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Nov 10, 2016 05:47:49 #

JoAnneK01 Loc: Lahaina, Hawaii

My first camera: Brownie Hawkeye
First SLR: Exa II
First DSLR: Nikon 70
Became interested the Christmas I received my Kodak Brownie at the age of 10

Nov 10, 2016 05:48:08 #

John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK

I occasionally used an old Kodak box something (family camera) but always wanted something better of my own. So once I started working I set about getting one of my own without knowing a thing about them. A local shop was recommended to me by a work colleague and I must have driven the proprietor mad with the no. of visits I made and questions (mostly banal) I asked. But eventually I bought a Fujica ST801, later added an obscure 200mm tele, then 135mm & 28mm fujinon lenses. Without a doubt the easiest camera I have ever used and very sorely missed after theft from a Canadian Greyhound. I thought I was smart replacing it with an OM2, but good as it was, I never got along with it, or anything else afterwards as well as I did with my first. An ST801 with a digital back would be magic for me, along with a hatful of the brilliant fujinnon lenses.

Nov 10, 2016 06:31:30 #

turp77 Loc: Connecticut, Plainfield

crafterwantabe wrote:

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My first camera is a 1957 Leica M2 that my uncle gave me in 1960. I still have this camera. That camera started a 300+ camera collection.

Nov 10, 2016 06:31:57 #

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Mine was a half frame camera I bought from Whalens drug store in the 1950s. It cost $0.99 and used 127 film. It took a picture on half the frame when I pushed ths shutter lever down and a picture on the other half of the frame when I raised the lever. I was probably ten years old, and I've gone from camera to camera since then.

Nov 10, 2016 06:41:16 #

Al Freeedman

My first real camera was a Voightlander Prominet while stationed in Germany in 1954.
It was a tank.

Captain AL

Nov 10, 2016 06:43:05 #

JimBurl Loc: East Rochester, NY

My first camera was a cheap plastic 35mm camera made by Winpro in Webster NY. It cost about $10 at that time but it took beautiful Kodachrome slides in bright sun at a fixed shutter speed of 1/50 and aperture f8. That was back in the time when the ASA speed of Kodachrome was 10. I still have the photos and they look like new. I was 12 at the time and my next door neighbor who worked at Graflex in Rochester, NY bought it for me.

Nov 10, 2016 06:55:22 #

Brucej67 Loc: Cary, NC

Don't know what the camera was, but I was 7 years old, the photo is me at the time holding it. Can anyone identify it?

Nov 10, 2016 06:58:19 #

Add Loc: S.W.Florida

First was a Kodak that used 127 film and had a bellows along with an "Autographic" slot,but that film was long gone by then,around 1944 and I was 14. A Kodak 35 was next for slides.

Nov 10, 2016 07:02:52 #

aardq

An Argus, twin lens reflex at age 10. Followed by an Instamatic while in service. Then, when I could afford it, a Minolta SRT 101. Wish that I'd have bought some kind of 35mm while they were cheap in the service.

Nov 10, 2016 07:09:09 #

dhowland

My first camera was a Kodak instamatic that took that 110 that could only produce grainy images because of the teeny negative. Then in college I got a used Pentax K1000 ... it happened to be the brown SE model with the split-screen focus that was a bit less common than the standard black. I've stayed with Pentax since because my old lenses still work. How I loved (love now but neglect) my indestructible K1000.

Nov 10, 2016 07:15:50 #

leftj Loc: Texas

crafterwantabe wrote:

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My first camera was a used Yashica 35mm (can't remember the model) that I bought from another airman when I was stationed in Thailand in 1967/68. I wish I still had it but I sold it I bought a brand new Topcon SLR which I used for several years before it bit the dust.

Nov 10, 2016 07:29:16 #