What Was Your First Camera?

[praterkeith]

memories

my first camera was an old Minolta xg-7 I got off ebay. i now use a Pentax DSLR. its a beast!

 

[CanadaRAM]

Box Brownie. I loved it... fixed-focus rangefinder with upside-down images in the viewer. Rolls of black and white 620 (?) film...

Heh. Me too. My Dad paid $5 for it and I paid the tax.

 

[djstarrock]

Those were the days.

 

[timerollson]

Kodak CX7310, which sucked.

Now, I'm using a Canon SD630.

 

[NickElls]

I had some sort of Kodak for Kids camera. Don't remember what it was called, though.

I do remember that it took odd film, and had a thing you could stick to it to apply filters.

 

[jamesW135]

I had some sort of Kodak for Kids camera. Don't remember what it was called, though.

I do remember that it took odd film, and had a thing you could stick to it to apply filters.

From what I know it takes 110 cartridges.

 

[macquariumguy]

I imagine it looked a lot like this.

 

[NickElls]

I imagine it looked a lot like this.

No, it looked like this:

 

[EvryDayImShufln]

Nah im just kidding but my dad just got this, and I'm eager to test it out when my exams are over.

 

[840quadra]

A disposible!

But my first actual camera was a Fujifilm Dx-10 digital camera. It was only .75 Megapixel, but took good pictures for what it was.

Hard to believe that I have a Pro1 and a 30d currently. How times change!

Simple design, but I was surprised that it was later copied (adding zoom) by much more expensive cameras (though also more thin).

 

[ryannel2003]

My first camera was (and still is) a Canon PowerShot A400 (Lime). An excellent camera, even though its a little old compared todays cameras (3.2MP, 2.2X Optical Zoom) Still takes great pictures, but I plan on upgrading to a new camera sometime late this year.

 

[chadi]

I've had a bunch of film camera's over the years, starting with 35mm ones in the early 90's...all junk really

First digital was a Canon Powershot G2 when it first came out, sold that to a friend of mine about a year and a bit ago and bought a Canon Rebel XT bare body and the 17-85mm EF-S lens. I'm rather happy with it.

I'd take a picture of it but umm...ya...it's my only camera at the moment

I'm considering that waterproof olympus point and shoot for kayaking http://www.olympuscanada.com/cpg_section/product.asp?product=1287 that one...it's either that or get a waterproof casing for my DSLR which will cost about 2x as much and be about 5x less portable (I can picture myself now fumbling around with it while I'm in the kayak...) Anyone have one of those? Love to hear a review before I buy one

 

[miloblithe]

I had a Polaroid instant camera of some sort, around 1980. Then after I lost my mother's Nikormat FTN (I think), I bought a Nikon N2000 to replace it. Then my brother bought me a fully manual Ricoh.

 

[iBookG4user]

I'm no photographer, so my first camera is also my camcorder. (I'm not counting my camera phone) It's an Aiptek MPVR, it has a built-in 7.4mm F3.0 lens. It gets the job done for my light photography purposes.

 

[juanster]

it was baaaack in the day,,, I ws a little kid and still lived in Colombia, my aunt brought me a vivitar camera, it is still somewhere around, you know those elongated ones and the film was liek a little 110 cartridge...and it was purpleeee..

 

[Mike Teezie]

We always had decent SLRs around the house growing up, and I shot medium format at work and school. But technically my first camera was a Digital Rebel XT.

Now I have a couple of 5D's.

 

[thr33face]

over the last 6 or 7 years i have taken a huge amount of pictures, yet did not have a camera of my own. i always borrowed them from friends and family. i can only guess the number of different cameras i used in that timespan, got to be somewhere around 40 cameras, of all the manufacturers you can think of. i'm talking digital and analog here.

some highlights (as in, i can remember those): Fujica AX-1, Canon EOS 300, Sony DSC-P9, Canon EOS 350D, Kodak DX 7630, Konica Minolta Dimage X50.

The borrowing has ended now, as i got myself a Nikon D40 in February.

 

[Trogloxene]

My first camera was the original Apple Digital Camera and it totally sucked.

-T

 

[juanm]

1- Nikon F80 (N80)
2- Nikon D2x
3- Nikon F601 (N6006, I think)
4- Nikon D200

I think my favourite is still in some ways the F80

 

[TheJayWay]

My first camera ever was some POS 110 film camera...I think I threw it in the garbage when I was cleaning my house a couple of years back. Bought a Canon Digital Elph S200 about 5 years ago, unfortunately my cat though it was a nice toy and batted it off the kitchen table about a year ago. It worked after that, but you had to tape the CF card door close. I just recently sent it off to my brother to have since they don't have a digital at all and the grandmother wants baby pictures. I've since rewarded myself with a Canon A630. It's not the most amazing camera, but I like the 8.0 MP and it does what I need it to.

 

[spencers]

Quicktake 200
No Joke.

 

[0098386]

Canon EOS 350D. Thought I should get a camera, so I went for a very expensive one

But seriously I only bought it because photography was added to our curriculum. We could either buy our own digital SLRs or use the college's old, film ones. Which we had to process ourselves. I hated that process. I'm used to digital, where you take the photo and there it is. Not spending an hour or so transferring the film to that cylinder thing in the dark, slushing chemicals around and smelling my fingers out with that salt & vinegar chemical mix.

 

[Sweetfeld28]

Quicktake 200
No Joke.

I think the first Digital Camera i used, was a Apple QuickTake 150 or maybe a 100. All i can remember is that it was bigger than the one you have pictured.

I used it in my first Graphics class in high school, i was probably in 9th or 10th grade then.

 

[GGJstudios]

My first camera! I can't believe I found a pic of it! Brownie Bullet!

 

[Berlepsch]

I got my first camera around 1975 - it was an Agfamatic "Ritsch-Ratsch-Klick":

Looking at the pic, I am surprised how modern the design is even for today's standard. It wouldn't look out of place sitting besides my Alu iMac. And it doesn't even need a battery!