How old were you when you got your 1st camera?
Jan 12, 2015 07:03:55 #
angler wrote:
Funny you should mention that, Jim. I have a pretty nice Canon P&S and I let him use it yesterday. He caught on pretty fast. I might even post some that he took.I was 14,my brother gave it to me and I still have the photo somewhere that he took of me sat on an armchair at home fiddling with it.But this little fellow in the photos looks like a natural,you should buy him a camera.Lovely shots.
Jan 12, 2015 07:22:58 #
Cute - ha ha.
I was 18. Received a Polaroid Black & White film Swinger ($20 Camera) for high school graduation, Central Dauphin High School, Harrisburg, PA.
I was 18. Received a Polaroid Black & White film Swinger ($20 Camera) for high school graduation, Central Dauphin High School, Harrisburg, PA.
Jan 12, 2015 07:45:00 #
I started out at about 14 with my Dads camera, a Kodak Duaflex II. That was the kind you lifted a lid on top, looked down through it. For focus you either moved closer and backed up,the next was a Kodak 110 for graduation.
Jan 12, 2015 07:56:33 #
tainkc wrote:
Even a pretend one? Benny here, is 4 & 1/2.
I was about 6 when I got a Brownie. Neat pics!
Jan 12, 2015 08:21:25 #
I think I was 11 years old. My parents got it for me to take on a 6th grade trip to Washington DC.
Jan 12, 2015 08:32:22 #
I'll be telling my age with this one! I was around 11, I believe. It was a Polaroid Swinger. I loved that camera!
Jan 12, 2015 08:48:59 #
Cool set👍👍 I was 6 it was an Ansco box camera, got a Brownie Hawkeye at 9 and a Voightlander Vito B at 13
Jan 12, 2015 09:45:47 #
Jgh
Loc: On the Road
I was 18 when I got an Anscomatic (kind of like a Brownie) as a gift. I think it was 7 books of stamps. I had requested a camera and took it everywhere with me.
A couple of years before that, I talked my parents into buying a Foton (?) camera for the family. Does anyone remember those? It was an early version of the automatic cameras, with film packs you had to send in to get developed. The arrival of the post man could be pretty traumatic back then!
A couple of years before that, I talked my parents into buying a Foton (?) camera for the family. Does anyone remember those? It was an early version of the automatic cameras, with film packs you had to send in to get developed. The arrival of the post man could be pretty traumatic back then!
Jan 12, 2015 09:49:46 #
tainkc wrote:
Nice shots tainkc.Even a pretend one? Benny here, is 4 & 1/2.
I was 11 and still have two original photos of my mom taken with my first roll of 15 cent, 127 film taken with a 49 cent Bakelite camera. :) :) :)
Jan 12, 2015 10:20:16 #
I was twenty seven when I finally got a real camera!
I have been letting my two and half year old grandson use an old Casio Point and Shoot digital camera. He gets a lot of pics of his fingertips, but occasionally he gets a good picture of his great grandmother (Momo) and things he has made (Mickey Mouse shapes from pot lids).
I have been letting my two and half year old grandson use an old Casio Point and Shoot digital camera. He gets a lot of pics of his fingertips, but occasionally he gets a good picture of his great grandmother (Momo) and things he has made (Mickey Mouse shapes from pot lids).
Jan 12, 2015 10:24:35 #
dgagnon
Loc: Sumter, SC now in STL, MO
Think I was 19 and it was a Minolta SRT-101 w/55mm 1.4 (I think) lens. Also had a 35-70mm Soligar lens.
Jan 12, 2015 10:29:57 #
Jan 12, 2015 10:37:10 #
For my seventh birthday I received an 'Imperial Reflex' camera that took square photos on 620 roll film. Wish I knew what happened to it, it's been lost for years, but I did have lots of fun with it.
Jan 12, 2015 10:43:21 #
jbaird
Loc: Coatesville, Pa
tainkc wrote:
Even a pretend one? Benny here, is 4 & 1/2.
I was 12. Dad got me darkroom kit with all the chemicals, and paraphernalia. I got an instamatic also and had a ball developing my own pictures in my basement "darkroom". No enlarger or temperature control, but little 4x5 pans full of chems.
Jan 12, 2015 10:49:14 #
drmarty wrote:
I was about 6 when I got a Brownie. Neat pics!
Think I got my first Nikkormat in 1965. Still use the 851.8. Had to have it modified to work on my D800. Produces wonderful images!
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