What was your first camera? SLR or DC and what was it?

[vasant paranjape]

My first SLR was Nikon Nikromat with nikkor F1.4 lens.I am still using the camera.My first digicam was canon Zapshot with a nonstanderd floppy storage.Both cameras are still in top working conditions,except canon's battery which canon stoped making it.I still can use it with AC.

After that I had several other cameras,ranging from Fuji,casio and sony digital.I used canon zapshot with Targa16 capture card on 386 machine.

The captured photos were so good in both clarity and sharpness that even my F707 does not give me the same satisfaction.

vasant

I was talking with several in a group today. We were talking aoout
photography and everyone seemed to enjoy discussing which was our
very first camera owned. Two had never owned an SLR a few told me
their first camera was a Poloroid Swinger. lol

So, please take a moment and, let us all know what was your first
camera, an SLR or Digicam?

And, which camera model was it.... if you can remember?

Last, if you've had several cameras.... which was your favorite?

It will be interesting to know.

Thank you,
Mark J.
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Mark J.

 

[GeeJay]

Maybe you should start a thread for all the people who started photography with a Kodak Brownie....Wouldn't it be interesting to see how old they are and hear their stories. I started with the Brownie and have been taking pictures ever since. I joined the first camera thread a few days ago as having a Brownie as my first camera. Glad there are others who have signed in and reported about their Brownie.

GeeJay

erichocinc wrote:

Hey not only would I believe it was a Brownie....
there are several people in this thread who's first was a Brownie!!
So, you are not alone. There are obviously a few STF members who
are from the same era as you. Wait, era sounds too ancient. lol
Let's change that to decade.

Thank you for participating

Mark J.

 

[killer]

1956 I got a Kodak Retina 1b with a Schneider-Kreutznach famous lens.
Giving beatifull scanns!

Still in use! Before that I had an Boxcamera Corona named Coronet (with patent smile No 377036 4.5x6 cm) Use it now and then to show people
that there was only one big step - the picture! And it's fun - and it works!
It has never been at Corona for reparatin. Fix-Focus(uouto-focus?? smile .

You should see peoples faces when I use it - You should also see peoples faces seing the result.

Regards
Bo Wrangborg
Sweden

After that I had several other cameras,ranging from Fuji,casio and
sony digital.I used canon zapshot with Targa16 capture card on 386
machine.
The captured photos were so good in both clarity and sharpness that
even my F707 does not give me the same satisfaction.

vasant

I was talking with several in a group today. We were talking aoout
photography and everyone seemed to enjoy discussing which was our
very first camera owned. Two had never owned an SLR a few told me
their first camera was a Poloroid Swinger. lol

So, please take a moment and, let us all know what was your first
camera, an SLR or Digicam?

And, which camera model was it.... if you can remember?

Last, if you've had several cameras.... which was your favorite?

It will be interesting to know.

Thank you,
Mark J.
--
Mark J.

 

[Mark J]

Wow Bo....

those are cameras I've NEVER even heard of. Of course, when you got your first camera (1956) i was only 1 year old !!!!! lol

They sound very interesting though. I would love to see a picture of what they look like. Would you be kind enough to post a pic or two of them?

Thanks for participating.

Mark J.

Regards
Bo Wrangborg
Sweden

After that I had several other cameras,ranging from Fuji,casio and
sony digital.I used canon zapshot with Targa16 capture card on 386
machine.
The captured photos were so good in both clarity and sharpness that
even my F707 does not give me the same satisfaction.

vasant

I was talking with several in a group today. We were talking aoout
photography and everyone seemed to enjoy discussing which was our
very first camera owned. Two had never owned an SLR a few told me
their first camera was a Poloroid Swinger. lol

So, please take a moment and, let us all know what was your first
camera, an SLR or Digicam?

And, which camera model was it.... if you can remember?

Last, if you've had several cameras.... which was your favorite?

It will be interesting to know.

Thank you,
Mark J.
--
Mark J.

 

[cUrVe]

no idea what my first camera was. but here's a pic of me taking a pic of someone taking a pic of me using my last slr, a canon A-1(over 20 years ago). before that i had a canon F-1 (which is what the person taking the pic of me taking a pic of them was using). are you still with me here? ;-)

for 10 years i didn't take any pictures at all until i bought my 707 named phoebe (yes i gave my camera a name too after sarah once told me she named hers bob ).

 

[ybnormal]

I was talking with several in a group today. We were talking aoout
photography and everyone seemed to enjoy discussing which was our
very first camera owned. Two had never owned an SLR a few told me
their first camera was a Poloroid Swinger. lol

So, please take a moment and, let us all know what was your first
camera, an SLR or Digicam?

And, which camera model was it.... if you can remember?

Last, if you've had several cameras.... which was your favorite?

It will be interesting to know.

Thank you,
Mark J.

ybnormal wrote:

MarkJ., I posted the link to the pictures of the Old Camera & pictures taken with it on a separate thread. But here's the link in case you miss it. And again--- I'm not That Old... LOL 8D
http://www.pbase.com/ybnormal/galleries

--
Mark J.

 

[Hawkeyes]

A Contax, then Nikon F3 a long time ago. Baby we have come along way.

 

[rjfaraway]

i got a mamiya 35mm when i was a kid then nikon fm2 in the navy

then a mamiya 645 as a pro. sold the 645 kept the nikon but love my dsc-f707 as a dad. now i don't have to build a darkroom and remember chemical mixing formulas............lol rj

 

[Hawkeyes]

i got a mamiya 35mm when i was a kid then nikon fm2 in the navy
then a mamiya 645 as a pro. sold the 645 kept the nikon but love my
dsc-f707 as a dad. now i don't have to build a darkroom and
remember chemical mixing formulas............lol rj

Speaking of Mamiya, you reminded me of the old Twin Lens Mamiya I had before the Mamiya 645, then a Hassy. All the darkroom hours and lab charges. Boy am I excited about my 707. It is cool. It takes some of the best pics I have seen.

