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

LyleB

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My first camera was a Kodak Hawkeye Flashfun. Early 1960's vintage. I used this to complete several 4H projects. I still have this camera somewhere, saw it a year or so ago




My first real camera was an FM2, still play with it some.
 
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my first camera was a kodak brownie fiesta 127. then a got one or two instamatics, one of them an agfa from my mom. the first one i bought with my own money was a pentax me super.now i think i have too many cameras and use them too little.my favorites ones are my M3's and 6's and my pentax LX.
 

Brian Legge

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Speaking only to cameras that were 'mine' (as I frequently used my parents Canon A1 as they had moved on to point and shoots with autofocus).

110: Fisher-Price 110 (when I was 6 or so)
35mm: Canon AE1 briefly, now a Nikon F4s
6x6: Rolleicord IV (bought for $35 in mostly working condition)
 

SilverGlow

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My first camera was a Holga or Diana back in the late 1960's.
My first SLR was a Canon EOS Elan 5e, with eye-control focus point selection.
My first DSLR was a Canon D3, 3.2mp.
My first semi-pro SLR was a Canon EOS 3.
My first pro SLR was a Canon EOS 1V.
My first pro DSLR was a Canon EOS 1D Mark II.
My first DSLR full-frame is the Canon EOS 5D.
 

stillsilver

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First camera - Imperial De Luxe Reflex Camera (complete with flash unit) 620 (1975)
First 35mm - Nikon FE2 now a dead paperweight (1985)
First MF - Yashicamat 124g (1989)
First LF - Calumet Cadet (2008)

Mike
 

Joachim_I

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First 35mm: Nikon FG (1986, stayed with Nikon until 1998)
First 6x7cm: Pentax 67II (1998, still in use)
First 6x9cm: Linhof Studienkamera 70 (2000, still in use)
 

totalamateur

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First camera was a Kodak Instamatic, for which the film was discontinued about 2 months after we bought it. Something about being highly toxic?

First camera I actually used was a 110 on a keychain. It took phantastick pictures. I should figure out where the heck I put that little thing.

First LF was an Eastman No.1 8x10 with mosquito net for bellows.
 

jgjbowen

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Damn!!! Just added a First MF = Hasselblad 501C to the collection....

Not a new addition, but First Digi = a Sony something that took 5 1/4 floppy disks

Also not a new additoin, but First Serious Digi = Nikon D200....actually this is my bride's P&S....need to keep "she who must be obeyed" happy..
 

Ektagraphic

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35mm- Canon AE-1 Program
Medium Format- Super Richoflex
4X5- Calumet
8mm- Keystone
Polaorid- Polaroid 600
 

cfclark

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Interesting thread, I really need to go post in the Intro forum.

First camera I ever got to use: My mom's 126 Instamatic, sometime in the '70s

First camera of my own: Kodak Disc camera someone got me for Christmas--early '80s I guess

First TLR "serious" camera I got to use: My dad's Yashica 44, he let me use it for an after-school photo class when I was probably 15. I didn't like it much because the 127 film was hard to find (at one old photo store in my city), I had a hard time getting used to roll film (loading in camera and tank), and it looked weird compared to my classmates' SLRs (at 15 that was important). I think it says a lot about my parents' lack of serious interest in photography that it sat in a closet for years while they used the Instamatic. I wish I'd liked it then as much as I would appreciate it now. My dad has since sold it or given it away.

First 35mm SLR: Pentax K1000, replaced the Yashica--came from a pawn shop, in around 1985. I think my dad still has it. Succeeded by an Olympus OM-1N that I still have (sitting on my desk at home).

First digital P&S camera: Sony Cybershot from 2004 or so that was handy for vacations--someone stole it. Succeeded by a Panasonic Lumix that I hated when I got it and still do.

First DSLR: Nikon D60, a nice enough camera I guess. My wife likes to use it. Competent but a little soulless.

First medium-format: Pentax 6x7, a Christmas gift from my wife this past year after I'd expressed an interest in getting back into film and in trying MF this time. I think she thinks this is the "mid-life crisis" camera, but I think it may turn out to be more expensive and time-consuming than a sports car or mistress. (She catches me looking at lenses, I have to be careful about that.) I like it for some of the same reasons I didn't like the Yashica as a teenager--it's big and weird-looking next to most DSLRs, and it makes a nice big negative on roll film. If I'd only known then what I know now...
 
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