to APUG - you will like it here.

Matt

benjiboy · May 6, 2009

I was thirteen , my father gave me a Zeiss Contax with the 5cm f1.5 Sonnar he bought in Germany after WW11, I still have the camera, and still use it fifty seven years later.

xtolsniffer · May 6, 2009

A Zenit E, secondhand for £20 in 1981, lordy, they're cheaper than that now! I was 13 and had to save up all my pocketmoney for about six months. I can still remember the excitement of finally buying it and taking it home on the bus. There was no manual, and of course no internet, so it took me about three months to work out how to use it properly.

dougjgreen · May 7, 2009

My first ever camera was a Polaroid Swinger. First Serious camera was a Konica Auto S2 rangefinder. I still think it's one of the all time classics. My first 35mm SLR was a Minolta SRT-102.

Jose A Martinez · May 8, 2009

I don't remember if I already answer this but, my first 35 mm camera was an Asahi Pentax and I'm 59

bentedley · May 8, 2009

My first 35mm camera was an Ilford Sportsman, and I was 16. (Loud and deep sigh.)

Ted.

Stevopedia · May 9, 2009

My first camera was, I think, some sort of Vivitar P&S in the late '90s/early 2000s. I was less than ten at the time; I don't remember if it was APS or 35 mm.

My first serious camera was my father's K1000, which I got my hands on during the summer between my sophomore and junior years of high school. I was 16.

What was your FIRST 35mm and how old were you?

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