Do you remember your first...

[Tuffcookie]

camera???? I was Spring cleaning today and ran across mine. I had this camera in the late 50s. I was a wannabe photographer way back then! It is a Kodak Baby Brownie. How amazing to see how far photography has come!!!

TC

 

[Anewman]

My first camera ever was some old Kodak instamatic 126 that used Cubes for flash(four flashes per cube).

My first real camera was a Canon AE-1 Program.

 

[makinorlando]

I had the Kodak 126 with the flash bulbs too, and then there was the skinny Kodak 110.

Do you remember the smell when the flash bulbs went off? Ewwww.

and remember the square photos? I have albums and albums of old photos from school and college from the instamatic cameras

I also had a Canon AE-1 back in the 80's. I had a great time with that camera!

 

[Anewman]

I had the Kodak 126 with the flash bulbs too, and then there was the skinny Kodak 110.

Do you remember the smell when the flash bulbs went off? Ewww.

I also had a Canon AE-1 back in the 80's. I had a great time with that camera!

I think the "skinny" Camera you are talking about was the DISC film cameras. Even back then I knew that if the size of the film is smaller, it cant be better.

Nevermind, just saw your edit. I never owned a 110.

 

[makinorlando]

I think the "skinny" Camera you are talking about was the DISC film cameras. Even back then I knew that if the size of the film is smaller, it cant be better.

I edited my original post - it was the Kodak 110...... I might have had a disc camera too..... come to think about it... I always had some kind of camera or another.

 

[Charade]

My first camera was a Brownie as well. That's about all I remember. Damn I'm old.

 

[Goofyish]

My first camera was a Yashica FX3. Got it when I was 18. It was a lovely, simple fully manual SLR

 

[Kelly Grannell]

Mine was a Kodak. Can't remember the model but the single-use flash comes in a strip of 7 or something. My first real camera is a Nikon (all manual SLR). My first auto-everything camera is a Canon 1000F (first generation Rebel with built-in flash).

 

[handicap18]

I had one of those Kodak 110's. Got it for x-mas when I was about 10. I took many many many pictures. A few years later I upgraded to a Kodak disk camera with a built in flash. During High School I took photography for 3 years as an elective and we used Canon AE1 Program. The first 35mm film camera I got was basically a point and shoot SLR. I think it was made by Canon. You could remove the lens (which was a zoom lens) but it didn't work to well with other lenses. I remember getting it at Sears sometime in the mid/late 80's. That served me well for a few years till the Nikon 6006 came out. I loved that camera. I probably would still have it today if it didn't get stolen back in '96.

I also remember using my fathers 35mm. I believe it was a Pentax. It was an SLR but the lens didn't come off. He got it sometime back in the 60's.

 

[RadioNate]

I got a Kodak Disc for Christmas when I was 7. Before that I used my mom's 110. I'll have to think of the other camera's I've owned.

 

[AZ JazzyJ]

The first camera I ever owned myself was an Olympus OM-10 that I bought in college after taking a photography class (which was taught by the physics department and dealt more with the technical details of capturing light than the artistic side of taking pictures). The camera was later stolen but the insurance company was very generous and I was able to replace it with an Olympus OM-2 which had just come down in price. I still have that camera and it takes great pictures. I wish I could find a good working Olympus OM-10 just to bring back the memories.


Jeff

 

[cryssi]

I'm not sure if it was my first, but I do remember having a Hello Kitty 110 camera...

 

[TriMom]

My first camera was a Kodak disk. My first "real" camera was a Pentax K1000. That was a camera you really had to understand exposure to use.

 

[Dan Murphy]

My first, I think, was a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye....... http://cameras.bretculp.com/pages/hawkeye_flash.htm

I had many of the various Kodak inventions over the years, with my first good camera, a Canon FX, sometime in the 60's.

 

[Kelly Grannell]

It seems like most of us started with Kodak. I wonder what happen (where is that evil grin emoticon?)

 

[Disneyfreak92]

I will never forget my first camera - a pink Le Clic disc camera. I used that thing for years! Just this past weekend, I was looking through a box of cameras I got when my dad passed away a couple of years ago. (He kept everything!) His disc camera was in there, as well as two different Kodak Brownies, two old Polaroids, and what appeared to be a Sears camera. I didn't have time to look into that one, but I will. I also have an old Canon of my mom's. I am not sure what one it is. I will have to check it out.

 

[jenny2]

I remember as a kid having a Polaroid instant photo. My uncle worked for Polaroid and used to get me loads of film. I also had a 110 - I can still hear that grinding noise it made as you wound the film to the next frame, lol.

My dad has a Minolta SLR from the early 70's. It's the camera I learned on because EVERYTHING was manual, lol.