What camera did you start with and how old were you?
Jun 14, 2012 09:52:02 #
I forgot to add some other camera's. After the Yashika 35mm film camera got put away I bought a HP 945 and recorded over 10,000 snaps with it. The camera body started to just like rot away. Bits and pieces kept falling off around the battery compartment. Then I got a Sony pocket camera at a fleamarket for $10.00, I think it was a 500s, 6 megapixels. It was such a great camera. I kept it in my hip pocket. Big mistake. The fine sand got into the lense mechanism and cause it to jam. Kaput. Then I got a fleamarket Nikon $8.00 and it still works ok but I wanted to do some wild life telephoto work so I got a Canon 10D off ebay $150.00. It is great for just anything you want to shoot. I got so after shooting long range shots and blow them up I didn't like the soft pictures. I bit the bullet last week and went to Walmart and got the Canon Rebel T3i kit. I bid on a Canon D5 Mark ii used but it sold for $1,600.00 on ebay, way too much money for a used camera without any extra stuff. Keep on snapping.
Jun 14, 2012 09:56:54 #
I started taking pictures at about age 15 with my father's Dacora 6X6 bellows camera (I bet not many people remember that German brand now). I greatly desired a Pentax Spotmatic in the 1960s, but because it was beyond my limited financial resources, I contented myself with various M42 bodies, such as a Prinzflex (Cosina) and Chinon Memotron. At least these permitted the use of Pentax lenses. Now, I have a collection of more than 40 cameras, but for day to day use I have a Nikon D3 and a D200 converted to infra-red. Because the Nikons are somewhat bulky and heavy, I mostly use a Pentax K5 when I'm out and about. I respect the Nikons as being great cameras, but I LOVE my Pentax!
Jun 14, 2012 09:59:51 #
Instamatic....age 10, Vivitar sl400 in the early 70's, fuji s700, current is Canon sx30is Good thread :thumbup:
Jun 14, 2012 10:05:34 #
My first camera was my dads Argus C3 pre range finder and I learned a lot just taking pictures using verichrome pan which was cheap at the time, a 24 exposeure roll cost about a dollar.
Jun 14, 2012 10:06:24 #
alliebess
Loc: suburban Philadelphia
I started at about age 7 when my father sent me off to school with his folding Ansco (116 film) to photograph my classmates - I still have some of those photos! Then got a Kodak box camera and a home darkroom set and my sister and I made contact prints in elementary school. In high school saved my money and bought a Kodak 35mm for about $90 (big money for me in those days) which I used until many years later up graded to a Pentax K-1000. Moved into the digital age about 5 years ago with a Kodak Z740 which I still use.
Jun 14, 2012 10:24:12 #
OBXbill
Loc: Outer Banks NC / Cape Coral FL
My dad gave me an Argus 75 620 film camera in 1956. I was eleven at the time. First camera I had and used it for 10 years before it gave out. Now I have a Canon 7D which I truly enjoy.
Jun 14, 2012 10:29:40 #
bikinkawboy wrote:
Here's some photos of my grandfather's camera, mad... (show quote)
Two little old ladies were having their picture taken with a camera just like yours. The photographer had the black cape over his head behind the camera when one of the ladies asked the other . . . "What is he doing now"?
The second lady answered,"He's going to focus"
The first lady with a shocked look on her face said, "What . . the both of us"?
I started with a "Donald Duck" camera at age 11 in 1949. Quickly tired of that and bought an Argus A2, 35mm camera with my paper route $$$. By age 12 I had a full darkroom in my basement including an enlarger that my dad helped me build from an old 5x7 view camera. 5 years later I was in the photography business and haven't looked back. Photography is still my profession, my passion and my hobby . . . I've never had a job . . . I've only been a photographer.
Jun 14, 2012 10:31:42 #
bikinkawboy
Loc: north central Missouri
The Brownie that I started off with was one of those big old brown bakeolite bodied jobs. From the replies, it would seem that while yes, Kodak produced a lot of inexpensive cameras that produced photos of limited quality, they did get many, many people started in the photography hobby. No doubt they also allowed many ordinary folks to afford a camera they could use to take snapshots of family. And of the latter, no doubt many of those photos leave a lot to be desired in artistic value, they are no doubt priceless to the people they belong to. It's a shame Kodak's reputation and industry standing has eroded so much lately.
Jun 14, 2012 10:31:54 #
My first new camera was a Kowa SE, a fixed lens leaf shutter 35mm SLR, purchased in the mid '60s while in college. It actually made pretty good quality images. At the time, I had Pentax envy but couldn't afford one until later in life.
Jun 14, 2012 10:33:50 #
alliebess
Loc: suburban Philadelphia
bikinkawboy wrote:
The Brownie that I started off with was one of tho... (show quote)
Amen! I believe Kodak was one of the early developers of digital cameras but were overwhelmed by other companies.
Jun 14, 2012 10:51:33 #
videop wrote:
Oh my goodness, what a neat question. Let's see, I think I started with an "Ansco" box camera in the late 40's and progressed to a Brownie. Other cameras over the years. Polaroid,Mamya,Roleflex,Hasellblad,Fuji,Graflex press, currently own Nikon D90 and D300. :thumbup:
In like this thread, there are people older than me here, VBG, Bob.
Jun 14, 2012 11:02:43 #
Was in the service assigned to Midway Island. Yasica Mat twin lens 2 1/4 replaced with Roleflex.
Jun 14, 2012 11:11:45 #
I started with an unknown (un-remembered) 120 box camera when I was 8 years old, but the first "real" camera was a Halina 35x. A 35mm rangefinder with a remarkably good lens for the princely sum of aprox £6 back in '61. From then on it has been a varied selection of OMs, Nikons, Bronicas, moving on to digital - the last 4 have been Nikon, with the new baby (D800) arriving this morning. Battery charging as we speak. That first one has a lot to answer for.
Jun 14, 2012 12:11:27 #
If that's true, "PRO STUFF", then why is your Avitar(bio pic)such quentionable representation of "Pro Stuff"?
Jun 14, 2012 12:16:58 #
Started off with a bellowed Polaroid that took great INSTANT B&Ws. Loved that camera but the availability of film was scarce even the....it was the type that you separated from the packet and then put that stinky pink stuff across it to finish it...smelled like vinegar! By the time I graduated from HS, I bought my first slr and zoom lense (MUST GET CLOSER!) my first was a Pentax ME Super. When digital came out, I used the colleges one and only Sony (I think) brick that held 3.5 floppies...and then I've been in to Olympus ever since. Starts with an affordable point and shoot and progressively moved up...to their way more affordable dslrs.
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