My first camera was....

I don't remember the first camera I owned ... too long ago :shake:

My first SLR was a Yashica FX-3 with a 50mm f/1.9 lens, which I still own (and use) :thumbs:

It taught my grandson the basics too :clap:
 
First SLR was a Zenit B. Basic but learned a lot using it. Then progressed to a Zenit TTL .. wow a ttl light meter .. amazing!
:)
 
My first SLR - after owning a few other cameras - was also a Zenit, but mine was very entry level. No instant return mirror - it reset when you wound on and cocked the shutter - no meter and it came with an f3.5 50mm Leica screw lens. The Prakticas were available but far too expensive for me, and my parents weren't prepared to buy me one. This was probably around 1969.

Next SLR - and a big step up - was an F2. I bought it in Hong Kong when I was working there in the 70s. It's still my favourite camera.
 
My grandad had a Practika SLR that I inherited and that was my first camera. My first DSLR was a Canon 1000d though which did the job :)
 
weybourne said:
A (Boots badged) Beirette Junior II
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Blimey - that's a blast from the past - seem to remember my mum having one of those when I was around 13/14 or so. So that would be late seventies??

My first camera was a Canon A1 - took all my wages for the summer from my first holiday job when I was 16. Still got it now.........
 
Krisstiffer said:
Blimey - that's a blast from the past - seem to remember my mum having one of those when I was around 13/14 or so. So that would be late seventies??
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I understand that this particular model with the 'wedge' shutter-release button was manufactured from 1963 but I'm not sure when Boots first badged and sold it. Mine was a long-term loan from my dad and I'm not sure when he got it or if it was 2nd hand or not but I started using it around 1973-4.
 
Mine was a 35mm Pentax which I still have.

I was 16 years old and it was sent to me by my uncle in Australia.
I got the bug and my dad built me my own darkroom just off our kitchen!
 
My darkroom was our kitchen. My dad knocked up some plywood panels to block up the windows and it worked rather well for a botch job.
 
Stuart M said:
My darkroom was our kitchen. My dad knocked up some plywood panels to block up the windows and it worked rather well for a botch job.
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My dad did the same for me in our under stairs cupboard lol.
 
Our darkroom was our kitchen too - we had wooden-framed blackout panels (again that my dad made) that were hung on hooks and fastened over the windows (on the outside of the house).
 
Box brownie as a kid, my first SLR was a Practica L2, then a Canon AE1P, A1, EOS 600, Rebel xt, 400D and now 40D.
 
My first ever camera was a kodak Brownie Cresta3.
Given to me by my grandad at around 9 years old.
He was a founder member of my local club which is still going today & developed the film in his own darkroom. I still have the prints somewhere...

i never got to fully develop my skills as a young photographer as he died shortly after my tenth birthday & with no other real photographic interest in the family i was doomed to a youth of shooting flat 110 Halinas :shake:

a few years ago my Nan gave me a couple of his old cameras including an Agfa Super Silette & his prized Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta b 532/16
i keep threatening to run a roll of film through it some day as despite one slightly loose aperture blade it seems fully functional :thumbs:
 
First Camera was a Kodak Instamatic Model 133 that took 126 Cartridge.
I was dead chuffed :) and cost my parents a fortune in film.
 
A Halina 110 format, oblong thing, was shared with my sister when we were kids.
I think Dad still has it somewhere. He had a Zenit B, badged as a "Zenith" ? Mum had his old Kodak coloursnap.
 
My wife (then girlfriend) bought me my first camera, a Praktica MTL5b kit out of a catalogue and paid a small fortune for it. We had agreed to no more than £20 for christmas presents as I was unemployed back then. I felt awful for only spending £20 on her.
Now when I "need" an upgrade I tell her its her fault for introducing me to photography.
Currently Im working on a 100-400 or a Bigma ;-)
 
A Zenit EM bought from a camera shop almost 30 years ago for £22. Came with the Helios normal & a 200mm Cosina lens. For all the Zenit body faults, the Helios lens is quite good & I had tons of fun with the camera.
 
A little red plastic thing, it shot square photos. No idea who made it!
 
Olympus AF-10 (The original 90's black one) Decent P&S in my eyes..
Was my Dad's that I borrowed from time to time, then gave it to me when I was using it more than he was!
 
Early 1970's issue Kodak Instamatic which took 126 cartridges and used the "Magi-cube" flashes that sat on top ofthe camera and rotated as each one was used.

The first 35mm camera was a Minolta something-or-other kidnapped from my dad.
 
An old box brownie in 1962. It was a loanee till sometime in :-1967(ish) When I was given an Instamatic 126.

My first real very own bought by me was a Zenit B.

Did me well for many yesrs.

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Mine was green, took 110 film and used a disposable flash bar thing that took, I think, 10 flashes a go.

Then I had a red point and shoot with no flash. Then after too many rolls of blurry shots I was given a Canon point and shoot with optical zoom, flash and automatic film loading. I loved that canon.

After that I went digital with a 3MP Sony cybershot in 2003.
 
A little Hanimex Compact, I bought it myself too, I think I was 8.

Its probably in my parents loft. I loved that camera, it recorded my entire childhood.
 
My first camera was a kodak instamatic. My first SLR was a Ricoh KR10S which I still have and very occasionally use!
 
Rolleiflex 2 1/4 square twin lens reflex......:thumbs:

1st 35mm was a Pentax MX...:thumbs:
 
Wowsers - spot the posh folks with loadsadosh and a Zenit-E. I could only afford a Zenit-B so had no metering - lolol :)
 
First SLR was a 2nd hand Praktica and I was so, so proud of it. Carried it around for years until it was stolen!!
 
After a 110 p&s my Dad lent me (and since gave me) his Miranda F.

I was using it in the early 90's and developing B&W film and prints in the school's darkroom. I almost choose photography at A-level. However for a mad reason ;-) I did Maths, Physics and Chemistry. I can't say I regret not doing the A-level but with no access to a darkroom I moved on to other interests.

I intend to develop my first B&W film again this year ! :-)
 
norters said:
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.
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Me too! I think it was an Ektra.

keety said:
canon ixus mk1 for me.
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An Ixy 330 was my first 'real' (ish) camera.That was a great little camera, I bought it in Akihabara on the first day of a trip to Japan.
 
Some old plastic camera that took 127 film that was used by all the family but ended up with me because I was the only one who didn't chop people's heads off in the pics. Then it was an Instamatic, followed by a Russian Cosmic 35, then a Zenit B
 
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