Your First Camera: A Trip Down Memory Lane (Page 7): My first camera at age 35 in 1976 was a Minolta point and shoot. It held a 126 film cartridge. My second was Olympus OM2 with a...

Erbin Loc: Poquoson, Virginia

My first camera at age 35 in 1976 was a Minolta point and shoot. It held a 126 film cartridge. My second was Olympus OM2 with a 50mm lens. I'll be 70 on the 29th. of this month.

Enjoy people photography.

Dyluck4 Loc: Georgetown Indiana

gym wrote:

My first REAL camera was a Minolta 101 35mm. I got it when I was in graduate school in the 60's and almost had to put my first born into indentured servitude in order to get it. I actually got some good (relative to the times) spider and insect macros through the use of extension tubes.

I still have it by the way, but haven't used film in several years now.

Gym, I can't believe it but Minolta is it that is what my dad had in the Military, I was trying to remember so I was just waiting for some one to Possibly make a post and I remember it. He said this was a great camera and he had got it while over sea's.

bobharron Loc: Iowa

This is my photo in Rome in 1958 on leave from the US Army while stationed in France. I am holding my Kodak Retinette and a the cameras of my buddies. By the way, I am 76 years young.

Rome 1958

Dyluck4 Loc: Georgetown Indiana

Hey Bob, Yea I just got off the phone with my dad and he said he didn't have the Minolta it was the Retinette, so I stand corrected but this is still intresting.

gym Loc: Athens, Georgia

They made a really good 35mm. As I recall (it's been a VERY long time - :>) they were among the first to have a bayonet lens. Mine has an f/1.7 55mm fixed lens.

hobbycam Loc: Now in "Hollister, Ca."

I stilll have my Mino;ta 7si and 9xinot sue what I am going t o do with them yet, LOL
By the way I was born in 1948 and was in the nay in nam, special forces :-)

Dyluck4 Loc: Georgetown Indiana

Erbin wrote:

My first camera at age 35 in 1976 was a Minolta point and shoot. It held a 126 film cartridge. My second was Olympus OM2 with a 50mm lens. I'll be 70 on the 29th. of this month.

Enjoy people photography.

Erbin, I would say you waited quite a while before even deciding if you wanted to ever even take photo's waiting that long in life to make a camera purchase. Ha! Ha!

laith

My father gave me the first camera when ii was 9 years old 1975 it was a simple manual Russian camera (Semena) i was using till 1997 i bought Praktica VLC-3 with 50mm/1.8 Zeiss Pancolar and 135mm/3.5 Zeiss Sonnar , then i bought Praktica MTL-3 ,Zenith E with Hellious 58mm/2 and i also had 20mm/2.8 Flectgon ,(200mm/4 ,29mm/2.8 Practica). I also bought Kieve 4 with 50mm/2 and35mm/2.8 Then i bought (Yashica 124G and IKOFLEX 120 twin lens reflex)and Yashica 135 electric and Yashica Diary. i like all of them till now.

peacemaker

I still have a Yashica Rangefinder. It belonged to my father. He had it before I was born. (I'm 47 now). It has a fixed 50mm f1.9 lens. He took alot of slides with it. The pictures all looked great.

powerman Loc: Spokane Valley WA

Well...my first camers(s) were the good ol' Kodak point and hope that had the cartridge film. I always loved taking pictures, but alas we were po' folk and just because you had a camera didn't mean you'd ever get to see the pictures you took. Sometimes the ones you took this year didn't get developed until next year. Still it was always fun to finally get to see the end product. After I got out on my own I bought a Pentax K1000 loved it and used it a lot. Don't know where it ended up. After the kids got older I got a Canon Rebel 35mm. Loved it also and still have it. My wife got me a Canon T2i dslr earlier this year after listening to me whine about wanting a dslr (besides my point and shoot). Never really learned about photography with any of the camera's, just took pictures. Now I found this forum and am finally learning about camera's and photography. I love it even more now!

Dyluck4 Loc: Georgetown Indiana

powerman wrote:

Well...my first camers(s) were the good ol' Kodak ... (show quote)

Powerman, yea as I said earlier with first camera being that Kodak Brownie given to me by my Uncle, I was only in the 5th grade and I didn't have the money to buy any more film or any to get what I did take developed. But I enjoyed them 9 years later after getting out of the Navy and finding this film. So you are so correct.

dickmoody Loc: Cheyenne WY & Pharr TX

My first serious camera was an Argus C-3 in 1954.
Then a Voightlander Vitessa. Got my Rollieflex in 1955, and still have it. Since then I have used a Nikon with a fixed non changeable zoom lens, several Minolta's, A Kodak 950, and a Minolta D-7. Next came a Nikon D-70, and now a Nikon D-300. In between I have a 4 x 5 Speed Graphic, and have used a 4 x 5 view camera. Color me OLD!!!!

Dyluck4 Loc: Georgetown Indiana

dickmoody wrote:

My first serious camera was an Argus C-3 in 1954.
Then a Voightlander Vitessa. Got my Rollieflex in 1955, and still have it. Since then I have used a Nikon with a fixed non changeable zoom lens, several Minolta's, A Kodak 950, and a Minolta D-7. Next came a Nikon D-70, and now a Nikon D-300. In between I have a 4 x 5 Speed Graphic, and have used a 4 x 5 view camera. Color me OLD!!!!

Well Dick, At least you're still here sharing your memories that remind us baby bummers of our great memories. Thanks

turp77 Loc: Connecticut, Plainfield

Film was so great, you snap off a roll or two and send them out for developing and its like waiting for Christmas for your film to come back. When it arrives you cant waite, you tear in to the package to see your work. Those were the days. Dick I have more than 150 cameras I have the C2 argus (the Brick) a couple of Rolleis Mamiyas etc and one of my favorits is my Crown graphic. I still shoot a lot of film mostly large format 4x5 and 8x10 and still have my wet room. I also shoot with my Nikon D300S. I have enjoyed reading Everyones stories. I am 61

N6JAH Loc: Corona, California, USA

My first "real" camera was a Mamiya Sekor 500 dtl. Up until then I had Kodak Instamatics and Poloroids. But, they weren't "real" cameras because they only took snapshots, not Photographs. (I've since learned it's not the brush; it's the artist!)

Sadly, due to personal economics at the time, I set photography aside. Now, some decades later, I'm getting back into it. My latest "real" camera is a Nikon D90. :) And, I have a darkroom.... my computer!