What was your very own first camera?

[littlefields]

My first camera was a Kodak model 124 Instamatic 126 film camera (10th birthday gift; 1968; still have it). The first 35mm camera I bought was a used Exakta VX 500 with a 50mm 2.8 Domiplan ($40 from a co-worker in 1982)

 

[farlymac]

My very first camera that I owned was a Polaroid Square Shooter. Then I bought a Sears TLS(Ricoh Singlex) and three lenses. Both cameras are long gone. Gave the Polaroid to one of my sisters, and traded the TLS in on a Nikkormat FTn.

PF

 

[ironhorse]

Christmas 1965 I was 9 years old and received an Ansco Cadet 2 camera (127 film). Used it until I bought my first SLR, an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic with a 50mm f1.4 lens in 1970.

 

[jljohn]

Kodak Instamatic X-15 I believe--don't have it anymore though.

 

[keytarjunkie]

It was around 2000 or 2001. I was 9 or 10. My parents gave me a little webcam/snapshot camera for Christmas. It could shoot video if you plugged it into a computer. It had no screen. I'm first generation digital 😀 but I don't mess with that stuff anymore...

 

[Jack Conrad]

Miranda Sensorex with a 55/1.8.

 

[andredossantos]

Father gave me a Canon FT when I was a teenager. It broke but I recently scored a mint one off craigslist for $20 🙂

 

[rodinal]

Well, I started in photography when I was six, so my first camera was a real DIANA that took 4.5x4.5 cm negatives on 120 film. I still have it, and it works as bad as new.

 

[Luddite Frank]

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.

I remember People's Drug Stores !

Dad worked in D.C. from about 1960 till he retired about 15 years ago...

Most of his photos & slides from the 1960's and '70's are still in boxes, in their People's Drug processing envelopes.... shot with a Nikon S & 50mm Nikkor 1.4.

😎

 

[Roberto V.]

My very first camera was an Olympus Trip Junior, which my mom gave me when I was little. My first 'serious' camera was a Canon Rebel 2000 with a 50mm f/1.8 (lens was new, camera was used), which I bought in early 2008 I think. I still have the lens, and I gave the body to my best friend. She bought a 50mm f/1.8 to use with it. She shoots mostly b&w, but also some color now and then.

 

[robklurfield]

Kodak Instamatic (124?) around 1967 or 68. Boy, did I think that was cool.

 

[meanstreetshooter]

My(first) cameras

My(first) cameras

My first camera, a gift, was a Kodak Brownie-style. I still have it. (I'm presently away from home so I can't ID it positively)
My next one was a Kodak Model 124 Instamatic. I still have it. It's sitting next to the Brownie.
My first "real" camera that I bought with my own earned money, 1976, is a Canon FTb-n, chrome, with f1.8 55mm lens and a f5.6 100-200mm zoom. I still have this outfit and use it on the mean streets of Y'town.

 

[Keith]

Box Brownie. 🙂

 

[TXForester]

Not sure of the exact model. It was a Kodak and similar to the Brownie Flash.

 

[robklurfield]

I no longer have my first Instamatic, BUT I do have my mom's Baby Brownie.

 

[astrosecret]

Ricoh XR7. Ricoh SLRs are wonderful and I still use it over the F3. Meter is great and readout is wonderful, it's light and well made.

 

[Bill Kapinski]

My First was a Fujica STX-1, got it in the 8th grade. My dad made me read the instruction manual twice before I could use it. Came with a 55mm f2.2 lens. I used this camera halfway through college as a photo major before I moved on. Still have the camera, will never leave me.

 

[ornate_wrasse]

I remember People's Drug Stores !

Dad worked in D.C. from about 1960 till he retired about 15 years ago...

Most of his photos & slides from the 1960's and '70's are still in boxes, in their People's Drug processing envelopes.... shot with a Nikon S & 50mm Nikkor 1.4.

😎

Here's another one who remembers Peoples Drug Stores! I used to shop there all the time and that's probably where I went to get my film developed back in the 1950's and 60's.

Ellen

 

[Spavinaw]

First was a Kodak Brownie Flash Six-20 with the flash attachment. It was a gift from my family. Next was a Kodak Tourist II with 800 shutter. I saved up for most of it plus some help from my aunt. Then came a Baby Rollei 4X4, Nikkormat FTN, and Canon F-1 followed by everything from a Minolta subminiature to Graphic 4X5's. I still have the Brownie and Tourist.

 

[ornate_wrasse]

My very first camera was a Brownie Holiday in 1956 or 1957. I still have some of the pictures that I took with it, too. Don't have the camera, though.

The first serious camera I bought with my own money was a Mamiya Sekor 1000 DTL which was purchased at the PX at Ft. McNair in Washington, D.C.
I'm guessing I also looked at a Nikon F since this was in 1972, but I probably couldn't afford it so bought the Mamiya Sekor instead. Don't have the Mamiya anymore and and honestly wish I'd purchased the Nikon F 😡

Ellen