What was your first camera?

hive-142821 in #hive-142821 • 2 years ago

A recent post by a fellow photographer has inspired me to ask you all that question.

This may turn into a lovely discussion here, I suppose.

Drop a post in the "Photographic Society" community or just comment below this post, it is all your choice.

I am sure everyone who loves and admires our favorite Art has some great memories related to their first light-tool, if I may call a camera that way.

Analog one, or a digital piece?

Which brand?

What was, or is, its best side? What would you like improved?

And so on, and so on...

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Thanks a lot, @driptorchpress, for the inspiration to start this discussion, I've set you as a beneficiary, as a matter of gratitude :)

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lightcaptured 2 years ago

My first camera was a small, amateur plastic Soviet built camera that my father brough me as a present from one of his business trips. I think I have to drop a separate post about that, it definitely deserve the attention! :)

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driptorchpress 2 years ago

I got a Soviet made Helios lens back in January when I could still get stuff shipped from Russia 😂
After using it, I want more Soviet stuff, it's built great!
Do you still have yours? Did it light leak like a Holga?

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lightcaptured 2 years ago

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lightcaptured 2 years ago

I still have it and I suspect it still works! :) But I haven't tried to use it at least for two decades :D
Found a funny review of it here: https://50mmf2.com/writings/a-terrible-review-of-smena-8m

Mine didn't light-leak though.

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bigorna1 2 years ago

My first camera was A Konica I got from my father.
that camera was from the early 60´s and was pretty bullet proof and my photographic journey started using it with B&W Ilford film as a teenager.

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hive-142821 2 years ago

Sounds awesome! Thanks for sharing your experience :)
Probably that Konica was all mechanical and full manual only? ;)
Do you still keep it? Have you shared any photos you've taken with it? Would be great if you post here some of those!

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bigorna1 2 years ago

It was fully mechanical and manual yes.
light meter and all.
I am afraid I do not have it any longer and since the photos are only in paper, I do not have any either.
have been on the move for more then half my life (mariner) and could only take what fitted in my backpack.

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lightcaptured 2 years ago

Oh. So only the warm memories remain. My first camera didn't have a light meter at all, I had to learn pretty quick how to determine the right values of Aperture and Shutter speed, given the most of the films I used were ISO 100 as those were the most affordable and available on the market back then.
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lightcaptured 2 years ago

That's great, as my first camera was also a present from my father :) I shot only on B&W films with it, color photography was too expensive for me back then.
I'll have to drop a post in the community about that, hehe :)

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driptorchpress 2 years ago

I'm not sure I can narrow down exactly what my first camera was. I used a lot of disposables as a kid, mostly the waterproof ones, just because I thought they were cool. The first "real" camera I remember that was mine and not my mom's was a 110 housed in the head of an Estes rocket. It had a little string trigger that would shoot when the rocket popped off, then it would parachute down. I used it once as a rocket. Then I just played with the string release and aimed it at anything I could find. Of course it took terrible pictures up close since it was designed for aerial photos.
My first true camera was a Kodak APS point and shoot. I took a ton of pictures with that thing. Thankfully my brother worked at a Ritz so I had free development. I dropped it off a cliff once and miraculously it survived to shoot another day.
My first digital camera was a freebie from some website I joined my first week of college. It was a pen camera, probably not even a full megapixel, with storage for about 20 pictures. I took that thing all over campus taking grainy little spy shots of people and buildings.
If I could go back I would definitely pick up a real camera sooner and start younger. I'm pushing 40 and I'm just now getting into learning the exposure triangle and uses for various lenses.

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lightcaptured 2 years ago

I guess each of us has their own path into photography. I was a teenager when I started that journey but then after deep diving into it, I practically abandoned it for about a decade or even more, electronics, computers and programming took over my time and passion. I actually bought my first proper DSLR in my 40-ies :)))
Everyday I see how time is my only priceless thing that matter and I still am very creative at finding new ways to waste it instead of focusing on something that really matters :D

Have a great day, buddy!

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victorbz 2 years ago

hehe, very interesting question. I had a few levels of coming to photography and the first and real one ended with ZEROresults was the ancient today, but very cool in 1975-77 Smena-8M.
When I was 10-12 years old we traveled with my mother to the place of my birth, a small city located in the north of the western half of Ukraine, about 131 kilometers from Kyiv.
This city was our traditional destination almost every summer. before this specific trip, I got a very long-awaited gift from my parents – a fantastic Smena-8M type 3b camera with which I can capture the story of our trip (3.800 km in each direction). I shot almost the whole of the first roll and finally forget my first film camera on one of the trains on our way home. I am sure that someone found it and even finished the role in my first film and I hope that also developed this roll.
thanks to @driptorchpress and @lightcaptured for the discussion. I found this post a little bit late, but still glad to add here my personal story.

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lightcaptured 2 years ago

My goodness :) My first was also Smena-8M. I am preparing a post about it already, as I actually had two of them and yesterday I found one, after spending some time searching for it! :)
So sad you lost it, but who knows, you could find those pictures some day, everything's possible, right? :D

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victorbz 2 years ago

almost everything :-)))))
seems like they produced such a huge amount of these chip cameras then. :-)

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lightcaptured 2 years ago

It's good they had done that, otherwise I probably wouldn't have stepped into Photography at all :)
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victorbz 2 years ago

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