[graphicgr8s]

My first was probably one of those 126 s.
Then came the Agfa rangefinder
Then the K1000. Bought that with my first paycheck circa 1977. Still have it. I need to run a roll or two through it. Maybe when it cools down here I'll get her and the K10D and ist out for a shoot with the boy.

Then go fishing.

[Alliecat]

Mine was a little Vivitar 110 that I got for Christmas when I was 11 or 12. I shot lots of family and holiday pictures with it and tried to emulate my camera-club-member parents' shots after a while. I used it for about 8 or 9 years, until I dropped it in Germany on a bus tour and the shutter jammed. I ended up having to buy another Vivitar, point-&-shoot 35mm, in a camera shop from someone who almost spoke English...

[microlight]

I bought myself a Polaroid Swinger instant-picture monochrome camera with my first pay from a part-time job when I was 16. You had to fix the prints using a squeegee supplied with the film pack! Then at 21 I bought my first SLR, a Soligor TM with 50mm and 135mm lenses. Then in 1975 I traded them in for a Pentax KM, and that was it.

The KM was stolen around 1977, so I replaced it with a MX that I then used for 25 years. A brief flirtation with an Olympus P&S digital, but then came the *istDS (how DO you say that?!), then K-5, now K-3II.

[Le Chuck]

My first one was a Braun Bravo M-BF. There is almost nothing to find about this one on the net – probably because it was pretty much a piece of junk. Apart from it being black, it was pretty much a toy camera. There were four controls on it: 1) open the lens cover and turn it on, 2) shutter button, 3) rewind and 4) open the film door. Fix-focus auto-everything, you couldn't even turn off the flash. Vignetted like crazy. But what mattered to me at that time was that it took pictures, and most of them were good enough for me. Well, apart from the selfies I liked to take – didn't know about things like minimum focus distance back then.

At some point I stopped using it, and it took me years until I picked up a camera again. Enter digital: Nikon Coolpix 4600. It served me well for quite a while until I got fed up with the autofocus being pretty much useless at macro distances (even in macro mode). That's when I decided to get a "real" camera that would let me be the boss. Enter Pentax, enter K-5 …

[ventaxian]

A Ricoh KR-10 in the filmera and I came back to photography in the digital age with a Pentax K-x. Sticking to the K-mount😊.
Cheers, Ron

[kjphilippona]

It was to many years ago so I cant remember the model but it was a small 35mm Yashica!

[GeneV]

Kodak Instamatic using 126 film cartridges. I learned to develop film for it with a Sears Junior Darkroom kit costing the princely sum of $12, which is equal to my age at the time. Next was a Polaroid Swinger, then my grandmothers old 1926 vintage folding camera. My first 35mm camera was a Vivitar (Cosina) body with a Pentax screw mount. From there the migration path to Pentax is obvious.

[mattb123]

I think my first was one of these Kodak 110 rangefinders. It produced truly awful images!


But then I upgraded to the Kodak Disc. Wow! a new film format. Too bad it also makes really, really awful images. Looking back it's amazing the Disc even got to market. But I thought it was futuristic and cool!


I'd like to think I've learned a thing or two since then.

[Helios 1984]

For a while now I've been trying to remember the exact camera I had before my Fuji Endeavor 400ix. All I could remember was that the camera was a silver Olympus with a front slider... not much info for a search huh? I finally found out what it was while scrolling ebay, so my first camera ever was an Olympus Trip XB400.



Note: Strangely, I have no memories of ever loading a 35mm roll in these days and yet I know I have used this camera on several occasions.

[35mmfilmfan]

First when I was still at school was a Box Brownie taking (I think) 8 6x9 on 120 film. Never enlarged, just contact printed via local chemist. Then 126 (which was sold to me as interchangeable lens !), Practika Nova 1 with 50mm Meritar f2.9 lens, at which point I started doing my own processing and bulk-loading film, Zodel 2MTL (with stopped-down metering - WOW !), then a selection of Praktica M42, Cosina and Ricoh K-mount, Pentax A/F 35 mm and now K10d and K20d.

[gm4life]

For me the shutterbug bit me when I was about 11 or so. I was born in 1990 for reference. My dad was shooting with a Ricoh KR5 I do believe and all manual equipment then, a K1000 SE, ME Super and a Program Plus. I was given a 50mm lens and the Program Plus and told to learn! I shot that way for a few years and ended up scoring my first own camera an HP Photosmart 318. I shot many photos of which I still have today.

[Kerrowdown]

I'm too embarrassed to admit... but it weren't pretty, in fact downright ugly.