Your first camera (of each format you shoot if applicable)

[Wyno]

Sorry guys, my computer's playing up.
As I was writing!
1 Praktica 35 mm
Bronica ETRS
Nagaoka 4x5
Tachihara 8x10

 

[Otiica]

35mm SLR Pentax K1000
6x6 Yashica Mat 124G
6x7 Pentax 67II
4x5 Sinar F2
8x10 Zone VI (Pre-Calumet, "Gold" hardware)

 

[benjiboy]

35mm R/F camera Zeiss Contax 11
35mm SLR Praktica Super TL
M/F Yashica 124 G

 

[jolefler]

Who remembers my first...

a Brownie Starflash (126,127? don't remember that far back). My first VERY OWN!

First 35....a Canon 2

First medium format... a 2X3 Century Graphic

Am I dated myself here, or will you all think I just liked retro cameras?

Jo

 

[mightyomega]

I'm pretty sure I had some cheapie 35mm point n' shoot in my early teens.
The first camera that I can remember as being mine totally was a Fuji Endeavor APS camera that my parents gave me when I graduated from high school.
My first 35mm SLR was a Canon Rebel 2000.
First 120 camera was a Koni Omega Rapid. The 220 back had a light leak!
First 120 folding camera was a Zeiss-Ikon Nettar 517/16.
First (and so far only) LF is a Pacemaker Speed Graphic.

 

[removed-user-1]

First ever camera - Kodak Instamatic 100
First 35mm SLR - Nikon F
First MF - Yashica 635
First 4x5 - Calumet CC401

 

[PeterAM]

Very first camera - Brownie Hawkeye
First/only (next) 828 camera - Pony 828
First 35mm RF - Voigtlander Vitessa
First 35mm SLR- Practica
First MF camera (since Hawkeye) - Mamiya 645 1000S

 

[Ian Grant]

Half frame - Canon Demi
35mm Prakticamat + f1.8 Pancolor
6x6 Rolleicord II Triotar
5x4 De Vere Monorail
10x8 Agfa nsco Commercial View

 

[Jim Chinn]

First serious camera was Pentax k1000 at college.

First purchased camera-Nikon FA new.
Toy-Holga-new
MF- RB67-used
4x5- Calumet CC401-used
8x10 Kodak Commercial View-used
11x14- Homebuilt
7x17-Homebuilt

 

[roninghost]

1. Nikon F100 for Film 35mm
2. Speed Graphic 4X5
3. Graflex 22 TLR 120
4. Mamiya RB67 220

Kris Navarro

 

[funkpilz]

My first 35mm camera was a Canon AE-1.
The first 120 camera I used was a Rolleicord IIb, but that one's not mine.
I don't have the funds for a 4x5 yet, but I'll update this post when I do.

 

[chriscrawfordphoto]

First camera: Plastic giveaway camera my parents got as a freebie for us camping at a Yogi Bear Jellystone Park Campground when I was 7 yrs old. I still have it!

First serious camera: Olympus OM-G with 50mm f1.8, at age 11. My dad had one like it before I got mine and I learned to use his, so he got me one of my own. Got damaged in a car accident when I was 16.

First medium format camera: ancient Rolleiflex Automat from 1938, uncoated Tessar lens. I still have it!

Large format: I only have one, a Graphic View I, which I never use. Medium format works better for my kind of work because I'm in kind of frail health and can't carry a lot of weight. I still have it though.

Digital: Nikon D70. I gave it to my 12 yr old son because I never use it.

 

[paul ewins]

First camera was a Kodak 126 Instamatic.
When I was 16 my parents bought me a Pentax K1000. That was later sold to fund a Pentax MX.
Years later I bought a Speed Graphic to start my LF adventure.
A Moskva 5 was my first MF camera before prices on Pentax 67 equipment plummeted and I went nuts on them.

 

[jd callow]

My first Camera for each format:

1. Instamatic 110
2. Yashica SLR 35mm
3. Bronica Zenza (SP?) MF
4. Sinar LF

 

[cknapp1961]

My first recollection was of an Ansco box camera, used it on a trip in Middle School.

35mm: Kodak Retina IIIC, inherited it from an Uncle, used it for the first time in about 1975 at age 14, quickly moved to Nikon F and FTN from the same inheritance by the age of 15.
4x5: Speed Graphic owned by the High School in about 1977.
6x6: Mamiya C220 in a studio I worked for part time in 1977 while in High School.
6x4.5: Bought a Bronica ETRS in 1981
Digital: Fuji FinePix 2400 about 2001 or 2002, I think.
6x9: Bought several Franka Rolfix's with Schneider-Kreuznach Radionar lens in 2009.

 

[GS_Jean]

First ever: my father's Adox Polo (35mm), when I was child in early 70's.
35mm: Voigtländer Vitessa "barn door" with Ultron lens and a bunch of accessories. Late 70's, I was around 10 y/o and was so proud of that beautifull gift received from a old man friend of my father (he was shoting with a Plaubel-Makina and the Vitessa was no more used by him)... and that's still my favorite camera!
SLR: Canon AE-1, inherited it from an Uncle mid 80's.

