Francisco Fernandez wrote:
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
Hi fellow hoggers! I’m Paco Fernandez from Mexico ... (
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My friend you opened a can of worms for my favorite subject. I will try to answer your post with the best of my 83 years old memory. Back in 1963 my wife bought my first camera, a Polaroid model #90 for Christmas gift. I was not familiar with this type of camera so I returned it for a Yashica TL Electro X ( this became a stigma in my Christmas gifts that I always take my gifts back.) My next camera was a Canon AF-1 another 1982 birthday gift. In the years to come I worked for a Timeshare company and we needed a camera to photograph buyers for a promotional reasons. It was the year of 1998 I was introduced to my first digital camera, Nikon N8008 on the top of Kodak DCS 200 pack impressive 2MP priced over $10.000 and with the lens the set was over 7 lbs. I did buy a Fujifilm L 9000Z in 2003 and it’s my first digital camera in my collection. I owed a Canon digital Rebel EOS 300D (2006) a Canon Powershot SX-1 (2003) and in the modern days 2017 I got on my hands the M6 one of my favorite cameras. With the virus around of us the year of 2020 I tried to stay away from politics, so I enjoyed having a Canon 90D very impressive camera but (too heavy for me) traded for a Canon RP another wonderful camera, but I still spent most of my days in the house and I had missed my first mirrorless camera M-3 , so I’m enjoying my new M-6 camera and having my second vaccine I’m going out to take some photos of our wonderful world. As you can see I keep Canon company in business.