First camera

[Eyersey1234]

What was everyone's first camera? I've no idea what make mine was, it was black, about the size of a brick and took 110 film. No idea what happened to it after it was replaced by a 35mm camera in 2003.

[damianmkv]

Mine was a d3100 I guess around 2011, then a d7000 and a Fuji xf1.
Then the Nikon gear went and an olympus e-m10 came.
Then that went and an e-m1 came.
The Fuji died so a Sony rx100 mk2 came.
Then a Fuji x30 came and went, followed by a x100t.
The x100t was sold to make way for a d500

So I now have a d500, e-m1 and the rx100

If we talk about which I preferred, probably one of the Fujis. I had low expectations of the xf1 due to its cost and sensor size but it was fun. No doubt the x100T is awesome, wonderful files too. Love the Sony detail, hate the camera - too small and fiddly but wifey likes it.

[DavidY]

damianmkv said:

If we talk about which I preferred, probably one of the Fujis. I had low expectations of the xf1 due to its cost and sensor size but it was fun. No doubt the x100T is awesome, wonderful files too.

Ha! You'll be back (davidy aka Mr Perceptive (TP))

I've just rebought an example of my first camera, this one was unused and cost me the same as it did originally when I bought one from Comet in the early 80's - obviously Damian it's a Fuji!!!










But too continue Damian's list:-

Fujica STX-1N -> Canon EOS1000F -> Fuji MX2900 (still have) -> Canon 350D -> Canon 40D -> Fuji X100 (still have) ->
Fuji X-E1 -> Fuji X-E2 -> Canon 6D -> Fuji X-T1 -> Fuji X-T2 plus assorted others along the way. Still have the following Fuji's X100, X-A2, X100F, X-T2

[Vintage Racer]

Kodak Brownie.....................God, i'm getting old!!

[littleredrooster]

Kodak Instamatic was my first camera, tenth birfday pressie in 1964 - IIRC.

Zenith E was my first 'proper' camera.

[b2hbm]

littleredrooster said:

Zenith E was my first 'proper' camera.

Ooh, that was posh, I had the cheaper Zenit B without the light meter. Very crude by today's standards and I sold it for a fiver IIRC when I upgraded to a Minolta several years later.

[steveatesh]

Pentax ME super for me, as my first 35mm DSLR. I still have it ( around 35 plus years ago) and the metering system leds or whatever that’s are still work on original battery (I’m assuming there’s a battery in there somewhere) .

I put it down years ago, and got back into photography around 5 years ago with a Nikon D5100. Bought a 50mm 1.8mm ( struggling to use this lens in a way that gives really crisp images, I’m wondering if I have a bad copy) and an 18-140 which is my walkabout GP lens.

I really fancy a D750 next, that’s the plan anyway!

[GetCarter]

Box Brownie from a Jumble sale, followed by a Kodak Instamatic. Then Zenit E then Pentax ME super

[covboy]

Halina Paulette I think it was called

[DibblyDobbler]

Canon 450D - unexpected Christmas gift from Mrs DD in 2010. Little did she know then what she had unleashed

[Elderly]

A 'Robot Royal III' in the mid 1960's; like a Leica, but with a built in clockwork motor drive.
I still have it.

[Weslake-Monza]

A plastic POS in the Thomas Salter adventure kit - also a POS. After that I had a Kodak 126 which was ok.

[C&C]

My first was a Canonette Junior which my Dad bought me used, and which was far from reliable with quite a few films coming back with evidence of light leaks, and ultimately it stopped working at all.

canonet-junior by conradsphotos, on Flickr


I then saved up pocket money for over a year and bought myself a Praktica MTL-3 after reading lots of reviews. My dad had a Zenit-E I think at the time. I really enjoyed using the Praktica, and it certainly taught me all about ISO, shutter speed and apertures.

praktica_mtl3 by conradsphotos, on Flickr


A few years later (although still at school), I had saved up enough to get the recently released Minolta 7000:

minolta 7000 by conradsphotos, on Flickr


I eventually lost this as it was stolen when our flat was burgled, so ended up replacing it with the simply brilliant Minolta 9xi.
A 35mm film camera with built in 4.5fps motor drive, 1/12,000 sec shutter speed, 1/300 second flash sync speed, and 14 zone metering system. I eventually ended up with 2 x 9xi bodies.