 

[Mark J]

Well...... I'm not sure which I'm more fascinated with, the old camera or the old pictures!!

Thank you so much for uploading those for me to enjoy.... and I did.

Mark J.

 

[ybnormal]

Well...... I'm not sure which I'm more fascinated with, the old
camera or the old pictures!!

Thank you so much for uploading those for me to enjoy.... and I did.

Mark J.

ybnormal wrote:

Mark J., Did it look like anything you might have expected to?. I always thought it look very much like my first Polariod. Very compact figuring they were still trying to fine tune their products back then. Boy have we come a long way! 8-} Shayron

 

[John Lai]

My first (I made it myself) was a pin hole camera which displayed images upside down. No CA, no barrel distorsion, no BSF, no dead pixels...nothing. Of course it could not take pictures (you did not specifty that !) Lol.

My second is a Minolta SLR (SRT 100X) which I bought 22 years ago and is still working perfectly. Everything is manual. This is my favourite.

Best Regards
John

I was talking with several in a group today. We were talking aoout
photography and everyone seemed to enjoy discussing which was our
very first camera owned. Two had never owned an SLR a few told me
their first camera was a Poloroid Swinger. lol

So, please take a moment and, let us all know what was your first
camera, an SLR or Digicam?

And, which camera model was it.... if you can remember?

Last, if you've had several cameras.... which was your favorite?

It will be interesting to know.

Thank you,
Mark J.
--
Mark J.

 

[MFC]

Minolta X700...still works great...got in 1984

So, please take a moment and, let us all know what was your first
camera, an SLR or Digicam?

 

[Mark J]

Well..... we certainly have come a long way haven't we??

We now have digital cameras that large corporations manufacture, with defects that baffle the end user. lol Look how long it took Sony to figure out that people like haveing an actual viewfinder on their digicams?
Not everyone is in love with the LCD screens.

I bet your old camera didn't have any defects... other than it's own natural limitations? Right? Or, was yours defective?

ybnormal wrote:
Mark J., Did it look like anything you might have expected to?. I
always thought it look very much like my first Polariod. Very
compact figuring they were still trying to fine tune their products
back then. Boy have we come a long way! 8-} Shayron

 

[Mark J]

How do you folks (most of you ) seem to remember the year you bought your first cameras??

I guess it's like your first car?

Or in some cases, someone's first wife? LOL

So, please take a moment and, let us all know what was your first
camera, an SLR or Digicam?

 

[dave525]

Like many others, my true first camera was a 127-size Kodak Brownie that my dad gave me inthe 2nd grade. My first 'photographers camera' was a rangefinder 35mm Canonet 1.9 that I used for a few years before moving to a Mamiya-Sekor SLR. And it's been all money pouring ot of my wallet ever since!

 

[ybnormal]

ybnormal wrote:

Mark J, It doesn't look like it. And I'm afraid I'm one of the ones that almost totally use the viewfinder. I wear glasses at times but I don't use them to take pictures so I can't trust the LCD. Pictures are sharper for me using the eye piece. IMHO I think they would have been doing such a great camera an injustice by leaving it off. Good for us 'old fogies' lol 8D Shayron

 

[Mark J]

Has anyone see the really cool pictures ybnormal posted of that OLD, and I mean OLD camera?

And, have you seen the images that were taken with that camera... also uploaded in ybnormals gallery (see link in their thread)

I was talking with several in a group today. We were talking aoout
photography and everyone seemed to enjoy discussing which was our
very first camera owned. Two had never owned an SLR a few told me
their first camera was a Poloroid Swinger. lol

So, please take a moment and, let us all know what was your first
camera, an SLR or Digicam?

And, which camera model was it.... if you can remember?

Last, if you've had several cameras.... which was your favorite?

It will be interesting to know.

Thank you,
Mark J.
--
Mark J.

 

[Robert Holloway]

1975 - Fujica 705 SLR still in use with my sister

1978 - Canon A1 SLR

1981 - Canon AE1 SLR

1999 - Pentax Z5n SLR

2001 - Sony 85 Digital

2001 - Canon G2

2002 - Digital SLR for sure Nikon 100 or Canon D60, I'm not sure yet

Rob

I was talking with several in a group today. We were talking aoout
photography and everyone seemed to enjoy discussing which was our
very first camera owned. Two had never owned an SLR a few told me
their first camera was a Poloroid Swinger. lol

So, please take a moment and, let us all know what was your first
camera, an SLR or Digicam?

And, which camera model was it.... if you can remember?

Last, if you've had several cameras.... which was your favorite?

It will be interesting to know.

Thank you,
Mark J.
--
Mark J.

 

[Mark J]

Great job Robert!! The dates and everything. Bet you remember them as though they were each like a first date? lol

Now.... do you remember this?????

What was the difference between the A-1 & the AE-1??

I had only the AE-1 and, I loved that camera like a brother.

1978 - Canon A1 SLR

1981 - Canon AE1 SLR

1999 - Pentax Z5n SLR

2001 - Sony 85 Digital

2001 - Canon G2

2002 - Digital SLR for sure Nikon 100 or Canon D60, I'm not sure yet

Rob

I was talking with several in a group today. We were talking aoout
photography and everyone seemed to enjoy discussing which was our
very first camera owned. Two had never owned an SLR a few told me
their first camera was a Poloroid Swinger. lol

So, please take a moment and, let us all know what was your first
camera, an SLR or Digicam?

And, which camera model was it.... if you can remember?

Last, if you've had several cameras.... which was your favorite?

It will be interesting to know.

Thank you,
Mark J.
--
Mark J.