Your FIRST 35mm Camera...

[Andrew Horodysky]

Canon AE-1 (around 1977), then a Nikkormat FTn, and now (proudly), a Canon F-1N.

 

[McCoy]

I had a Vivitar XV-1 35mm manual camera. After extensive use the film advance broke. I really learned my craft with that camera because it was all manual. After going Pro I started using Nikon's (which I love). I just purchased another Vivitar XV-1 and can't wait to get out and run it through it's paces. To bad most new photographers start out with auto-everything. They are really missing the joy of the craft.

 

[fretlessdavis]

My first was an Olympus XA2 that was a gift from my grandmother when I was 7. After helping my parents sort through their old photo albums, I was impressed with it's quality.

I still wish I had it laying around.

 

[pen s]

My first was a Minolta HiMatic 9 purchased from Marshall Field &Co. at their store in downtown Chicago, December, 1969.

It met an untimely end when someone in my family, whoever is was never owned up to it, spilled a Pepsi all over it, wiped up the external signs and the shutter stuck tight in the next couple of days after I got back home.

Went from there to a Miranda D.

 

[blockend]

A Chinon CX, c1975. Nice camera. It captured the 1970s as no modern camera ever will.

 

[Trail Images]

Back in 1967.....a Topcon from the PX at Elmendorf AFB in Anchorage Alaska.

 

[Marvin]

Kodak Retinette II 35mm a good little camera still have it. Had a Schneider lens and was German made. Used those paper exposure guides packed with film. After that Minolta SR-T101.

 

[spacer]

Mom's K1000. For years, I never thought about the idea of the lens being removable, so used the 50/2 the whole time.
It walked off at Disneyland about 20 years ago.

 

[Kyle M.]

Canon AE-1 Program with Canon 50mm 1.4.

 

[Richard S. (rich815)]

Pentax K1000 with a 55/1.8 Pentax and Vivitar 200mm lens. Bought at age 16 back in 1977 with my bar mitvah money. I remember being so disenchanted that the 200mm lens did not get me Elliot Porter-quality bird photos. So I got a 2x converter. That helped but not much! LOL!

 

[Xmas]

1966 Corfield Perflex Gold Star 5cm /1.9 - brick camera shop 16GBP.

struggled with it until '67 then got a Nikon F.

Noel

 

[Sirius Glass]

Voitlander Vito II

 

[John Earley]

In 1968 I purchased a Nikkormat FTn with 50mm f1.4 lens at the PX in Taipei, Taiwan. I still occasionally use it even though the meter has become a bit erratic. Prior to that I had to borrow my brothers Yashica TLR which several years later he gave to me.

 

[fotch]

I purchased used at Central Camera, sometime in the later fifties, a 35mm Finetta Model IV D Camera with the ability to interchange lens. At the time, I imagined it to be a poor boys Leica.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

Istarted big.my first self-earned and bought35mm was a NikonFM in 1972. I used it to become one of the two professional photographers at the horse race track!sold more pictures there than the rest of my carrer combined.

 

[Richard S. (rich815)]

Voitlander Vito II

Nice! Very cool cameras. I have a Vito IIa I don't use enough but cannot let go of....

 

[irvd2x]

Istarted big.my first self-earned and bought35mm was a NikonFM in 1972. I used it to become one of the two professional photographers at the horse race track!sold more pictures there than the rest of my carrer combined.

FM wasnt around in 72.Nice camera though!

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[BradleyK]

A black Nikon F2AS with a 28mm F2 Ai, 55mm F3.5 Ai Macro and a 105mm F2.5 Ai purchased new on 17 May 1979. By the end of the year I was so smitten, I added a second F2AS with an MD2/MB1 motor drive, a 24mm F2 Ai, an 85mm F2 Ai, 180mm F2.8 Ai, 300mm F4.5 and an 80-200mm F4.5. Before purchasing the set-up, and I had "borrowed" my father's Canon Ftb Ql and his five lens kit for a year or so before deciding I should buy my own camera instead of grabbing dad's all the time.

 

[Spicy]

Nikon FG-20 with 50/1.8E about 3 years ago. Started this whole film camera addiction business, lol

 

[ww12345]

Argus C-3, stock 50mm lens. Kodak Ultra 200 film...

 

[elcabezagrande]

Yashica TL Electro X ITS with a Yashinon DS 50/1.7 lens that I bought at a garage sale for $15 in 1992. I used that camera for almost twenty years until I sold it in the classifieds here a couple of years ago. I have since replaced it, but with the DS 50/1.4 lens, among several other lenses.

 

[Bill Banks]

Yashica 'J' received for my 13th birthday in early 60's. I still have many negatives and slides from it! Bill

 

[Quinn4]

My first 35mm camera was a Argus C-3. Believe it or not, took that camera to Australia for a month came back with 10 rolls of films and all the pictures came out good.

 

[Gerald C Koch]

The first 35 mm camera I ever used was an Argus C3 also known as "the brick."

 

[elekm]

A Cosmorex SE (rebadged Zenit) bought with Christmas tips from my paper route. Circa 1975, I think.