Beginnings...

[EasyEd]

Hey All,

It was 1965 and my first year in 4-H. I was in the Blue Ribbon Boosters Club near Red Lodge Montana. I took Photography and Forestry.

This was the make and model of my first camera ever. Cost $13.00 and with another $11.00 in film and developing and a photo-display page. That was my total investment my first year in photography. I don't know why I don't have the pictures I took - my sister found my 4-H record book.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/174/372782917_b3759caa52_b.jpg

What did you start out with?

-Ed-

http://www.flickr.com/photos/piedmont_fossil/372782917/sizes/l/in/photostream/

[Cazzie]

I started with a Brownie Automatic, automatic by the fact that it advanced the film. :>) No where near as exotic as that Sta-lite you have there Ed. My first good camera was a 35-mm SLR Ashia (sp) Pentax with screw-on, not bayonet, lens. My brother got that for me in Korea in the Advanced Retarded Mercenary Yard.

Nice composition, brings back memories.

Caz

[Tracon]

Nice post Ed... It's great that there are still photographers that hold true to the old ways of makin' pictures. I'm a young guy that is fully aware of the technology around him. Canon EOS 300D "Digital Rebel" was my first camera. I fully support digital capture and processing techniques but like all dying arts anybody that still tries to shoot film and develop it holds a high status in my book.

[Panther_99FS]

My first ever camera was a Kodak Pocket Instamatic - Then when my father purchased a Nikkormat SLR, he gave me his older Mamiya-Sekor SLR...

[JorisVandenBerghe]

I remember using my father's Olympus back in the '90s, but can't find any pictures of it. Started out with my current camera, two and a half years ago. Hasn't let me down and still love it. When I upgrade I'll keep it as it's a nice back-up body really :)...

[kilo delta]

Nikon Coolpix 5700 --> Nikon D70s --> Nikon D80 --> Nikon D300 -->?

Hmmm...I'm noticing a bit of a pattern! :d

[Kiwikat]

Nikon Coolpix 5700 --> Nikon D70s --> Nikon D80 --> Nikon D300 -->?

Hmmm...I'm noticing a bit of a pattern! :d

Slippery slope ain't it!?

[arl]

Zorki 4K ('72) ->Ricoh XR1 ('78) -> MX ('82) -> MZ3 ('99) -> DS ('06) -> K7 ('10)

Gave the Ricoh to my father when I got the MX and it was stolen, but still got the rest gathering more or less dust......

I don't think the MZ3 was sold over the pond.