Do you still own your first "real" camera?
Nov 21, 2021 06:41:09 #
w00dy4012
Loc: Thalia, East Virginia
I still have my my first sir, a a Minolta SRT-101, that I got while in Vietnam in 1966. The body needs a good CLA. I still use the lenses sometimes.
Nov 21, 2021 08:06:51 #
My first "Real" camera was a Canon EOS 650 and yes I still have it as well as my second camera a Canon EOS 850 given to me by my brother. I bought the EOS 650 when I learned that I was going to be in Hawaii for 2 months. I was not going without a camera!
Nov 21, 2021 08:38:23 #
dbrugger25
Loc: Raleigh, NC
My first was a Kodak Brownie when I was about 8 years old in 1954. My father got a Rolleiflex 2.8 D in about 1955 and I started using it when I was 12, in 1958. I now have the Rollei and it is in perfect condition.
By that time I had a darkroom and was processing my own photos. In 1960 I won $500.00 in a church lottery and bought a Crown Graphic 4 X 5 format.
Who would have believed, at that time, that we would be taking photos on an image sensor and that chemical processing would be obsolete. We should have predicted that because television cameras had been using electronic image sensors for two decades.
By that time I had a darkroom and was processing my own photos. In 1960 I won $500.00 in a church lottery and bought a Crown Graphic 4 X 5 format.
Who would have believed, at that time, that we would be taking photos on an image sensor and that chemical processing would be obsolete. We should have predicted that because television cameras had been using electronic image sensors for two decades.
Nov 21, 2021 08:44:41 #
Still have my Pentax K-1000 with the 50mm Pentax lens and it still working fine. Get it back in 1982, it was second hand than. Pay $50.00 for it.
Nov 21, 2021 09:07:53 #
My father let me use and then gave me his RICHOFLEX similar to this one when I was about 12 years old. I still have the camera and case. We built my first "real" darkroom when I was 15 in 1965 when my uncle gave me a Bessler 23c II for a present.
Nov 21, 2021 09:56:21 #
HankR
Loc: So. East Florida
Yes I do. Canon Pellix a manual focus camera released in 1965 that uses a semitransparent stationary reflex mirror behind which a metering cell is raised during the reading. It was Canon’s first TT.
Nov 21, 2021 10:18:37 #
Good morning Scott,
Thanks for your post. The 1st image really deserves enlargement, a frame and displaying. No kidding. I have been a Nikon devotee since 1966 and your beautiful shot is a good representation of only a small part of my "collection". I admit I am a moderately severe "GAS" victim but - what the heck?
All the best to you and yours,
Terry
Thanks for your post. The 1st image really deserves enlargement, a frame and displaying. No kidding. I have been a Nikon devotee since 1966 and your beautiful shot is a good representation of only a small part of my "collection". I admit I am a moderately severe "GAS" victim but - what the heck?
All the best to you and yours,
Terry
Nov 21, 2021 10:54:29 #
I took this photo a while back to show my bias toward a certain aesthetic and form. A thread on another forum.
But this thread reminded me of that photo as it shows my first SLR next to one of my current cameras.
A fifty year span.
Last time I shot some film with the Petri was 2006.
But this thread reminded me of that photo as it shows my first SLR next to one of my current cameras.
A fifty year span.
Last time I shot some film with the Petri was 2006.
Nov 21, 2021 11:13:41 #
I found reading all the replies from people on their first "real" camera great. I have in my camera collection a lot of the cameras people have wrote about, not all of them. Hey everyone put film in those "old" camera and use them, don't let the camera just sit there and not being use.
Nov 21, 2021 12:43:37 #
StanMac wrote:
Geez! You started right at the top o’ the line!
Stan
Stan
Yes, I was real proud of that camera (and still am). I was nineteen when I bought the camera and still living at home so a month's salary was not too difficult to part with. I now shoot a Nikon D500 and have six lenses.
Nov 21, 2021 12:52:52 #
Although not the original Leica 111f I used in the early 50's, it's one I bought to replace the original. I also have the same Nikon F as Grandpaw.
Nov 21, 2021 13:03:57 #
I'm surprised that no mention has been made of the Minolta Hi-Matic and Hi-Matic 7. Both great rangefinder cameras from the 60s. Not sure which, but one of those models was taken by Colonel Glen to the moon. I owned one (just cannot remember which one, but it wasn't my first "real" camera).
Nov 21, 2021 13:38:51 #
When I was 10 my dad bought me a Brownie camera and made me a darkroom. I thought it was good enough for me then. In 1078 I bought a Minolta srt101 and loved it. Had 19 more cameras from Minolta, Kodak, Canon, Sony and a few I can't recall from then until I moved to Alabama a year and a half ago. I took good care of all my Minolta lenses, brought them with me and use them now and then on my Sony cameras with an adapter.
Nov 21, 2021 14:34:27 #
dbrugger25
Loc: Raleigh, NC
I had a Canon Pellix and was disappointed with it. The thin plastic transluscent mirror attracted dust and was hard to clean. I had it replaced and had the same problem again. I remember having a 58mm f:/1.2 lens.
Nov 21, 2021 15:06:28 #
Tomcat5133
Loc: Gladwyne PA
Wyantry wrote:
Yes! Pentax Spotmatic, U.S. version (match-needle... (show quote)
Wow Wyantry this is the first time I have heard the camera Spotmatic in this forum.
The photo that is on my brochure (I do content marketing and video production) is from the Pentax Spotmatic
from the streets of NY. The shot is over 50 years old. I did PS since then. One of the few things I have posted in this forum this photo got a great deal of attention. Your hi tech photography gear is very impressive. Stay safe.
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