how old were you when you got your first camera?

[jann1033]

just wondering when that bug bit...( thanks to gdad's?)
i think i was probably 8 or 9 when i got a snappy ansco cadet..wish i had some photos i had taken with it

 

[We-Luv-Disney]

I think I was like 12?? I got a cheap 110 camera for my birthday....I used it to photograph the scale models i had built. I still have many of the photos...

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I was probably around 9 or 10 when I first got my "own" camera, but I remember always being the one to use the "family" camera (a Polaroid Land camera, something like this LOL);

then various Kodaks including 110, etc).

I was a young adult when I got my first Nikon, and later Canon, 35mm automatics (wish now I'd made the jump to a 35mm SLR then - I did consider it but I had no idea how to use one nor did I know anyone who had one, etc).

First pns digital in 2003; moved to Canon S3 in 2006; first dSLR coming this week. Better late than never.

 

[ukcatfan]

Here is a link to what my first camera was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Camera_Kodak_Disc_4000_with_disc_film.jpg

Yes, the Kodak disk camera. I believe I was around 8 or so when I got. Got my first digital at 25 and my first DSLR at 31.

Kevin

 

[PhotobearSam]

Mine was a Kodak 126 Camera with the Flip Flash when I was 9...My parents HATE taking pics and I have always loved it...Weird.

 

[Gdad]

I got an old (much older than me) Argus C-4 Rangefinder when I was maybe 10 or 11 and then a Canon AE-1 a few years after that. I still have both of them. My dad had a darkroom in our house and I spent a lot of time in there as a kid developing mainly B&W's.

Argus-

Canon-

 

[Merrywheather]

I was in second grade - it was a Kodak 110-type camera and you had to put the individual flash cubes on it. What a hoot! I think I then graduated to a disk camera in middle school!

 

[rtphokie]

I also started with a 110 camera. Got the film developed either at KMart or on special occasions here:

I got a Minolta SLR for my 16th birthday (that I sold to a collector on Ebay a few months back) in high school. Used that camera throughout college for the student newspaper.

My first digital was a Kodak DC20 that I bought used for something like $100

I moved on to the original Sony Mavica, even lugged a couple hundred floppies around Europe for a couple weeks many Springs ago.

When I outgrew the Mavica (while still using the Minolta SLR from time to time), I wanted a DSLR very badly but they were way out of my price range so I went with the Canon G3 which I still have and use as an underwater camera and for situations where SLRs aren't allowed (e.g. concerts) It's a bit slow but takes great pictures, I'll never sell it.

Finally prices came down and I moved on to the Canon Rebel XT. I've thought about upgrading again to the next level but will probably put my money into lenses instead. More bang for the buck. Based on my current patterns I've probably got another 2-3 years before I wear the shutter mechanism out.

I bought my 6 year old son a 1MP no name digital camera for his 6th birthday last year. So I guess the cycle starts again. He's taken very good care of it

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

I got a Kodak 110 (with a built-in flash) for Christmas when I was 9. I took pictures of my cat and my dog, and LOTS of pics of the ducks in the lake near my Nana's house.

From there I bought several different point & shoot 35mm film cameras - my favorite was one with no zoom. I also have quite a findness for disposables!

My first digital was a Canon A520, which I still use because I am not really into photography.

DH got a Nikon Coolpix L11 that he has pretty much handed off to DS12 since he bought a dSLR for himself.

 

[BeautyLLM]

Great topic!!

My first camera was a Sears 126 Instamatic camera. My parents bought it for me for a 5th grade field trip to Old Sturbridge Village. It was my pride and joy for many years. I still have the pictures from that trip. They are black and white..color film was quite the luxury for a 10 year old, as were the flash cubes

Thanks for stirring up a happy memory!

 

[EeyoreFan1]

This was my first camera-

I took pictures of anything I could get my hands on. I was probably about 7 or 8 when I got it, and I still have it today.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

My parents bought it for me for a 5th grade field trip to Old Sturbridge Village.

It's so funny you mentioned that here. I was reminiscing to myself [when I wrote my above post and was searching for pictures this morning] about the time I lost my Nikon 35mm at OSV and someone actually sent it back to me! Luckily I'd placed an address return label on it. That camera was probably one of my all time favorites!

 

[LMarge]

Oh my gosh - ours was a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Camera - with the large flash attachment!!! I loved looking down thru the viewfinder on that thing!!! When the Polaroid Land camera came out we (family camera) moved up to that (which I hated! I remember thinking at the tender age of 6 or 7 that those pictures were horrid!)
My own "first" camera was the Kodak with the flip-flash!! I thought I was big time stuff with that one!! Then it was the 110 . After that- when I was around 30, my mother-in-law gave me a Canon Sureshot Owl 35mm - that little camera took really great photos!! I have literally boxes and boxes of photos from that camera! About 6 years later,my dh gave me a Pentex slr as a "baby" gift when our second child was born! LOVED that camera, I cried when it died. However, that sad event moved me into the digital world with my Canon S2is, and now I have the Canon XTi (which dh gave me for Christmas this year!!) WOW - there's been a lot of cameras in my life - all of them producing some wonderful memory triggers!!

 

[BeautyLLM]

It's so funny you mentioned that here. I was reminiscing to myself [when I wrote my above post and was searching for pictures this morning] about the time I lost my Nikon 35mm at OSV and someone actually sent it back to me! Luckily I'd placed an address return label on it. That camera was probably one of my all time favorites!

Wow...I am amazed that they sent the camera back to you...I thought that kind of thing only happened at WDW!

I took the following picture at OSV last October, but in 5th grade I drew the covered bridge with the reflection after our field trip and won first prize! Isn't it funny how these little things become such big memories?

 

[DVC Jen]

10 and I also got the 110

 

[NostalgicDad]

I believe I was about 10 when I got the Instamatic. I thought the world of that camera. Then, after drooling over the Pentax K1000 at the local department store (Howard's) for a LONG time, I was finally rewarded with my first SLR around the age of 13 if memory serves. Going back through the years, that was one of my most coveted acquisitions.

 

[handicap18]

Mine was a Kodak 126 Camera with the Flip Flash when I was 9...My parents HATE taking pics and I have always loved it...Weird.

I think this is the same camera I got as my first. It was either x-mas '80 or '81. I'd have to check the photo album. I used it a lot. Then in either 83 or 84 I upgraded to a Kodak Disk. I have evey picture I took with those camera's. All the pictures are filed away in photo albums in the order that I took them. Many of those first pictures are blury. Not crazy blury, but probably from camera shake from a 10 or 11 year old taking the picture.

My pictures really started getting better when I got my first 35mm camera. A Canon T80 with 35-70mm lens.

 

[fitzperry]

I too got a Kodak instamatic when I was 9 or 10. Here's a picture (poorly scanned) that I took with it at WDW circa 1977, I believe.

When I was in high school, my dad bought me this Canon Snappy emblazoned with the 1984 Olympic logo. What can I say--he was a Canon guy, and he's always had a fondness for the Olympics. Wish I still had it. The only decent picture I can find of it is this eBay listing for one.

http://cgi.ebay.ph/Canon-Snappy-84-Official-35mm-Camera-1984-Olympic-Games_W0QQitemZ270208201955QQihZ017QQcategoryZ297QQcmdZViewItem

 

[JR6ooo4]

Well this thread makes me feel much better about my photography skills. I have been shooting for less than 10 years.

Mikeeee