What was your first camera?

[tirediron]

Hmmm... my very first camera was a second (Third? Fourth?) hand Kodak 220 camera with fixed lens. The first 'real' camera was a Miranda, with a 50mm F2 and a T-mount 135 f4 lens. No built-in light-meter and a maximum shutter speed of 1/500th of a second, but damn, I loved that beast.

 

[Chris of Arabia]

Mine was some sort of hand me down Kodak Brownie that took 126 roll film. Guess I'd have been 6 or 7 at the time, so that would be the late 60's.

The first one I bought myself was a Canon A-1 - I still pine for the feel of one of those in my hands.

 

[bhop]

My first camera was a Ricoh KR-10M. I bought it for photography classes in maybe '92. I still have it. I've thought about selling it, but maybe i'll keep it for sentimental reasons, since it's not really worth anything now anyway. Before that, if I ever took any photos, I used my parents p&s.

 

[KevinDks]

First camera - Kodak Instamatic 126. Can't remember the model number, but it had X in the name. Christmas 1974 or '75, so I was 9 or 10. Still have some prints taken with it in 1980 on a school trip to Austria.

First camera I bought myself - Pentax ME Super, October 1983 during my first term at university. In the UK in those days if your parents weren't rich the government used to give you money to go to college, and suddenly I had £800 in my bank account...

Kevin

 

[Dwig]

First Camera:
Hand-me-down Kodak Vest Pocket Autographic 127 ( Camera Collecting and Restoration ) from my paternal grandfather via my father. It was later replaced by a Kodak Vigalante 620 that had been my fathers and became mine when, as a 6th grader, I disassembled the broken shutter, repaired it, and reassembled it. (it still works some 45 years later). I frequently borrowed my father's Sears Tower 35 (fixed lens RF made by Iloca circa 1957) and a Stecky (16mm sub-minature from the late '40s).

First camera I purchased with my own money:
The absolute first was a Minolta-16 II (16mm sub-minature purchased my freshman year in High School) that was fairly quickly followed by a Miranda G with a 50mm f/1.9 lens later that same year.

 

[bigboi3]

First Camera was an old polaroid camera back in grade school. Can't really remember the model.

First camera purchased was a couple years ago. A 12mp fuji-film P&S.

 

[Patrice]

The first camera that I had regular access to and with which I first started taking photos was a Speed Graphic. Then bought with my own money a kodak instamatic, then a Rolleiflex, then .... 30 cameras later the cupboard is full and I'm not done yet.

 

[KmH]

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.

All right, another old fart. Pretty much the same story.

The family Brownie, first use age 7, first SLR, the Minolta SRT 101.

 

[Garbz]

My first SLR was a Nikon FE. I had a point and pray film camera that spent quite a bit of time jamming and not advancing film, but that was before I got into photography. I inherited it from my parents when they went digital along with a 50mm f/1.8 and some other Tokina lenses which have since died.

First camera I bought myself was my current D200.

 

[c.cloudwalker]

First was a Kodak Brownie which later went to my younger sister. Got it back a few years back when she was getting ready to toss it.

First bought was a used Minolta SRT 101 just a couple years after the Brownie.

 

[Crazydad]

The first one that was truly mine was Pentax ME that my sister gave me when she got bored with it. Had it for a number of years, great camera.

The first camera I bought was a Nikon 6006 in back in '93. Sadly I gave it up a few years later just because I couldn't (wouldn't?) afford the film and processing.

 

[CW Jones]

Mine was a Pentax SF-10, still have it, only got it about 3 years ago or so. It's the camera that got me into photography

 

[table1349]

This was my very first camera when I was 7:

It cost me $0.25 and I won got if from a carnival claw machine. (probably cost my folks about $1.00 before I got something) Really worked and used Minox 9.5mm film.

From there I graduated to this:

It was my uncles. He got it in Europe in 1956 when he was there on business. He lent it to me in 1966 when I was about 12 and I shot with it until I was 16.

At 16 this was my first very own really and truly camera. By then I was in love with photography and had saved every bit of money I earned or received.

Bought used and was much loved through the years. ( I still have this thing)

The final two bodies. My most beloved of all and used until I went digital a few years ago.

Nikon F2 photometric

Nikon F2AS

 

[RMThompson]

First "camera" was some cheap 35mm autofocus thing... but the first camera where I was thinking about the photos as I took them was a Minolta QTsi SLR, during the Montgomerey Wards selloff in 2001.

After that it was a Canon A610 Powershot... which I actually started with when I started thinking of a career.

Then it was a Nikon D50... and later this year (crosses fingers) hopefully a D90!

 

[Torus34]

Bolsey B. Age 13. Still have the first slide.