What was your very own first camera?

[tlitody]

What was your own very first camera? I don't mean first you used but the first one that was all yours and do you still have it?

Mine was a Kodak Brownie Fiesta. It may be in the loft somewhere but I haven't seen it for a long time.

[Luddite Frank]

Kodak Dualflex III TLR ( 620 ). An aunt gave it to me when I was about six. ( circa 1973 )
I don't ever remember taking sharp picture with it...

But it was all mine !

[tlitody]

I think I had the brownie when I was about six. My next camera was Canon Demi, a 135 half frame camera my father found at the top of the Eifel tower. That was a damn good camera. Got used a lot back then. That was followed by a Canon Dial and then I went Minolta.

[PatrickT]

A Minolta X-570!

[John Robertson]

Purma Plus (127)
still have it still in great condition.
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l2...tson/Purma.jpg

[fuwen]

Praktica BC1.

http://www.fuwen.net/index.php?optio...=64&Itemid=125

Miss those days where u can get very good value for money stuff from the East Germans ...............

[Peter Wijninga]

A Lubitel -because as a 10 year old I could afford to buy and use it. The guy who sold it to me operated an all-in-one hair salon/optometrist/film lab business. A few years later, a 35mm Fujifilm camera which I lost after it fell into the Strait of Malacca -and that's a long story.

[xayraa33]

A Praktica LTL with a Zeiss Tessar lens.

[ChipMcD]

Yahica Mat LTM. Unfortunately, it died in a fall. I've preserved its memory with a Rolleiflex 3.5F.

[sara]

Own camera or family camera?

My family never really bought cameras, till we got our first one which was some digital Nikon Coolpix, with 3.2 megapixels.

My first camera that I personally bought for myself, was a Holga.

[ZeissFan]

My mother gave me her Spartus 127 folder. First camera that I bought was a Cosmorex SE -- a rebadged Zenit, which was replaced by a Konica C35 Auomatic, which was replaced by a Pentax MX, which was replaced by a Rollei 35 T, which was joined by a Nikon FE, which was joined later by a Nikon F2A.

Then later, I added a Rollei 35 S and a Rolleiflex Automat (Xenar). Then just those cameras until 2000, when I picked up a Cosina Voigtlander Bessa-R.

Then I added a Voigtlander Vito B, a Kodak Retina IIIc (small c) and an Agfa Isolette III with an Apotar.

The first expensive classic camera that I bought was a Zeiss Ikon Contax IIa with a very heavy coated Carl Zeiss Jena f/1.5 5cm Sonnar.

[cliffpov]

I was a proud Pentax owner. (ME Super purchased in 80)

Great to see Pentax is among the early leaders in this poll.

[literiter]

One Christmas perhaps 1957 I received a Brownie Hawkeye. The complete kit, big yellow box, flash, flash bulbs, and some Verichrome film.

[dof]

Mine was a Kodak Instamatic 110 that I was given as an X-mas present while in the 6th grade. It was just like this one, complete with the personalized stickers.

I think I threw it out some time in the mid 1980's after upgrading to a used Brownie Holiday Flash 620 film camera.

[nikon_sam]

My parents bought me my very first camera it was a Vivitar 400 SL and I still have it with everything that came with it (except the case).
The first camera I bought was a Pentax MX (black body) I ended up buying two and I still have them...

[AusDLK]

Found a working similar model at a sidewalk vendor in Brooklyn so I have one again.

[scorpius73]

It was a Keystone 35mm P&S. My mom bought it for me at the old now gone People's Drugstore here in DC when I was about 12 yrs old. A few years later my sister bought me a Pentax P3n with a 50mm f2 lens. I still have and value that P3n all these years later.

[Carterofmars]

Minolta Hi-Matic.

[oftheherd]

I don't recall which of my father's cameras I first used, but I think it was his 9x12. I used it for museum shots and shots of friends. I also began using his Welta Welti, but I am pretty sure the 9x12 was first. The first camera I bought myself was a Minolta 16. I still have it somewhere.

[Trooper]

The first camera I owned was a Nikon F4s, and it will remain on the shelf as a testament to the last great camera Nikon made with dials and aperture rings. I learned photography with a Nikon FM and a Mamiya 645 on a long term loan from my father.

[littlefields]

My first camera was a Kodak model 124 Instamatic 126 film camera (10th birthday gift; 1968; still have it). The first 35mm camera I bought was a used Exakta VX 500 with a 50mm 2.8 Domiplan ($40 from a co-worker in 1982)

[farlymac]

My very first camera that I owned was a Polaroid Square Shooter. Then I bought a Sears TLS(Ricoh Singlex) and three lenses. Both cameras are long gone. Gave the Polaroid to one of my sisters, and traded the TLS in on a Nikkormat FTn.

PF

[ironhorse]

Christmas 1965 I was 9 years old and received an Ansco Cadet 2 camera (127 film). Used it until I bought my first SLR, an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic with a 50mm f1.4 lens in 1970.

[jljohn]

Kodak Instamatic X-15 I believe--don't have it anymore though.

[keytarjunkie]

It was around 2000 or 2001. I was 9 or 10. My parents gave me a little webcam/snapshot camera for Christmas. It could shoot video if you plugged it into a computer. It had no screen. I'm first generation digital but I don't mess with that stuff anymore...