Photographers: What was your first camera?

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 02/21/2016 at 10:26 • Filed to: None

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About 1976

My citroen won't start > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 10:31

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Not a photographer but the first camera I had was my dad’s Konica Minolta SRT-303

DasWauto > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 10:32

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I wouldn’t call myself a photographer but I’ll answer anyway. First camera was a Casio point and shoot in 2008. I bought my current Sony NEX-5R in Feb 2014 and while I plan to stick with it for a while my next camera will probably be some variant of the Sony A7.

McMike > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 10:37

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Inherited Dad’s Minolta back in the mid-80s

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 10:45

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Not really a photographer, though I’ve always liked taking pictures. My first camera was a Sony DSC-S60 in 2005, which supposedly had a Carl Zeiss lens in it. Last year I bought my current Canon 700D(Rebel T5i).

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 10:49

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First personal cameras a Nikon D3100. I really need to use it more.

Birddog > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 10:49

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Right around 1985-86. I think I still have it somewhere.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 10:51

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I can’t rightly remember which was first, the Kodak X-15 Instamati, or the Voigtlander Vito C... I think I got the x-15 for my 5th birthday in 1983, but I may have been allowed to use the Vito before then, and it was around that time that the Voigtlander became my “special” camera, I had to ask to use it, but it was “mine” the X-15 I could use whenever I wanted.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 10:53

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Still have it but the self timer and thus shutter and film advance are all jammed.

jariten1781 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 10:57

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I think, like many people my age, my first real camera was an AE-1. Had lots of junkers before that, only memorable one was a bright blue 110... Fisher Price like this one I think, but I was like 5 so I could be mistaken

Dave the car guy , still here > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 10:58

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Kodak Brownie Fiesta about the same time the Beatles arrived here. Old roll film was such a pain to load. It was followed in a few years by an Instamatic 124 which was much easier to use. My first 35mm was a Vivitar 220sl in 1975 which came with the better 50mm 1.8 lens , 200mm 3.5 and 2x teleconverter. I added 3 better quality m42 lenses to my collection and took thousands of picture with it was a heavy basic camera but mine had no issues and I sold it in to a friend who used it for another 10 yrs. It was replaced by a Fujica ST901

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 11:02

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Canon Sure Shot owl sometime around 1997 in middle school. First digital was a fixed lens 2mp Kodak in 2002. First SLR a Nikon D3100 about 4 years ago. I bought that one with the profit form reselling a pair of Super Bowl 46 tickets. Sadly they can’t be resold any more so the tickets I had to 48 went unused, because I couldn’t make it up to NY. Haven’t tried to get any since. Now using a Fuji X-E1. Still have them all :)

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 02/21/2016 at 11:07

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You know, I had an X-15 Instamatic as well, but I’d forgotten. Thanks for the memory.

twochevrons > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 11:07

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Mine was an early Pentax K camera as well; a very well-used K2, handed down from my father. It’s never missed a beat, and it’s still my favoured camera, even over my (admittedly rather elderly) Canon 350D DSLR.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 02/21/2016 at 11:08

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I sold my Pentax to the high school where I was teaching after I went all digital. Mine was actually dropped from a C-141 Starlifter in a pallet load of duffle bags over Fort Irwin, California, in 1985 or ‘86.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > twochevrons 02/21/2016 at 11:10

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Asahi Pentax SLRs from that era were and are fabulous cameras.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Dave the car guy , still here 02/21/2016 at 11:12

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MUSASHI66 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 11:26

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I chose to forget (I am lying, the are all in boxes upstairs) my bridge film camera I spent a ton of money on, and my digital Fuji bridge camera with a 1" screen and a megapixel or three sensor, so I’ll just pretend my first one was my Canon 50D. My dad’s Zenit was the first I shot with though :)

Dave the car guy , still here > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 11:31

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That’s it but I had the cheaper model with less bling. I had been borrowing my Mom’s Brownie Bullet when I got the Fiesta. About the same time Mom got a Yashica Mat 124 which was later traded on a 124G. Even though roll cameras are tedious to use they offered fantastic pictures for the time. I sold that same 124G on Ebay about 5 yrs ago to an NYC buyer and got more than it retailed for.

MUSASHI66 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 11:33

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I am sure this image will contain a few cameras which were someones first. This is my little collection of older film cameras - I don’t shoot them, some don’t even work, but they all look great

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > MUSASHI66 02/21/2016 at 11:42

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The Canon SLRs were superb.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Dave the car guy , still here 02/21/2016 at 11:44

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I’d forgotten that I also had a Yashica at one point. The Spotmatic was the first camera that I purchased new, after I lost the Yashica. I have no idea where the Yashica came from.

MUSASHI66 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 12:09

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I have the AE1, AE1 Program and FTb. Now I shoot 50D and 6D, and my dad had a 5D MkII which I have access to at any time. Yup, you can say I like Canon :)

Autofixation > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 12:09

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Minolta SRT-101 handed down from my father. I still have it, and pull it out when I’m not using my current Nikon D80 DSLR.

TheHondaBro > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 12:20

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Nikon D80.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > MUSASHI66 02/21/2016 at 14:30

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20D, 30D, 50D, 5D mki, 7D.

RacinBob > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 14:35

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About 1966 Grade School

1969 Pre HS - Crap Camera but came with darkroom

1971 - Neat camera - Technically my Dad’s - took very good pictures

1973 - High School Newspaper and Yearbook Workhorse

Jonathan Harper > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 15:29

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pretty sure this was my first

Clown Shoe Pilot > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 16:15

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Stephen the Canuck > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 16:47

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First was an HP R607 Photosmart point and shoot my grandparents got me for my Grade 8 graduation. It was a 4.1 mp thing that wasn’t very good then, and especially now. I no longer had a charging cord for it either.

After that it was cell phones with cameras until I got a Canon T3i in 2014.

Andrew T. Maness > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 16:48

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My mom’s old Kodak “Brownie” that takes 110 film, and I still have it, still use it once in awhile.

wafflesnfalafel > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/21/2016 at 22:55

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Remember Kodak “disk” film? Yeah, well, you shouldn’t because it was terrible, but it was my first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_film

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > wafflesnfalafel 02/22/2016 at 07:18

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Vaguely. Never tried it though.

THShorn92 - Left his car in America > MUSASHI66 02/22/2016 at 08:44

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Learned on an OM10 just like the one you have there, awesome little camera. This was only about 13 years ago, so in the digital age.

MUSASHI66 > THShorn92 - Left his car in America 02/22/2016 at 11:24

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If you know how to shoot film and full manual, digital cameras come easy.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/23/2016 at 11:14

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Mine was an Asahi Pentax SP1000. Still got it.