Your earliest photos

I've been doing a lot of thinking, lately, about the various facets and incarnations my photography has taken me through over the years.

The earliest photos that I can recall getting were with an old box camera (might have been a Kodak, but I don't really remember the make), 120 b/w film - got the prints back with those nice deckled edges. I can remember getting pictures of my Dad dealing with a very large rattlesnake, in southern Utah. I was probably about 10 years old at the time, so roughly 50 years ago.

I also remember getting photos from Virginia City, Montana, roughly the same time-frame, and doing a photo essay for school. Don't recall what grade I got on that paper, but it was fun researching the history of the area to go along with the photos.

The earliest photos I remember taking were when I was 8 years old with a Smena 8 Soviet camera (my first camera!)...I took slides of floats in a parade back in Hungary. This would have been most likely the summer of 1990.

EOS 3000, well at least the first ones I remember taking were with that Still have that camera, but the lens has a very big spot of mold on the rear element

I made a pinhole shoebox camera back in 2nd...or 3rd grade as a classroom project.

took a picture of a tree that came out looking like a big blob...ahhhh memories!

My first camera was 1.99 and two box tops from Cheerios. Didn't work. But then I used my Dad's Polaroid for shots while on a Tiger Cruise on the USS Independance and the USS Forrestal. After that I had a Yashica Lynx 5000e (I still have a later copy). Some of first images were of Navy Aircraft (big suprise) and animals. My dog, horses, puppys etc. I still have many of those images. To me they are gold.

Pretty sure my first camera was a Kodak 110 (??), with disposable flash cubes... Man, I had forgotten all about that.

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Pretty sure my first camera was a Kodak 110 (??), with disposable flash cubes... Man, I had forgotten all about that.

mine too. Did you ever take the flashcubes to school and fire them with a pencil tip? For some reason, that was a fun thing to do.

I tried to find a shot from that camera and I am just not sure if what I have is a 110 print or something my dad shot with his sears brand camera. It was probably my 110, dad shot slides most of the time.

I don't even remember the first photo I ever took but I got in to film in the means of filming video.

It was when I was around 11 when my dad got a new swivel head panasonic video camera. I was the only one out of my friends who had a camera. We were all in to skateboarding back then so I would take the camera out and shoot them as they skated. It was probably at that moment when I realized this was something I really wanted to do. It wasn't really until I started attending film school where started shooting photography.

I got a Powershot G6 back in '06 and I started getting a bit in to photography then but never took it as a serious hobby until I finally got my real DSLR a couple months ago.

Didn't know you could pop them off with a pencil, or I might have been doing that

I believe the camera I had was a kid -- I don't recall how old I was -- was a Brownie box camera, back in the '50s. I had fun with that camera! I have the old album of prints that I assembled over the years, but it's buried somewhere, probably in the spare bedroom storage closet. One of these days it'll surface (my daughter uses the room currently) but, I thought about this -- I don't have a working scanner! I know flatbeds are cheap, but I just don't have the motivation to go through all that at this point in life. I payed my dues in the early '90s -- I was shooting film and then scanning/digitizing and still have some pretty nice stuff from those days, although I admit I never delved into negative scanning and I never got back into those early days shots, dang.

My daughter last night got inspired to rummage around her belongings (most of which are "stored" in my garage) and produced a big pile of family photos, going back to when she and her brothers were tiny tots, so over 30 years back, and a slew of my grandson as a baby, so 18 years ago, and then ones spanning the years since, so that was a walk down "memory lane" going through that large stack! Back to the shoebox days!

Here is a screen grab from an old family movie I am guessing late 70's by the plaid pants

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I was a kid. Off brand box 120. about 1960

It was either an old Kodak 110 or a Polaroid 35mm P&S. I would have been around 8ish probably (with the 110). The earliest thing I remember shooting (and still have the proof of somewhere) was somewhere around 13 or so with said 35mm. I did a "shoot" of my 2-3 year old niece with my homecoming corsages and trumpet LOL. Fun times

My first shots were made with a Ziess Ikon 120 roll film camera. I still have it. My father gave it to me sometime in the 50's. The family took a trip across the states and I remember shooting BW along the old strip in Las Vegas. I think I still have the photos and negatives somewhere.