What kind of camera were you using 12 years ago

[TheFantasticG]

All I could afford was one time use 35mm cameras from drug stores.

 

[Sagitta]

Pentax K1000 and an Olympus pont and shoot... something. Paid almost $400 for an early digital with a huge design flaw in that to turn the thing on you had to slide open the lens door/cover. When the door broke, the camera became a paperweight.

 

[spicyTuna]

I was using my Nikon N90 then.

 

[photolodico]

I was passionately shooting with disposable Fuji film cameras... I had like four or five on me most of the time waiting for money to develop them. You'd think someone would have picked up on me needing a camera somewhere in there, but I was so shy about what i was doing I didn't want people to notice how much I loved taking pictures. BEFORE that when I was a kid I used one of those 110's and saved up money for the disposable flash bulbs.

 

[unpopular]

Nikon FM, Yashicamat 124G. Mostly the Yashica.

The progression went Nikon FM, Nikon FM/Yashicamat, Bronica S (best lens ever. Nikkor 75/,2.8) Mamiya Press, Contax RX (fav. Camera), Contax RX/Cambo 300lb beast, Contax RX/Wista DX, another Mamiya press (I always liked the idea, but what a bear of a thing to actually use), Canonette IIIG (after the Mamiya, I wanted something a lot smaller), a350 (present), a700 (planned near future), NEX7 (long term goal)

 

[SoulfulRecover]

if you really must know:


Retro Camera Ad by Dave Ward Photography, on Flickr

Hahaha. I think its still floating around my dads house too.

Great photo. Did you shoot it?

No sir I did not but I do agree, its a great photo and was the same color of the one I had. My older sister had a hot pink one.

 

[rexbobcat]

I was 6 years old...I was too busy watching The Magic School Bus and learning how to ride my bicycle...I was less than prodigal unfortunately.

But if I did ever use a camera it was my mom's fixed focus Canon P&S film camera. I still know where it is but it's out of batteries. We have boxes of photos from it.

 

[rpm]

12 years ago...i was 12 hehe wasn't into photography then but did play around with a Sony P&S (2MP lol) and occasionally but rarely my dad's Canon EOS film camera (not sure of the model but basic)

 

[unpopular]

I started my brother out on a Sony Mavica at about three. My son isn't quite developmentally ready for a real camera, he doesn't seem to really grasp the idea of taking pictures of things, but he pretends to take pictures with a broken Minox 35GL. He holds it up to the middle of his forehead nad makes a "chu chew" sound.

 

[Deltarat]

12 years ago, I was shooting with a Minolta Maxxum 400si. But, long before that, when I was around 8 years old, I had a Kodak 110. I still have some prints I took with that camera, haha! My favorite being a photo of the famous bar "Cheers" in Boston. I lined up the shot from across the street to look just like the establishing shot of the bar in the TV show, LOL! I also have some shots at Fenway Park that I took with that camera. I was maybe 10 years old. Great trip to Boston!

 

[GerryDavid]

12 years ago I didnt have a camera, I think I was using disposables or my parents old film camera that was fully auto, but I thought it was cool that the lens cover flaps would open when you pushed the shutter part way. I was just getting interested in photography at this point and was planning to get a "cool digital camera" which ended up being the fuji finepix 3800, only had iso 100, f2.8, f5.6 and f8, only auto and aperture priority which really meant nothing with only 3 things to choose from.