What was your very own first camera?

[Talex]

My dad gave his Canonet QL17 when I was in college. I still have it, but I can not find the right batteries for it anymore.

 

[randolph45]

Can't remember the name wait,wait brain storm comming

Can't remember the name wait,wait brain storm comming

Ansco I think 120 box camera from the late 50's or early 60's turquoise colored plastic .The whole back would come off to load the film.Held on by a spring clip😀

Wanted a used Argus C3 29$ in my young teens, but Dad said I couldn't put it on layaway at a $ a week Had to be cash.

 

[Doug]

It was 1962, and....

 

[Renzsu]

Powershot G5 in 2003 😀

24 when I got my first camera, trying to make up for lost time!

 

[Athos6]

My dads Minolta SR-T102.

 

[theogee]

It was the mid 50's and I had a Kodak Brownie 127. When I took an interest in photography my first purchase was a Miranda F with a 50mm F1.8 Soligor lens.

 

[taskoni]

My very first one was Smena 8...

 

[Bobbo]

My first was a Sears 500MX in 2000 ... a rebadged Ricoh SLX-500, which my mother owned. M42 mount, 1/30-1/500 second shutter speeds only, mercury-powered meter. Came with a 50/2 lens. I shot the crap out of that camera through 2002. Eventually, the shutter mechanism kicked the bucket. Still have Mom's Ricoh, which wears some of the Sears' parts.

 

[shimokita]

Pentax Spotmatic F purchased around 1970, with 50mm lens... it was stolen in sometime in the late 1970s... Forward to 2009 were I purchased the same combination.... Old eyes make for a challange to focus ;-) but fun to take out from time to time...

Casey

 

[MRohlfing]

My brother had an Agfa Click as his first camera.

Here he is (in 1967):
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/M0016-1.jpg

Nowadays he takes photos mainly with his cellphone - 640 x 480
The Agfa Click, of course, took much better pics!

 

[newspaperguy]

After several throw-away plastic 127 split-frame cameras, I bought a pre-war, WWII, that is, Foth-Derby with a focal plane shutter from Central Camera in Chicago in about 1948. Great little camera, long time gone.

 

[45-Otto]

Z.I. Tenax 1

Z.I. Tenax 1

My very first camera was a pre-war Zeiss Ikon Tenax 1. 36 24X24 exposures on the old 20 exposure roll and 50 exposures on a 36 exposure roll. It had a 37MM Novar anastigmat lens, guess focus and a folding viewfinder.

 

[gb hill]

A Canon AE-1 which I bought from, & later sold to another sailor in 1980. My wife bought me an AE-1 program a few years ago which I still have.

 

[nobbylon]

My first camera must have been a kodak instamatic 126 bought by my grandparents as a Christmas gift. I still remember it in it's yellow carton.
The first camera I bought for myself was a new Pentax K1000 when I was 12 in 1976. I can still remember the smell of the box when I opened it. I think it cost me 120 pounds which was quite a lot back then. I know it cleared me out of my savings! Bought from Macro in Trafford Park.

 

[kram]

A few kids at school had 110 cameras on school trips. I was told if I waited, I could have a 'proper 35mm camera'. In 1978, I got my first camera, a Zenit E, with the dinky 50mm f3.5. The cameras shutter came apart in the early nineties (had been supperceded by Pentax by then). I still have the 50mm f3.5 (but I would now need a Nikon adapter to use it).

 

[Dirk]

A Porst 100 something or another, which was a re-badged Mamiya 1000, with an Asahi Pentax 55mm 1.8 Super Takumar. Sold it in 1977 in Ecuador for what was then to me a small fortune.

 

[merciless49]

Nikon F3 given to me by my dad, still have it of course.

 

[TareqPhoto]

If talking about a real camera then my first camera was Nikon Coolpix 8800, before it i had Sony Video or Handycam, and then i had that Samsung 3-in-1 cam-webcam-mp3.
I can't remember if i paid for that Coolpix8800 or my dad, but i bought my first ever DSLR which is Canon 350D after that Nikon not so long [maybe about 3 months after the Nikon], so i can't remember which camera i have my very own as first, is that Nikon coolpix or Canon 350D, but i remember that all gear after Canon 350D and few lenses were paid by me only.

 

[ianstamatic]

kodak instamatic with film cartridge ...
hence my name here

 

[39per1]

A Ferrania-3M with Instamatic cartridge....then, my first "serious" camera was a Zenit ET.
I still own both, but I can't find a 126 cartridge to load the Ferrania and I dismount the Helios 58 f 2 from the Zenit to use it on a Spotmatic......

PS: Ferrania is a beauty: white plastics, gold details & orange leatherette....... my father bought it in 1967......