I just found my . . .
Aug 28, 2014 11:04:19 #
Very first 35mm camera. It was the Kodak Pony 135. I bought it when I was 13 years old with MY OWN MONEY and I remember thinking that I was hot stuff with a camera like that. It had f/stops and shutter speeds . . . WOW!!!
Aug 28, 2014 11:07:05 #
How fun! I wish I still had my little Brownie camera... My first one, in the 50's. I remember it well.
Aug 28, 2014 11:17:29 #
Wow...lol...these things go for less than $20.00 on ebay...good thing it has sentimental value.
Aug 28, 2014 12:48:31 #
rpavich wrote:
Wow...lol...these things go for less than $20.00 on ebay...good thing it has sentimental value.
I didn't cost much more than 35 when it was new . . .
Aug 28, 2014 12:49:19 #
riverlass wrote:
How fun! I wish I still had my little Brownie camera... My first one, in the 50's. I remember it well.
I have one of those also . . .:)
Aug 29, 2014 07:02:43 #
RICARDOOO wrote:
Very first 35mm camera. It was the Kodak Pony 135. I bought it when I was 13 years old with MY OWN MONEY and I remember thinking that I was hot stuff with a camera like that. It had f/stops and shutter speeds . . . WOW!!!
It's like finding an old friend, isn't it? My first good camera was an Agfa, and I eventually gave it away. I recently bought one on ebay for a few dollars, and it works. Brings back memories.
Aug 29, 2014 08:09:17 #
Aug 29, 2014 08:15:37 #
A bit of advice to any newbies reading this: Hang onto your cameras if you can. Someday you may get great pleasure out of having them. I wish I still had my first one. A Kodak from the mid '60's. Don't know the model. Grey plastic with a little round flash built in. Took AG1 flashbulbs if I remember correctly. Square format film. 100 something was the number. 110?
Aug 29, 2014 08:17:28 #
LFingar wrote:
A bit of advice to any newbies reading this: Hang onto your cameras if you can. Someday you may get great pleasure out of having them. I wish I still had my first one. A Kodak from the mid '60's. Don't know the model. Grey plastic with a little round flash built in. Took AG1 flashbulbs if I remember correctly. Square format film. 100 something was the number. 110?
127, maybe? My first camera cost $0.98, from Whalen's drug store. It was a half frame camera. It would take one picture when I pushed down on the shutter lever and another image on the other half of the frame when I raised the shutter lever. After a while, the lever stopped working.
Aug 29, 2014 08:22:39 #
jerryc41 wrote:
127, maybe? My first camera cost $0.98, from Whalen's drug store. It was a half frame camera. It would take one picture when I pushed down on the shutter lever and another image on the other half of the frame when I raised the shutter lever. After a while, the lever stopped working.
Could be 127. I bought it just before going to 'Nam in early '68 and used it for several months before buying my first 35mm, a Yashica Electro 35. Wish I still had that one also!
Aug 29, 2014 08:50:58 #
RICARDOOO wrote:
Very first 35mm camera. It was the Kodak Pony 135. I bought it when I was 13 years old with MY OWN MONEY and I remember thinking that I was hot stuff with a camera like that. It had f/stops and shutter speeds . . . WOW!!!
My very first 35mm was a Minolta SRT102 and I still have it. I don't use it anymore but still have it. And, no I didn't pay for it with my own money, my mother bought it for me for Christmas only after months of begging. I have a plethora of lenses including several fisheye's and have recently been looking at adapters to put them on my D610 to be able to use those fine old MC Rokker lenses.
Aug 29, 2014 09:17:26 #
LFingar wrote:
A bit of advice to any newbies reading this: Hang onto your cameras if you can. Someday you may get great pleasure out of having them. I wish I still had my first one. A Kodak from the mid '60's. Don't know the model. Grey plastic with a little round flash built in. Took AG1 flashbulbs if I remember correctly. Square format film. 100 something was the number. 110?
I had onejust like it my first I think 127 for sure
Aug 29, 2014 09:21:45 #
RICARDOOO wrote:
Very first 35mm camera. It was the Kodak Pony 135. I bought it when I was 13 years old with MY OWN MONEY and I remember thinking that I was hot stuff with a camera like that. It had f/stops and shutter speeds . . . WOW!!!
Do you have a picture of the camera?
Aug 29, 2014 09:40:44 #
I just Googled the Kodak Pony 135 to see what it looks like. Pretty cool camera!
Aug 29, 2014 13:42:06 #
346pak wrote:
My very first 35mm was a Minolta SRT102 and I still have it. I don't use it anymore but still have it. And, no I didn't pay for it with my own money, my mother bought it for me for Christmas only after months of begging. I have a plethora of lenses including several fisheye's and have recently been looking at adapters to put them on my D610 to be able to use those fine old MC Rokker lenses.
I also still have my first "BIG BOY" camera it is the Minolta SR 1. I bought it on base when I was a G.I. in Japan in the mid 60's. It was $85.00 on base and in the states at that time it was $185.00. I still have it and the lenes for it. It feels very heavy to lift compared to today's cameras :) AND I just found the instruction book for it.
I could find more goodies because I am cleaning out my home.
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