What was your very own first camera?

[Mlehrman]

Argus C3, then Minolta SRT 101

 

[L. M. Tu]

A new Minolta Hi Matic E in 1973 🙂

 

[Mike-D]

I started with a Brownie Holiday 127 which I took to the NY World's Fair. It was handed down from my sister.

My first new one was a Brownie Auto 127. Its electric eye made it much more desirable than the basic Instamatic that just came out.

 

[curmudgeon]

I was given a Kodak Brownie 127 for my 8th birthday. That would have been in 1952. I still have it. I just saw that Freestyle has ReraPan 100 ISO in 127 Size. I'll probably give it a try.

 

[analogish]

My first own camera was in about 1982 a Yashica Partner. 38mm f/4, fix focus, the meter can be set either for AS100 or 400, the aperture has four fixed positions.

 

[dcsang]

The classic... Kodak Instamatic and it was probably around 1972... it's long gone but it was a great deal of fun to use as a kid !!

Cheers,
Dave

 

[marko.oja]

An awful Minolta SR-1 with an eyepiee that scratched your eyelids and a lightmeter (which I still have) that didn't work because "someone" had decided to stuff Play-Doh into it 😉

Next one was an even worse Kodak Disc 4000...

 

[Ljós]

Ok, I'll play, too. My first real camera, the first I actually owned, was a Nikon FG-20. Still have it, after 25 years. I had it checked and refoamed eight years ago or so, a few years later the electronics went belly-up. Can't say I didn't get my money's worth out of it!

Greetings, Ljós

 

[lxmike]

kodak x177, 126 format instamatic, my first slr, Pentax MV

 

[kuuan]

impressed that Kodak is leading!
and actually my first one also was a Kodak, a Pocket Instamatic 100. Had forgotten all about it, and had voted 'other', for the Minolta XG1 with MD 1.4/50 lens that I bought new when I was 17.

 

[ianstamatic]

kodak 126 format instamatic here also !
I guess its kind of obvious from my username

 

[alanrockwood]

...My very first camera was a little plastic job, along the lines of a box camera, with a crude eye-level finder that was mail-ordered with a dollar and cereal box tops. I was five or six years old.....

- Murray

Same here. I wonder if it was the same type as the one I got.

The funny thing is, my mother, the skeptic, said they would never send the camera, but they did, and I still have a few photos taken with it, plus I have a hand-drawn sketch of the camera in my old cub scout scrap book.

Do you still have the camera? Mine is long gone, but I am 99% sure it was a Herco Imperial, possibly re-branded, so I bought another one on ebay, just for old times sake.

 

[CMur12]

Welcome to RFF, Alan (?).

Mine is long gone, too. I think it said "Adventure 620," or something like that, on the front under the lens. I remember it in detail and I wish I still had it. I still have the "flash camera" - a Kodak Duaflex IV - that I got for Christmas a couple of years later.

- Murray

 

[robry]

Back then in 1975, a (used) Rolleiflex SL35 with 35mm and 85mm Zeiss lenses- great optics and OK-ish camera.
Cost was 1000 SEK =110 eur (but normal Swedish salaries were about 400 eur...)
Served me well for many years, had the lenses repaired in 2001 and a few years later all was stolen together with other important stuff...

Today, 2 Pentax LX bodies with some 10 smc lenses, so, no remorse at all, RIP Rollei, and thanks for those happy days.

 

[cmc850]

Argus C3....still have it. Saved my money and then bought a Minolta SRT.

 

[narsuitus]

What was your own very first camera?

The Kodak Bullet that belonged to my Father until he gave it to me. I still have it.

The Argus C3 was my first rangefinder.

The Miranda Sensorex was my first SLR.

https://flic.kr/p/8Y711L

 

[Martin Carone Santos]

Praktica Super TL with Meyer Domiplan. Got from my dad.

The first I bought was a Rolleiflex.

 

[kinch123]

Agfa Autostar X-126

 

[renno61]

mamiya zm

mamiya zm

My first camera i owned was a Mamiya zm with a sekor f1.7 50mm until it was destroyed in a accident .😡

 

[Daniel Teoli Jr.]

Mine was a beat up Minox for $12 then a Kodak Retina for $10 in the 1960's