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Travie_Melvin

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what was the first camera you ever received?!  



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My first own camera was a Rolleiflex Automat II, perhaps better known as the K4B, made in early 1944 with a tessar 75/3.5 taking lens. I got that from my father on my 8th birthday in 1977 with a Gossen sixtomat meter and some rolls of Tri-X 120 film. He had got it newly overhauled from a newspaper when they sold off their TLR cameras. My parents had taught me the basics on their Kodak Retinette and Retina S cameras before that.



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First SLR was a Canon T50. I had a few small compacts and polaroid cameras prior to that.

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My first "real" camera was the Nikon N2000;  I believe it was Nikon's first auto advance SLR, not totally positive.  I learned alot on this camera and it is still operational today.   



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My first own camera was a Rolleiflex Automat II, perhaps better known as the K4B, made in early 1944 with a tessar 75/3.5 taking lens. I got that from my father on my 8th birthday in 1977 with a Gossen sixtomat meter and some rolls of Tri-X 120 film. He had got it newly overhauled from a newspaper when they sold off their TLR cameras. My parents had taught me the basics on their Kodak Retinette and Retina S cameras before that.

Aaah! wow!  I enjoyed reading that.



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I started out with a Argus Brick in school, then got a hand me down camera set of Konica TC and a T4, Used those until I went to digital with Nikon.



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My 1st one was Russian Smena 8M, then Zenit ET, XP, Praktica MTL3. I also had Welta Reflekta II and some others :) 1st digital was Sony DSC-S70.



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My first SLR was a Zenit E - very basic...bought it on my first trip to France...The first camera I bought was one of the "higher end" Pocket cameras...Not sure what my first camera was, but I think it took 120 film...Dad wouldn't let me play with his Leika gear...



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It was my dad's Argus, made in 1957. I loved shooting Kodachrome 64 with that camera. 

 

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It was my dad's Argus, made in 1957. I loved shooting Kodachrome 64 with that camera. 

 

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Oh, It is beautiful.  



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Oh, It is beautiful.  

 

I wish I still had it. I'm looking for one on Ebay now. 



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Argus 110 Pocket camera in 1978 with a plastic fixed focus lens and available dark photography using the new-at-the-time flip-bar flash cubes.  I still use it every few years or so.  It's difficult to find 110 film these days but not impossible.



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My first camera was my Dad's Argus brick.  I saw the pictures and felt a little lump in my throat.  I still have it.  All of my childhood pictures were taken with that old thing.  Dad won it in a poker game on the boat back from Europe in 1945. 



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I never realized how widespread Argus cameras were.

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It was a 110 camera that came out of a Kellogs box. :D



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First camera used would have been my dads' Kodak instamatic, followed by borrowing my brothers' Kodak ekta 110.

First that I owned was a Praktica MTL5, the very one I threw out a few weeks ago.

Favourite was the Lubitel 166b - £13 brand new, stunning quality and it taught me so much.

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My first camera was an Argus C3

 

My first REAL camera was a Minolta 8000i, and still have it, probably worth about $50 now. Guess I'll just let it keep collecting dust.



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I never realized how widespread Argus cameras were.

 

They were very popular back then. I wonder what happened to that company?

This is interesting. 



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I have only seen Argus cameras in collector's hands here, the widespread quality family cameras in Sweden in the 50's and 60's seem to have been Kodak Retina and Retinette, Agfa Isola and Isolette, diverse Voigtländers and the Zeiss 6x6 folders. My mother used a Retinette and a Contax II and my father had a Retina and a Pen F as I grew up.

 

/Peter



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My first camera was a Kodak but I'm not sure what model. I also had an instamatic at some point while my dad had an early Polaroid Land Camera which was something special. 

 

My first 35mm camera was an Argus but the camera that taught me the most about photography was a Minolta SRT 202. 

 

--Ron







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