What was your very own first camera?

What was your very own first camera?

  • Leica

    Votes: 25 2.2%

  • Kodak

    Votes: 228 20.2%

  • Canon

    Votes: 156 13.8%

  • Nikon

    Votes: 132 11.7%

  • Agfa

    Votes: 24 2.1%

  • Pentax

    Votes: 97 8.6%

  • Olympus

    Votes: 66 5.9%

  • Contax

    Votes: 8 0.7%

  • Another - too many to list all so please tell us

    Votes: 392 34.8%
  • Total voters
    1,128
In 2001 I bought Canon Rebel 2000 with kit lens for $500 or so. I like the camera, had to get Tamron zoom soon after, since that kit lens was real crap. Still have it.
 
My first serious camera was a Pentax K1000... some 30 years ago. My father gave it to me for learning purposes. I also got three lenses with it. It is long gone, but one of the lenses is still with my dad!
 
The first camera of my very own was a birthday gift when I was very young, a Brownie Starflash.

No, I don't still have it. It most likely was given to one of the thrift shops.
 
Used my Moms Kodak Brownie Hawkie.

From mowing lawns in the summer and shoveling snow in the winter I managed to scrape up $25.00 to buy a used Sears Tower camera that used 127 film as my first camera of my very own. Made nice slides!
 
Nikon F70 with a cheap 35-80 kit lens.

But before that, it started with my father's Minolta HiMatic 7s, which is one of the reasons I came back to rangefinders...
 
My dad gave me his Pentax S1A plus light meter and three lenses when I was about 14. I used it for about a year and then one day stupidly traded it in (down) on Canon T50 + 35-70 zoom.

Almost immediately regretted that decision, as I had been shooting some surfing with the Pentax 200mm F5.6 + teleconverter.

I then saved up and got a Canon T90 + 50/1.4 a couple of years later. Loved that camera.
 
Kodak disc.. about 9 or 10. Then when i got a little older, used my fathers ricoh slr. Dont remember the model, but it was a "big boys" camera. At least to a young teenager.
 
It was a little Kodak 110 camera that took the four way disposable flash bulbs - long gone. IIRC next came up a disc camera of brand long since forgotten but remember liking - long gone but saw some pictures I took with it recently.
 
Chinon CS. I had my grandfather sell the 1969 Mustang so I could buy the camera (and pay for books) for my college class. It was stolen while I was cutting and mounting prints---right from the class work area. It was supposed to be a secured area requiring a pass to enter, but evidently no one was on duty. I tried to stick it out with the college's cameras, but I gave up, dropped out, and found a job. I intended to return when I had earned enough to replace the camera. It really wasn't that long before I had owned a Pentax ME/SE and a Olympus OM1, but I never made it back to class.
 
I actually started with a long time-lent Canon Powershot A95, which I shot with for a whole year, but then I was given my very own Nikon D60 with the kit zoom – 1st of April 2010, my photographic anniversary. :)

I didn't know much at all about cameras at the time, and it felt really special when my parents, who gave me the camera, explained that they chose Nikon because they both used Nikon (FM2Ns!) back in the days. Just a few months later I sold the D60 to upgrade to a D90, and a few months after that I upgraded to D700, and during that time I started shooting film as well...

...and here I am now, having recently calibrated a Nikon S2 rangefinder all on my own and closer than ever to completing my medium format Nikkor collection! I've got my hands on quite a lot of rare and desirable equipment over the past 2 years, but that Nikon D60 will always be remembered as the first step into a whole new world, I'm sure.
 
I got an Olympus XA ? for my eighth grade graduation. Don't remember what happened to it or when. I didn't get my own camera again until my Canon sd1000 in 2007. Canon G12 2011. This is the one that got me hooked on rangefinders. In fact I didn't even know what a rangefinder was until I saw a Bresson photo in a book called The Tao of Photography, where I learned about street photography. Then it was a Rollei35, Canonet QL GIII, OM-1n and finally a Bessa R2 I got from here. I just love the tactile nature of shooting a film camera. I find myself to be more intentional with my shots with a film camera. Although the G12 has been a great learning tool and still takes great pictures. I would love to narrow it down to one film and one digital camera to keep it simple.
 
Kodak Instamatic 124. I don't know if it has gone to god or buried in a box at my parents house. My next camera, some years later, was a Rollei 35s which I still have and still use some 30 years later.
 
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