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Yours in 1941 is likely the earliest. Mine is about 1950 and with a long-gone Ansco 120 Sure-Shot (I've still got a few of those prints around). My wife has been able to provide, as her dowry, two or three 1943 and 1944 Kodachromes a bit soft in color but remarkably well-preserved. Kodachrome's dye process was really solid early technology.
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Jim Mohundro
 
dwight3 said:
Since the "How Old Are You" thread is going on now, I thought I'd start a thread to find out when you people became photographers.

When did you take the first picture that was worth keeping? (or the first picture that you still have?) (not just for family remembrances, but a picture that has reasonably good composition).

(No prizes offered).
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Not my first, not the first worth keeping, no longer in my possession BUT...
The one that really ignited the spark that grew to an obsession...

Hand made, no glass involved... pin-hole camera (likely f/50000+) 24 hour plus exposure of campus taken for a physics lab. Pin hole was created by burning/melting a hole through foil using a tesla coil and recorded on 4x5 sheet film...

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Ric
 
My first camera at age 14 yrs was a Minolta SRT 101...still have it. I submitted a photo of Water Lillies to a competition and got an Honorable Mention. That started my hobby and I still have that photo on the wall.
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Peter
Ontario, Canada
 
dwight3 said:
When did you take the first picture that was worth keeping? (or the first picture that you still have?) (not just for family remembrances, but a picture that has reasonably good composition).
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Well I have kept all my early shots (1968) and I'm glad I did. IMHO most shots are worth keeping for one reason or another.

Terry
 
My interest started early... I was about 5 years old here - my father's camera & a neighbor who's father was a professional photographer took this....



This is however one of my first photos ever taken. It was taken with my Kodak Instamatic 133 or 33 which I bought for my own won money on Bingo at the ripe age of 9 years.... My Boxer Leedestad's Amulette (scanned in from a 40 year old little print)



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dwight3 said:
...The earliest one I can identify was from a vacation trip in the summer of 1951. I remember an earlier one, but I don't have a copy now, and it was not exposed well...
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Actually I have 5 slides that I copied from that trip. They're now in my gallery.
 
With a Kodak brownie camera. I wrapped a Frisbe in aluminum foil and attempted to fake UFO photos. The best one came back from the lab with a funny hole in the neg.

I limited showing shots to a couple friends, the endeavor was for our own amusement.
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'Nice camera, you must take good pictures'
 
I was eleven years old when my father switched to Canon and gave me his old Praktica SLR with a Pentacon 50mm 1.8 and a sekonic light meter.
Everything was completely manual.

It has been a good school. Lots of wasted shot at the beginning but then i got the hang of it and a ton of fun.
 
I was 6, and bought a plastic 127 roll camera in Spain that shot half frames for US 0,10...
It was not so bad for B&W, but had no controls whatsoever...

I got a better (well....) camera when I was 10 (1967), this one 35mm, and with 3 f stops, but still no meter, etc.
There, things started to rock.....
 
Used father's old Kodak Brownie, BW film. For first new camera (124 Instamatic)Cartridge loaded Black and White. Had to shoot that for a few "rolls" before trying out Color print film. I was, um, 9 years old.
 
First Pictures were with a Kodak instamatic, early 60's I can still remember the pictures but sadly they are long gone. I wish I had those.

It was my wearing black days. Black pants, black jacket etc. I was 10.

People who take digital today will never understand how careful you had to be with each shot because if "cost you" in developing and in film, so you took only one picture and it had to count.

Today you can take 50 pictures of the same scene and throw away 49.
 
A lot of brownies out there in the first photo list.

I used a brownie too as my first camera, also a family Kodak folding camera, 620 film as I recall. I also had a 620 box camera (probably Kodak) with a flash. You could use the bright flashbulbs or the fast flashbulbs. The bright ones had a ball of magnesium wool inside. The fast ones just had two wires with something coated on the end, and a thin wire between them. Worked much better on action shots. Not as fast as a strobe, but probably in the fractional millisecond range.

All the pictures were snapshots until I got my first 35mm around 1949 or '50. Then it was slides. Don't remember any of the snapshots, but some of the slides are what I still have.
 
Agfa Silette Pronto, when in service in Cyprus
 
I need a scanner, I have about 5K negatives (b&w) waiting for a revival. There are some earlier ones, but these I really have close to heart.

A 1977 shot I shot with D80+105Micro (the original old print):



And here's one of Ansel Adams from 1983 (just before he died, on an autograph night in a SF bookstore), shot with my beloved Leica M3 + Summicron 35, also scanned from old print:



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Renato.
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Good shooting and good luck
(after Ed Murrow)
 
Got tired of the all-automatic operation pretty quickly and replaced it with a Rebel S II and a simple 50mm prime. Wasn't until 1992, though, when a photojournalism class at University had me focus more on lighting and composition, and learned how to shoot and develop black-and-white films, that I got bitten! Haven't been without a camera since.
dwight3 said:
Since the "How Old Are You" thread is going on now, I thought I'd start a thread to find out when you people became photographers.

When did you take the first picture that was worth keeping? (or the first picture that you still have?) (not just for family remembrances, but a picture that has reasonably good composition).

The earliest one I can identify was from a vacation trip in the summer of 1951. I remember an earlier one, but I don't have a copy now, and it was not exposed well.

(No prizes offered).
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Kabe Luna

http://www.garlandcary.com
 
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