Lifetime of cameras
May 5, 2018 12:12:28 #
Started with a Brownie Hawkeye, got a Komaflex S baby Blad which took 127 film, then Yashica TL Elektro X, then a couple of Nikon F2’s, which I now have for sale, Wista and Wisner 4x5’s, Leica M6. Still use Nikon F3, Leica M7, Hasselblad 500CM, Rollei 3.5F, Dearforff 5x7 with 4x5 back. Long live film!! Oh, also have a Nikon Coolpix 7000 and a IPhone 5s.
Cheers!
Cheers!
May 5, 2018 12:50:34 #
charlienow wrote:
my first 35mm was a Petri 7s. my first SLR was a Minolta SRT-101 w/50mm 1.4 lens.
since those days in the 60's and 70's i have had a lot of cameras, all Nikon.
since those days in the 60's and 70's i have had a lot of cameras, all Nikon.
I love the Petri. It was the first camera I used. I tried to buy some from Ebay but couldn't find a fully functioning one.
May 5, 2018 13:22:29 #
[quote=Anyway, I would like to hear others thoughts.[/quote]
Brownie 127 (my first camera ever; not quite 12 years old, 1961)
Instamatic 104 (bought in Alaska & replaced by Instamatic 404 a few months later, 1968)
Yashica Electro-matic 35, Ricoh Singlex TLS (used in and brought back from RVN, 1969-70)
Yashica Mat-124g (bought in Germany, 1978)
Kodak vr35 K12 (bought specifically for use in SW Asia, rendered unusable after many exposures to desert and esp. sandstorm conditions, 1990-91)
The 4 previously named cameras were what I used while I was in the Army, at least those are the ones I remember clearest. I seem to recall some kind of 16mm midget camera I acquired in Vietnam but didn't keep very long; it was smaller than a pack of cigarettes. There was also a Yashica 35mm SLR that was stolen out of my truck shortly after I got it in the 1980's.
After I retired from the Army I didn't do much photography beyond family snapshot type stuff thru the 90's and the first few years of the 00's. I was introduced to digital in '05 by my Dad, who'd been given an HP Photosmart 735; the whole kit with the docking station and the little printer. He wasn't into photography at all and soon sent the whole works to me along with a few hundred sheets of 4x6 paper.
That got me interested enough so that I eventually bought a Nikon Coolpix P-80 p&s in '09, and in '14 a Fuji Finepix S1 bridge camera. I made the step up to a DSLR just this past December: a Nikon b5300 with DX 35mm f/1.8 prime lens. In between I bought a GoPro Hero 5 Black for the heck of it and have had fun making timelapse videos.
Brownie 127 (my first camera ever; not quite 12 years old, 1961)
Instamatic 104 (bought in Alaska & replaced by Instamatic 404 a few months later, 1968)
Yashica Electro-matic 35, Ricoh Singlex TLS (used in and brought back from RVN, 1969-70)
Yashica Mat-124g (bought in Germany, 1978)
Kodak vr35 K12 (bought specifically for use in SW Asia, rendered unusable after many exposures to desert and esp. sandstorm conditions, 1990-91)
The 4 previously named cameras were what I used while I was in the Army, at least those are the ones I remember clearest. I seem to recall some kind of 16mm midget camera I acquired in Vietnam but didn't keep very long; it was smaller than a pack of cigarettes. There was also a Yashica 35mm SLR that was stolen out of my truck shortly after I got it in the 1980's.
After I retired from the Army I didn't do much photography beyond family snapshot type stuff thru the 90's and the first few years of the 00's. I was introduced to digital in '05 by my Dad, who'd been given an HP Photosmart 735; the whole kit with the docking station and the little printer. He wasn't into photography at all and soon sent the whole works to me along with a few hundred sheets of 4x6 paper.
That got me interested enough so that I eventually bought a Nikon Coolpix P-80 p&s in '09, and in '14 a Fuji Finepix S1 bridge camera. I made the step up to a DSLR just this past December: a Nikon b5300 with DX 35mm f/1.8 prime lens. In between I bought a GoPro Hero 5 Black for the heck of it and have had fun making timelapse videos.
