What was your very own first camera?

[Yodhan]

First camera I remember was a little point a shoot toy thing. The first real camera I had was a Nikon 6006. Still have it, but not the lens because it got stolen with a different camera a few years ago.

 

[konicaman]

Kodak Brownie Starlet. Used to belong to my mother, but she upgraded to a Nettar and I got the Starlet. Took some really awful pictures with the Starlet - mostly of my family with their heads cut off. My first "real" camera was a Konica C35.

 

[Rodchenko]

I didn't have a camera at all until my mid-twenties, when £109 from my first wage packet in a new job went to Jessops across the road in exchange for a second hand Olympus OM-1 with 50/1.8. Great camera. After years without a 35mm SLR after my Olympus kit got stolen along with much else, I've just bought an OM-2SP, and am reliving the excitement.

 

[iñaki]

Agfamatic, when I was 9 years old in 1980. I Never made a good photo with it.

 

[Alpsman]

A Brown Brownie, present from my Uncle about 40 years ago. Long gone away.

 

[Rangefinderfreak]

I took my first photo ever in John Coltrane jazz concert: ( www.jukkavatanen.fi )
I after that wanted to take photography seriously. My father was a camera enthusiast. he said; With your lousy technique, I buy you a real camera so you will AT LEAST LOOK LIKE A PROFESSIONAL.. The camera was a black leica m2 with summicron 35mm:2. I had it for may years until I divorced my first wife and gave it to her. I then just bought more leicas...

 

[robert blu]

My very first was a Ferrania Eura ( I was around 7 or 8). Than when I was around 12 my father made a very nice present: a Zeiss Ikon folder. He was a Rolleiflex photographer and of course the possibility to develop 120 film was interesting for him. Unfortunately I don't know where that camera is now but one day I'll buy one (already seen this!).
robert

 

[hepcat]

A Kodak Instamatic 124 in 1968. Like so many of them, when the batteries corroded, that was the end of the camera.

 

[Panther]

Agfa Optima Sensor el. When I was about 10 yrs.
Had no idea how photography works, but was told to check the focus with man - two smaller men - and mountain icons on lens barrell. At least, film loading was easy as I can remember.

 

[Yglotte]

My "first" camera was a Diana F+, but I never use it, and my actual first one was the Konica Pop (still own it)

 

[jja]

Year: 1988.
Occasion: Going off to college.
Camera: My brother's Pentax K-1000. He let me "borrow" it and I never returned it!

 

[krice58]

My first camera was a Kodak Vigilant Junior Six-20, handed down to me by my father (probably because he didn't want to throw it away). About 1970 when I was 12. I still have it and even used it a few months back.

 

[Blooze]

A little Kodak Instamatic X-35F. I was 5-6 years old. That thing got beat to death. I'm sure it was my Mom's as looking at Camerapedia they stopped making them in '74 (I was 4 then). My grandfather gave me one of his Pentax ME Super's when I was about 10 or so. Still have it.

 

[santino]

Praktica point and shoot with data imprint and I still have it 🙂

 

[kaiwasoyokaze]

my very own first camera was a ricoh, and it took 2x aa batteries. it was not the best intro camera i had, but it mas my own.

 

[mugent]

A Pentax MV1, nice simple camera, left me with a fondness for Pentax gear.

 

[Jake06]

Praktica Sport Regal when I was about 7 years old, and when I was a little older my dad bought me a Canon AE-1 with a Tamron zoom.

I still have the Praktica.

 

[Lawrence Sheperd]

My uncle gave me his Mamiya-Sekor DTL-1000 with the 35, 50 and 135 lenses when I became interested in photography in high school. Shot for the yearbook with it. What a tank!

I still have it. 🙂

 

[Whirlwindphoto52]

Kodak Instamatic around age 11.

 

[CliveC]

First family camera was a 1980s Canon AF 35mm point and shoot. This camera did solid service for two decades, but was used infrequently.
My first camera was a early 1990s 110-film toy camera. Kinda Holga-ish. Don't think I ran more than two rolls through it though.
I didn't get my first "real" camera until my Canon S50 digital.