stansgrl63 Loc: Pascagoula MS

My first camera was a Kodak 110 camera with built in flash, I was hooked then at the age of 13.....here I am 35 years later and just started up again!

Dyluck4 Loc: Georgetown Indiana

Jah, I think we all have our reasons for either waiting, getting a late start or what ever. I've always been intrested it was just scary to me getting into the big cameras such as Lenses, as some of my Navy friends tried to get me to purchase an Olympus at the time. I whiched I would have. But when I saw my brother 10 years youger than me do it, well my intrest came back and said well if he can do it I can. So with that we all have a reason sometimes for leaving photography. But I admire you guys that have done the dark room thing. My cousin did it way back in 1971 that cought my intrest even then.

Dyluck4 Loc: Georgetown Indiana

Was that the Flat square oblong silver Kodak if so that was my 2nd camera just couldn't remember the number but that seems familiar?

bobharron Loc: Iowa

My Retinette has Schneider-Kreuznach Reomar 1:35/45mm lens. The camera was made in Germany.

stansgrl63 Loc: Pascagoula MS

It was flat, black and used Kodak 110 film......my second is Vivitar 35 mm camera, my third is HP M525 Photosmart point and shoot. I haven't decided on which DSLR camera I want as of yet.

Dyluck4 Loc: Georgetown Indiana

Hey Bob, I'd have to call my dad back to get more information on his Retinette, I may have the information downloaded in my computer somewhere as a refrence as I find this kind of stuff so intresting. I really Love this topic!

William Loc: Mississippi

Hey, you, you ... are using my favorite background
I'm working it quite different than you so just let it
rip, oops mean't keep it up and remember this ...
football means pull for the Nads as I always will ...
the only team on Earth where both sides of the field
stand-up to cheer ... "Go-Nads".

William Loc: Mississippi

To N6JAH

tralain

My first camera was a Canon AE-1. This was 1976 when I was a junior in high school. My mom got it for me. I had been using my father's Konica rangefinder from the late 60's. I got it with a 50 1.4 lens. About six years later, I bought a Canon F-1 (new). I still have all the above mentioned cameras, but mostly use my Canon 60D these days.

Hiskid.58 Loc: Erie, PA

My very first camera was a Kodak Instamatic. I think my mom gave it to me to take pictures on school field trips. I really don't remember. I do remember taking a photo of a sunset that really impressed me. After I graduated from high school, a friend was getting rid of his camera and getting a Canon AE1. I bought it from him, a Canon FTb-QL with a 135mm lens. That lasted many years, then I got the A-1. That was a great camera as well. I then moved into auto-focus with a Canon A2E. Went digital with the Digital Rebel and now have the 40D. I still have all those old cameras. Now they aren't worth $100 all together.

William Loc: Mississippi

Hey, remember the polaroid SX-70, I had one for the best part
of my instant days when time was a really lame factor.
You could mush the print before it hardened to look like
a ceramic tile ... it was fun and new and now there's
nothing like it now or never.

Just Tami Loc: Long Island

My 1st camera was a canon ae-1 and I still have it, I have gone digital but I still have my first love.

quagmire Loc: Greenwood,South Carolina

BOUGHT A 35MM IN TOKYO ON WAY TO VIET NAM BLACK AND WHITE ONLY

Phyllis Loc: NE PA

April 1948.

My first camera was a Kokak Instamatic that I bought with allowance money the day before my high school junior class went on a day trip to NYC to the World's Fair in 1965. I was thrilled with my 12 overexposed black and white prints. The next year I took the camera with me on our 3-day senior class trip to Washington, DC. But this time I got several rolls of beautiful color photos of Our Nation's Capital. Some of these photos are still among my favorites, 45 years later.

Out of college and now teaching, I "graduated" to my first 35mm camera, a Minolta (I forget the model) with a needle and circle that you lined up to get your exposure. Remember those? A few years later, after taking hundreds of great photos with the Minolta, I purchased my first of several Nikons.

My first digital camera was a Sony Cybershot, and this along with a few pocket Nikons kept me happy for a little while, but not for long. I missed the versatility and quality I had become accustomed to with my SLRs. When Nikon released the D70, I grabbed it and was thrilled to get the feel of a SLR back in my hands. After the D70, came the D80, then the D300, and finally the full-framed D700, and now the D3s. I love them all.

:-)

jw32003 Loc: Oklahoma

daddybear.....Your cat looks like my Maine Coon who thinks she's a dog :) I;ll post a picture later.....JW