What was your very own first camera?

[filmtwit]

Minolta XGA w/50mm f1.8 lens in 1985 if I remember right. Sold it about 2002 since I was shooting Canon EOS at that point.

 

[Armoured]

Ricoh 500RF. I still have it - in pieces when I decided to take it apart when I was quite young. Fortunately I have another in better shape now.

 

[SciAggie]

The first camera I had that was my own was a Pentax MX, and I still have it.

 

[JuJu]

I got a beat-up Pentax Spotmatics F with SMC takumar 50 f1.4 from my brother cuz he bought himself a brand new Nikon F3, it was in the 80's. Yep, I am still using it 🙂

 

[LKeithR]

My Dad was a fairly avid photographer so I played with some of his cameras--Kodak folders, a 4 x 5 and an 8 x10--before getting my first camera in 1960. It was a Brownie Holiday that I bought before I went on a 4-H exchange trip. I still have it, along with a few rolls of unused film. When my Dad passed away a couple years ago I found some of my old slides while going through some of his stuff. Nothing spectacular but they scan and clean up pretty nicely and boy, do they ever bring back some memories--IQ doesn't really matter in those situations, does it? This is one of me as the Great White Hunter in the fall of '64 when I worked on a ranch east of Williams Lake, B.C.

 

[Ezzie]

My dad gave me a Smena Symbol when I was 7 or 8, or maybe 9. I moved so many times since then its gone AWOL unfortunately. In was chuffed as punch.

 

[gshybrid]

A Brownie Starflash in the 60's. We were just talking about our old photos during easter dinner. Evidently my father has them in storage somewhere so I'm going to take a look through them some time later this month... should be interesting.

 

[tbeaman]

Mine was a Canon AT-1 I basically usurped from my mom. That camera was a manual hold-out from the beginning of the automatic era and it taught me a lot (slowly and painfully). It was also my only camera until a weak battery caused the shutter to jam in 2008. It's now a proud shelf queen.

 

[ronnies]

A Kodak Instamatic 33. Sadly I don't still have it and I've no idea where it went or where my Dad's Ilford Sportsman went either.

Ronnie

 

[Doug]

Lots of Kodaks to start with, I see, and a surprising lucky bunch that began with really nice gear!

In 1963 I was heading off for a tour of duty with USAF in Turkey, and my mother told me to take a camera and send back pics. So I got a Kodak Brownie Super 27 and sent back pics. I found that it had two waterhouse stops, maybe f/8 marked "cloudy-bright" and f/16 for "sunny", and if I opened the flash door I got a slower shutter speed. And so it began... 🙂
I don't recall what happened to that camera.

 

[Richard G]

My Dad gave me an M2 with 50 Summilux when I was 16. M2 still in daily use 35 years later.

 

[Range Loser]

My first was a Yashica FX3, am I the first Yashica post on here? Sold it to get a Pentax MX though as the Yashica plastic creaked!

 

[Film dino]

A Canon QL19.. wish I still had it

 

[E.M]

My parents bought me a Nikon F2 in the seventies when I was studying photography , and I still have it .

http://www.etiennemichiels.com

 

[kansas_parker]

My first camera was a little plastic box with a shutter and pop up viewfinder that would clip onto a 110 film cartridge. I think it came out of a Burger King kids meal back in the mid-80s. My first "real" camera was once again a 110, I don't remember the brand but I've still got some prints (and distant memories) from it somewhere.

 

[SayCheese]

I had my own light meter before i even had my own camera. Used it with my dad's Agfa Super Silette. After that i used a Contax RTS, borrowed from my dad as well. My first own camera was a Canon Digital Ixus 40 in 2006.
SayCheese

 

[Mesti3K]

I loved my little Oly..It could have even been an Om but I was too young to know the difference and it was too long ago.

 

[Grubriella]

My first camera was some Olympus point and shoot that mum got me.
I still have it.

The first camera I bought with my own money was one of those lomo 4 shot camera.
I still have this as well

 

[ray*j*gun]

A Miranda 35mm SLR.......don't remember the model but it was the one with an external light meter built into the pentaprism. I wish I still had it ..........I don't recall what happened to it.

 

[illuminati_02]

Olympus Infinity Jr. P&S
It is what I wanted for Christmas when I was 8. I still have the picture of me opening it that my dad took with his ME Super, one of the cameras I own today.