Your FIRST 35mm Camera...

Andrew Horodysky · Apr 16, 2009

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

McCoy · Feb 16, 2014

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 · Feb 16, 2014

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 · Feb 16, 2014

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 · Feb 16, 2014

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

Trail Images · Feb 16, 2014

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

Marvin · Feb 16, 2014

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 · Feb 16, 2014

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. · Feb 16, 2014

Canon AE-1 Program with Canon 50mm 1.4.

Richard S. (rich815) · Feb 16, 2014

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 · Feb 16, 2014

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 · Feb 16, 2014

Voitlander Vito II

John Earley · Feb 16, 2014

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 · Feb 16, 2014

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 · Feb 16, 2014

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) · Feb 16, 2014

Sirius Glass said:
Voitlander Vito II

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

irvd2x · Feb 16, 2014

RalphLambrecht said:
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 · Feb 17, 2014

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 · Feb 17, 2014

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

ww12345 · Feb 17, 2014

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

elcabezagrande · Feb 17, 2014

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 · Feb 19, 2014

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

Quinn4 · Mar 7, 2014

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 · Mar 7, 2014

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

elekm · Mar 7, 2014

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

Your FIRST 35mm Camera...

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