Your first camera

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Hi,

I thought it would be nice to show your first own camera you shot with. Like a little tribute for your old babies. Doesn´t matter if it is an analoge or digital camera. Images desired but not a must.

Starting with my first own analoge 35mm camera. It was a Minolta X700. No autofocus and slow maximum sync speed of 1/60 second.


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I used with the camera several Minolta lenses like 28, 35, 50 and 135mm. Also a Macro lens but cannot remember which model or which brand.
 
Hi P. was it that model? Has great vintage design. :)
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It was a long time ago but yes it did look something like that :) what an expence it was for the film and prossesing and small prints off it!
I had quite a lot of Kodak cameras over the years to many to remember but I used to love to take black and white pictures using ilford SFX 200 and Ilford Pan 100, it's all flooding back now! Memories!
 
Mine was a Polaroid Colourpack 200, i think the film was supplied in packs of 8 or 10 instant film.

The image below is not mine but just for reference.

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I remember having to hold the film between two developing plates and keep it warm whilst the image developed.

It cost my poor parents a fortune with film:D

Poor parents. :D
I remember that flash cubes. My mothers camera need them, too. Think it was four flashes per cube and you had to turn the cupe upon the camera for each new flash. ;):)
 
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That`s vintage camera porn. Beautiful old Voigtländer with rangefinder. Great. ;):)
Thanks.

With the rangefinder and a Weston Master IV meter, it's possible to take some good photographs. I did have my own well-equipped darkroom at home for B&W and colour film developing and printing, but as film and consumables became hard to find, and expensive, I then got someone else to process my stuff, to contacts stage, and then print chosen ones. Now I'm all digital, worse luck.
 
Have you used 35mm or roll film 120 for that nice looking camera?
That's a stock shot it went the way of all flesh many years ago (unless my hoarder parents still have it somewhere) the film had to be threaded onto a spindle and wound on with the big handle on the side and then wound back into the spool at the end? It's a very long time ago. I was fascinated by the whole looking down into the viewfinder thing and never really tried to use the mirror.

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This is a photo of one of the photo's taken with it - I'm the one in the sombrero.

Edited for being stupid
 
That's a stock shot it went the way of all flesh many years ago (unless my hoarder parents still have it somewhere) the film had to be threaded onto a spindle and wound on with the big handle on the side and then wound back into the spool at the end? It's a very long time ago. I was fascinated by the whole looking down into the viewfinder thing and never really tried to use the mirror.

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This is a photo of one of the photo's taken with it - I'm the one in the sombrero.

Edited for being stupid
Square 4x4 or 6x6 format. A real early medium format camera using roll film 120. Nice family shot by the way. Print orange toned by all the past years. ;):)
 
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