What was your very own first camera?

[Bill Clark]

Used my Moms Kodak Brownie Hawkie.

From mowing lawns in the summer and shoveling snow in the winter I managed to scrape up $25.00 to buy a used Sears Tower camera that used 127 film as my first camera of my very own. Made nice slides!

[jsrockit]

Kodak X-15 was my first... given to me by my family. I purchased a Pentax K-1000 as my first.

[jonasv]

Nikon F70 with a cheap 35-80 kit lens.

But before that, it started with my father's Minolta HiMatic 7s, which is one of the reasons I came back to rangefinders...

[Rotarysmp]

My dad gave me his Pentax S1A plus light meter and three lenses when I was about 14. I used it for about a year and then one day stupidly traded it in (down) on Canon T50 + 35-70 zoom.

Almost immediately regretted that decision, as I had been shooting some surfing with the Pentax 200mm F5.6 + teleconverter.

I then saved up and got a Canon T90 + 50/1.4 a couple of years later. Loved that camera.

[Roscoe]

Kodak disc.. about 9 or 10. Then when i got a little older, used my fathers ricoh slr. Dont remember the model, but it was a "big boys" camera. At least to a young teenager.

[FStrikwerda]

Minolta XG-1 with 50/2.0 lens. 3 weeks working in summer holidays to be able to pay the Minolta.

[laoyou]

Pentax K1000 with 50/2 lens

[John E Earley]

Yashica LM that I got from my brother in 1963. Later I moved to a Nikkormat FTn.

[texchappy]

It was a little Kodak 110 camera that took the four way disposable flash bulbs - long gone. IIRC next came up a disc camera of brand long since forgotten but remember liking - long gone but saw some pictures I took with it recently.

[oldoc]

Polaroid Swinger!
Oh, man, what piece of trash....
But I loved it!

[jwc57]

Chinon CS. I had my grandfather sell the 1969 Mustang so I could buy the camera (and pay for books) for my college class. It was stolen while I was cutting and mounting prints---right from the class work area. It was supposed to be a secured area requiring a pass to enter, but evidently no one was on duty. I tried to stick it out with the college's cameras, but I gave up, dropped out, and found a job. I intended to return when I had earned enough to replace the camera. It really wasn't that long before I had owned a Pentax ME/SE and a Olympus OM1, but I never made it back to class.

[biomed]

My first camera was a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye. I think it was a hand me down. We also had a couple of older Kodak box cameras. There is some good information on David Richert's website http://www.davidrichert.com/brownie_hawkeye.htm
My first 35mm camera was a Yashica Lynx 5000e in 1970.

[Tveljus]

I actually started with a long time-lent Canon Powershot A95, which I shot with for a whole year, but then I was given my very own Nikon D60 with the kit zoom – 1st of April 2010, my photographic anniversary.

I didn't know much at all about cameras at the time, and it felt really special when my parents, who gave me the camera, explained that they chose Nikon because they both used Nikon (FM2Ns!) back in the days. Just a few months later I sold the D60 to upgrade to a D90, and a few months after that I upgraded to D700, and during that time I started shooting film as well...

...and here I am now, having recently calibrated a Nikon S2 rangefinder all on my own and closer than ever to completing my medium format Nikkor collection! I've got my hands on quite a lot of rare and desirable equipment over the past 2 years, but that Nikon D60 will always be remembered as the first step into a whole new world, I'm sure.

[Chrisrw]

I got an Olympus XA ? for my eighth grade graduation. Don't remember what happened to it or when. I didn't get my own camera again until my Canon sd1000 in 2007. Canon G12 2011. This is the one that got me hooked on rangefinders. In fact I didn't even know what a rangefinder was until I saw a Bresson photo in a book called The Tao of Photography, where I learned about street photography. Then it was a Rollei35, Canonet QL GIII, OM-1n and finally a Bessa R2 I got from here. I just love the tactile nature of shooting a film camera. I find myself to be more intentional with my shots with a film camera. Although the G12 has been a great learning tool and still takes great pictures. I would love to narrow it down to one film and one digital camera to keep it simple.

[JustPlainBill]

Hi,
My first camera was a Rolleicord Ia; it's long gone. I'm thankful for my success photographing with it .
JustPlainBill

[Captain Trips]

Kodak Instamatic 124. I don't know if it has gone to god or buried in a box at my parents house. My next camera, some years later, was a Rollei 35s which I still have and still use some 30 years later.

[Papercut]

When I was 10 or 11 -- it was a Voigtlander Vito, not sure which exact version. I was stupid and disdained it because I was jealous of my dad's "cool" Canon AE-1 and A-1 with the interchangeable lenses. Oh how I lusted after a telephoto! I had no idea just how good the lens was on that Vito. Don't know where my parents got it, or what happened to it, but now I wish I still had it.

[Pippip1]

Ricoh KR10. Felt rubbish but took decent photos. Bought OM1 next with 50 1.8 . Revelation. XA next, hence why i'm on this site. Bessas and an M6 followed.

[zhemgang]

Saw this poll again and made me fondle my Honeywell Pentax H1a. A little dusty but a nice feeling And the small dent from Nepal still there.

[jody36]

18 years old in army bought a disc camera I think kodak

[waltereegho]

When I was a kid I had a nifty plastic 35mm panoramic camera. My first real camera was an EOS 30 which I bought in lieu of a DSLR because it was so cheap.

[jtm6]

My first camera was a 110 something-or-other in the mid '70s. Thanks Mom!

[Geordiepete]

A Minolta XG-1 with some Sigma zoom, around 35 to 80mm. Loved using that camera. I bought it as a postgrad student when I was doing voluntary work running a youth club. We were applying for a local government award and wanted photos to show what we were doing. I bought the kit used for about 90 pounds sterling about 12 years ago. Certainly wouldn't pay that, and I wonder if I was overcharged then.

Several years later, the lens took part in the Minolta XG-1 Around The World project. That was fun, and I was the Japan part of the camera's tour.

Something mechanical but fixable went wrong with it, I can't remember what, about 5 years ago. A young student of photography, studying in Japan, from India was staying at my place for a two or three days (couchsurfing) and I gave him the camera, which he said he would get repaired and use.

[Sonny Boy Havidson]

I was a Canon Prima Zoom 76. A P&S of the 90s. When it died, it was replaced by a Minolta X-300s so as to be able use my father's lenses.

[Kent]

Ricoh KR-10x

http://www.nicanet.de/mf/Ricoh_35-70.JPG

Yes, I still have it and it still works.