Your First Camera
Jul 17, 2017 01:23:31 #
My first Camera was a Yashica FX-2. My mother bought it for me at the Kmart in Pascagoula Mississippi. It was a great camera until somebody broke into my apartment and stole it along with my stereo and a jar full of change. I replaced it with a Canon AE-1 Program.
Jul 17, 2017 03:01:04 #
My first "real" camera was a Canon T-70 film camera (I still have it) I bought it while stationed overseas on a remote assignment to give me something to do to fight the boredom. We had a dark room on our site so I was able to dabble in processing as well (though most of my pictures I sent out to be developed professionally). Then, a few years later, while stationed stateside, Canon came out with the first Gen "Rebel" which was touted as the first digital SLR under $1000 (it was $999.99 LOL). Anyway, I still have that little camera which has a 6MP sensor. Eventually I decided I needed something with better resolution, so I bought a second hand Canon 7D. Now THAT was a great camera! Only reason I sold it was to buy the 7D Mark II! (I also now have a 1st Gen 6D FF)
Jul 17, 2017 04:23:16 #
Jul 17, 2017 04:59:54 #
my first camera was an ilford sprite 35, i was around 10 at the time. maybe my first 'pro' camera or at least proper camera would have been a practica MTL3 but I always wanted a Pentax and got my first a K1000 (its part way through a roll of ilford xp5 currently) My digital upgrade from that was the K200D and now the Pentax K5. There are several others but these are the important ones for me.
photo by Akairom, https://www.flickr.com/photos/10456228@N00/ placed in the public domain
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Jul 17, 2017 08:25:15 #
First camera: Hanimex Practika Nova IB. Followed very shortly by the first camera(s) I used seriously: Minolta SRT101 and a Yashica MAT124 G. After that became infected with terminal GAS. Currently using Sony Full Frame mirrorless (A7R and A6000 along with an A99) and am trying to decide if my budget can handle a Sony A9 without crumbling to dust.
Jul 17, 2017 09:17:06 #
Jul 18, 2017 00:03:35 #
My first camera was a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye and was followed by an Exa II after graduation from high school. With the Exa II I purchased a set of bellows to allow me to shoot macro photography which I really enjoyed. Unfortunately, I learned that I was allergic to bee and wasp stings along with spider bites. I still love my photography and had my own dark room.
Jul 18, 2017 00:44:19 #
My first camera was an old Kodak Pony35 that I got from my Mom in 1966 (she had used it for a camera class in the late 1940's), followed by a Yashica GSN rangefinder (with the f1.4 lens) that I used for years until it was stolen from my car in the mid-1980's.
Jul 18, 2017 15:20:23 #
My mother let me use her Kodak Autographic camera that used 116 sized film and had a little trapdoor on the back to use a stylus to make written notations on the film. I was given a Kodak Baby Browning when I was about 10 years old. I still have both those cameras in my collection. My first 35mm camera was an Argus C3 and my first "professional" camera was most likely my Nikon N90 that I did wedding photography with although I had owned and used an Exakta VXIIa followed by a Minolta SRT101 and SRT 201 before I gathered the funds to get the Nikon. My latest is the Nikons D800e.
Jul 18, 2017 19:33:07 #
I started with a Chinon CM4-S , my first expensive camera was a Pentax Super A . I always wanted a Nikon, and now I have a Nikon D7200 .
Jul 20, 2017 19:30:13 #
bigguytf wrote:
Canon AE-e with a 1.4 50mm lens. Took great pictures which I mostly made slides of.
Were you using slide film, or did you have some other method of creating slides???
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