What camera are you?

[wierdcollector]

Pentax H2 for me since I have two of them. Nikon F is great too, but I passed on 2 brassed up models years back so I don't have one. Don't ask how little they were asking.

 

[hugivza]

I'm totally stuffed as a child of 1942. I think that oldest camera I have is either a Zeiss Ikonta with a Zeiss Opton Tessar, which is probably immediately post WWII, or an Zeiss Ikoflex I circa 1948. I was unable to take photos at birth, being less precocious than some, but probably could have at the age of 6 if I had a camera. It certainly would not have been one which would have graced these forums!!

 

[dostacos]

MINOX III introduced in 1951

 

[dmr]

Well, I guess I'm an RCA color TV camera. That's the most interesting in a quickie google.

Jeesh! I guess I admitted my real age.

 

[unohuu]

1957 was the Nikon SP; Leica M2; but I think I would be Mamiya 35-III.

 

[zpuskas]

Leica IIc. Same year Babe Ruth died and Edward weston made his last prints.

 

[elcud35rc]

Anyone know what cameras came out in 1981? Were rangefinders still made?

 

[Sonnar Brian]

The Minolta CLE "debuted" in 1980, but it was in 1981 that they made a real showing.

 

[Frank Granovski]

I'm an M3 but I don't own one. :bang:

 

[Sonnar Brian]

Didn't you read the RFF rules???? You must BUY the camera that you identifies you. That's the reason why I bought an SP, of course.

 

[dany_nyc]

1957 - I'm a Vredeborch Felica! Not that I've ever seen one in person or know how to pronounce it, but it's good looking camera.

 

[Wayne R. Scott]

I am a Contax IIa and Contax IIIa camera. (And I own one of each).

wayne

 

[sf]

I am a Canon AE-1 Program. It was also the ubiquitous camera during my childhood, and I still have the one that I grew up with. It is as old as I am.

 

[StuartR]

Looks like I am just before you shutterflower -- a Canon A1. Or an M4-2, but I am not that graceful and my internal meter works pretty well, so I guess I am the A1. I don't look like much, but i am fairly useful.

"Canon has good reason to have unbounded confidence and pride in the A-1. Embodied in this camera are the qualities of one of the finest SLR cameras produced durring the '70 and into it went the most sophisticated electronics technology available in the world during that era."

<blushes>

 

[skarpia]

1978 Olympus XA 35mm compact cameras introduced. That would be me. Anyone interested in selling me one?

Another tough competitor was the Polaroid SX-70 - World's first autofocus SLR. But then again this IS the RFF.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

> 1957 - I'm a Vredeborch Felica! Not that I've ever seen one in person or know how to pronounce it, but it's good looking camera

Also Nikon SP and Leica M2, introduced with the Felica...

 

[Alec]

In 1969 the Kiev arsenal was producing the 4A - and I already have one (made in 1974 admittedly), so no new GAS, please.

(The faux ostrich is (c) Aki Asahi, not ukrainian.)

 

[Ergo]

The 1941 Kodak Ektra. America's Best System 35 Camera.

And same month may i add.

 

[jonasv]

1987 Fugi Quicksnap and Kodak Funsaver start the disposable camera market.


Ugh. Great..

 

[matt fury]

1984...Minolta Maxxum 7000 -First full system AF Single Lens Reflex 35 mm camera. No apterture ring... "Ugh." is right.