What was your very own first camera?

[Papercut]

When I was 10 or 11 -- it was a Voigtlander Vito, not sure which exact version. I was stupid and disdained it because I was jealous of my dad's "cool" Canon AE-1 and A-1 with the interchangeable lenses. Oh how I lusted after a telephoto! I had no idea just how good the lens was on that Vito. Don't know where my parents got it, or what happened to it, but now I wish I still had it.

 

[Pippip1]

Ricoh KR10. Felt rubbish but took decent photos. Bought OM1 next with 50 1.8 . Revelation. XA next, hence why i'm on this site. Bessas and an M6 followed.

 

[zhemgang]

Saw this poll again and made me fondle my Honeywell Pentax H1a. A little dusty but a nice feeling And the small dent from Nepal still there.

 

[jody36]

18 years old in army bought a disc camera I think kodak

 

[waltereegho]

When I was a kid I had a nifty plastic 35mm panoramic camera. My first real camera was an EOS 30 which I bought in lieu of a DSLR because it was so cheap.

 

[jtm6]

My first camera was a 110 something-or-other in the mid '70s. Thanks Mom!

 

[Geordiepete]

A Minolta XG-1 with some Sigma zoom, around 35 to 80mm. Loved using that camera. I bought it as a postgrad student when I was doing voluntary work running a youth club. We were applying for a local government award and wanted photos to show what we were doing. I bought the kit used for about 90 pounds sterling about 12 years ago. Certainly wouldn't pay that, and I wonder if I was overcharged then.

Several years later, the lens took part in the Minolta XG-1 Around The World project. That was fun, and I was the Japan part of the camera's tour.

Something mechanical but fixable went wrong with it, I can't remember what, about 5 years ago. A young student of photography, studying in Japan, from India was staying at my place for a two or three days (couchsurfing) and I gave him the camera, which he said he would get repaired and use.

 

[Sonny Boy Havidson]

I was a Canon Prima Zoom 76. A P&S of the 90s. When it died, it was replaced by a Minolta X-300s so as to be able use my father's lenses.

 

[Kent]

Ricoh KR-10x

Yes, I still have it and it still works.

 

[Fedupwithdigital]

My first ever camera was a Mamiya ZE 35mm SLR, which used to be my Dad's. I still have it.

A great camera (sadly, aperture priority only and not fully manual). Couldn't afford Mamiya lenses so had a few Tamrons with an adaptal2 mount. The only picture I ever managed to take of a rhinocerous in the wild was taken with this camera, with a 200mm zoom and a 2x teleconvertor. Not my best photo, it has to be said!

 

[raimundospark]

Miranda DR, when I was thirteen. I had to buy it used, on layaway. I was thrilled when I finally got to put it to use, and thought it was great. Soon I started processing B&W negs and printing in my friend's family's darkroom.

 

[Paps Guattro]

Canon T70 + 50mm Lens. Present on my 17th Birthday from my Grandad.

 

[acroolite]

Silver Nikon FE... Sold..
Buyback Black Nikon FE...

 

[RomanV]

My first one was Smena 8. It's not survived after my try to fix it. Was young and stupid🙂 and that was more then 20 yeras ago...

 

[grapejohnson]

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My parents had a Pentax P&S in the 80s which they took all of our baby photos with. When it broke, they let me have it as a toy. My first camera was a yellow and black Dollar Store generic brand 110 camera that I got when I was about 10. I would take a few pictures, then be so excited I'd blow through the entire rest of the roll because i didn't want to wait. then, I got my prints back and wish i hadn't wasted all of my film.

My first girlfriend then gave me a Beseler Topcon Auto 100 SLR with a bunch of lenses and other photographic miscellany before she went off to college for photography because the mercury battery it took was no longer available. I forgot about it for about 7 or 8 years, and when I rediscovered it and found out a battery could be had, I got really excited. The light meter was busted, as was just about everything else on it. It frustrated me just enough to want to buy a "real camera." I got a Mamiya NC1000 with a 50mm 1.8 for $30 on eBay and learned how to take pictures with it. Interestingly, the Topcon and Mamiya both had their aperture, ISO, and shutter speeds on the lens, with minimal top panels.

 

[Carnacki]

Baby Rolleiflex (the grey one with the Tessar), which used 127 film and made wonderful Ektas that could be projected in a 135 slide projector. That was in 1972, I was 12.

In 1974, I purchased a clunky Topcon Unirex EE (all I could finance) with a temperamental central shutter and an 50mm f:2.8 which was... less than stellar.

Finally, in 1976, aged 17, I purchased a Nikkormat FT2 and 50mm f:1.4 and life began.🙂

 

[serrada36]

The Diana in my avatar. Thirty-something years ago... That photo was taken with my father's Yashica-Mat. I have the Yashica now. I'm not sure what ever happened to the Diana. Hmm, might have to pick one up...For old times sake...

 

[Seraj]

Some silly old Minolta with some random glass, and a Nikonos.

My Dad had an old Nikon, the nikonos was his in reality. I wasn't allowed to play too much with my dads Nikon's but I could beat up the minolta all I wanted.

Guess thats why when I had the chance and money I bought my first digital as a Nikon

 

[Iestrada]

Minolta Maxxum 7000. I sold it and then replaced it with a mint one for my daughter to use.

 

[steveniphoto]

canon rebel xt was the first camera i could really call my own.