What was your first camera?

[Mike_E]

What was your first camera and how old were you when you got it?

What was the first camera that you bought yourself?

My first was a Kodak Brownie at age 5. Then I got to play with my dad's Argus (with supervision )

The first one I bought was a Minolta SRT 101. Just before heading to Daytona Beach.

 

[Arkanjel Imaging]

Mine was a good ol Pentax K1000. What a workhorse. Sometimes I miss the simplicity.

 

[mcoppadge]

My first camera was a Canon AE-1 that my dad bought in college. I was around 9 or 10, I think.

I bought my first camera last year when I got my D300. Saved up for years to get that thing (the woes of a college income). I was first going to get the D80, then the D200, but I found a good deal on the D300 so I went with that.

 

[Blank]

Nikon FG-20, in 1985. Paid for half after my parents matched half, saving from my part time job delivering papers.

 

[SonnarSphere]

What was your first camera and how old were you when you got it?

some kind of Kodak instamatic with disposable flash-cubes. mid 1970's. i was about 6 or 7.

What was the first camera that you bought yourself?

a Praktica SLR + Pentacon 50mm. Probably an MTL3 or a Super TL, bought around 1980.

 

[itznfb]

i can't even remember the first camera i was given. it was wide and flat.
my parents got me a crappy vivitar before we went to mexico...
first camera i baught myself was a nikon coolpix 4600

 

[usayit]

Mine was my father's Minolta 7000

Story...
http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/collectors-corner/69296-old-buddy-minolta-7000-returns-home.html

 

[benhasajeep]

First camera I specifically asked for as a gift, was a Kodak Handle. Think I was about 7-8 at the time. Their version of an instant film camera. Of course Polaroid sued them and Kodak had to stop selling the film and destroy all their stock. I still have a Kodak Handle and a sealed full package of film (not my original camera though).

The first camera I purchased was a Kodak 110 from my fathers camera store. He tried to give me an older used Nikon 35mm but I wanted that slick looking silver 110. I was about 9 at the time. I was really upset as I lost it about 5 months later when we had a boating accident.

First 35mm purchased was a Nikon 6006. I was 21 at the time. It's been down hill since.

 

[Steph]

My first camera was my dad's battered black Pentax Spotmatic F with a SMC 50mm f/1.4. When it stopped working and could not be fixed, I bought another Spotmatic F (a chrome body in very good condition) and still use it. Since then I added a couple of lenses.

 

[skieur]

Kodak Starmeter and I was 11 years old. This was before SLRs were on the scene.

skieur

 

[Dagwood56]

My first camera was a Kodak 126 Instamatic when i was 10 or 11 years old, too long ago to remember my age to be honest. Used it and my mother's Kodak Brownie till I was out of high school and then moved on to my father's Agfa Isolette. The first camera I ever purchased was a Yashica TL Electro.

 

[JerryPH]

My first camera was my dad's Nikon F2a. I was introduced to photography by my dad in the early 70's as a pre-teen. The first camera I bought myself was the Nikon E8800, then the D200, and now the D700. The last 3 happened over the last nearly 4 years.

I still have the E8800, it is an awesome P&S and my carry 'round camera in the car when I don't carry a dSLR (which is rare).

 

[EhJsNe]

The first camera I used was a store brand film P&S. I was about 5....it was the family camera....
THen we got a Kodak CX6445 Digital camera....I hated that thing with a passion...

MY FIRST camera was a Yashica Electro 35, still have, will never get rid of it. I want to be buried with it, I want my body to be posed as if I died taking a picture. And if I have a loving family, im sure one of them will think to put a roll of film in it for me. (All of my friends are aware of these plans if for some reason I die before I should...and all of them know to have the lens cap on....because I always composed shots with the lens cap on...then take it off just long enough to snap the shot..its just a joke thing me and my friend do)
That thing is awesome! I am told it has a leaf shutter, so flash sync is anything I want! The built in meter is super accurate! And the lens is tack sharp.

I got camera when I was 12 (im 14 now) I beleive it was towards the end of the 7th grade school year....

After the Yashica...I got an Olypus Trip 35, then a Polaroid 250 land camera (because it looked cool) than a brownie chiquita (spanish version of the bullet) and finaly my most recent camera (in my collection) is my most prized possesion is my Kodak Junior Six-20 Series II with box and original paperwork. Somewhere along the way I got a six-20 box camera...I found a roll of film in there....I want to get it devoloped but it costs too much.

I have 2 SLRs, a Nikon Fm10 (first SLR) and for my birthday i got a D70. With my birthday money I got a 50mm f/1.8D.

 

[PhotoXopher]

I wish I could remember the brand... it was a full manual film camera my grandma gave me on my 5th birthday I think it was. Had the cube flash on top and I nearly blinded myself with it one night

 

[Threesia]

I'm sure I had a camera in my early years but don't remember it. The first one I remember is a talking "Polaroid" I got for my sixteenth birthday. I still have it and it still works.