Your Very First Camera

March 10th, 2011
Can you recollect the very first camera you owned. Mine was this little beauty that I received as a gift as I was spending some time in hospital when I was a youngster - I couldn't have been much more than about 10 years old.



Wish I still had it. It would have been a true collector's piece now.
March 10th, 2011
@bobg Ha! That was my very first SLR.
March 10th, 2011
My first camera was incapable of taking photos that were really recognisable!
Just pressing the shutter produced significant camera shake!!
The results were pretty disappointing!
March 10th, 2011
I had a Polaroid camera as a kid. I loved it and took pictures of all kinds of inane things. Getting a pack of film for it was my favorite present. Instant gratification!
March 10th, 2011
I clearly remember my first camera - an Agfa Optima - and I loved it!! I've still got photos that I took with it. I must have been about 12 years old and it was really cool!!
https://craftcollective.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/agfa-optima-sensor-flash/
March 10th, 2011
I got my very first camera 10 years ago on my 14th birthday... Its just a normal film camera but I loved it and it still works! A Nikon One Touch with a 38-90mm zoom lens.

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I have no idea! I remember my first digital camera though :)
March 10th, 2011
I think this might have been the one... I´m not sure of the name but it looked a lot like this only mint green :-D It must have been in the late 80´ies when I was around 10-12 years old. I loved it and wish I still had it :-)

http://www.steampunk.dk/wp-content/uploads/110_concord_pink.jpg
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@marthashields I had the Minolta version of that camera! I remember it was more expensive to get the photos developed, but it took good pictures.
March 10th, 2011
Nod
My first "SLR" was this tiny Pentax110. I bought it for myself when I was 13. The camera takes 110 films which I have no idea if they still produce it or not. The camera is now 30 years old and is still in my bedroom!



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Minolta X300. Still have it, and it still works.

http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Minolta_X-300
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Canon AE-1 Program. Still have it but haven't been used in over 20+ years.

March 10th, 2011
I don't know!!! But I remember the little flash cubes and the pop they'd make. Lovely:)
March 10th, 2011
I had some 110 camera as a kid, then an Argus C4 in high school. Upon graduation I received a Pentax K1000. In 1999 I went from a camcorder guy into the digital generation and have never looked back.
March 10th, 2011
I can't remember the exact brand name but it was a 110 with Telephoto lens and a chunky removable flash unit much like this one:-
http://www.museumoftechnology.org.uk/expand.php?key=299
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Don't have a clue! I bought one when my first child was born in 1971!
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This is the first "real" camera I learned on when I was a kid.
March 10th, 2011
i had(still have) a minolta af 5000...great cam, and a lot of fun to use now that it is "vintage" lol
March 10th, 2011
@viranod -ROCK! Love this, was the greatest 110 camera!

My first camera was a kodak 110 camera. Nothing special, but to me it was everything.
March 10th, 2011
I know this is hilarious, but here is mine:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/86452432@N00/2783721489/ :))))))))))))))))))))
/I found an image of it in flickr, wow, it still exists/
The plastic point in shoot of the 90's
March 10th, 2011
My very first was a Nikon FG, purchased about 27 years ago. I still have it, but it does not work. I think the mirror is locked up.
March 10th, 2011
oh this is going to drive me mad!! i won a competition when i was in year 4 so about? 9 or so... making a model camera i made a box brownie, it was rad!! and i won this camera... it was fluro pink/yellow/green i have a photo of it somewhere i cant remember the brand but oh i soo want to know!!
March 10th, 2011
@carajill That looks similar to an X-370 that I have
March 11th, 2011
Olympus OM10

March 11th, 2011
My first camera was a very plastic blue and green Supasnaps camera similar to this one:
http://www.vads.ahds.ac.uk/large.php?pic=crd00629&vadscoll=Design+Council+Archive&_IXSS_=crd00629
March 11th, 2011
My very first digital camera is

Premier DS-7065
March 12th, 2011
Mine was a Halina 110
April 11th, 2011
I FINALLY FOUND MINE!!!!!!!

haha early 90's much?!
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