OT: What was your first camera?

drwho9437 · Nov 20, 2005

While this is off topic, I am in this forum the most often, and know the work of some of the regulars here to be pretty good. (Lucky I get to tell myself that most of you are far older than I, so I have time to catch you).

But I'm interested what was your first camera (both serious and not)?

My first serious was a Canon AE-1 Program, first at all was an instimatic something or other. Some people miss their first cars, I miss my first camera.
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rkhndjr · Nov 20, 2005

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A Kodak 35mm slr I got for nothing. I had a drug store and a fellow came in with the camera and said the back was broken and he didn't want to fool with it. I took it, sent it to Kodak and got started with 35mm film and never stopped until I got digital which is so much more fun.
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Steven Sterne · Nov 20, 2005

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Another birder · Nov 20, 2005

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Cal Dawson · Nov 20, 2005

pocket instamatic 110 was my first...Then a Yashica TLectroX 35mm which got me into 35mmabout 1973?
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camera eye · Nov 20, 2005

110 pocket instamatic (1975)

K1000 first slr (1980)

RB first medium format (1987)

Cambo/Calumet first 4x5 view camera (1088)

D60 first dslr
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jackkurtz · Nov 20, 2005

Film - Canon FT-QL (circa 1967)
Digital - Canon/Kodak DCS520 (circa 1998)

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IulianBejan · Nov 20, 2005

...with Helios 58mm f2
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Peter White · Nov 20, 2005

It had a viewfinder but no rangefinder. You guessed focus. It did have a few adjustable f stops and shutter speeds. Got some nice pics with it.

Then, Canonflex R2000. FTb. AT-1. New F-1. Leica M4. Rolleiflex 2.8C. Hasselblad SWC. Wisner 4x5. Drebel. 20D and 5D.

Ther we re a few others but who's counting. ;-)

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mattMatt · Nov 20, 2005

Then EOS 300 film camera.

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BanLecter · Nov 20, 2005

we were sooo happy with them...
a bag full of second hand lenses, teleconverters and stuff.

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Fritz Byle · Nov 20, 2005

An Exakta Varex IIa. I still have it, and it still works beautifully. It was my Dad's, he gave it to me around 1973. He had gotten it from someone who had used it on a beach shoot and gotten sand in it. He disassembled and cleaned it and had himself a nice cam for nothing!

I had a Tessar 50/2.8, and an Angenieux 35mm. Later I got a Steinheil 135mm macro and Steinheil 35mm macro, great lenses.
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Frank from AZ · Nov 20, 2005

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Shane Pope · Nov 20, 2005

Hi All

My first few were the Olimpus OM10 followed by the OM4 then the Canon AE1 Programe... all of which my wife sold off in a garage sale will I was in a period of transition from employee to pensioner (due to four back operations) and since then I have been rebitten by the camera bug and have purchased the 20D and a Canon i9950 a3+ photo printer and big ambitions for a lot more lens and camera equipment

Cheers

Shane

VincentJ · Nov 20, 2005

That was a weird camera, had shutter priority but no aperture priority. I liked it, though. It finally succumbed to the dreaded squeaky shutter/mirror problem and I shelved it. Is still lying around though, I wouldn't sell it.

cardfan · Nov 20, 2005

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bevansmsu · Nov 20, 2005

It was a film camera and I even had my own darkroom.

drwho9437 · Nov 20, 2005

Mine has the squeak too! I sold it on ebay and got a A-1 as my second serious, which is now with my father, who uses it in place of his old FTb I think. I chose the FD stuff because it was inexpencive since EF had already taken over before I started (which was circa 1997... for serious)
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EOSThree · Nov 20, 2005

First real camera was a Canon AE-1, First digital was some kind of terrible point and shoot eyeQ or something, first real digital was Canon S30.
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