Just curious, Firts Camera You had or still have?

Stephen Cook · Jan 24, 2003

That was my first "serious" camera. One thing I loved about it was you could take it anywhere. I took photos in caves, inside burning buildings, Haiti, you name it. Loved that camera. Heck, I've never had a camera I didn't love.

salim madjd said:
with a 50 lense

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mgkaplan · Jan 24, 2003

Ari Riutto said:
Hey,
Just for fun and curiousity.
What was Your very first camera?
I have still my AE-1

Have a warm and happy day (again snowing and getting cold here in
Finland)

Ari-

Doug Warner · Jan 24, 2003

As a reminder to leave some repairs to the experts.

Full size ones here:
http://www.pbase.com/dwarner/d60

Richard Rollman · Jan 24, 2003

Took pictures at high school dances with Kodak Duaflex in 1950-1953.

Still have one I bought at camera flee market for $1.00. Can't get 620 film anymore.

Jeff Singer said:
Jeff

Ari Riutto said:

Hey,
Just for fun and curiousity.
What was Your very first camera?
I have still my AE-1

Have a warm and happy day (again snowing and getting cold here in
Finland)

Ari-

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D60, 28-135IS, 50mm f1.4, 75-300IS

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Russell Stewart · Jan 24, 2003

Hey Doug, I think that makes two of us that have Mirandas.... Should we ask Phil for our own forum??

Russell

Doug Warner said:
This may have been the first. I think I bought it used with a
monocular that mounted to the front of the lens with an adapter
ring.

David Eppstein · Jan 25, 2003

Ari Riutto said:
Hey,
Just for fun and curiousity.
What was Your very first camera?
I have still my AE-1

It was some kind of twin-lens reflex (Yashica?) I had as a kid. For some reason my dad had heard it was a good camera to learn from. I didn't do much with it, I think it was too frustrating to use. Much later (I think after college) I got a Nikon EM which really was a good learning camera.

My 8yo daughter had a 35mm point and shoot first, but it wasn't very satisfactory -- she would take lots of pictures that we would consider a pointless waste of film, didn't make for good interactions. We replaced it with a Fuji A101 (1.3Mp digital) which is a big improvement all around: she can (and sometimes does) take large numbers of pictures, we don't have to worry about development, she gets instant feedback on whether she got the effect she wanted, etc. Will be interesting to see how growing up digital ends up affecting the next generation of photographers...

Dan Brown · Jan 25, 2003

Hey, remember that one "meet the swinger, the polaroid swinger,it's only nineteen dollars and ninety five, swing it up it say yes ", I think that was something like the original soundtrack for the commercial. I had one as well. I guess I am kind of dating myself.

Stephen Cook said:
Ari Riutto said:

Hey,
Just for fun and curiousity.
What was Your very first camera?
I have still my AE-1

Have a warm and happy day (again snowing and getting cold here in
Finland)

Ari-

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natpark1 · Jan 25, 2003

Don't remember which model or anything as I was about 6-8 yrs old, just that it was all black and a kodak disc.

Brett

Andy G · Jan 25, 2003

Ari Riutto said:
Hey,
Just for fun and curiousity.
What was Your very first camera?
I have still my AE-1

Have a warm and happy day (again snowing and getting cold here in
Finland)

Ari-

ShootingD60 · Jan 25, 2003

My first camera was the above with a Domiplan 50mm f2.8 (apparently the worst lens What Camera ever tested ) and a pentacon 135mm f2.8. I got some really excellent pictures and when I borrowed my dad's Galaxy 400 f6.3 got some great drag racing pics too.
History then goes Praktica EE2
Canon A1,
Canon T90
Canon EOS 5 (and some new lenses cos the others wouldn't fit)
and finally a D60 (luckily the lense mount hasn't changed for this one)
I also own an A1 and all the kit, T90 with more kit too.

Did I mention I love Canon cameras ?

Peter D45742 · Jan 25, 2003

1 AE-1
2 A-1
3 T-90 { my favorite film camera }
4 Kodak D-60 dig
5 Nikon 990
6 Canon 1-D

Still have all but # 4

Petie

tto said:
Hey,
Just for fun and curiousity.
What was Your very first camera?
I have still my AE-1

Have a warm and happy day (again snowing and getting cold here in
Finland)

Ari-

GR · Jan 25, 2003

Can't remember which was first. Owned Nikon 35mm and Hasselblad and Pentax medium format film based cameras. First digital camera was a Nikon 990. Currently own a Canon D30.

Ari Riutto said:
Hey,
Just for fun and curiousity.
What was Your very first camera?
I have still my AE-1

Have a warm and happy day (again snowing and getting cold here in
Finland)

Ari-

GR · Jan 25, 2003

Got it for Christmas when I was in the 7th or 8th grade in school. Had to develope the print by placing it in hinged metal plates and putting it under your arm for a certain amount of time, then peeling the negative from the print. One of my favorite gifts ever.

GR said:
Ari Riutto said:

Hey,
Just for fun and curiousity.
What was Your very first camera?
I have still my AE-1

Have a warm and happy day (again snowing and getting cold here in
Finland)

Ari-

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Rylee Isitt · Jan 25, 2003

My first was a pentax k1000. My dad gave it to me, but it broke. Then I got another pentak k1000 and it got stolen. So finally I gave up and got a D60!

Ari Riutto said:
Hey,
Just for fun and curiousity.
What was Your very first camera?
I have still my AE-1

Have a warm and happy day (again snowing and getting cold here in
Finland)

Ari-

RichW · Jan 25, 2003

Sang Peiris · Jan 25, 2003

Canon EOS A2 --> Canon EOS 3 --> Canon EOS D60

j meadows · Jan 25, 2003

Dave Deacon · Jan 26, 2003

'Twas but three short years ago. I got a Fuji MX1500 digicam. Still going strong with my sister.

Dave
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Mike Fulton · Jan 26, 2003

Ari Riutto said:
Hey,
Just for fun and curiousity.
What was Your very first camera?
I have still my AE-1

Have a warm and happy day (again snowing and getting cold here in
Finland)

Ari-

It was a GAF (remember them!) Instamatic 126 that I got for Xmas when I was 8 years old in 1971. I don't remember the exact fate of that camera. I know it was still lying around in a drawer somewhere when I got serious about photography a few years later, but it's since been lost to the years.

I also had a little 110 pocket camera for awhile that we'd gotten at Magic Mountain on a birthday trip one year when everybody had forgotten to bring a camera.

After that, my first REAL camera (grin) was the Minolta XD-11, which I got when I was a High School Sophomore. I was probably 15 years old, maybe 16, in late 1979 or early 1980. It was the first SLR to have both aperture-preferred and shutter speed-preferred exposure automation, beating the Canon A-1 by just a few months.

I still have that first XD-11, and it still works beautifully. Other than the occasional cleaning, it's never been in for service. I still use it occasionally with the 85mm Varisoft variable soft focus lens.

I also had a second XD-11 that didn't survive but a few years. (Actually, I may still have the carcass of that one lying around somewhere too.)

Mike

Randy Williams · Jan 26, 2003

Just curious, Firts Camera You had or still have?

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