May 5, 2018 15:16:42 #
Georgews
Loc: Wellington, New Zealand
I started with a 127 TLR ( age. 11), then a 620 boxer, then a quantum leap to an Only Pen F SLR half frame. ( wish I still had it!) Next a Pentax ES which took many 1000s of shots. Also a Petri rangefinder and Ricoh 500g rangefinder (great little camera). A Yashicamat 120 TLR, canon SLR film, a Canon ixus 60 p&s and a Canon 550D. Still use the ixus and the 550D most days.
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May 5, 2018 15:17:27 #
Without much commentary, only to say that my dad was an avid hobbyist photographer, I managed to acquire (permanently borrow) some very interesting photo equipment at a very young age. I was the only kid in my 6th grade class taking a field trip to Washington, DC with a Rollei 2.8E.
Here is my camera list in no particular order:
Ricoh 500
Voightlander Bessa
Olympus Pen EES
Exa
Yashica A
Contax I
Super Ikonta BX
3-1/4 X 4-1/4 Speed Graphic (had to cut down 4X5 film to fit holder)
Mamiya Super 16
Minox B
Bronica Auto S2
Nikon FTN
Nikon N70
Nikon FE
Calumet 4X5 view camera with a Schneider Symar lens (my days at Brooks)
Casio QV 3000 EX (my first digital)
Canon Rebel
Canon 60D
Olympus OMD-E1 MkII (Current camera)
Some still are in my possession...Others are long gone
Ah..the memories
Here is my camera list in no particular order:
Ricoh 500
Voightlander Bessa
Olympus Pen EES
Exa
Yashica A
Contax I
Super Ikonta BX
3-1/4 X 4-1/4 Speed Graphic (had to cut down 4X5 film to fit holder)
Mamiya Super 16
Minox B
Bronica Auto S2
Nikon FTN
Nikon N70
Nikon FE
Calumet 4X5 view camera with a Schneider Symar lens (my days at Brooks)
Casio QV 3000 EX (my first digital)
Canon Rebel
Canon 60D
Olympus OMD-E1 MkII (Current camera)
Some still are in my possession...Others are long gone
Ah..the memories
May 5, 2018 15:22:34 #
If I count every camera, including in the days of dedicated video ones, probably triple your number. Remember your cell phones - at least 5-6 right there for me.
May 5, 2018 15:52:57 #
Ah... Let's not count the regular 8mm (Bell & Howell, Minolta, Bolex), Super 8 (Bolex, Leikina and Beaulieu), Single 8 (Fuji), and the current crop of consumer/prosumer video cameras. I guess that we can include cell phones above 2MP. After all......
May 5, 2018 19:19:23 #
I'm 58 and still have almost every camera I've ever owned other then my first, a brown plastic Brownie box camera with flash attachment. After that I found some of my Dad's old cameras (my dad died when I was 3) a couple of old folding ones, would have to go look for them for the brands, and a 16 mm Minolta spy camera, moved on to my first purchase, Canon EF, Ftb, A1 (sold that one, hated it), Rolleiflex (still my favorite camera), Graflex, Pentax 90WR, Panasonic Dmc-fz1, and TS6, Sony a7ii, and 6500.
May 5, 2018 19:21:08 #
MCoomber wrote:
Hi there, br br While I was eating breakfast read... (show quote)
D300 to D700; crop body to full frame. What lenses do you have?
May 5, 2018 19:26:10 #
sjb3 wrote:
I seem to recall some kind of 16mm midget camera I acquired in Vietnam but didn't keep very long; it was smaller than a pack of cigarettes.
Sounds like my Dads (I still have it) 16 mm Minolta, shiny aluminum, pulls apart to take picture and advance the film, pushed back together, smaller than a pack of cigarettes. I called it a spy camera when I was a kid, then I saw a Minox 8mm spy camera, now that is a small camera.
May 5, 2018 19:27:26 #
BebuLamar wrote:
I love the Petri. It was the first camera I used. I tried to buy some from Ebay but couldn't find a fully functioning one.
Wasn't it Petri that had the shutter button coming out of the front of the camera at a 45 degee angle.
May 5, 2018 19:29:16 #
wmurnahan wrote:
Wasn't it Petri that had the shutter button coming out of the front of the camera at a 45 degee angle.
I am not sure but mine isn't.
May 5, 2018 19:41:42 #
BebuLamar wrote:
I am not sure but mine isn't.
