What and When?

[Mo Kwart]

What camera did you start with and when was that? I would love to see some of your early stuff.


C1A Trader on the USS Tichonderoga, Gulf of Tonkin, 1970, Pentax Spotmatic, 50mm, original on Kodachrome


Stan Getz in front of the Keystone Corner Jazz Club in San Francisco, About 1974, Canon Ftb (I think), Original on Kodacolor printed on high contrast b/w paper.

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[BeatX]

I've started photography around 2005.
One of my first photos, which I was very proud off back then haha

Taken by Fuji Finepix S9600 with some completely manual external flash (no electronics contacts) with simple diffuser on a flash head lol
I've made veeery long way in my photography adventure, since back then..

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[Morris0]

My first camera was a Kodak 127 and my second a Kodak Brownie Jr. It will take me forever to find images I took with them when I was 7 so I'll fast forward to Fall of 1996 and share this image I took of the Yellowstone's Lower Falls taken with a Canon AE1 on Kodak Gold 400.

Morris

 

[Tinker15]

My first camera was a Canon AE-1 followed by a Canon A1. My first digital camera was a Canon EOS 10D followed by a EOS 20D which I still have. I don’t have any photos from my film days but do from my early digital time.

The one below was from the 20D and shows my pride and joy back in 2005.

I still have the registration number on the car but it’s now on a BMW Z4.

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[Mo Kwart]

Is that a Morgan. Really a very beautiful machine. Great photograph.

 

[Tinker15]

Is that a Morgan. Really a very beautiful machine. Great photograph.

Yes it’s a Morgan Plus 8. The photo was taken near Guillestre in the Hautes-Alpes, France not far from the Italian border. Happy days!

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[Artur Darulewski]

In analog era I had soviet Zenit-E (it was bought by father), but my first digital camera (bought by me in 2002) was Olympus C-1Z (1.3MP), next serious upgrade was Fuji S5500 in 2005.

One of my first photos from Oly:

Cathedral in my hometown (Winter 2002)

Playing with macro...[

Well, today my phone makes much better photos than my first digital camera... but I still have my Helios-44M-4 58mm/2 and use it time to with my Fuji-X with success

Cheers,

Artur

 

[Yannis1976]

My first camera was a Canon AE-1 followed by a Canon A1. My first digital camera was a Canon EOS 10D followed by a EOS 20D which I still have. I don’t have any photos from my film days but do from my early digital time.

The one below was from the 20D and shows my pride and joy back in 2005.

I still have the registration number on the car but it’s now on a BMW Z4.

please don’t tell me you sold that car!!!

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[Joachim Gerstl]

Hi,

No images from my analog days which started in the 80s and more seriously in 1989 when I bought my first camera with my own money.

But I have an example taken with my first serious digital camera the Nikon D1 that I got second hand in 2002.

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[Tinker15]

My first camera was a Canon AE-1 followed by a Canon A1. My first digital camera was a Canon EOS 10D followed by a EOS 20D which I still have. I don’t have any photos from my film days but do from my early digital time.

The one below was from the 20D and shows my pride and joy back in 2005.

I still have the registration number on the car but it’s now on a BMW Z4.

please don’t tell me you sold that car!!!

I’m afraid so. As I got older I was finding it increasingly difficult to get in and out of. I had Morgans for going on 20 years but now run a BMW Z4 which is a little more comfortable for my aging bones!

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[Mo Kwart]

Aging bones, but not an aging spirit.

 

[jrk]

My first film camera was a Kodak 104 Instamatic which I got as a Christmas gift in the early to mid 1960's. My first digital camera was the Fuji S602 zoom which I got when it was first released in 2002 (I believe). My neighbor was a sales rep for Fuji at the time and I actually had the camera before it was released publicly. I still have the Fuji but not the Kodak.

 

[xtm]

My first serious camera was a Sony Mavica FD-91 that my boss gave me in 1999: https://www.dpreview.com/articles/7734530884/throwback-thursday-the-sony-mavica-fd-91

I loved that it used a 3.5 diskette that I can simply load into D:\ drive and email the pics in AOL or to my webspace at Geocities! The 320x240 resolution was HUGE and you can only fit about 20 photos in a diskette so I often found myself shooting at a small JPG of about 100x150. That was good enough for Geocities webpages but sometimes even Netscape Navigator couldn't download it fast enough.

I will post some pics from it once it's done writing to the diskette.

 

[kenosis]

I started with Nikon D7000 in 2010. In 2017, I changed to Fujifilm X-T2, followed by X-T4. Now, I am using X-H2S since the day it is available.

 

[MJ_Photo38]

I don't have any pictures on this computer right now, but technically I started with whatever my dad was using when I was a kid.

Before 2009, that was a mix of small point and shoot cameras (digital and film) like a Nikon L5, or an Olympus Superzoom 110. Then in 2009, my dad bought his first DSLR in the shape of a Nikon D60, so that's what I used.

I studied optics and camera sensors in university in 2018/2019 and finished my uni training with a degree in optronics in 2020. That got me a little more interested in cameras themselves, but wasn't enough to make me want more than what the D60 offered.

I started getting really interested in photography during COVID, as we were all stuck at home, and I wanted to document things a little more than with my crappy phone when it came to video.

I bought a Canon M50 brand new in a store, which I hated using because of its cheap toy like feeling. I quickly sold it, and bought a used Fuji X-T1 instead for a cheap price, got an X-T2 the following year, and starting shooting video again as part of my documenting process. Then fell into the old camera rabbit hole, started taking some jobs, and upgraded my cameras more than I should have. Currently shooting with a Nikon Z6, Fuji X-Pro2 and Olympus E-M5ii (among some old Nikon DSLRs). I still have my X-T1 and will probably never sell it.

I'm very much still a noob, and still learning !

 

[Tinker15]

Floppy discs! Now there’s a blast from the past. Installing MS Windows 95 from heaven knows how many discs to find the last one was duff. Now my laptop and desktop don’t even have a DVD/CD player.

 

[Truman Prevatt]

I can only go back so far. Everything I had prior to the early 1980 was destroyed by my ex-wife throwing them in the garbage without my knowledge or permission.

This dates back to the early 1980's. Taken with my beloved Mamiya RB67, PanX, 1/2 second exposure developed in Rodinal 1:100.

Falls on Senica Creek, WVA



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[baobob]

June21st music day

Geris

Solitude

The pink lady

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[IcedCocoa]

I think the first camera "I started with" was the red Samsung ST65. It wasn't bought for me, but during winter 2012 for staying in Malaysia with my grandmother, I was given the camera. For 10yo who only had understanding of 'press/touch the shutter button = take a photo' for photography, it was a very neat camera - looking back, I think that was the first time I felt photography as fun and something to be passionate about other than (and eventually more than) video games.

 

[RobRoy22]

First camera was a Kodak Instamatic 50 using 126 film, Christmas present aged 10. Next was 35mm Canonet 28 when I was 20. Sadly no scanned images from either of those although I shot a lot of print, and especially slide film over many years with Canon A1, Yashica T-AF and Contax T2. Anyway here are a couple from the film era which I did scan for some reason unknown, both in 1984. Car long gone but same wife still.

My digital journey began in 2004 with a Canon Powershot G6. This early pic seems kind of appropriate..