OT: What was your first camera?

Martin Ligr · Nov 21, 2005

http://www.kameramuseum.de/1ddr/certo-sl-110.html

peteb · Nov 21, 2005

My first (serious) camera was AE-1P as my Dad the AE-1

I had a no brand 110 prior to that. I still have the AE-1P at my parents house somewhere.

drwho9437 said:
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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Aguru · Nov 21, 2005

The first camera that I used was my brother's Rolleiflex 2.8E2; I was 5-yr old at the time. Later on I had my own rangefinder Canon Canonet. The first and last film SLR is the Nikon FE which stills works perfectly. My first digital camera was the Olympus 2100-uz whose 2-MP image quality still impresses me.

Bill Spencer · Nov 21, 2005

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Photography taught me how to see!

devnull · Nov 21, 2005

...Smena model something. Then a chinese children toy - but medium format! Unfortunately, it did let light in...

And my first camera I really used was some brandless hyperfocal compact.

d/n

drwho9437 · Nov 21, 2005

I had a Yashika medium format view camera (is that the word two lens look down on the focusing screen), it was cool I shot a little BW with it, but there was no real apatures or exact timing for the spring, Maybe it was just the spring that had no real timeing, cause I remember useing a stop watch to figure out long exposure and then used my SLR as the meter. It was so much work that like I said a little BW. haha.
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Gary Coombs · Nov 21, 2005

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A good photograph is knowing where to stand. -Ansel Adams

Dave Clyburn · Nov 21, 2005

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'But maybe then we are all of us lookin through the wrong end of the glass.'
-- Cormac McCarthy, 'No Country for Old Men.'

sebhoff213144 · Nov 21, 2005

A (used) Minolta SRT 101

RLH1861 · Nov 21, 2005

I still have mine in the closet SRT101, 55mm f1.4 Rokkor, 28mm f2.8 vivitar, 200mm f2.8 vivitar lens. I used it until 2 years ago when i got my 300D. the SRt's meter has died, otherwise it is still quite useable but of course you cannot even give it away!!

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RLH1861 · Nov 21, 2005

2 1/4 cameras, nothing fancy. My dad had a Bolsey (US made) 35 mm and then he had a Yashica Lynx 5000 which I used often. but the Minolta was the first camera I called my own as ayoung adult

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netgarden · Nov 21, 2005

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DSC V1 Sony, Mavica FD88, Fuji s5000, Canon 20D

RF Cat · Nov 21, 2005

It was old when I was a kid.
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Have fun while learning digital photography.
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Lani Kai · Nov 21, 2005

After finding out that I really do like photography (and all the shortcomings of a compact digital camera) I moved on to the Digital Rebel, and now to the 20D.
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Kevin Coppalotti · Nov 22, 2005

My first camera was a nail hole in a sheet of roofing iron that clad the exterior wall of my fathers shearing shed. A piece of paper held near the hole in bright sunlight captured the image by fading various parts of the paper to form an image. I was hooked!
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alcedo · Nov 22, 2005

Agfa Rapid back in 1973

Aguru · Nov 22, 2005

the upside-down images with faint colors, and yet, that was far more exciting than TV nowadays!

Kevin Coppalotti said:
My first camera was a nail hole in a sheet of roofing iron that
clad the exterior wall of my fathers shearing shed. A piece of
paper held near the hole in bright sunlight captured the image by
fading various parts of the paper to form an image. I was hooked!
--
Kevin Coppalotti
http://razorsharp.smugmug.com

icsDave · Nov 22, 2005

From long long ago in a far far away place Ft-ql with a 50 1.4 fl lens

Dave L

Marco · Nov 22, 2005

Great little camera btw...

Glenn D · Nov 22, 2005

I found this on ebay one day.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Canon-squeak-and-squeal-repair-A-1-AE-1-AE-1-Program_W0QQitemZ7564751095QQcategoryZ107919QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

My A-1 developed squak after about 7 years. I also have a T90 which was amazing at the time. I love those cameras and only stopped using them when I got my G2 then 10D. My first "real" camera was a Canon AT-1 with match needle exposure. I sold it in 1983 to buy a A-1 . I miss ff and manual focus. Yes I know that you can manual focus now but it in not the same at all.

Glenn

drwho9437 said:
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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