Never mind, after thinking about it, it was Praktica I was thinking of.
May 6, 2018 02:35:14 #
I've had a few myself (In Two Parts)
1. As a kid during the Sixties, a Kodak Instamatic 104 (sold recently for more than it probably was when new)
2. My parents had and now I own an Argus Seventy-six 620 TLR camera.
3. 1978 (age 24), first "real" camera, Asahi-Pentax KM w/M-50mm 1:1.7 Lens (stolen in 1987)
4. From here it gets confusing and I don't remember precise years or order, Asahi-Pentax K2 DMD
5. Asahi-Pentax K1000SE (stolen in 1987)
6. smc-Pentax K-30mm 1:2.8 Lens (also stolen in 1987)
7. Many additional lenses over the years
8. Asahi Pentax 6x7 with 45mm & 135mm lenses (broken, then sold)
9. Pentax ME (immediately traded for below)
10. Pentax ME Super (later sold)
11. Late 1940's German Certo Folding 35mm camera with Zeiss lens (from Father-In-Law)
12. German Kodak Folding 35mm camera with Schneider lens
13. Pentax MX (later sold)
14. Pentax K1000 (turns out to be a junky Hoya Chinese version, now has issues and does not operate properly)
15-17. 3 Polaroid SX-70 cameras, three different models (never really used them as film is hard to find and pricy; gave nicest one to friends that will use it)
18. Pentax Spotmatic (SP 1000) with many Takumar lenses (bought from a friend)
End of Part One
1. As a kid during the Sixties, a Kodak Instamatic 104 (sold recently for more than it probably was when new)
2. My parents had and now I own an Argus Seventy-six 620 TLR camera.
3. 1978 (age 24), first "real" camera, Asahi-Pentax KM w/M-50mm 1:1.7 Lens (stolen in 1987)
4. From here it gets confusing and I don't remember precise years or order, Asahi-Pentax K2 DMD
5. Asahi-Pentax K1000SE (stolen in 1987)
6. smc-Pentax K-30mm 1:2.8 Lens (also stolen in 1987)
7. Many additional lenses over the years
8. Asahi Pentax 6x7 with 45mm & 135mm lenses (broken, then sold)
9. Pentax ME (immediately traded for below)
10. Pentax ME Super (later sold)
11. Late 1940's German Certo Folding 35mm camera with Zeiss lens (from Father-In-Law)
12. German Kodak Folding 35mm camera with Schneider lens
13. Pentax MX (later sold)
14. Pentax K1000 (turns out to be a junky Hoya Chinese version, now has issues and does not operate properly)
15-17. 3 Polaroid SX-70 cameras, three different models (never really used them as film is hard to find and pricy; gave nicest one to friends that will use it)
18. Pentax Spotmatic (SP 1000) with many Takumar lenses (bought from a friend)
End of Part One
May 6, 2018 04:20:33 #
Part Two
19. 4x5" Omega View Camera
20. First digital, Kodak digital 6MP P&S
21. 7.1MP Kodak P&S
22. Pentax K-20D New, 14MP
23. Pentax K-100D purchased used to have converted to full time Infrared use. 6.1MP CCD Sensor
24. Pentax K-5, 16MP
25. Sears 35mm shutter 1/500 Screw Mount film camera, given to me by friends
26. Asahi-Pentax original Japanese K1000 film camera (to replace funky Chinese one with decomposing silvering of mirror; came with smc-Pentax-K 55mm 1:2 lens)
27. Pentax K-3 camera, 24MP
28. Gunlach 4x5" Wooden Field Camera
19. 4x5" Omega View Camera
20. First digital, Kodak digital 6MP P&S
21. 7.1MP Kodak P&S
22. Pentax K-20D New, 14MP
23. Pentax K-100D purchased used to have converted to full time Infrared use. 6.1MP CCD Sensor
24. Pentax K-5, 16MP
25. Sears 35mm shutter 1/500 Screw Mount film camera, given to me by friends
26. Asahi-Pentax original Japanese K1000 film camera (to replace funky Chinese one with decomposing silvering of mirror; came with smc-Pentax-K 55mm 1:2 lens)
27. Pentax K-3 camera, 24MP
28. Gunlach 4x5" Wooden Field Camera
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