What was your first camera?

[Bob Wagner]

First Camera

Mamiya Sekor 1000 DTL
Match needle with a 7% spot meter area. Still have fondest of memories. Nothing better than match needle for learning

 

[hortense]

1939 Bolsey fixed lense camera that used 120 film (half-frame) with a spring loaded shutter.

 

[ecarme]

My first camera was a Canon FTBn the first year they came out in 1973. Saved up all my summer money and got the camera and my first darkroom. Took me a few weeks because I put it on lay away but it was worth the wait. Still have a special place in my heart for that camera.

 

[dbseney]

Nikkormat FTN with a Komura 75-135mm lens. That was thirty years ago. Printed some of the negative recently and they are as good, and maybe better, as any think I have shot since. Gave the camera and lens to the son of some friends and he uses it still.

 

[Peter Schrager]

First

First was a Yashica 124TLR. Then a Pentax Spotmatic. Afterward I went for a Kodak 33/5x7 camera. Have never looked back.
Peter

 

[Canuck]

Mine was a old Bell and Howell 35mm camera with a funky built in rangerfinder helper. Aimed the line in the viewfinder at the bottom of the picture and transfer the reading to focus ring. Worked amazingly well.

 

[Modern Minoltian]

My first camera was given to me when I was maybe 4 years old. This was in the early 90's.
A Vivitar PS33 Focus Free.
I was rarely allowed any film.

 

[flatulent1]

I'm not sure. I was ten years old in the late 1960s. It was plastic and it produced large negatives. I was in the Photography Club in grade school, where we went on field trips, took pictures, then processed them in our school's darkroom. I was so excited by the process that the next year I joined the band and forgot all about photography for almost 20 years.

 

[Roger Thoms]

I lost my first camera, which I received as a gift in the 2nd grade, but recently found a replacement at a thrift store.

Roger


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[bobwysiwyg]

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[Roger Thoms]

And my Mothers first camera, yes this is the actual camera, she managed to hang on to hers. Gave it to me a couple of years ago. It's missing the little knob for the shutter release, but I just got a micro lathe so who knows maybe I'll make a replacement.

Roger


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[Pfiltz]

Film wise, RB67 6 months ago.

 

[Peltigera]

My first camera? I have no idea but it took 120 film. First non-toy camera was a Kodak Brownie Vecta 127 camera followed a couple of years later by an Agfa folder.

 

[Jeff Kubach]

My first camera was a Canon FTb.

Jeff

 

[BradleyK]

My very first camera, a Christmas gift when I was 10(?), was a Kodak (specifics unknown, although I do recall that the camera did allow some focussing function) that used, if memory serves, 120 format film? My first "real camera," also a Christmas gift (when I was 18) was a Canon TX. I used the thing for five months or so, grew to so dislike the Canon lenses of the era (what I considered to be the hassle of mounting/un-mounting), that I sold the thing and bought a Nikon F2AS, beginning what has come to be a 30-odd year love affair with the Nikon system (18 or so bodies, 20-plus AIS/AFS-D lenses and lots of other assorted stuff alleged to be essential to making photographs...).

 

[brucemuir]

I did get a Polaroid "Swinger" one year for xmas but my first serious camera was a Nikon FM2 (no n) but I put my finger through the shutter
trying to reload under pressure so I immediately picked up a FM2n

 

[MattKing]

A Brownie Starmatic, for my 8th birthday.

Somewhere there are some Ektachrome super slides (127) that I used the camera for, although I used it more for Kodacolour.

 

[MartinCrabtree]

A gift from my uncle. Still have it and I just looked and it has a roll of film in it. Damn I wonder what could be on that as I haven't touched it in years.

 

[DWThomas]

I got a Brownie Target Six-20 as a gift (probably to keep me away from my mother's folding Kodak -- model & disposition no longer remembered). I've not been able to place the date too well -- maybe 1948 or 49. I think the bakelite Hawkeye had appeared by then because the kid up the street who always got more expensive gifts had one at about the same time.

Guess the folks got a good deal -- I still have it and it still works!



First one I purchased myself was an Argus C3 at the very end of 1957, tossing off my Christmas money!

 

[RidinRev66]

Very first 35mm was a Tower from Sears Roebuck and Company. Everything was manual and it still works like the day I got it in 1963. My second was an SLR that I got in 1965: Zeiss Ikon Contaflex Super with several Pro-Tessars besides the standard: 35mm, 85mm, 135mm: along with come close-up attachments. Some of you may know that it didn't have an instant return mirror, so the viewfinder went blank at the time of exposure. The mirror came back in place when you advanced the film to the next frame. It was a great kit and everything still works, including the selenium cell built-in meter! I use it several times a year just for kicks.

 

[fotch]

I started using the family Kodak Brownie Hawkeye and later my older sister's Ansco Clipper. My uncle took me to a camera store and we picked out a Minolta Autocord, brand new, and he lent me the money, which I paid back from my paper route at $3 a week.

 

[pgomena]

Kodak Brownie World's Fair Flash Camera. It took 127 film and had a little New York World Fair logo on it. 1965, I believe. My first real camera was a Minolta SRT 102, circa 1975.

Peter Gomena

 

[Sirius Glass]

Voightlander Vito II

 

[Sirius Glass]

... not counting the Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash Model without a flash.

 

[Jose A Martinez]

My very first, a Kodak Browny FlasH IV, a present for my first communion. The fist I bought, a Yashica Mat 120, in 1970.