First real camera

[Guy Mancuso]

Looking on a film thread on the M system made me think back some. So just for fun what was your first REAL 35mm film camera. Now i will date myself here . Minolta SRT 101 back in 1973. I remember my older brother by 8 years had a Pentax but not sure what model.

 

[wbrandsma]

Somewhere around 1984 I got my first real camera. A Pentor Super TL with M42 lensmount.

 

[TRSmith]

1972, a Pentax rangefinder of some sort, I remember it had a stick meter in the viewfinder. I have no clue what the model was.

 

[Haya]

It was around 1993 for me in high school I got a Canon EOS 10.

 

[MikeScecina]

I bought a Canon FT in 1969.

 

[simonclivehughes]

Wow, Memory Lane! I remember the first camera I had was a Zeiss Ikon 120 rangefinder that my Dad gave me in about 1964. My first 35mm camera was an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic of some generation which I probably got in the late '60s.

Cheers,

 

[jlm]

i lusted after a kodak way back when, but the first dough I laid out was for an Olympus Pen-D, a half-frame, back in 1962, sort of a 35mm. it got 72 pics per roll, and you went blind looking at the contact proofs. next was a Yashica-Mat 124 with the enforced luxury of 12 shots per roll, my medium format entree.

 

[matmcdermott]

First real camera, Pentax K1000 in probably 1995. First Leica, M6TTL 1999. A rapid progression certainly. I took to photography very quickly.

 

[ChrisDauer]

My first take pictures camera was either a polaroid or took 110 film; but my first real camera was the Canon Rebel G when I was in college. I got it 2 days before my first international trip.

 

[johnastovall]

Argus C3 in 1960.

 

[JimCollum]

Omega 45D 4x5 view camera, 1978

 

[Cindy Flood]

My first 35mm was a Canon rangefinder (Canonet 28) which I purchased in 1977. A year later, I bought a new Pentax K1000, and kept it for the next 20 years.:ROTFL:

 

[DougDolde]

Yashica 35mm, model long forgotten. Way back in the 60's.

 

[helenhill]

'Nikomat' /1975 .........

 

[harmsr]

My first one was a Canon T70 with 35-70 & 75-200 zooms. To tell the truth, I still miss this camera as I had sooooo much fun with it.

Best,

Ray

 

[Terry]

Weird I can remember using my mother's Pentax spotmatic and we also had a Rolliflex TLR but I can't remember what I first used that I could call my own.

 

[Robert Campbell]

Zeiss Ikon Contina I, 1959.

 

[woodyspedden]

Argus C3 in 1957. Replaced it later with the C4, started down a slippery slope that continues til today. Wish I had as many great images as i have had cameras! LOL

Woody

 

[stephengilbert]

A Graphic 35, probably in the mid-1960's: http://graflex.org/graphic-35/

 

[Greg Lockrey]

Believe it or not it was an M4 in 1971 which I still use. I had a Bell and Howell AutoReflex T but that isn't a "real" camera.