[Snaphappyscottiedog]

Going back to when i was somewhat smaller and younger than i am today, in fact i was very small and young, to be exact i was 5 when i bought my first camera when on holiday in in 1972 visiting my brothers who where all stationed in parts of Germany. My Dad had a box brownie which i was not allowed to touch so of course i wanted a camera of my own.
Just along from my brothers house was a small corner shop that just happened to have a very cheap Halina 110 plus film for the price of 1 DM old German money which was only about 7 pence UK. I headed back to my Dad and asked him if i could buy the camera and he took me back to the shop and bought it for me along with some extra rolls of film.
I had fun for the rest of the holiday taking photographs and out of about 100 pictures 1 or 2 where ok the rest, well the less said the better.
I loved using that camera and i still had it in the mid 80's but what happened to it after that i don't know.
Now that i am all growed up i have a grups camera.

[JeffJS]

Kodak #104 instamatic. 126 film cartridges. I threw the first two away thinking the pictures would just appear in the mail. Luckily my aunt found them and returned them to my father. After he had them developed, I learned that he was correct. You need flashcubes to take pictures inside with that camera.

Age 7.

[Stone G.]

Used Dacora Super Dignette purchased in 1960 (from a local camera shop) when I was 11 years old. Three years later, a German tourist in my home town ran out of money and had to sell his Porst Reflex S (= Topcon Wink Mirror) which I then got from the same dealer at a bargain price - that was my introduction to SLR photography!

By the way: For the first year or so, the shop owner took me aside each time I came to collect my negative B&W film that he had developed for me. He the went through the film with me, picture by picture, and expained what was good, what was not so good and what was lousy - both technically and scenery wise - and how to do better next time. Ah yes, those were the days where camera dealers would volunteer to teach an 11 year old boy how to take pictures......

Steen G. B.

[gkey]

At the age of 22 I purchased the Exacta RTL 1000, a camera with wonderful optics (Carl Zeiss Jena and Pentacon). Then, I had a series of Prakticas, LLC, VLC1, B2. On 2004 I bought the wonderful Sony F828 and on 2009 my first Pentax the K7. Now Iam 60 years old

[sterretje]

Minolta X700 with 50/1.7 in the mid eighties.

[GregK8]

I had an Instamatic X-15. I'll never forget the Sylvania Blue Dot Magicubes

Kodak Instamatic X-15 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

[wsteffey]

Don't remember the make or model, but I do remember that it took 620 roll film

[8540tomg]

Got a Pentax MX in 1981.

Still have it and it still works great.

Tom G

[robtcorl]

My first camera was also an Instamatic,
My first 'real' film camera was a K1000.
My first 'real' digital is my K10D.

[rustynail925]

My first ever was the K-m in 2009
two weeks later i got the K200D and sold the K-m

[boriscleto]

My first camera was a Kodak Disk.
My first 35mm was a Vivitar Point & Shoot.
My first SLR was the K1000.
My first Digital was the Epson PhotoPC.
My first DSLR is the K-x.

[Moe49]

1st camera: Kodak Instamatic X-15. I bought it new around 1974, fresh out of High-School.
2nd camera: Pentax K1000, I bought it new in 1977 on the advice of a more experienced shutter-bug friend.

[AOShep]

My first was some little piece of plastic I ordered from a Kool-Aid mail-in offer when I was about 10 years old. Cost me something like 20 Kool-Aid packages and $1.25, I think. I had already saved more than enough empty Kool-Aid packages before they made the office. Don't even remember what size film but it was B&W only roll film.

[buckeye_Jim]

My first was a Kodak Instamatic, then my first 35mm was a Konica rangefinder stamped 'made in occupied Japan' in 1970. Got my first Pentax, a spotmatic F in 1974. A K20D in 2008 and with a 645N in 2009, I am back shooting film and now a PZ-1P in 2010. It is just too much fun.

Jim

[dmeadows85]

First it was this one:

http://www.cameroddities.com/images/odd105.jpg


Then, my dad handed down his Olympus OM-1 MD to me in college. Wonderful, compact, rugged camera that is. Still use it from time to time, when I have the money to develop a roll of film.