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View Poll Results: Which was you own first camera and do you still have it?
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Leica
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1.84% |
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Kodak
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20.27% |
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Canon
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13.88% |
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Nikon
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Agfa
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1.84% |
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Pentax
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8.97% |
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Olympus
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51 |
6.27% |
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Contax
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0.61% |
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Another - too many to list all so please tell us
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04-25-2011
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Richard G is offline
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: 37,47 S
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My Dad gave me an M2 with 50 Summilux when I was 16. M2 still in daily use 35 years later.
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Range Loser is offline
Join Date: Feb 2006
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My first was a Yashica FX3, am I the first Yashica post on here? Sold it to get a Pentax MX though as the Yashica plastic creaked!
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D700 and D800 + Nikkors for everyday.
Fuji TX1 and a few old Zorki's/Fed's for special occasions.
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04-25-2011
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#53
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David Chong
Film dino is offline
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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A Canon QL19.. wish I still had it
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E.M is offline
Join Date: Mar 2009
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My parents bought me a Nikon F2 in the seventies when I was studying photography , and I still have it .
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kansas_parker is offline
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Warner Robins, GA
Age: 33
Posts: 52
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My first camera was a little plastic box with a shutter and pop up viewfinder that would clip onto a 110 film cartridge. I think it came out of a Burger King kids meal back in the mid-80s. My first "real" camera was once again a 110, I don't remember the brand but I've still got some prints (and distant memories) from it somewhere.
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SayCheese is offline
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Berlin, Germany
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I had my own light meter before i even had my own camera. Used it with my dad's Agfa Super Silette. After that i used a Contax RTS, borrowed from my dad as well. My first own camera was a Canon Digital Ixus 40 in 2006.
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Mesti3K is offline
Join Date: Jul 2010
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I loved my little Oly..It could have even been an Om but I was too young to know the difference and it was too long ago.
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#58
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Grubriella is offline
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 30
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My first camera was some Olympus point and shoot that mum got me.
I still have it.
The first camera I bought with my own money was one of those lomo 4 shot camera.
I still have this as well
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#59
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ray*j*gun is offline
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Philadelphia area
Posts: 1,586
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A Miranda 35mm SLR.......don't remember the model but it was the one with an external light meter built into the pentaprism. I wish I still had it ..........I don't recall what happened to it.
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illuminati_02 is offline
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Olympus Infinity Jr. P&S
It is what I wanted for Christmas when I was 8. I still have the picture of me opening it that my dad took with his ME Super, one of the cameras I own today.
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04-25-2011
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#61
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Olympus User
mangie is offline
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Hertfordshire, England
Age: 67
Posts: 167
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A Brownie 127 and still have photos taken by it!
And I do still have the camera and its brown canvas case.
mangie
Last edited by mangie : 04-25-2011 at 04:47.
Reason: Left something out!
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#62
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The name is Rance
RanceEric is offline
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: New York, NY
Age: 23
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My first camera was a Nikon F3.. which, sadly, was stolen from me when I was mugged about 2 years ago in Wilmington, DE. Recently was given another. I had missed that camera
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Nikon SP, S3 W-Nikkor.C 3.5cm f/1.8, Nikkor-S 5cm f/1.4, Nikkor P.C 8.5cm f/2, Nikkor P.C 10.5cm f/2.5 VC Skopar 35mm f/2.5, VC Nokton 50mm f/1.5
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#63
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I now live in Des Moines
DanOnRoute66 is offline
Join Date: Sep 2008
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Pentax SP 500, which basically was Pentax's stripped-down entry-level SLR of the time. I had the 50mm f2 and the 135mm f3.5 lenses. I sold them to get into Olympus OMs. Well-made, durable camera but I don't miss the dim viewfinder.
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#64
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Timmyjoe is offline
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Chicago, IL
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My first real camera (not plastic) was a Canon TX that I bought on April 1st, 1976 (not that I remember or anything). You bet I still have it. Don't use it much anymore, but would never part with it.
Best,
-Tim
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sykotec is offline
Join Date: Oct 2007
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worked at several from high school onwards for awhile - i still remember sitting in a store meeting where a very high-ranking CVS person told us that no, they weren't going to change the People's store names to CVS after they bought them. uh, yeah, even then i knew how that works....
i've still got one or two of the old blue vests and red ties - the blue CVS polo shirts are now garage-wear. and many packages of negatives/prints/slides with the logo of course. even my last remaining flash bulbs!
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Originally Posted by Luddite Frank
I remember People's Drug Stores !
Dad worked in D.C. from about 1960 till he retired about 15 years ago...
Most of his photos & slides from the 1960's and '70's are still in boxes, in their People's Drug processing envelopes.... shot with a Nikon S & 50mm Nikkor 1.4.
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sol33 is offline
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Barcelona
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A Certo SL110, when I was six years old. I still have it.
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PatrickCheung is offline
Join Date: Oct 2010
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The very first camera my parents ever bought for me was the nikon D60, that was two or three years ago.
HOWEVER, the very first camera that i bought myself is my Canon 7. Got it a month or two ago. I dont know how long I'll keep it for, but I hope I never get rid of it. Maybe pass it on to my future son/daughter or something :]
I'm 18 now, by the way.
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Stuart John is offline
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Finland
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Praktica BC1 electronic with 50mm f1.8.
Camera is long gone but the memories as still with me....
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HoodedOne is offline
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The first camera I could call my own, was a Kodak Tele-Ektralite 20. I used a for some time, but after a while I got bored with it. And the quality wasn't that good.
Much later, the first camera I bought with my own money was a Canon Eos 300
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It Is What It Is
Red Robin is offline
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Wrinkle City, Fla.
Age: 63
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Minolta XGM and yes I syill have it.
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Documentary Photographer
TaoPhoto is offline
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Salem, MA
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For me it was a Kodak Instamatic 100, using the 126 cartridge film. I was about six. I carried that camera all over my neighborhood, on trips, and shot roll after roll of film that my parents patiently had developed for me. I still have a bunch of those pictures, but the camera is long gone. Ah, the simplicity!
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Main shooters: Leica M8, D-Lux 4, OM-1n, Zorki 4K
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pixelatedscraps is offline
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Age: 33
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The first camera I'd saved up to buy all by myself was a Nikon F2A. I ended up selling it once I'd decided on focusing on using OM cameras as my 35mm film SLR
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Leica M4 | 35/2.8 Summaron
Kodak Retina IIc | 50/2 Xenon
Olympus XA4
Minolta SRT-102 | 50mm f/1.7 MD Rokkor-X
Nikon D600 | Samyang 14mm f/2.8 | Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8, 50/1.8 G, 105/2.8 G Micro-Nikkor + SB-700
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#73
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thawkins
thawkins is offline
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Location: Texas
Age: 63
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I purchased my first real camera in l967 as a college freshman, a Kodak Retina 1a. I still have it and it continues to work well. The next real camera was Miranda SLR that was unreliable. It was traded for an SRT101 which I still have and use.
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#74
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RF-addict
chrismoret is offline
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Location: approx. 7ft under sea level
Age: 48
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A Halina Roy. Got it as a present from my dad when I was 7 or 8 years. It used 127 film...
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barnwulf is offline
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Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
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My parents bought a 35mm Zeiss Contina for me when I was in my early college years around 1958. It was a rangefinder type camera with a light meter but no rangefinder. It was about $85 and I really liked that camera. In the mid 60s I bought a Pentax Spotmatic. Jim
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