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Oct 12, 2020 22:02 |  #1

My very first 35mm camera was the Canon T-50 Yes my T-50 still works and the flash is fine too.

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Oct 12, 2020 22:21 |  #2

I'm not sure. It was a long time ago and I wasn't very brand oriented then. My first SLR was a Ricoh Singlex. It had a Pentax screw mount and auto nothing.

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Oct 14, 2020 10:11 |  #3

Pentax K1000. Split screen focusing the 50mm lens and getting the exposure needle in the right spot taught me a lot about exposure quickly.




  
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Oct 14, 2020 12:12 as a reply to  @ moffi's post |  #4

I still have my K1000 that came with a photography correspondence class. Very nice camera.




  
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Oct 14, 2020 13:10 |  #5

Yashica half frame my father bought me when he was posted to Singapore in 1964.


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Oct 14, 2020 14:02 as a reply to  @ King Kenny's post |  #6

Brownie 127 in early-sixties, then a Zenit 3 in about 1970


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Oct 14, 2020 15:16 |  #7

My first digital camera was a Kodak DC 3800, with a whopping 2.2 mp. Bought it in 2002.


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Oct 14, 2020 15:32 |  #8

A Pentax ME-Super, sometime in the early '80s. A very nice gift from my folks while I was off at college, IIRC.


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Oct 14, 2020 15:35 |  #9

Brownie box camera a gift from my grandmother ony 6th birthday. A couple of kodak's got me to high school and my first slr, a canon A1.




  
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Oct 14, 2020 18:24 |  #10

I got my scuba diving certification when I was 15, back in 1969, I bought a Nikonos II
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The owner of the dive shop where I took lessons designed and had made slip on macro lenses. The camera was mounted to a bracket with a strobe about the size of a coffee can. An adjustable probe went on the accessory mount on the top of the camera. You adjusted the probe for the preset focus distance. Used for taking macro shots of slow moving and small marine life, etc. I felt like a real Jacque Cousteau.:-P


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Oct 16, 2020 19:55 |  #11

My first camera was a Kodak Duaflex 620 my grandfather gave me. Upgraded to a Yashica Rangefinder in junior high, and my first 35mm SLR was a Minolta XGM. In high school I upgraded to a Minolta XD-11, which I used until I went digital when Canon came out with the 40d, still have it and use it occasionally.


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Oct 20, 2020 10:49 |  #12

My very first "real" camera was a used Kodak 35 rangefinder. That was back around 1964 or so.




  
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