What was your very own first camera?

[Marc G.]

got to try with my grandfathers Olympus OM-10 with 50 1.8 Zuiko... first experience with a proper camera

first own camera was an Olympus Stylus Epic... great design 🙂

first grown up camera was the Canon EOS 600D, didnt like it, got the current lineup

 

[wcurtiss]

First camera I owned was a Petri 7s given to me by my father who used it during the Vietnam war. It was sold long ago at a garage sale but I got another one 4 years ago just for nostalgia sake. The first camera that I ever purchased was a Vivitar point and shoot back in the 80's...I think I still have that pos in a box somewhere.

 

[caterham]

my first camera was a postwar 35mm Konica rangefinder with a retractable Hexar 50/3.5 which was given me by my father.i still have it to this day.
the first camera that i actually purchased new for myself was a Canonette G17 QL .

 

[Pioneer]

Minolta SRT 101

Minolta SRT 101

My very first camera was a Minolta SRT 101. I still own one and think they are terrific cameras!

 

[mfunnell]

An Olympus OM-20. I still have it, but I think the metering is probably way off. Certainly the prism meter (the one that provides the indication in the viewfinder) is off. So the camera doesn't get much work any more, though the lenses do on my other OM gear.

...Mike

 

[Roninman]

Konica Auto Reflex T, 52mm Hexanon f1.8, boy I saved for a long time for that one! Still have it. Going to look for it right now...

 

[mdx]

Corina camera
http://madeinczechoslovakia.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/corina-camera2.jpg

 

[rhl-oregon]

Don't remember the first. But there it is below (follow the link), tightly possessed in my little fist!

The first that I bought with real thought and desire for it was a gray Yashica 44 in London in the mid-70s, when 127 film was still commonly available. Wonderful landscape images on slides! I kept it for decades, but the recent expense and unreliability of 127 and rotted light seals made me trade it in. (But I have my 2.8D and f16sunshine's C3 for consolation--and better IQ).

 

[rhe]

Late 1950s Minolta A2 ==> http://twoliver.ctzphoto.com/cameras/minoltaa2rf.html

 

[Tejasican]

A Kodak x15 Instamatic, I must have been about 7 at the time. I took pictures with dad's Canon Ftb whenever he would let me though.

 

[nparsons13]

My first camera was something plastic I probably ordered from an ad in the back of a comic book. My dad showed me how to develop the film and make contact prints in our bathroom, and I remember the prints were tiny, so it must have been 127 film.

From there I graduated to a Brownie Holiday, but in a few years, when I graduated high school, an uncle gave me my first 35: a brand new Petri 2.8 CC Super. Then in 1968 I bought a Pentax S1a. I still have a Petri (not the same one) and an H1a, which I use occasionally.

 

[summar]

Argus Seventy-Five, new in 1953 (dates me). Still have it and it's still working well, but 620 film is hard to get.

 

[Tijmendal]

A panasonic. I killed it last year while trying to use it as a GoPro and getting it all wet because there was powder (snow) flying everywhere and it got wet. I think it still turns on, but it only goes to the widest angle (24mm I think?) and the LCD is broken.

 

[NicoM]

Mine was a Nikon D80. I had to sell it when I upgraded to a Canon 5D Mark II. Still miss it to this day.

 

[Guaranteed]

I don't recall which model but it was one of the Kodak 110 variants.

Edit: Curiosity peaked, I looked in an old box and found a Kodak Cameo Motor 110. It still has a roll in it(it's gotta be a few decades old by now) so I dumped some batteries in and both the flash and the motor are still working!

Edit 2: After looking on ebay I think my first was the Tele-Instamatic 608, I'm certain it didn't have a flash(or even the option) but do remember the film advance thumb slide.

 

[Dwig]

A Kodak Vest Pocket Autographic 127 that was a hand-me-down from my grandfather via my father. I still have it and a number of negatives that my grandfather took between 1917 and mid '30s (he died in '37). Dad passed it on to me in the mid-'50s.

 

[Michalm]

Zenit ttl with helios 50mm and 300 mm tair lens , 15 years ago or so.

 

[Addy101]

As a teenager I used my dads Ricoh KR-10M. I bought my very first camera in 2001. It was a Canon 3000n with an EF28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 II - the camera is plastic but works quite well, the lens however is a piece of crap and Canon should be ashamed of it!

 

[drinkingeye]

Pentax spotmatic SPII.... What a pity it was stolen :-( I had lots of fun with it!

 

[lxmike]

A Kodak 126 format instamatic X177, unfortunately I ni loger have it