What was your first camera? And when did you become interested in photography?
Nov 10, 2016 07:51:45 #
Nov 10, 2016 08:02:34 #
I became interested in photography as a pre teen since my favorite uncle was a semi-professional photographer and I wanted to emulate him. My first camera was a Kodak Hawkeye with a flash attachment. My first ''good'' camera was an Agfa Super Silette (sp?), a 35mm rangefinder camera. My first SLR was a Pentax Spotmatic that I bought on my honeymoon at a duty free shop in Jamaica. My current camera (1 month old) is a Canon 80D that replaced my damaged 70D (insurance covered).
Nov 10, 2016 08:04:54 #
My "first" was the famous Kodak Instamatic. I took one to RVN and got a few pictures before the dust coated its innards. Knowing I needed something better I found a Kowa at the PX at Camp Radcliff. I liked it thought it did not have interchangeable lenses. Some time later the PX got in a Petri, I still have it though the light meter control no longer works. That was it for lots of years.
I entered the digital age with a just new on the market Canon G-3. I still have it and use it occasionally. Needing better for my new hobby of photographing old tools I moved up to the T3i and never regretted it. Now I am hooked on photography, and related gadgets.
Ken
I entered the digital age with a just new on the market Canon G-3. I still have it and use it occasionally. Needing better for my new hobby of photographing old tools I moved up to the T3i and never regretted it. Now I am hooked on photography, and related gadgets.
Ken
Nov 10, 2016 08:15:27 #
Don't laugh... It was a Kodak 110. And I was 5. I just knew I would have my pictures on the cover of Life magazine.
In School I used a Cannon 35mm for the annual staff.
After I got married I bought a Nikon 4004. And had hoped to get an 8008.
I refused to get a digital camera for years because I was told you could not do black and white. Fortunately, a friend opened my eyes, I recently got a Nikon D3300. And joined here to read others posts to shorten my learning curve.
In School I used a Cannon 35mm for the annual staff.
After I got married I bought a Nikon 4004. And had hoped to get an 8008.
I refused to get a digital camera for years because I was told you could not do black and white. Fortunately, a friend opened my eyes, I recently got a Nikon D3300. And joined here to read others posts to shorten my learning curve.
Nov 10, 2016 08:28:46 #
Nov 10, 2016 08:32:05 #
I had Kodak Instamatics, followed by a pretty killer Pentax K system, followed by a small lab facility, followed by a pretty killer Nikon System followed by a pretty killer Hasselblad system; followed by a much bigger, commercial lab facility; followed by large format with a Sinar system, followed by digital systems from Kodak, Fuji, Nikon, and Hasselblad. I like digital simply because of the lack of chemical smells. Digital still, even with the Hasselblad, is pretty low resolution. It proves it is location, subject, and lighting which matter, not really the camera.
Nov 10, 2016 08:38:51 #
Nov 10, 2016 08:47:42 #
I was age 9. First camera was a Kodak Brownie followed shortly by first Kodak movie camera.
Nov 10, 2016 08:51:15 #
This is proving quite interesting. Some of the camera I have never heard of. ( not surprising). Thank you all for sharing....
Nov 10, 2016 08:53:33 #
Brucej67 wrote:
Don't know what the camera was, but I was 7 years old, the photo is me at the time holding it. Can anyone identify it?
Great picture... would you happen to know the year this picture was taken ? Maybe we can search to figure out the camera you are holding. 😄
Nov 10, 2016 08:57:57 #
First 35mm was Argus C3 match mati, then to a Yashica (can't remember model) then a Ricoh TLS (from RVN/Japan). Then moved to digital, Fuji to Nikon.
Nov 10, 2016 08:58:56 #
crafterwantabe wrote:
My first camera was I was given this to take to ch... (show quote)
Argus Seventy-Five TLR that took 620 film and Press 25 flashbulbs. Christmas, 1959... I was 4-1/2, and my Uncle Howard gave it to me. His portrait is over my desk now, as a reminder that he sparked the flame.
I had one of those green boxes you show here (identical except for the label), too.
Later, I had a Hawkeye 127 Kodak that took AG-1 peanut flashbulbs... Then a Kodak Instamatic 104 that took flashcubes, then my Dad's Polaroid 100, then a borrowed Canon FX. The Canon (and subscriptions to Modern Photography and Popular Photography and Petersen's Photographic Magazine) got me seriously addicted, and I made enough money selling prints to the school yearbook/newspaper advisor that I bought my own Nikkormat FTn and 50mm f/1.4... Then I read the Time-Life Library of Photography books as they came out...
I still have all those old box cameras (plus some other relics like an original Polaroid and an Argus C3 and a Stereo Realist) in a box somewhere in my garage.
Nov 10, 2016 09:08:19 #
photoman022
Loc: Manchester CT USA
I don't remember the make of my first camera, but it shot roll film and cost a bundle to develop (and the pictures didn't turn out that great anyway). My first "real" camera (an SLR) was the Petri V6. I bought that while serving in Army in Germany in 1973; after that was stolen I upgraded to the Petri FT2 -- with the through the lens light meter.
It was while I was in Germany (and Europe) that I became interested in photography. But that interested turned into passion when I bought my Nikon D40 and went digital. Since that day I've learned to shoot in RAW exclusively and use post production to bring out all the nuances that are in the photo.
It was while I was in Germany (and Europe) that I became interested in photography. But that interested turned into passion when I bought my Nikon D40 and went digital. Since that day I've learned to shoot in RAW exclusively and use post production to bring out all the nuances that are in the photo.
Nov 10, 2016 09:16:54 #
My first camera was a discarded Kodak Brownie Fiesta. I believe it shot 127 film. From there I received a Kodak 110 Instamatic from which I began an attempt at creativity. My father informed me that I was "wasting film". My parent might take weeks if not months to go through a roll of film. When I entered high school I enrolled in a photography class and my mother bought me a new Pentax K1000 w/a 50mm f2 lens that I still own. This is when I really got into photography. I was the kid that Mr. Means had to run out of the dark room after school so they could lock up. That was many many cameras ago. Oddly enough, I have kept almost all of my cameras throughout the years.
Nov 10, 2016 09:18:21 #
Although my father was an inveterate photographer who took photos from just about the turn of the last century (I just passed on his Kodak "postcard" camera dating from World War I that he used for half a century or more), I didn't get started until age 36 in 1970 when my wife and I led a tour of Europe. It was a wonderful Olympus 35 SP rangefinder camera that took superb photos with the late lamented Kodachrome 25 then 64. Bought it for less than $80 and sold it on eBay for $110 3 to 5 years ago.
https://www.cameraquest.com/olysp.htm
https://web2.ph.utexas.edu/~yue/misc/35SP.html
https://www.cameraquest.com/olysp.htm
https://web2.ph.utexas.edu/~yue/misc/35SP.html
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