Your First Camera

[PureKiwi]

As Subject says , Share what your first ever camera any info , pictures , links

Mine was given to me by my granddad, He left me his camera when he died , He brought it when he was in the uk in about 1980 , He died when i was about 8 and i have kept this camera in a safe place since is it worth any money probably not but its priceless to me


Kodak 76x Instamatic Camera ( started production 1977 )

KODAK INSTAMATIC was a brand designation that Kodak introduced in 1963. "Instamatic" referred to the process of loading the film into the camera "instantly": a cartridge, drop-in-loading system made it simple for amateurs to load and unload conventional film that was developed by conventional methods. Link to a picture ( not taken by me ) http://www.flickr.com/photos/bno/3664427113


Info Taken From http://www.camerapedia.org

[NikonF4s]

My first proper camera was this...

http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/htmls/models/images/f4sBIG_i.jpg

a mid eighties F4s.


$1600 body only from Camera and Camera Queens St, waaaaaaay back in 2001, when everyone was still shooting film :)

[Raizer]

Not counting the couple of cheap brandless little film camera's I had when I was a kid my first camera was a Panasonic Lumix DSC LS2
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/1439/panasonicls2frontback.jpg

I had it for about a year and a half before I started getting an interest in photography and replaced it with a Fuji Finepix S5800

[Rick0r]

Mine was digital, but super old skool digital.

Canon Powershot 600
0.5 megapixels!
Stupidly slow delayed shutter!
no video!
about 5 meg of memory stick space!


http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/powershot_600.jpg

[smurff]

first i had was a nikon coolpix P2

http://www.cameras.co.uk/cameraimages/nikon-coolpix-p2-front.jpg

great little camera, battary would die at the worst times, but still a good little P&S

-smurff

[talan]

My first camera that I owned was a Canon PowerShot A95. Pretty cool because it had some manual settings and that kind got me experimenting :) http://images.techtree.com/ttimages/story/CanonA95-ss.jpg

[The Mad Hatter Project]

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/7995/page0blogentry91.jpg
Pentax K1000 - SLR

Which was upgraded to....

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/1071/eos3000nw2880angleshotf.jpg
Canon 3000N - SLR

Then moved into digital.

[smurff]

so, was doing some cleaning. . . guess what i found that i fogot about :D :D

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3483/3927795465_45d4c71bba.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/39790489@N08/3927795465/)



specifications
Type: Digital compact camera
Manufacturer: Kodak
Year of launch: 1996
Sensor: 756×504 pixel 24bit color CCD
Lens: 7 to 21 mm zoom lens
Exposure: programmed automatic exposure with shutter speeds 1/16 to 1/500 sec.
Focusing: infrared autofocus
Flash: built-in, guide number 10.4
Display: black & white LCD control panel, almost alike that of compact cameras for film
Image memory: PCMCIA-ATA removable memory card Type I and II
Interface: RS232C/RS422 serial connector, 115 Kbit/sec.
Dimensions: 152×119×64 mm
Power: 4 AA batteries or AC power supply
Weight: 525 g without batteries

the lcd screen was kewl, would tell you how many photos you had left :D

-smurff

[NikonF4s]

haha, thats amazing smurff!

[April]

I had something like this...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Sony_mavica_fd5_cleaned.jpg
You put the floppy disk in. It was so rad back then :)

[smurff]

bussy that April, floppy disk FTW

-smurff

[Haim]

First one was the d300

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3151/2830859787_12949936fb.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/haimsadia/2830859787/)

ssecond one is

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3323/3581428860_cf69b769d2.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/haimsadia/3581428860/)

[shades]

my first camera was a baby blue plastic hanimex point and shoot. google wasn't very forthcoming with an image.

[stic]

Same here, mine was blue too.

Lots of crappy blur on all my motorsport photos...gave up for about 4 years then brought a Pentax P30T.

Went to digital 5 years later with Sony cybershot, the little 2.1MP ($NZ2000 when new).

The to DSLR, a Fuji Finepix S2 PRO.

Now, Canon 40D

[robo git]

First ever camera: Canon 350D
2nd camera: Canon 350D, with 850nm IR conversion

Hmm... They're also my current cameras...

[Angela]

Mine was a Minolta dynax 300. I loved it!!!

[Nat]

http://www.lotustalk.com/forums/attachments/f68/107571d1231468964-photographers-canon-5d-mark-ii-ftb.jpg

Takes me back a few years, got it from my uncle when I was a kid.

[fokker]

I had an HP photosmart 435 that my folks bought me in my first year of uni. god that thing was a piece of shit, shutter lag was about a second which made capturing any sort of moment impossible. Pretty much all the photos I got out of it were rubbish. It only had built-in memory, and the zoom was all digital. Also took AA batteries which it mowed through. digital P&S cameras have come such a long way in a short time it's amazing.

http://www.interweb.in/attachments/digital-cameras/7282d1205746239-hp-photosmart-435-digital-camera-68-989.jpg

http://pixinfo.com/img/Hp/PhotoSmart435/PhotoSmart435_backleft_500d.jpg

[Spacemunkie]

First camera - I got one of these for Christmas when I was about 6 or 7 - people don't know they're born these days :D:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2458/3959837940_f203b3b6e2_o.jpg

First SLR - The old man got me one of these when I was about 14:

http://www.thecamerasite.net/01_SLR_Cameras/Images/Minolta-X-700.jpg

First DSLR - The X700 lasted me until I bought one of these in 2003:

http://a.img-dpreview.com/news/0308/canon/eos300d-specs.jpg