Hi fellow hoggers! I’m Paco Fernandez from Mexico City. I would like to share a little bit of nostalgia from the times of analog photography. These two cameras I’m talking about are, my first SLR, which I bought at a department store in 1970, (on my mother’s account) and paid her religiously every month. Back then I was 18 years old.
Now after searching for some time I finally found the exact model I used to have in those days a Praktica Super TL, German made by Pentacon.
The other one is my current camera the Nikon D850, as everybody knows Japanese made.
*Note: My very very first camera actually was a Kodak Instamatic 50 and it was a gift from my father back in 1963, I was only 11 years old. I remember I used to open the camera’s film cover right after taking a picture to see if there was something visible on the film!!
I believe it would be interesting if you guys could share stories or anecdotes of your first camera ever, at least, I would be very interested in reading them. Thank you very much

My first camera ever was a Mickey Mouse camera when I was a kid (<10 I think) - the nose was the lens, and it used 126 cartridge film (remember those!), and these one-shot flash cubes which were horrendously expensive. Not sure if I had the exact one as pictured, but it was very close to that at least. I took a few rolls then took the camera apart - I took all of my toys apart to see how they worked.

2nd camera was a 110 Minolta instamatic camera that my aunt gave me. Remember those tiny 110 negatives - the analog equivalent of the micro 4/3 or maybe the cell phone cams (haha - not quite).

3rd camera was a Praktica LB2 SLR - yep those East German (at the time) made 35mm (was first 35mm for me) cameras. The LB2 had a selenium powered light meter mounted near the film rewind crank - no TTL metering! All manual! The shutter release was weird mounted next to the lens. Sure wish Praktica was still around in the digital age. Took many pix with than camera but only had the 50mm/2.8 screw mount M42 lens. Got it as a Christmas gift - my parents could not afford a Japanese camera at the time like those from the majors. Years later I bought an B2000 electronic Praktica - nice film camera but had a loud shutter. Also had a couple of lenses with the B- Praktica bayonet mount.

After that had a variety of 35mm pocket film cameras but then eventually went with the OM series cameras and built some kit over the years...until digital in 2000 with the Oly 3030 (3.3 mp)....then years later with Nikon.

Hi fellow hoggers! I’m Paco Fernandez from Mexico City. I would like to share a little bit of nostalgia from the times of analog photography. These two cameras I’m talking about are, my first SLR, which I bought at a department store in 1970, (on my mother’s account) and paid her religiously every month. Back then I was 18 years old.
Now after searching for some time I finally found the exact model I used to have in those days a Praktica Super TL, German made by Pentacon.
The other one is my current camera the Nikon D850, as everybody knows Japanese made.
*Note: My very very first camera actually was a Kodak Instamatic 50 and it was a gift from my father back in 1963, I was only 11 years old. I remember I used to open the camera’s film cover right after taking a picture to see if there was something visible on the film!!
I believe it would be interesting if you guys could share stories or anecdotes of your first camera ever, at least, I would be very interested in reading them. Thank you very much