mangie
Olympus User
A Brownie 127 and still have photos taken by it!
And I do still have the camera and its brown canvas case.
mangie
And I do still have the camera and its brown canvas case.
mangie
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RanceEric
The name is Rance
My first camera was a Nikon F3.. which, sadly, was stolen from me when I was mugged about 2 years ago in Wilmington, DE. Recently was given another. I had missed that camera
DanOnRoute66
I now live in Des Moines
Pentax SP 500, which basically was Pentax's stripped-down entry-level SLR of the time. I had the 50mm f2 and the 135mm f3.5 lenses. I sold them to get into Olympus OMs. Well-made, durable camera but I don't miss the dim viewfinder.
Timmyjoe
Veteran
My first real camera (not plastic) was a Canon TX that I bought on April 1st, 1976 (not that I remember or anything). You bet I still have it. Don't use it much anymore, but would never part with it.
Best,
-Tim
Best,
-Tim
sykotec
Well-known
worked at several from high school onwards for awhile - i still remember sitting in a store meeting where a very high-ranking CVS person told us that no, they weren't going to change the People's store names to CVS after they bought them. uh, yeah, even then i knew how that works....
i've still got one or two of the old blue vests and red ties - the blue CVS polo shirts are now garage-wear. and many packages of negatives/prints/slides with the logo of course. even my last remaining flash bulbs!
i've still got one or two of the old blue vests and red ties - the blue CVS polo shirts are now garage-wear. and many packages of negatives/prints/slides with the logo of course. even my last remaining flash bulbs!
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.
sol33
Established
A Certo SL110, when I was six years old. I still have it.
PatrickCheung
Well-known
The very first camera my parents ever bought for me was the nikon D60, that was two or three years ago.
HOWEVER, the very first camera that i bought myself is my Canon 7. Got it a month or two ago. I dont know how long I'll keep it for, but I hope I never get rid of it. Maybe pass it on to my future son/daughter or something :]
I'm 18 now, by the way.
HOWEVER, the very first camera that i bought myself is my Canon 7. Got it a month or two ago. I dont know how long I'll keep it for, but I hope I never get rid of it. Maybe pass it on to my future son/daughter or something :]
I'm 18 now, by the way.
Stuart John
Well-known
Praktica BC1 electronic with 50mm f1.8.
Camera is long gone but the memories as still with me....
Camera is long gone but the memories as still with me....
HoodedOne
Well-known
The first camera I could call my own, was a Kodak Tele-Ektralite 20. I used a for some time, but after a while I got bored with it. And the quality wasn't that good.
Much later, the first camera I bought with my own money was a Canon Eos 300
Much later, the first camera I bought with my own money was a Canon Eos 300
Red Robin
It Is What It Is
Minolta XGM and yes I syill have it.
TaoPhoto
Documentary Photographer
For me it was a Kodak Instamatic 100, using the 126 cartridge film. I was about six. I carried that camera all over my neighborhood, on trips, and shot roll after roll of film that my parents patiently had developed for me. I still have a bunch of those pictures, but the camera is long gone. Ah, the simplicity!
pixelatedscraps
Well-known
The first camera I'd saved up to buy all by myself was a Nikon F2A. I ended up selling it once I'd decided on focusing on using OM cameras as my 35mm film SLR
thawkins
Well-known
I purchased my first real camera in l967 as a college freshman, a Kodak Retina 1a. I still have it and it continues to work well. The next real camera was Miranda SLR that was unreliable. It was traded for an SRT101 which I still have and use.
chrismoret
RF-addict
A Halina Roy. Got it as a present from my dad when I was 7 or 8 years. It used 127 film...
barnwulf
Well-known
My parents bought a 35mm Zeiss Contina IIa for me when I was in my early college years around 1958. It was a rangefinder type camera with a light meter but no rangefinder. It was about $85 and I really liked that camera. In the mid 60s I bought a Pentax Spotmatic. Jim
EDIT: I just bought one of these cameras again after all these years. It's looks to have had very little use and everything works perfectly.
EDIT: I just bought one of these cameras again after all these years. It's looks to have had very little use and everything works perfectly.
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philipb
Established
The first one I bought with my own money: Zenit EM. What a lump of metal. Bought in 1980 when I was 15. Carried everywhere on cycling trips. Got me in trouble with USAF police in England and USA more than once (it was a Russian camera after all). Brassed, dented, bits missing, it's not too good these days. It probably hasn't been used for 15 years but I wouldn't part with it; we've been places.
Charlie
Established
Polaroid Swinger that I bought for $20 in the mid 1960s at the age of 10. Still have it and the box.
njos
Member
Canon AE-1, my father gave me
the camera still good, the electronic and metering are accurate..
i had the silver body..
the camera still good, the electronic and metering are accurate..
i had the silver body..
silverbullet
Well-known
Nate Butler
Established
My very first camera was a Lomo LCA, a Christmas present from my wife in 2005. It was a great way to take up photography and simply have fun without worrying about exposure. It died unexpectedly a couple of years ago, and I eBayed it. By the time it conked out, I'd moved on to rangefinders.