What was your very own first camera?

[mangie]

A Brownie 127 and still have photos taken by it!
And I do still have the camera and its brown canvas case.

mangie

 

[RanceEric]

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]

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]

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

 

[sykotec]

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 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]

A Certo SL110, when I was six years old. I still have it.

 

[PatrickCheung]

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.

 

[Stuart John]

Praktica BC1 electronic with 50mm f1.8.
Camera is long gone but the memories as still with me....

 

[HoodedOne]

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

 

[Red Robin]

Minolta XGM and yes I syill have it.

 

[TaoPhoto]

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]

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]

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]

A Halina Roy. Got it as a present from my dad when I was 7 or 8 years. It used 127 film...😎

 

[barnwulf]

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.

 

[philipb]

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]

Polaroid Swinger that I bought for $20 in the mid 1960s at the age of 10. Still have it and the box.

 

[njos]

Canon AE-1, my father gave me
the camera still good, the electronic and metering are accurate..
i had the silver body..

 

[silverbullet]

AGFA Isola I a viewfinder 6x6 cam with retractable lens tubus. It was around 1960. Three years ago, ebay had one (for me)......🙂

 

[Nate Butler]

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.