What was your 1st camera?

[corey]

Since I am new to photography my first camera was the Nikon D40x.
This is a very good semi-pro slr.

[m.b.]

Kodak Instamatic with 126 cartridge film. Also had the flash cubes! The first pictures I remember taking were when we visited Disneyland.

[alapin]

My first camera was Brownie Holiday, used 127 film and cost about five dollars in 1956. Still have it and several other older cameras in storage.

[kohr2000]

In 1978 a New Canon AE-1 with 50mm lens from a local camera shop called Lensart

[aintnosin]

I had 126 and 110 cameras as a kid. My first SLR was a Sears-branded Pentax manual focus that I got in high school. Lasted me 15 years until it quite literally died at the Alamo. Had a Minolta for about 10 years until I got my XTi.

[cannockwolf]

i managed to find mine lol, it was a handmedown from my dad, a Zenit E, man that pic brings back memories

[00silvergt]

LOL, notice how solid that camera looks vs what ours look like now?

[cannockwolf]

it weighed a ton! i think it was made out of cast iron LOL, and the leather smell was intense too

[hillguy]

Yashica Electro 35

[Richie1959]

i bought my first camera a Pentax 1000 in 1978 and still own it, a great camera for learning since its all manual and it takes great pictures.

[yendikeno]

Argus C-3, followed by a Minolta SRT-101.

[blumesan]

Agfa Karat. Purchased used in 1945. Had to load my own film cassettes because Agfa had, at that time, stopped producing film in their unique cassette.

[E-Man]

Originally Posted by Killjoy

My first camera was a Kodak 110 Pocket Instamatic.
It took a funky cartridge for film, and even used the square flash cubes that had four flashes in each cube, and it rotated the flash to the next side when you wound the film.

It also had a riser so that you could get the flash higher off the camera.
Hey! I've been playing with off camera flash for over 35 years now!

Hey, that was my first camera, too! I was 7 years old and got a Kodak 100 for my birthday. My parents only purchased b&w film for me (because it was cheaper at the time) and told me I could have color film when "I got better." Those one time use 4-sided flash cubes were the worst! Either I forgot to turn it after taking my picture, or it just plain didn't fire!

When I was 10 or so, I upgraded to a Kodak Disk camera. This camera was WAY better because it had a built-in flash, so I didn't get as frustrated using this one. It also had a cool 2x "zoom" feature on the front of the camera. You rotated the little square lens unit in the front of the camera to either "normal" or "2x". This kept me in pictures until I was about 19 or 20, when I got my first "real" camera - a Canon Rebel with a 35-80 zoom and a speed light 160. I took lots of pictures with this camera and greatly appreciated the increased image quality over the Kodak disk camera!

When I was about 23 or 24, I purchased the Canon A2E, a 35-135 USM, a Speedlight 430EZ, a quick flip bracket and off-camera shoe. Wow, my pictures were really cooking now!

My next purchase was a Canon Powershot S50 in 2003. I took WAY more pictures since it was digital, but it never performed like my A2E (no surprise there). Autofocus doesn't work indoors, the shutter delay seems to be about 1.5 hours, but the pictures were pretty good - when the kids were still in the frame when the camera eventually got around to making the exposure...

Finally, getting fed up with the Powershot, I just purchased a Canon 40D, a 24-105L lens, and replaced the 430EZ speedlight with a 430EX. Here we go! All of the fun of the digital restored with the features, fast focusing, and high frame rate of the A2E, but with much improved image quality.

Somehow, given the history, I don't think this is my last camera purchase...

Eric

[texasshooter]

Eric, nice little trip. I'm sure it brought back some great memories.

Shooter

[E-Man]

Shooter, Yeah, those are some fond memories. I still have many of my photos from that 110 when I was 7. There were a few more cameras in there than I thought there were... Why do all of my hobbies have to be so expensive ?!?

[kris142]

Mine is comming friday, Sony Alpha DSLR-a200

[00silvergt]

Originally Posted by kris142

Mine is comming friday, Sony Alpha DSLR-a200

Nice, congrats! Can't wait to see your pictures!

[kris142]

Lol thanks.