What was your first camera? And when did you become interested in photography?
Nov 10, 2016 17:16:08 #
My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic
Then I got a Polaroid Swinger
Then a Canon AE-1
Now I have a Nikon D3100
Want to get a D7200 or D500
Then I got a Polaroid Swinger
Then a Canon AE-1
Now I have a Nikon D3100
Want to get a D7200 or D500
Nov 10, 2016 18:15:05 #
I became interested in photography when I was 8 years old. I had been sick and isolated from my family for a week and my Mother gave me a camera that she had just won. I had too many cameras to remember them all, but I do remember owning a Brownie Hawkeye.
I bought my first SLR when I was 17 years old. It was an Argus A4 and I was working for Sears & Roebuck at the time, so I bought it there to get my 20% employee discount. Or.....................was that 10%?
I bought my first SLR when I was 17 years old. It was an Argus A4 and I was working for Sears & Roebuck at the time, so I bought it there to get my 20% employee discount. Or.....................was that 10%?
Nov 10, 2016 18:16:11 #
This is supposed to be a quick reply but, boy, this is a long thread. So here's my input regardless. My mother was an amateur photographer back in the '30's when she had the opportunity to roam around Europe. Not professionally but just as a tourist. She had a couple of Kodak bellows cameras (which I still have). So I inherited her penchant for taking pictures. I started out in Junior HS as a school paper photographer went on to be the high school paper photographer. The bug stuck!! The high school bought a Pentax SLR for the school paper and I went from there. I've used Pentax's since. I've been through Heiland Pentax, Asahi Pentax, Honeywell Pentax, Pentax Pentax, etc. and still have them all on a shelf in my den!! Finally converted to digital when Pentax decided to develop an array large enough to print 16X20 prints without pixelation in the print. Ended up going to RIT and a degree in photo science.
I've got bunch of old Kodak camera's to include the old Brownie in an original box! Don't know how much it's worth but I'm not sure I care.
I've got bunch of old Kodak camera's to include the old Brownie in an original box! Don't know how much it's worth but I'm not sure I care.
Nov 10, 2016 18:22:01 #
my 1st camera was a baby brownie....i then had a kodak hawkeye as a teen.....while in the airforce i had a minolta autocord, then a canon 35mm....
Nov 10, 2016 19:11:17 #
High school, 1965! A Yashica-Mat 120, Twin Lens Reflex. Took 120 film which gave you square, something like 2" x 2" frames, very crisp (B & W...of course) images! It was great for taking candid photographs, which was an asset when shooting for the school paper and yearbook. People assumed that a photographer had to hold a camera up to his eye in order to take a picture...a camera sitting on a desk top, or being held at waiste level, wasn't a threat...couldn't take a picture like that, right? Wrong, of course...viewfinder on a TLR is on top of the camera, usually with a popup hood! The school was brand new, and the principal, a photography nut, came on board during construction, and found a space about 15 x 15 off of a chemistry lab and convinced the contractor to finish it off as a dark room for the school paper and yearbook staff photogs! An entrance with two 90 degree bends, red lights and the principal donated a pro grade Bogen enlarger! Great way to start down this highway of fun!
Nov 10, 2016 19:28:43 #
Nov 10, 2016 19:46:14 #
Ansco Speedex.
$35, the first and close to the last, object I made payments on.
$35, the first and close to the last, object I made payments on.
Nov 10, 2016 19:51:08 #
My first camera was my father's Argus C3 and the first camera I bought was a Canon FT-QL.
Nov 10, 2016 19:57:27 #
Nov 10, 2016 20:13:39 #
sodapop wrote:
Argoflex, Sears price was about $12.00
Back then I always aspired to a TLR, but never made it.
Nov 10, 2016 20:32:23 #
My first camera was a Yashica-A Twin Lens Reflex in 1964. My first SLR was a Pentax K1000, then a Nikon F100. My first digital camera was an Olympus C-3040 3.3 megapixel. In 2013 I got a Nikon D800.
Nov 10, 2016 20:44:00 #
Bill_de wrote:
While not my actual camera, this is the type of camera I had as a kid. My first 35mm camera was a Mamiya/Sekor 1000 DTL. A buddy talked me into buying it while we were in a PX in Long Bien, Vietnam. Most of the pictures I took with it there wound up getting destroyed, but the camera made it home in 1971. That got me started.
I was on the same track, only a few years earlier. The Mamiya/Sekor 500 TL, introduced in 1966, although I bought it in 1969. By 1985, I had totally worn it out and replaced it with the Minolta Maxxum 7000.
Nov 10, 2016 20:49:55 #
missinglinq wrote:
High school, 1965! A Yashica-Mat 120, Twin Lens Re... (show quote)
I also had the Yashica-Mat 120. Bought it in Japan during my Navy days in the early 70's. Recently, I wanted to get rid of it, but my daughter didn't want to see it go, so its now at her house. (Along with the Minolta SRT101). And had the enlarger too. Never had a place to set it up and the wife made me get rid of it about 30 years ago.
Nov 10, 2016 21:45:21 #
The very first camera that I bought, from SEARS, was a Minolta 110 SLR.
Nov 10, 2016 22:38:15 #
When I was (I think) about 8 or 9 years old I wanted a camera so my Mother started buying Wheaties cereal which had a coupon on the box. I needed three of these coupons plus fifty cents to purchase a camera. It was not make of a material very similar to plastic. I used this camera until I graduated from high school. My Grand Mother bought me an Argus C3 35mm camera for a graduation gift. That was 64 years ago. . .I still have that Argus C3 and will never part with it!
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