9xi by conradsphotos, on Flickr


I then waited what seemed like an age for Minolta to release a digital body - quite some time after Canon and Nikon had done so, but eventually ended up with a Minolta Dynax 7D body to go with the Minolta lenses for the 9xi.

minolta_7d by conradsphotos, on Flickr


From that day, I never shot another frame on 35mm film, switched completely to digital.

Eventually I became less than impressed with the available lenses for the Minolta system - particularly the availability of used lenses, and traded in the whole lot and switched to Canon, going for the 40D at the time:

canon40d by conradsphotos, on Flickr


I've stuck with Canon since then, and have added a 5D, which was a great bargain at around 40% off list price with the 24-105 f4L in a manager's special from Jessops:

Canon_EOS_5D by conradsphotos, on Flickr


... and most recently a 5D Mk 3 (from HDEW):

Canon_5D_MK_III_front by conradsphotos, on Flickr



Current lenses to go with the Canons are:

Samyang 14mm f2.8
Canon 50mm f1.8
Canon 24-105mm f4 L
Sigma 120-300mm f2.8 + 1.4x converter


When not wanting to carry around a DSLR, I picked up an EOS-M mark 1 just over 3 years ago when they were going for under £250 with the 18-55mm lens and mini speedlight flashgun.

maxresdefault by conradsphotos, on Flickr

[Smollet]

My first was a Nikon FM. A really top notch camera at the time. I fell out of love with photography for many years but over the past 5 my interest has been rekindled. I now own 5 all Canon. 7D2, 6D,700D, G16 and last week added the M5 to my collection. The latter has made me upgrade from LR5 to LR CC as it didn’t recognise the RAW format of the M5. Still it’s cheaper than owning a racing car. Now that was bloody expensive.

[C&C]

Smollet said:

The latter has made me upgrade from LR5 to LR CC as it didn’t recognise the RAW format of the M5.

I'm still using photoshop cs6 I think, but convert all my raw files to digital negative (adobe .dng) format, so they are all in the same format regardless of which camera body they were taken with.

Adobe update the free dng converter software with the latest raw formats, and the .dng format doesn't change so it should mean not having to update the processing software unless there are some killer features on later versions that justify an upgrade.

For now, I'll stick with CS6 rather than be forced to move to the subscription models.

[yellowjack]

I had one of these...



...one Christmas as my first camera.

[simonrockman]

The first one I remember was an Olympus Trip.

[tonyb1968]

Olympus OM20, took some good photo's with that, but it went tits up just after the warranty ran out (think ive still got it somewhere, like 30 years old now).

[Monty Python]

Boots Beirette that I bought in Kendal sometime in the 70's.

Then I went to a Minolta X300, followed by an X700, then a Dynax 7000i, then a Dynax 7xi (both of which I still; have). First digital was a Fuji Finepix 2800Z, followed by a Sony A100 (which I also still have) and then the SLT-A58 I have now.

Edited by Monty Python on Tuesday 7th November 10:53

[mizx]

Probably used some disposables when I was very young, the first camera I remember was my parents 50mm Werra which was still used in the early 90s (bought in '67, we still have it), but the first 'proper' camera I had myself was an APS compact, Kodak Advantix C450.

Used to have a lot of fun with that thing when I was 13-14, before I lost it. Always liked opening up those APS boxes when the pictures came back.

Got my first digital after that in 2002, and a Minolta X300 to use for Photography club at school. I had a Canon S6 bridge after that, moved to mirrorless with a Lumix G3 in 2012, then my current Lumix GM5 in 2015.