What Was Your First Camera and When
Dec 7, 2011 09:49:18 #
My first cameras were actually 2 given to me when I was 6. #1 was a Kodak vest pocket folding Model B from my Mother and the 2nd was a Leica 3a Model G with a Kuhn Flexameter, a Summitar 50 mm f2 and a 28 mm Hektor that my Dad "liberated" from the Leica factory in WW 2. No, I don't still have the Leica...traded it for a Mamiya-Sekor 1000 DTS in 1966. Yes, I'm an idiot.
Dec 7, 2011 09:49:51 #
ahanonymous wrote:
A Voightlander Vittorette DR I still have it today, see photo below. I took the photograph in the bathroom mirror when I was 13. 46 years later via Photoshop I put myself back into the mirror with the same camera.
LOL!!
I can believe you used PhotoShop to put yourself in the same bathroom, but how did you manage to squeeze into the same shirt!?!?!?!
Only in my memory, does my first camera survive (along with my first girlfriend). I found an image of it on the Internet. I bought it myself with hard earned money in 1958. I'm afraid if I found the girlfriend she would not have held up so well with time.
Before that I used a Russian copy of a German Leica that a friend lent me.
Dec 7, 2011 09:54:45 #
Correction - The Mamiya was not a DTS... It was a TL. I bought the DTS later.
Dec 7, 2011 09:59:23 #
ole sarg
Loc: south florida
I was 12 (1954) and visiting Chicago. My uncle gave me this old camera he liberated from a dead German. It as an early Leica. It had a screw mount and a 35 and a 90 (I think) telephoto. Should have kept it!
Dec 7, 2011 10:09:16 #
After instamatics my first "real" camera was a Nikon FG. I liked that it had program, shutter, aperature and manual modes. I loved that camera. It was well worn when it was finally stolen in 1996. I replaced it twice with FG's twice again after that (had several good lenses)but dropped both of them. I only have one "prop" broken one on a shelf in my office, reminding me of an old friend.
Dec 7, 2011 10:22:23 #
Michael Digital
Loc: Spring Hill, Florida
My first camera was a Universal Mercury II half frame camera. It was given to me by my uncle who received for signing up for a one year newspaper subscription.
Photo courtesy of: licm.org.uk
Photo courtesy of: licm.org.uk
Universal Mercury II
Dec 7, 2011 10:27:29 #
rayford2
Loc: New Bethlehem, PA
That Mercury II has to be one of the strangest (not ugly) looking cameras of the time. The strangest one I've ever seen was a Rectoflex turret with 3 lenses. Never did find out how much that system weighed.
Incidentally, what was the purpose of that second hot shoe?
Incidentally, what was the purpose of that second hot shoe?
Dec 7, 2011 10:27:30 #
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Dec 7, 2011 10:41:05 #
my first camera was a brownie. i quickly learned that film and prints were expensive. my first 'real' camera was a canon ae-1, which i still have and use when i feel rich enough to buy film and prints. i had an instamatic at one point. early photo memories include having pictures taken with those blinding flashes!
Dec 7, 2011 10:44:37 #
Dec 7, 2011 10:46:02 #
My first camera was a Kodak box camera, don't know the model. That was around 1947-48, I was around 5 years old, and I still have the pictures I took.
Mike
Mike
Dec 7, 2011 10:46:51 #
Dec 7, 2011 10:48:28 #
crazedredhead wrote:
i just love the side-by-side photos. that's just classic. thanks for sharing.
Hi Crazed... Please use the "Quote Reply" so everyone know who you comment is for. Welcome aboard too.
Thanks... Mike
Dec 7, 2011 10:51:12 #
Rollo62 wrote:
I thought I heard that someone was able to convert old 35mm to digital or was that just wishful thinking .
No, all you need is a scanner that will scan film. I use a Canon 8800F, and it does a fantastic job. I believe the 9900F is the current model. Mine was $199.00 when I bought it.
Mike
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