What is the first camera you remember seeing in use?

[bertha katzenengel]

Here is a page where you might be able to find a photo of it:

http://www.manuals2go.com/cameras/

Here's the first one I remember:



My great-grandparents had one.

Then my mom had one of these:



This wasn't it exactly but it's pretty close. It's the kind where you pulled the photo out the side of the camera, then you had to wait for 60 seconds or so for the image to develop before pulling the cover off the picture.

How about you?

[benburch]

1. This one!

[havocmom]

11. Jeeze-o Beez-o, benburch! You're old!

At least as old as moi ;) The old 'Brownie Box' was what came to my mind too.

Had an old Argus given to me that is soooo old the manual is written on stone tablets. It's got more miles on it than Phyliss Schaffly! Works better too.

[peekaloo]

17. I still have one that belonged to my father!

He let me take it to the zoo in Tampa on my first ever school field trip.

[spinbaby]

2. Nikon

Brown leather case. It was my father's.

[phaseolus]

3. This one.

My dad used it for years, until it broke...

[swag]

10. Wow, what a sweet-assed rangefinder.

My first 35 mm was a rangefinder that I bought from a Jr. High science teacher of mine for $20.



I still have it, but I stupidly took it to the ocean and sand mucked it up.

Love the rangefinders.

[Lars39]

16. Oh, yeah. That's one of 'em!

Dad still has it; not sure if it still works or not. :)

[skygazer]

4. This one

You looked down into the viewfinder and snapped the picture. It was my grandmother's and my father used it for several years.



It took beautiful pictures. It took this one of me when I was 3 years old -

[bertha katzenengel]

5. I must confess that I never knew there was color film for those older

Brownies. :dunce: <-- me

That IS a remarkably beautiful photo.

[Xandor]

14. Yup, that's my first too.

My mom owned one when I was a little kid. She had had it since she was a youngster. Up until I was about 7 all of our family pics were taken with one of those orignial Brownies.

[Catch22Dem]

6. This really isn't the first I saw in use, but it deserves...

honorable mention. I remember my mom getting one of these and she was the envy of everyone around her. Obviously not professional, or even amateur photographers, but to anyone who liked new "gadgets."

[bertha katzenengel]

9. I'm glad you posted it. I remember it - barely.

I remember sticking my nose up at it. It made some lousy images because the negative was so tiny.

I didn't realize it was beloved by many. I shouldn't have been a snob.

[Catch22Dem]

12. Oh hell, I don't know if it was beloved

It was just the cool gadget of the summer (don't remember which summer she got it.) We still have some family vacation photos from that camera. They're not terrible, but that's not saying much.

[jody]

7. Kodak Baby Brownie Camera, circa 1938

[swag]

8. My mom had an Ansco twin-lens. I was born in 1961, and this is the

first camera I remember. I later became obsessed with this camera and, after mom had moved onto another camera, I started taking a lot of pictures with the Ansco. I eventually lost it, but managed to find her another one in great shape in a thrift store.

I think the viewfinder was the thing that made me crazy for the camera.

[auntAgonist]

13. my Dad

is 80 now ..
He had one of these.



Kodak Pony

[Redstone]

15. My grandfather had a Baby Rollei TLR,

whihc was an elegant little camera, but used 127 size film. I'd buy one of those cameras, but the film is damn hard to find these days.

Redstone

[micrometer_50]

18. OK, now I feel old:

[norml]

19. It was this Argoflex.