What Was Your First Camera and When
Dec 7, 2011 06:28:14 #
Nikonfan70
Loc: Long Island
I have some neat 126 slides of our then classified Pershing missile we launched from Utah in the late 60's. The camera was a Kodak instamatic tucked into my field jacket.
Dec 7, 2011 06:31:46 #
Dec 7, 2011 06:36:59 #
A Kodak Baby Brownie and the use of the one in my avatar.... circa 1948-1949.
Dec 7, 2011 06:41:10 #
plieber wrote:
My first camera was an Argus C3. I got it in 1957 to go to a summer camp. It was great camera on which to learn. I had to estimate speed and f-stop. Still have the photos taken back then.
Yep, me too! did you have the leather case with it?
I still have a lot of photos also from it.
Dec 7, 2011 06:42:04 #
Dec 7, 2011 06:42:37 #
As I recall, my first real camera was an Exacta 500 maybe. Till someone stole it. They I went through a bevey of cameras. I got the fever!
Dec 7, 2011 06:45:12 #
Bruce with a Canon wrote:
first slr 1972 minolta srt, on sale at the PX. Still have it, still shoot it, manual SLR a brick with a lens.
my second camera was a Minolta SRT101, 50 mm 1.4 lens, and a 300 mm lens my roommie got it overseas for me when he was in the Philipines on R&R... took a lot of good pix with the "match needle" system until my car got broken into in '74.
Dec 7, 2011 06:52:56 #
photophly wrote:
My first was a Yashika 35mm,,can't remember the model number,that was back in the mid 60's
Me too. But it was in 1980. I had to buy it for a college B&W photography class.
Dec 7, 2011 07:06:14 #
My first was a Minolta SRT 101, bought it from some place in Lichtenstein (?) when I was stationed in Pakistan, 1968.
Dec 7, 2011 07:18:19 #
Hanimex , I think is the name. From East Germany and bought this whole kit for 200 bucks back in 1971 I think.
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m25/achesley1943/Quik%20Uploads/PICT0014.jpg
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m25/achesley1943/Quik%20Uploads/PICT0014.jpg
Dec 7, 2011 07:26:16 #
My first was a Minolta srt 101 SLR 50 mm 1.8 with metering thru the view finder and everything ,F stop and focus manuel.Still have the camera and a ton of lens that go with it laster I got the Minolta body xm with auto sutter .
Dec 7, 2011 07:33:07 #
My idea exactly -- i have all my sketches for just that - a photo sensor that did just what you suggest. My patent attorney advised me it was a waste of time and money to peruse it as it would never be commercially viable and it would
require more memory than would fit in a cartridge size unit -- that was in 2004 when you couldnt hold 1 GB in your hand -- now you can get 60 GB in the size of your fingernail.
require more memory than would fit in a cartridge size unit -- that was in 2004 when you couldnt hold 1 GB in your hand -- now you can get 60 GB in the size of your fingernail.
Dec 7, 2011 07:35:02 #
rayford2
Loc: New Bethlehem, PA
I once was given a disc camera which turned me off after the first prints. Gave it to my sister as her first camera and it turned her off too. She gave it to one of her school friends and they haven't talked to each other since then.
Dec 7, 2011 07:36:22 #
It was a Kodak 110 of some sort. My parents gave it to me when i was in high school.
Dec 7, 2011 07:38:45 #
[quote=plieber]It would be neat if some enterprising soul could come up with a self-contained sensor/electronics package where the sensor would be full-frame 35mm
My idea exactly -- i have all my sketches for just that - a photo sensor that did just what you suggest. My patent attorney advised me it was a waste of time and money to persue it as it would never be commercially viable and it would
require more memory than would fit in a cartridge size unit -- that was in 2004 when you couldnt hold 1 GB in your hand -- now you can get 60 GB in the size of your fingernail.
At least i got my idea regestered back in 2004.
My idea exactly -- i have all my sketches for just that - a photo sensor that did just what you suggest. My patent attorney advised me it was a waste of time and money to persue it as it would never be commercially viable and it would
require more memory than would fit in a cartridge size unit -- that was in 2004 when you couldnt hold 1 GB in your hand -- now you can get 60 GB in the size of your fingernail.
At least i got my idea regestered back in 2004.
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