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I was going through stuff in the attic and found the first camera that my Dad gave me in Australia when I was a teenager. It was an Agfa with strange cartridges.. what was your first camera and do you still have it?
 
I'd used my Dad's 35mm SLRs (a Ricoh KR10 Super and an electronic Ricoh of some sort) and some other stuff before this but I think the first camera that was ever actually mine was a Kodak DC200 that I inherited because it had been replaced with a newer one. It was a 1MP point and shoot about the size of a small 35mm SLR and it's still in my wardrobe, though it doesn't turn on anymore.
 
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I started off by borrowing my dad's old Canon film slr years ago - then one birthday I was bought my first slr.....a Praktica BX20, which I loved and got on with so well.

I can't remember what happened, but the camera must have stopped working or something because I then started to use my dad's Canon slr again - but then when I started to work, I treated myself to a Canon 300D dslr, sold that after a few years to get a 40D, then got a 7D - keeping the 40D as a backup, i've just recently sold the 40D because I treated myself to a 5D mk3 at Christmas - again keeping the 7D as a backup.
 
A Zenit E for me too - I loved it and it taught e loads, especially with having the light meter on the top.
 
Brownie 127 when I was a kid, with a piece of black insulating tape to - sort of - prevent light leaking through a chip in the body. That was replaced by a very well used Kodak 66 that my father brought home. I didn't have a light meter, so I just used the guidelines that came with the film and learnt from experience.

It still amuses me when I read about people 'struggling' to get the hang of manual exposure. I was about 10 when I got the Kodak, I certainly wasn't any sort of child prodigy, and I had no-one to teach me how to use the camera; but the local dealer got me started and it was pretty straightforward. It took good photographs too. I normally used B & W, and learned how to develop and print, and I think I've still got some 120 colour slides from those days.
 
A Pentax MV... or, actually, since thinking about this the other day as a result of another thread, I think it was actually a MV1... same camera though.
 
A Kodak 104 with a cube flash.
 
A Canon 300X 35mm SLR
Yes I am clearly showing my youthful side :D
 
I think my first camera was an old Boots 110 film camera, bright red with a metal chain strap. I remember it well because my mother bought it for me for my school trip to Paris.
 
Zenit-E for me too. £30 quid from a camera shop on Albion St in Leeds, including a pancake 50mm F2 lens, ~1980.
 
First of my own was a new Praktica SLR that I got when I was 12. My dad used a beautiful Yashica SLR and he was getting fed up of me borrowing it a lot so he got me my own SLR. He still has the Yashica, I might see if I can take it off his hands now he's got a digital camera.

Prior to that I used my parents old cameras - some kind of awful Kodak nonsense that shot square negs, and my dads old Halina from the 60's.
 
You lot make me feel like a dinosaur. My first camera was the good old box Brownie passed to me by my dad. I used it until my dad realised I was serious about photography when he bought me some kind of 127 point and shoot. Not sure it was a step up TBH!
 
It was an Agfa, point and shoot, basic as ya like film camera. Just a shutter button and hope for the best. I was about 10 or 11
 
First camera was a Coronet 6x6cm or 2 1/4 square as it was in old money, replaced with a Kodak 6x6 that could take colour, then a Halina 35x, which I still have somewhere. That was pensioned off for an Olympus OMn1, which was replced after many years faithful service with my first digital a Canon 350D, which still gets occasional use when not using the 7D
 
It was a Kodak Brownie 2. Given to me in 1950. It was fully automatic (fixed shutter speed and apature) Don't have it now but I still have some prints. Mainly of my mother, pet dog and my first wildlife shot of a newt. Also some negs.
 
The first camera I was left in charge of was some kind of Canon Sureshot thing my dad had bought, which I persuaded him to let me take on holiday and subsequently left in the payout slot of a fruit machine in a pub somewhere in Norfolk. I was extremely unpopular when I got home.
 
Kodak pocket instamatic and I still have the first picture I shot at about 11/12 years old that made me think there was "something" about photography :)
 
My mums Kodak Instamatic to begin with, followed by my very own Kodak Disc camera, which seemed like The Future at the time but was of course awful.

First"proper" camera was a beat up old Praktica PL Nova 1B which my dad bought basically to punish me for whining on about getting a fancy new SLR like my mates had. To both our surprise I loved it, and of course it was the perfect learning tool (if you didn't understand how exposure worked, you weren't getting anything out of that camera).
 
Ilford Sporti 4
then
Exa IIb - long gone sadly.
then
Praktica Super TL.

I wish I'd kept the Exa.
 
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Mine was a Nikon Fm2 bought from a carboot. I still use it from time to time.
 
My first ever camera was an Olympus trip, but within a short while i also owned a Yashica FX-3, Contax RTS II, Praktica MTL, Zenith E, and a few others, i was obsessed with cameras from an early age and still am :)
 
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A Kodak Ektralite 110 (which I still have), then a Canon Sureshot Telemax.
 
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A Kodak Ektralite 110 (which I still have), then a Canon Sureshot Telemax.
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I thought your first was the camera obscura :D
 
Brownie 127 - followed some years later by a Zenith E, which was from the "door stop" it was accused of being - it was built like a tank and the Helios f2 lens was actually quite a cracker, and I used it as an enlarging lens as well - in the right hands it can produce excellent photos, and they were dirt cheap in the days when things like Nikons were ludicrously expensive in comparison.....
 
Brownie 127 followed by an Halina 35X
 
Kodak No. 2 Hawkeye Model B. Made in Great Britain :)
I still have it and the original case.

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Praktica MTL3
 
Started out with a gifted Yashica before getting a second-hand Zenit. First I could afford new was an Olympus OM-10.
 
Some sort of Kodak 110 camera that my dad would fill with fim and take it away when it was finished and I would get the photos back the next week along with the camera with new film in it.
 
Box Brownie, given to me in 1956 when I was 11, we had a makeshift darkroom in a cupboard under the stairs where with a bit of help from my dad I was able to process my films.
Thank god for digital.
Bob.:)
 
Brownie box 2 that was my Grandads, my Gran gave it to me. i used it for a few years until one birthday when I woke to find a Fed 4L which I still have.
 
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