What was your very first camera you owned?

10 years 1 month ago #352843 by Sue Bidwell
We are cleaning up some boxes here and I found my first camera from the early 80's.  A Polaroid Sun 600 LMS!  :lol:   I completely forgot I even still had this camera.  My husband took it today, to see if he could find some film for it.  Do you remember what your first camera was? 

Do you still own it?


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10 years 1 month ago #352849 by effron
I still have a Brownie from the (fifties), a birthday gift. It takes 120 film me thinks. I haven't used it in well over fifty years. My first SLR was a Nikkormat FTN, from the early seventies. I still have it and it still works just great. The lenses I bought then mostly still work with my modern D800.....Take THAT Cannonites!!!!.....:silly:

Why so serious?
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10 years 1 month ago - 10 years 1 month ago #352921 by Shadowfixer1
My very first camera was purchased with cereal box tops. I also had some 126's and a Polaroid Swinger. If you are talking first real camera, then that would be a Pentax MX with a 50 mm 2.0 lens. That was a nice combo.
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10 years 1 month ago #352985 by DSRay
My first camera was a Brownie that I won in a shoe store drawing.  I entered when my Mom bought my summer PF Flyers.


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10 years 1 month ago #352989 by Joves
My first was one of my grandfathers 120 cameras he gave me for my ninth birthday. It was not a P&S type either, you had to adjust the f-stop for exposures. And no I do not still have it. 


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10 years 1 month ago #353185 by orion
My first camera was a Pentax K1000 a and still have it :)


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10 years 1 month ago #353207 by StephanieW
An old 110 kodak camera. Looked like a brick. Was as tough as a brick. I first got my own (a hot pink one) when I was 5 and I dropped it a lot and it kept on ticking.


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10 years 1 month ago - 10 years 1 month ago #353265 by Stealthy Ninja
I bought a Canon point and shoot (film) camera in the late 1990s
After that I got a Canon G2 in 2002
First DSLR was a Canon 40D (which I got some time in 2008)

Before 2008 I wasn't really into photography, then in 2007 I thought I might want to try it out because I tried my friends 400D and I liked the way you could play with the image (DOF) and such.  I remember not even knowing what ISO meant and asking a photographer friend (who never told me for some reason).  
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10 years 1 month ago #353325 by Studio Queen
It was a small Canon, and honestly I can't recall the model


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10 years 1 month ago #354441 by jkenney57
A Canon AE1.  It was a birthday present to myself.  It still works and when I feel blocked photographically, I dust it off and shoot a couple rolls of film.  


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10 years 1 month ago #354531 by Luca
LOL  a Polaroid 


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10 years 1 month ago #354557 by Shadowfixer1

orion wrote: My first camera was a Pentax K1000 a and still have it :)

That's the camera a lot of people started out with. My MX was just a fancier and smaller version. It had a row of lights for metering instead of a match needle. It is a fine piece of machinery.
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10 years 1 month ago - 10 years 1 month ago #354683 by Joves

Shadowfixer1 wrote:

orion wrote: My first camera was a Pentax K1000 a and still have it :)

That's the camera a lot of people started out with. My MX was just a fancier and smaller version. It had a row of lights for metering instead of a match needle. It is a fine piece of machinery.

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Yeah I loved the MX. Mine was the first brand spanking new camera I ever owned. I also liked the idea that the battery was only there for the meter, so if it went out no big deal, that was why I had a light meter.


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10 years 1 month ago #354837 by Cathy Kadolph
All I can remember is that it was a 35mm scratched up hand-me-down from my father  

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up." Pablo Picasso
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10 years 1 month ago #354947 by KZAM
It was a Nikon F Photomic with a 50mm lens 

I don't need no stink'in Signature! ha ha ha
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