Jim Plogger Loc: East Tennessee

The 1000DTL was my first SLR. I still have it on a shelf here in my office.

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

SLR….. mine was a Topcon Unirex and a Mamiya C-330 on my left hip.
The Unirex was a similar leaf shutter camera to your Auto 100 that used the same lenses.
I would never use a flash that way these days.

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Sidwalkastronomy Loc: New Jersey Shore

My first was an Olympus FTL back in early 70's

Johnnyt Loc: keizer Oregon

My first camera was a kodak brownie hawkeye that I got when I was about 10-12 years old. It didn’t have a flash connection. At the time that was an option. You had to pay extra for it. My next camera was a Brownie Holiday tha did have a flash connection. The flash could use the small bulb or the next size up. then I went through many rangefinder cameras from Petri 7s, Yashica minimatic C then to slrs minolta srt101 then dslrs, Minolta x700 then i went digital from kodak 2.1 mega pixels to 5 megapixels then a Nikon d60 Dslr 10 mega pixels with 2 kit lenses. I got tired of the weight and went to a Sony bridge camera RX10 m3. Love it.
oh by the way I have a little story. When I was a kid I was walking in the neighborhood and had a battery keys and a flashbulb in my pocket. All of a sudden I felt a sharp hot pain in my pocket! It turned out the flashbulb had gone off in my pocket! It burned my leg! I came out of it ok but I learned to keep batteries insulated from each other.Now I make sure that if I throw out batteries they are insulated because they can cause fires in trash cans. They are to be recycled in a special bin by themselves anyway! I hope you liked my story!

BBurns Loc: South Bay, California

In 1956 I was given this Perfex 55 rangefinder camera.
It wasn't that great by today's standards but I learned photography with it.
At some point, a few years later, which I don't remember exactly, I scored an Argus C3 Matchmatic.

sgt hop Loc: baltimore md,now in salisbury md

the hawkeye was my second camera....i had the flash with mine.....still have that one also......

fhayes Loc: Madison, Tennessee

My sister bought one for me! I wish film was still available!

MDI Mainer

The "Brownie" name was apparently adopted in 1898 to appeal to children, then enamored of the characters of that name created by Canadian author and illustrator Palmer Cox.

https://www.brownie-camera.com/200.shtml

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brownies

docbradd Loc: Sacramento,CA

My first, a 60 year old Kodak folding camera. I was 10 in 1956 and liberated the camera from the attic on my grandfather's farm. It was pristine. I think it got put away and forgotten. Took 116 film which produced negatives that I could contact print, so I put together my first dark room. It was a good learning experience I learned about exposure, albeit not f stops. I took a lot of flak because I shot a lot of pictures of broken down, rusted farm equipment. This is a picture found with Google, my original camera was thrown away.

OremJohn44 Loc: Orem, Utah

Speed Graphic. I was high school photographer in 1960.

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LeRoy Hart Loc: Monterey California

Do not have a picture but the first camera of my own was a Petri 35mm range finder I bought for a photography class my senior year in highschool.

AnotherBob

From about 6th grade; still resides in my desk. Its most recent use was by my son, when he was about three,....... forty years ago.

JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA

That's the one I started with in 1969. Mamiya Sekor 500TL. I used it until the knobs started falling off.

Strodav Loc: Houston, Tx

Flip up viewfinder, use the rangefinder to find the distance then move the bellows in or out accordingly. The polarizer is in the little pouch hanging off the strap. It was really my dad's camera, but I kind of confiscated it in High School. Film is no longer available.

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SX2002 Loc: Adelaide, South Australia

Mine, handed down to me from my older sister when I was 12..

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