Your FIRST 35mm Camera...

[edge-t]

First 35mm will have to be the Minolta X-300 my Dad passed to me 10 years ago. I was in a Arts school, photography was one of the term subject but I couldn't afford a new SLR, so I got the X-300 from my Dad--love it. It's not working now, but I have a semi-working X-300s for a replacement now.

 

[la.triglia]

It was a wanderful "voiglander" fixed lens (period 1955-60).

 

[Jim Noel]

My first 35mm camera was a Leica IIIb bought new in 1938. I kept it for about 50 years before deciding the viewfinder was too small for me to use with my old eyes. It sold for about twice the new price with the original 50mm collapsing Elmar.

 

[mamiya_madman]

Yashica FRII that my dad got me maybe 3 or 4 years ago for christmas for the pricely sum of £2.52! It came with a 55mm and he also bought me a 135mm for about the same price as the camera! Its a brilliant camera and have no intention of getting rid of it!

 

[james23p]

Nikon EM for Christmas in 1979!

Jim

 

[John_Nikon_F]

Jim,

Is that the EM that you still have today and show in some of your Nikon family shots over @ Nikonians?

-J

 

[Karl K]

The year was 1956, for my 13th birthday. The camera was a Minolta A2, a rangefinder with a 45mm f/2.8 Rokkor lens, case, Kalimar fan flash and Kalimar light meter with booster and case. My dad bought the whole outfit for me ($69.95)from Clifton Camera in NJ. BTW, my dad was making about $65 a week, so it was a BIG DEAL back then. I shot hundreds of rolls of Kodachrome 10 and Anscochrome 32 (high speed back then), later began shooting Ilford HP-S, the forerunner of HP-5. Great memories.

 

[RMP-NikonPro]

My first 35mm SLR was a Praktica PLC3 that Dad gave me when Mum bought him a Pentax MV for his birthday back in 1983.

 

[glaiben]

My first was a brand new 1974 Nikon FTn w/ 50/2 Nikkor for high school grdauation. Traded the FTn meter a few years later for a plain pentaprism and a Soligor Spot Sensor II meter. Eventaully found another mint FTn meter and the camera is sitting next to me on the bookshelf right now.

 

[bspeed]

A Ricoh rangefinder. My Dad brought it back from Japan, approx 1969-70 cant recall too well. A shame I dont still have it.

 

[c-mo]

My first 35mm camera was a black Vivitar P&S that I permanently "borrowed" from my parents in 1990 or so (I was 7...). It was an upgrade from a a blue flip-flash camera with Mickey Mouse on it

 

[Photobrazil]

My first 35 mm camera was a "brick" - Praktica MTL 5 B , Today I have a Nikon F100, but my first "brick" is still with me.

 

[cooltouch]

Like millions of others, I bought a Canon AE-1 for my first 35mm SLR. My parents had one and I was familiar with it already, which played heavily into my decision. That was about 1980. About a year later, I bought an A-1. Then I discovered photography, and turned into an atavist My next camera was an FTb, followed by a couple of original F1s. Great old cameras -- much better photographic tools than the AE-1 or A-1 were. Now, I shoot digital (EOS XS), but I still have, and occasionally use a Nikon F2 and an EOS Elan IIe.

Best,

Michael

 

[lorirfrommontana]

Well, other than the P&S Cannon 35mm that my hubby and I shared before we went digital, my only 35mm camera has been my new to me Nikon FM2 wich I just purchased a month or 2 ago. I have a 50mm lens and a 28mm lens. Would like to add a telephoto to my very small lens colection. I love the pics I can take with this camera!
Lori

 

[Miskuss]

A Kodak Retina which my dad brought back from West Germany in 1952. I still have it. Then I bought a Yashica TL Electro, after that was my first OM-1. Loved that OM system, very intelligent design but I was too hard on them. Now I shoot Nikon F3 and F4's. The F4 is especially tough.

 

[Jeff L]

Yashica FR bought in Toronto, 13 July 1979. Still have it. Sitting on shelf with a new counter gear installed.

 

[Time Freeze]

Argus C3

 

[Sanjay Sen]

The first 35mm camera that I used was my father's Yashica Electro 35 GSN; the first 35mm camera I bought was a Nikon F60. Unfortunately, I dropped the F60 once and the shutter broke - the Yashica is still in great shape and going strong.

 

[svl3b]

Minolta SRT100....used it through highschool photography where I was introduced to the art...then lent it to a friend who went to England..got it back with a broken light meter :S

My dad took it to get assessed and they said it would cost more to repair than i spent on it (was an Ebay buy...65$).

Just got a Minolta maxxum stsi as part of my xmas gift this year.

 

[vanimal]

Canon A2. Not a bad camera for a rookie.

 

[ibraz]

Pentax P30t (european version of the P3t), now it's dead, but i'm still with pentax!

 

[removed-user-1]

The first 35mm camera I ever used was my Dad's Nikon F - which I always have to ask permission to borrow, even now more than 20 years later.

My first 35mm camera I purchased myself was a Nikon FG, a big step down in a way, but I used that FG with 50mm f/1.8, 35mm f/2.8, and 105mm f/2.5 lenses for several years before I tried anything else. I put literally hundreds of rolls of film through it.

 

[removed-user-1]

Argus C3

I have one of these! It was my Mom's first serious camera when she was in photography school more than 40 years ago. It's a cool little piece of history.

 

[iamzip]

First camera I remember having was the Kodak instamatic x15. Still have it. Not quite 35mm, but close. After that I think I had a couple of disc cameras (I was a kid, after all) and then I remember one of those cheapie Time magazine cameras. My first real 35mm was a Canon A1 with the 50/1.8, I got in 11th grade for photography class. Still have that too, in fact its my most complete system.

 

[largely]

Argus C3.
I used it in high school (yes kids, they had photography back then) and still have it. It still works but would need a cla to be a user again.