What was your first camera?
I don't think I'll ever find the exact model but I remember it being yellow, and afterwards using the little film tube to hold my change
This qt
Some camera my mom bought for me from a flyer that came with the Sears credit card bill. Fixed focus 35mm, I don't rememeber the brand, but it had two lenses on a rotating disc in front. Twist it to set it in wide or telephoto modes.
First I bought was a Fuji Fotonex 200, I bought into the APS system. Selling points to me were sensible. Storage in the film cartridge seemed awesome since my parents never stored negatives properly. I remember playing around with them as a kid and probably put scratches & shit all over them. Mid-roll change too, though the 200 didn't have the feature, and I couldn't afford the next model up.
First digital. AGFA ePhoto Smile. Quality was pretty shitty, but I thought it was really cool given it was sub-$100.
>>2764736
Some film piece from Russia, it was 1999.
Then a decade and a half of abysmal point and shoots until I got my rebel T3 now.
Got a Pentax K-3 for Christmas. Also used my dad's old OM-1 a little when I was a kid.
This one. Lovely. .
>1993
>not buying your film inside your camera
nikon 1 j2, loved it, if it only had a fucking hot shoe...
then i upgraded to a 40D and then started buying glass and lights
also got an EOS 100 (film), an EOS 600 (film too) and an Canon EF-m as well in between the J2 and the 40D
inb4
>upgrade
Canon PowerShot ELPH 330 HS
I had the usual cheap 110 and 35mm P&S that every middle-class '80s kid seems to have owned at some point or other.
I saved up birthday and Christmas money for a couple of years in middle/high school and bought one of these. Nikon N60, kind of shit in retrospect but at the time it felt like a "real" camera, and it fit my budget. I was using my dad's old EM before it, but needed a full manual camera for photo classes. (The EM was Aperture Priority only.)
>>2764744
Oh shit, I had that thing too, good little P&S. I had a DSLR and stuff by the time I got it, but wanted a cheap beater camera that took AAs, and it had the best reviews of anything in its price range.
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Nikon CoolPix L3.
2 AA batteries lasted about 100 shots, maybe 20 if I used flash.
My old Kiev 4A is long gone, but this is my second camera. Eventually got good enough with it to track moving objects and shoot football games.
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Here's one taken with the Zorki at a rodeo.
>>2764811
I remember being pretty annoyed that it was 6mp instead of the equivalent Sony's 7mp but I took a lot of pictures with it at school and was pretty happy. I learned the exposure triangle with a Pentax K1000 though
And it still works, but I can't stand the over sharpened murkiness in the photos. It's like someone smeared all the details.
Still it was one of the nicer cameras in 2004.
>>2765025
Oh, right now I use a K-3.
>>2764925
Not bad