Recently, thanks to the on-line big fleabay market and to the drop of price, I started to discover orther formats:
6x6: Voigtländer Pekeo
6x9: Voigtländer Bessa I
6x4.5: the same Voigtländer Bessa I with eom reducing mask
4x4: Yashica 44 (TLR)
TLR: Lubitel 166B (6x6 ok it's same format as the Perkeo but TLR are so different)

 

[DLawson]

First I recall was a Brownie Hawkeye (the bakelite cube) that I bought at a flea market for 25 cents. That was somewhere around 1967. Then a 126 instamatic or two in the '70s.

First 35mm was borrowing my Dad's camera, an Agfa rangefinder, I think. First 35mm of my own was an OM-1 MD that I still have.

The first real 120 was an Ikoflex on loan from my Grandfather. That's back with me now (needing a CLA).

First 4x5, also my Grandfather's Crown Graphic. I have yet to shoot that, though. I need to send the shutter out for CLA as well.

 

[Paul Sorensen]

First camera: An Instamatic 126, I was probably under 10 at the time, but I am not sure.
First 35mm: A Russian thing sold and branded by Cambridge Camera in New York. It had a selenium meter on the front of the prism, screw mount, manually stopped down, it was really crappy and it wasn't too long before I got a Pentax MX.
First MF: Yashicamat 124G
First 4X5: Some sort of Cambo monorail, not sure of the model.

 

[Sirius Glass]

First camera - Brownie Hawkeye 620 film
First MF - German TLR of a nondescript brand 120 film
First 35mm - Voightlander Vito IIb
First 35mm SLR - Minolta SR-7
First AF 35mm SLR - Nikon N-75
First folding MF camera - Certo Dolly Supersport (1935)
First MF with interchangeable lenses - Mamiya C330
First MF SLR - Hasselblad 500 CX
First MF rangefinder [of a sort] - Hasselblad 903 SWC

Steve

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

I think the first camera I owned was a Vivitar 110 camera. Then there was a Ricoh 35mm rangefinder and eventually a Canon A-1. The Ricoh and A-1 were stolen in a house burglary, and with the insurance I bought a Canon New F-1 that I still use.

First medium format was a Pentacon 6 that I've since sold.

First LF was the 8x10" Gowland PocketView, which I still use, along with various other LF cameras of various formats.

 

[Ira Rush]

Wow, this takes me back...

First Camera Ever: Some cheapo 127 format ... or maybe it was a 620
First 35mm: Voigtlander Vitoret
First Twin Lens: Some cheapo Yashica knockoff
First 35mm SLR: Mamiya/Sekor 500 DTL
First Medium Format: Bronica SQ-A

Still have the Voigtlander and the Mamiya.
That cheapo 127/620 is somewhere in my garage...

Sold the Bronica years and years ago to fund a 500 ELM, that in order to keep my 500 C/M company... stopped using the Mamiya years and years ago for a Nikon FTN and then a F2.

Funny all these toys, some with super expensive "glass" ... well that Voigtlander, with simple zone focusing,only 4 shutter speeds (including "B"), and a not so fast 2.8 lens... that lens was RAZOR SHARP... sometimes simple is better, sometimes less is more

 

[John_Nikon_F]

First ever camera for 35mm: Honeywell Pentax H3v with 55f1.8 Super-Tak. Body was pretty well worn, being owned by a military vet with a hook for a hand. Received it for my 9th birthday from my aunt in 1984. Lasted until 1987, when it finally kicked the bucket.

First ever medium format: a Hassy 500c that I purchased for $200. Got that one in 2006. Owned it for a couple months, but since I couldn't afford the lens, I traded it toward my second F4.

-J

 

[eli griggs]

Petri Color 35, first camera, first 35mm scale focus.
Yashica fx-2, first SLR
Minolta 16 II, first miniature
Leica m3, first 35mm rangefinder
Hasselblad, 500cm, first 6x6 slr
Sinar F, first 4x5
Ricohflex VI, first 120 TLR
Sawyers MK. IV, first 127 TLR
Iskra, first 120 folder
Kodak Tourist 12.5 first scale focus folder
Diana, first toy camera
SX70, first Polaroid

 

[Jim Chinn]

I completely forgot the Argus 110 instamatic I had when I was about 10.

 

[GJA]

My first camera was a no name P&S, I shot very few pictures and they got mixed in with shots from my fathers pentax. If I went though them now i could probably tell which they were by the poor quality.

My second was a Zenit given to me by a friend.

But I consider my first great 35mm camera to be my nikon F4.

My first experiance with MF was with my photography teacher's Yashicamat 124G. Actually, I had shot with a Kodak Brownie 2A for a little while, but gave it up due to lack of crummy 120 film. Its like a Holga and i felt like I was wasting me money when I bought new film for it.

And my first large format camera is my Sinar F+.


My first digital was a D1h. Great camera and I hope it lasts for another 80 years, cause I don't ever plan to buy another one.