Your first camera?

[john lewis]

My first camera was an Olympus Trip after that it was a Practical B150? if I remember correct with twin lense 50mm and 50 to 150mm zoom lens then a Zenith Photo sniper with standard 50mm and 300mm zoom lens after that it was a Pentax P30 with 50 to 210mm telephoto lens and now just come into the digital world with a Pentax K5 with twin lens kit 50mm and a 50 to 200 telephoto lens and got this due to the water tight gasket system as in the past I have ruined a complete film with sand at beach let alone a bill to clean it after.

[vanbelnl]

My first camera was my daddies Agfa Clack. I was very impressed of the "huge" negatives. Maybe that's why I still cant't say goodby to my 6x6! Later, in the seventies, I bought for the first time a camera myself: a Konica C35V (mayby nice to know for the British CiC) for my trip to the UK!

[rpcrowe]

The first camera I owned was a Halina 35x



It was fully manual and looking back I am surprised that I got any reasonable shots. For the first few years I had it I estimated the exposure from the guide that came with the films. One slightly odd thing about it was that to load a film all of the back and the baseplate had to be removed.

Dave

The excellent M-series Leica Rangefinder cameras of the 1950's and 1960's also had a baseplate which needed to be removed. Even though they were excellent cameras, I hated this facet of loading and unloading them...

[thequacksoflife]

THe first camera I ever used was my dad's old Kodak No.1 Autograph Junior which was current from 1914 to 1927. I was about 4 and was allowed to take a photo of my mum. Don't know where that is now! However....

THe first camera I bought for myself was a 1951 Voigtlander Bessa II, a folding camera with a coupled rangefinder. It took 12 exposures on 120 film. After a while I traded that for a Voigtlander Vito IIa, a35mm folding camera and after that a 1952 Braun Paxette with an extinction light meter. Talk about high tech! It was a long time before I got a 'real' lightmeter, for some time I used a Johnson's Exposure Calculater, somewhat like a circular slide rule. I still have that calculater in my collection somewhere (I think).

my father bought a voigtlander bessa II about the same time. he still has it at home.

[WJT]

Mine was a Pentax K1000. It lived a long life and died a soldiers death.

[DavidM]

My father had a Voigtlander Vito 2,which he passed on to me. I thought it was pretty good. It was a 35mm which actually folded so you could put it in your pocket (if you had a reasonable size pocket). I miss that feature.