What Was Your First Camera and When
Dec 7, 2011 22:48:45 #
Dec 7, 2011 22:57:02 #
My first was a used Vollenda folding split frame 127 size. Negs were about the size of 35mm. I was about 12 (1947.
Learned about f/stops and stuff by hanging around the camera store and reading free phamphlets. The camera led to a darkroom. That occupied me until High School, then I started chasing girls.
Learned about f/stops and stuff by hanging around the camera store and reading free phamphlets. The camera led to a darkroom. That occupied me until High School, then I started chasing girls.
Dec 7, 2011 22:58:09 #
hi al, been reading here for months and finally decided to register. This string brings back a fond memory of a Kodak Hawkeye box camera. My first, from around the late 50's. Flash cubes? Can you say "M-2" flash bulbs?
Dec 7, 2011 23:00:10 #
My very first camera around 1966 was a Poloroid Swinger. When the word yes appeared in the view finder it was ready to shoot. Wow does that bring back memories.
Dec 8, 2011 00:12:15 #
All my life I made "things" from other things. Took it apart used stuff for something else, etc.
One day while walking to school, (1st grade 1956 or 57 in Lexington Park, Maryland, (329 Midway Drive if I recall correctly)), I noticed a box camera being thrown away in a neighbor's trash can. Taking it out, I hid it where I could pick it up on the way home and did.
It was an old Kodak box camera that used 120 film and needed a little work to operate properly. After I took it apart, I fixed something in it and that was my begining.
This story was told to me by my mother a few years ago since I would never remember all that. I've still have the camera but as the years went by the lens got lost. (I still keep it just for the memories.)
If it weren't for my parents help, I would never have got into photography mainly because at 5 years old, film and processing was cost prohibitive.
A few locals bought some of my prints and eventually I saved up enough to purchase an old used Nikon F. (Don't have that one anymore. Nikon's didn't float too well back then. LoL)
Ahhhh yes.... memories!!!
One day while walking to school, (1st grade 1956 or 57 in Lexington Park, Maryland, (329 Midway Drive if I recall correctly)), I noticed a box camera being thrown away in a neighbor's trash can. Taking it out, I hid it where I could pick it up on the way home and did.
It was an old Kodak box camera that used 120 film and needed a little work to operate properly. After I took it apart, I fixed something in it and that was my begining.
This story was told to me by my mother a few years ago since I would never remember all that. I've still have the camera but as the years went by the lens got lost. (I still keep it just for the memories.)
If it weren't for my parents help, I would never have got into photography mainly because at 5 years old, film and processing was cost prohibitive.
A few locals bought some of my prints and eventually I saved up enough to purchase an old used Nikon F. (Don't have that one anymore. Nikon's didn't float too well back then. LoL)
Ahhhh yes.... memories!!!
Dec 8, 2011 02:53:53 #
Mine was and old Brownie box camera from the mid 40's and I still have pictures and the camera I took of my sister here in the house some where.
Dec 8, 2011 03:12:19 #
Some years ago, there was a company called Silicon Film that tried that. Their last attempt filled about half the frame and scaled about 1.3 Mg. this was back when 3mg cameras were just hitting the market at about a grand. They went bankrupt around 2000.
Dec 8, 2011 03:16:45 #
My first camera by sending 50 Bazooka bubble gum comics and 25 cents in the late 50's. Unfortunately, I don't have it anymore.
Dec 8, 2011 05:54:03 #
rayford2
Loc: New Bethlehem, PA
CHIEFcarl wrote:
your info interesting. some things I didn't know about the cam. i still don't/can't remember film size number.
Polaroid Highlander Models 80, 80A, 80B
All used 30 series Polaroid roll film.
Dec 8, 2011 05:57:38 #
LOL
ahanonymous wrote:
A Voightlander Vittorette DR I still have it today, see photo below. I took the photograph in the bathroom mirror when I was 13. 46 years later via Photoshop I put myself back into the mirror with the same camera.
Dec 8, 2011 11:31:14 #
Oh....you guys all had new cameras ! My parents had a Kodak Brownie...a black box; used it normally in the upright position, but laid it on its side to take horizontal pix.My oldest bro' had a c-3 prior to WWII, late '30's or early 40's. My first camera was a Tourist II reflex camera (which I still have, in box). I also have a kodak Duo flex with flash. My father in law gave me a Kodak Pocket camra I which In still have; I suspect it is older than I.:-) one of these days, I am going to buy a new camera.!
Dec 8, 2011 12:27:30 #
usaellie101
Loc: Spring Hill, Florida
ALYN wrote:
Oh....you guys all had new cameras ! My parents ha... (show quote)
Please put us all to shame and post some of those photos you shop with that "older than you" camera
Dec 8, 2011 13:07:42 #
Love to post some old pix...just one small problem,,,can't buy film for it any more :-(
ALYN
ALYN
Dec 8, 2011 13:10:58 #
Forgot...I had a Polaroid Swinger before my 210...thanks for the reminder about those.
Dec 8, 2011 13:19:21 #
B&H sells 620 film.
ALYN wrote:
Love to post some old pix...just one small problem,,,can't buy film for it any more :-(
ALYN
ALYN
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