what was your first camera?

[john_robison3]

<p>A Minolta Hi-Matic 9, new from Marshall Field & Co. , Chicago, 1969. Interestingly I just returned from my afternoon stroll with a Minolta 16II loaded with Double X, took a few shots.</p>

[joseph_leotta]

<p>In 1969, It was the summer just before I went into Jigh Schol and was 14 years old, After almost a year of persuading, My father took me into manhattan and we went to the Camera Barn on Broadway. He brought me a Nikon F/Ftn with a 50mm 1.4 Nikkor and Nikon Hard Case. I still have it and the bill - $ 365.00 plus tax.</p>

 

[jay_frazier]

<p>My girlfriend bought me my 1st camera a Sears TLS was told it's made by Ricoh still works built like a tank. It's from the early 70. Oh I was 16 at the time now 54 allways dreamed of Nikons. now have to many to count</p>

[patrick_mont]

<p>Canon AE-1 Program. Great camera!The oldest camera that is Fully Automatic, or Fully Manual.</p>

[valjalbertphotography]

<p>A strange, fixed-focus 35mm point-and-shoot camera. Now that I think about it, it was probably a copy of the 35mm Holga. It had a crude variable aperture and a flash hot shoe.</p>

[mostly sports]

<p>A Dick Tracy camera that I bought at age six with 50 cents and two Wheaties boxtops. I still have some photos I took with it. Very Holgaesque, used 127 film, and the photo shop returned crackle edged prints.</p><div></div>

[GerrySiegel]

<p>Mercury Universal II. Half frame 35mm with rotary shutter. Chunk of cast aluminum.</p>

[wogears]

<p>Leica III-C, collapsible Elmar f3.5. Belonged to my father, then I inherited it. Not knowing that it probably had bokeh, I sold it to get a Minolta SRT-201.</p>

[tombartlett]

<p>I'm a young 'un to photography: Canon 350D</p>

[rapyke]

<p>Praktica L... saved up and bought a package at K-mart: Body plus 50mm and 135mm... it was/is a wonderful camera... I still have it some, well, 28 years later.<br /> </p>

[tony_leinster]

<p>Canon Pellix, which had the semi silvered fixed mirror as used in the high speed (12fps) Canons so no interruption of viewfinder when shooting and very quiet. Amazing thing is that the camera when new (early 60's) in the UK was over £200, about two months salary! Oh how times have changed.</p>

[avijitsett]

<p>Yashica FX-3 Super with a 50mm/1.8 lens</p>

[bob_lazzarini]

<p>A Minolta SRT-101 with a 50mm f 1.4 lens.<br>

WOW!</p>

[Paul Lewis1664881697]

<p>First camera I ever used: Kodak Instamatic X-15<br>

First serious camera I ever used: Minolta SRT-201<br>

First serious camera I ever purchased: Nikon FM2n (used)</p>

[d_f11]

<p>Some sort of GAF 126 model back in '70., I think Henry Fonda was in the commercial.</p>

[alberta_pizzolato]

<p>Kodak Brownie - probably around 1953. Lord, that makes me feel old!</p>

[peter_ferling]

<p>Fisher price... no wait. That was a toy. Our family used instamatics, 110.<br>

My first serious camera was an Canon F-1, Navy issue. My first real purchase was a Canon T50 and 50mm lens, in 1983. The shutter broke some years ago and it was never repaired. (But my T70 and T90 make up for lost time).</p>