What was your first camera?

[geardaddy]

Mine was a Brownie (hand-me-down)

My sister had this one and I wanted it:

[redstatebluegirl]

1. The instamatic!

[WhiteTara]

2. I had a brownie flash

but before that, I had a pinhole camera and my dad showed me how to develop my picture.

[MiniMe]

3. Instamatic, then a polaroid

[Hangingon]

4. Brownie, Hawkeye and an Olympus Ace.

Still have the Briwnie and the Hawkeye

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. Got it from a comic book ad.

It actually worked!

[Ohiya]

23. I had one of those also

[fierywoman]

6. A brownie (during which my father taught me at age 10

to develop and print my pix) then a twin lens reflex then --thrill!-- a Pentax SLR.

[procon]

7. A Brownie Box Camera.

My grandma re-gifted her old Brownie to me when I was around 10. I used it for years, it was simple to use and even took great pictures.

[femmocrat]

18. We had one of those too, when I was a kid.

I suppose all the photos in the family albums were taken on it.

[justhanginon]

31. Same here. I do remember the little twisting handle on the

side to advance the film. Then a Ricoh twin lens reflex followed by a Yashica twin lens reflex that took a super slide format. Many in between and now a Canon Power Shot SX10IS digital.

[Iggo]

8. The Instamatic.

[RandomAccess]

9. I had a little Brownie

It was a cube. Don't remember if it had a flash or not. This was back in the mid 60s. I loved it and it took really good pictures for a little thing like that. I still have a photo I love -- of the St. Louis arch half built. No one can ever take that photo again.

[red dog 1]

10. Kodak Brownie Hawkeye

(I'm not sure it was an "Instamatic X-15" like yours, though)

[SeattleVet]

11. Kodak Brownie 'Holiday'

Later got a Polaroid Swinger ("Only $19.95!&quot , followed by my first SLR - a Yashica TL/Electro-X. It had LED arrows in the viewfinder instead of a match-needle system. (Since I was in high school and taking it around Manhattan all the time, I figured that was a better option for getting jostled around than a needle on a hairspring.)

[Binkie The Clown]

29. That was my first camera too, then Yashica twin-lens reflex, a Pentax, and now a Sony Alpha NEX‑5.nt

[lpbk2713]

34. I got two of them within a couple of months.

My brother gave me one and then right after that my aunt gave me one not knowing I had the other.

[csziggy]

12. Brownie hand me down, then a Sears knock off of Instamatic

I got an Instamatic and had to take it back - it was too small for my big hands and I simply could not hold it or click the shutter. Sears had a knock off that used the same film but was larger. Most people didn't want the bigger camera so Sears was selling them off cheap. I got a great deal on that camera!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. Same ones for me - a Brownie followed by an Instamatic.

Except that my Brownie had a flash. It was something like this:


I remember the flash cubes for the Instamatic. Eventually, back in the '70s, I got an Olympus OM-1 SLR, which was a pretty good camera.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

19. This was my first camera too. I can't recall that I could back and forth from color to

black and white. If that was an option, mine didn't have it. We're talking the early '60s, so my memory is not quite up to snuff.

I must have got it for Christmas. Not sure what year. 1961? 1962? My family had an earlier Brownie:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownie_(camera)#/media/File:Hawkeye_brownie.JPG

but the Starflash was mine.

[friendly_iconoclast]

14. A Keystone Everflash:

[Major Nikon]

15. I had a Brownie that wasn't too much different

[sakabatou]

16. A Cannon SLR

I still have it somewhere in the house.

[TexasBushwhacker]

17. I had an Instamatic like that n/t

[surrealAmerican]

20. Mine was not the Kodak Instamatic ...

... but a cheap knockoff version of that used the same film cartridges.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

21. A Fisher Price camera. No, really.

It was a real camera. Took 110mm film. I remember how excited I was to get it for either Christmas or my birthday.

[Grammy23]

22. Imperial Mark 27, I think.

It was turquoise and I got it around 1959 or so. There is a photograph of me wearing it around my neck, standing on the bridge across Royal Gorge. That picture was made by my Dad using his Argus C 3. I have no idea what happened to my camera but the Argus has been handed down to my grandson who is a pretty darn good photographer.

[machI]

24. Voigtlander Vito II

Voigtlander Vito II 35mm. I could fold it up and carry it in my back pocket. I loaded it with Kodak Tri-X Pan black and white film, which I could develop at home. It was pretty cool to take pictures in high school, develop them at night, and then show them to people the next day.

[elleng]

25. Brownie, of course!

[emulatorloo]

26. Polaroid Swinger!

[Yonnie3]

27. I used several cameras

Brownie Box, Instamatic, cheap SLR, but the first really good camera I used was a prewar Leica 35mm. I liked it so much my father gave it to me. I have the original sales receipt from New York Photo.

[Different Drummer]

28. Kodak Instamatic. n/t

[lkinwi]

30. Polaroid Square Shooter 2

[malthaussen]

32. Technically, the Instamatic.

We had a Brownie handed down from Mom's father that I used once or twice.

-- Mal

[Zorro]

33. Canon FTb

Hauled it around Africa, Asia, and Europe with me throughout the 70’s. Rugged and excellent for the time.