Your First Camera
Jul 16, 2017 07:02:59 #
My father gave me a Kodak Dualflex for Christmas when I was 7. We had a darkroom in our basement and I was his assistant, learning about developing negatives and making prints. I didn't get a 'real' camera until many years later. In 1987, I bought a Nikon FG-20 and a 50mm f1.4 lens.
Jul 16, 2017 07:29:49 #
Kodak Brownie first and then a Minolta - Canon 20D - Canon7D - Sonya6000.
Jul 16, 2017 07:32:54 #
My first camera in about 1975 was a Nikonos, followed by the venerable Canon AE-1 purchased in Singapore in 1979.
Jul 16, 2017 07:38:50 #
lburriss wrote:
I’m curious: on which camera did you learn photog... (show quote)
Canon AE-1. Still have it, and need to get it back outside for a run. It's been too long.
Jul 16, 2017 07:38:59 #
Jul 16, 2017 07:45:09 #
If memory does not fail I began shooting with a Petri camera in the late 50's using a Weston Master selenium meter. I was more serious in the early 60's when I began to use a Konica and 50mm Hexanon lens with a Sekonic meter, if I recall properly it had a C&S cell.
First professional camera was the Nikon F of 1963 with a 50mm f1.4 lens and still the Sekonic hand held meter.
First professional camera was the Nikon F of 1963 with a 50mm f1.4 lens and still the Sekonic hand held meter.
Jul 16, 2017 07:49:03 #
First camera--a Hopalong Cassidy box camera that I still have. Since then, a variety, and pretty much stuck on Canon.
Jul 16, 2017 07:52:23 #
Jul 16, 2017 07:54:58 #
My entry into photography was finding my dad's enlarger in the basement. I bought paper and chemicals and printed some of my dads old negatives. My uncle gave me my first camera an Argus C3. I've since owned a Kowa 35mm. Yashica D tlr, Yashica Mat, Minolta SR7, Minolta SRT101, and a Nikon D3400. In the navy I used a 4x5 view camera, Graflex 4x5 Speed Graphic, Mamiya C3, C33, C330, a Singer GRaflex 70mm roll film camera, Portronic 70mm studio camera, and an 8x10 view camera I spent the day lugging around on Mt. Palomar.
Jul 16, 2017 08:00:03 #
berchman
Loc: South Central PA
The camera I used to learn photography with the help of Ansel Adams' Zone System book and a Minolta spot meter was a Pentax H1A with an 85 mm f/1.8 Super Takumar lens. That is the only lens I had because I was interested in portraiture. I still have the body but sold the lens to someone in Australia. My first digital camera was a Casio Exilim Z750 with a 6MP sensor and an optical viewfinder. It could fit in a shirt pocket and took surprisingly good pictures.
Jul 16, 2017 08:02:38 #
Konica Autoreflex T.
Picked up in 1969.
It served me well for 30 years until we went digital.
Picked up in 1969.
It served me well for 30 years until we went digital.
Jul 16, 2017 08:25:20 #
The first camera that I owned was a Kodak Brownie 127. Later I owned a couple of USSR-made Zeniths. My first 'professional' camera that I owned was a Nikon FM which I bought about 35 years ago. I recently renewed the light seals and was, in fact, using that very camera yesterday.
Jul 16, 2017 08:27:46 #
lburriss wrote:
I’m curious: on which camera did you learn photog... (show quote)
First camera: WWII vintage Contax rangefinder.
First "professional" camera: Kodak P880.
Jul 16, 2017 08:33:55 #
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