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Mar 6, 2022 14:47:25 #
RightOnPhotography
Loc: Quebec,QC
This was my first camera back in USSR when I was about 14. It was a Russian replica of some german brand.
Mar 6, 2022 18:25:12 #
Mar 6, 2022 18:43:58 #
EJMcD wrote:
I was 12 years old. This was my first...
I think this is a cartridge camera. 12 shots or something like that. It used a flash cube but I didn't need it for this shot. This is me in about 1962 trying to take a shot through a binoculars.
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Mar 7, 2022 01:11:42 #
RodeoMan
Loc: St Joseph, Missouri
RightOnPhotography wrote:
This was my first camera back in USSR when I was about 14. It was a Russian replica of some german brand.
I just saw on the net where an Ukranian woman took out a Russian drone with a jar of pickles. This thing looks like it could take down a small plane.
Mar 7, 2022 02:14:36 #
RightOnPhotography wrote:
This was my first camera back in USSR when I was about 14. It was a Russian replica of some german brand.
Waaaaaaay Lomo-esque ;-)
Mar 7, 2022 02:24:05 #
RodeoMan wrote:
I just saw on the net where an Ukranian woman took out a Russian drone with a jar of pickles. This thing looks like it could take down a small plane.
Good stoty. Be more than just a story when we see pix of the dead drone. Theres pix of every incident in the war.
My mother's entire family was from places inside Ukraine, but they were never Ukrainian or Russian. OTOH my mother was very fond of her samovar. IIRC my grandfather bought it while visiting family in the USSR.
Mar 7, 2022 02:43:42 #
My older brother gave me my first camera, a Yashica Atoron spy camera in silver. The first camera I bought, with my younger brother, a Yashica 35. My favorite cameras were the Mercury II half frame and a Sears 35|RF rangefinder (clone of the Ricoh 500G). Wish I had all three today.
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Mar 7, 2022 02:51:02 #
RodeoMan
Loc: St Joseph, Missouri
[quote=User ID]Good stoty. Be more than just a story when we see pix of the dead drone. Theres pix of every incident in the war.
My mother's entire family was from places inside Ukraine, but they were never Ukrainian or Russian. OTOH my mother was very fond of her samovar. IIRC my grandfather bought it while visiting family in the USSR.[/qu
"Samovar" that is a new word for me. Of course I looked it up and realize that the samovar was often more than a kitchen utensil, but the nucleus of family and friends coming together over tea, food and conversation.
My mother's entire family was from places inside Ukraine, but they were never Ukrainian or Russian. OTOH my mother was very fond of her samovar. IIRC my grandfather bought it while visiting family in the USSR.[/qu
"Samovar" that is a new word for me. Of course I looked it up and realize that the samovar was often more than a kitchen utensil, but the nucleus of family and friends coming together over tea, food and conversation.
Mar 7, 2022 05:49:27 #
mundy-F2
Loc: Chicago suburban area
EJMcD wrote:
Thanks. Yours reminds me of my first 35mm, a Yashica J-P. I couldn't afford a Nikon at the time. When I finally got to the Nikon brands, I started out with a "Nikkormat EL".
My 2nd Nikon was a Nikkormat EL-W. I just put a new battery in it and a roll of film, a few days ago. A very cool camera!
Mundy
Mar 7, 2022 08:23:55 #
mvetrano2 wrote:
I still have my first camera, an Ansco box camera.
This was my first camera also.
Mar 7, 2022 08:55:04 #
A Brownie 127, a Christmas present from my uncle who was a professional photographer in San Francisco. They were made from 1952-1959. From 1952-55 the face plate was plain; from 1955-59 it was cross-hatched. So mine was in that first style, when I was between 5 and 8 years old. The original price? $4.75!
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Mar 7, 2022 09:15:01 #
Mar 7, 2022 09:36:16 #
My first SLR was a Mamiya/Sekor 1000DTL, stolen from my house in the mid 70's. Before that I had Kodak Instamatics 126, and some older roll cameras.
Mar 7, 2022 09:39:21 #
Mar 7, 2022 15:31:05 #
Well, sort of my first camera. My stepfather brought a Kodak Brownie back that he used in England when he was in the Eighth Air Force and that became our family camera. Easter 1947 my older sister took me in tow and we went out to shoot some photos with her best friend. She was 14 and I was 4. At one point she told me to hold the camera while the two of them were involved with something else. I had been watching how it was done and decided I wanted to take a photo so I took a picture of her. When the prints came back she looked at me with a smile and said "You took this photo!"
My first camera and my first photo!
My first camera and my first photo!
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