tlitody
Well-known
What was your own very first camera? I don't mean first you used but the first one that was all yours and do you still have it?
Mine was a Kodak Brownie Fiesta. It may be in the loft somewhere but I haven't seen it for a long time.
Mine was a Kodak Brownie Fiesta. It may be in the loft somewhere but I haven't seen it for a long time.
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Luddite Frank
Well-known
Kodak Dualflex III TLR ( 620 ). An aunt gave it to me when I was about six. ( circa 1973 )
I don't ever remember taking sharp picture with it...
But it was all mine !
I don't ever remember taking sharp picture with it...
But it was all mine !
tlitody
Well-known
I think I had the brownie when I was about six. My next camera was Canon Demi, a 135 half frame camera my father found at the top of the Eifel tower. That was a damn good camera. Got used a lot back then. That was followed by a Canon Dial and then I went Minolta.
PatrickT
New Rangefinder User
A Minolta X-570!
John Robertson
Well-known
Purma Plus (127)
still have it still in great condition.
still have it still in great condition.
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fuwen
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Praktica BC1.
http://www.fuwen.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=64&Itemid=125
Miss those days where u can get very good value for money stuff from the East Germans ...............
http://www.fuwen.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=64&Itemid=125
Miss those days where u can get very good value for money stuff from the East Germans ...............
Out to Lunch
Ventor
A Lubitel -because as a 10 year old I could afford to buy and use it. The guy who sold it to me operated an all-in-one hair salon/optometrist/film lab business. A few years later, a 35mm Fujifilm camera which I lost after it fell into the Strait of Malacca -and that's a long story.
xayraa33
rangefinder user and fancier
A Praktica LTL with a Zeiss Tessar lens.
ChipMcD
Well-known
Yahica Mat LTM. Unfortunately, it died in a fall. I've preserved its memory with a Rolleiflex 3.5F.
sara
Well-known
Own camera or family camera?
My family never really bought cameras, till we got our first one which was some digital Nikon Coolpix, with 3.2 megapixels.
My first camera that I personally bought for myself, was a Holga.
My family never really bought cameras, till we got our first one which was some digital Nikon Coolpix, with 3.2 megapixels.
My first camera that I personally bought for myself, was a Holga.
ZeissFan
Veteran
My mother gave me her Spartus 127 folder. First camera that I bought was a Cosmorex SE -- a rebadged Zenit, which was replaced by a Konica C35 Auomatic, which was replaced by a Pentax MX, which was replaced by a Rollei 35 T, which was joined by a Nikon FE, which was joined later by a Nikon F2A.
Then later, I added a Rollei 35 S and a Rolleiflex Automat (Xenar). Then just those cameras until 2000, when I picked up a Cosina Voigtlander Bessa-R.
Then I added a Voigtlander Vito B, a Kodak Retina IIIc (small c) and an Agfa Isolette III with an Apotar.
The first expensive classic camera that I bought was a Zeiss Ikon Contax IIa with a very heavy coated Carl Zeiss Jena f/1.5 5cm Sonnar.
Then later, I added a Rollei 35 S and a Rolleiflex Automat (Xenar). Then just those cameras until 2000, when I picked up a Cosina Voigtlander Bessa-R.
Then I added a Voigtlander Vito B, a Kodak Retina IIIc (small c) and an Agfa Isolette III with an Apotar.
The first expensive classic camera that I bought was a Zeiss Ikon Contax IIa with a very heavy coated Carl Zeiss Jena f/1.5 5cm Sonnar.
cliffpov
Established
I was a proud Pentax owner. (ME Super purchased in 80)
Great to see Pentax is among the early leaders in this poll.
Great to see Pentax is among the early leaders in this poll.
literiter
Well-known
One Christmas perhaps 1957 I received a Brownie Hawkeye. The complete kit, big yellow box, flash, flash bulbs, and some Verichrome film.
dof
Fiat Lux
Mine was a Kodak Instamatic 110 that I was given as an X-mas present while in the 6th grade. It was just like this one, complete with the personalized stickers.
I think I threw it out some time in the mid 1980's after upgrading to a used Brownie Holiday Flash 620 film camera.
I think I threw it out some time in the mid 1980's after upgrading to a used Brownie Holiday Flash 620 film camera.
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nikon_sam
Shooter of Film...
My parents bought me my very first camera it was a Vivitar 400 SL and I still have it with everything that came with it (except the case).
The first camera I bought was a Pentax MX (black body) I ended up buying two and I still have them...
The first camera I bought was a Pentax MX (black body) I ended up buying two and I still have them...
AusDLK
Famous Photographer
Hanimex Praktica Nova 1B
Hanimex Praktica Nova 1B
Found a working similar model at a sidewalk vendor in Brooklyn so I have one again.
Hanimex Praktica Nova 1B
Found a working similar model at a sidewalk vendor in Brooklyn so I have one again.
scorpius73
Well-known
It was a Keystone 35mm P&S. My mom bought it for me at the old now gone People's Drugstore here in DC when I was about 12 yrs old. A few years later my sister bought me a Pentax P3n with a 50mm f2 lens. I still have and value that P3n all these years later.
Carterofmars
Well-known
Minolta Hi-Matic.
oftheherd
Veteran
I don't recall which of my father's cameras I first used, but I think it was his 9x12. I used it for museum shots and shots of friends. I also began using his Welta Welti, but I am pretty sure the 9x12 was first. The first camera I bought myself was a Minolta 16. I still have it somewhere.
Trooper
Well-known
The first camera I owned was a Nikon F4s, and it will remain on the shelf as a testament to the last great camera Nikon made with dials and aperture rings. I learned photography with a Nikon FM and a Mamiya 645 on a long term loan from my father.