Was your very first camera a Leica ?

[jimbo035]

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I started out in my early teens (late 1940's) with my parents' Kodak Autographic, and after several years (Ferrania Ibis - Retina IIC - Praktina FX etc came and went) bought an M4. That 'came and went' as well

60 years or so thereafter I have a Leicaflex SL and a D-Lux 4. How about you ?

[doubice]

First camera was Leica IIIb - originally my mother's; I started using it during my mid-teens(1965 or thereabout). Second camera was a Praktina II bought about 2 years later, third came an M3 in 1970. The M3 and Praktina are long gone but, I still have the IIIb!

 

.......Along with an M6, M7, M8, Digilux 2 and a 'few' lenses..... Can't get rid of the bug.....

 

Best,

 

Jan

[nhabedi]

My first camera was a Nikon FM2 which I bought new (plus a couple of used lenses) in my mid-20s. After about a year, I sold the whole stuff and bought an old M4-P with an even older 50mm Summicron instead. (So my second camera was a Leica.) I never looked back...

[Michael Hiles]

I bought a Yashica rangefinder in the early 60s. Very shortly thereafter (I think 1965) I bought an M2 used from a Professor in Vermont who occasionally came to Montreal. I still have the M2 and it is my most used camera. About 5 years later I bought an M3, which I also still have.

[Mongo Park]

No. First was a Nikon F301 with a 50mm 1.8 lens, in my early twenties. That got stolen and received a Leica R4s Mod 2 as a wedding present. This got traded in for a Leica R7. Currently have an M2, M6 TTL, 2 R7 s and an R6.2. Only non leica cameras I now own are a Contax IIa and a Zeiss Ikon Contina 2A.

[frko]

Nikon D40x>Nikon D300>Nikon FM2>Leica M7

 

I'm more of a new generation kid (I went old school)

[scc]

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My first manual camera was a Pentax Spotmatic, given to me by my father when I was around 12 I guess, prior to that I had this really cool Fuji P+S.

[chuckw]

My first "real" camera (a camera other than a box camera) was an Argus C3.

[adan]

Close, but no. First cameras were a Canon FX (non-ttl predecessor to the FT/FTb) and a Yashica TLR. Got a IIIc my freshman year in college for $100 from a dorm-mate.

[Guest Joachim_I]

My first camera was a Nikon FG. I stayed with Nikon for twelve years before I switched to a Pentax 67II system. I added a Leica M seven years later.

[delander †]

Nope it was a Konica c35v, no rangefinder, zone focusing. Then went through Practica, Zorki, Zenith, Fujica 701, then to Nikon SLR for 30 years, picked up a couple of Pentax Spotmatics on the way, then to Bronica followed by Mamiya RZ67, then to Canon DSLRs which I still have and finally Leica M8/9.

 

I was always interested in Leica but did not buy because of lack of funds etc. My grandfather had three of them in the 1950-60s. He did not leave them to me:(

 

Jeff

[vertekijker]

A little Kodak 'box' when I was six... One with those rolls of film (6X6) which are impossble for a child to put into the camera without the help of an adult. I still have it. Later I got into Nikon and when I was in my thirties - in the mid '80's - my first Leica camera. Never looked back! Leica CL, then M5, M6, M6TTL, M8, M9...

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Frans

[sandro]

An uncle gave me his old Kodak Retina 1A, which I still have. As a boy I dreamed about having a Leica M3 or M4 and I couldn't stop looking at them. Then I could afford a Practica, sold it and bought a Canon A1 and later a FTb as second body, inherited an Olympus OM-2 which I sold to buy my first Leica M3. Since then a row of Leica bodies and lenses have followed and I don't intend to part with them. Most used now are M6TTL 0.58 and M4-P and M4.

[thegrantgreen]

nikon em -> nikon f3 -> fuji s5 pro -> nikon 28ti -> canon 5d -> canon ae1 -> leica m8

pretty long way to leica. but now i can truely say that i have what i needed.

[farnz]

My first was a broken Canonet for $10 from a garage sale when I was 17ish followed by a Pentax P30T that I used for about a year and then a 6x9 medium format Fuji GSW 690III.

 

Pete.

[tdtaylor]

My first camera was a Zeiss-Ikon, had pop out front, but I can't remember the model- it was a camera my Dad brought back from Korea during the Korean war- I mean police action. I saw it a couple of years ago, and went looking for it about a month ago to no avail....it is around here somewhere.....

 

I then jump to the Canon AE-1, multiple Nikon and Canon cameras with the M3 in the middle, then could not afford anything, then the D70, D200, D300, D3, D700, then the M9...

[etp095]

i was given a chrome nikon f2 with a 50mm f2 lens,by my friends brother back in 1983,i was 14.i was asking him about cameras and he said he bought this camera(nikon f2) just for the lens it had.the 50mm wasn't the lens the camera had on it,i never asked him what lens this camera had on it when he bought it.i used this camera throughout the 80's-early 2000's,till i bought a nikon coolpix 5000.i still have the f2,it's in great shape still,lots of great memories were taken with that camera.

 

now i've added a leica m4,m7,m8 and dlux4.

[k-hawinkler]

No. The first camera I bought as a teenager was a Practica SLR film camera, no interchangeable lenses.

However, it stopped working after a little more than a hundred shots.

I had it repaired, got a few more shots out of it, then it failed again and I gave up altogether for several decades.

Eventually I got a Polaroid, the first digital Apple camera, and recently Canon G3, SD780IS, Nikon D40, D200, D300, D3, and finally Leica M9.

 

Cheers.

[masjah]

Apart from a childhood Brownie 127, my first camera was an Ilford Sportsman [only the cheapest one with the Vario shutter (200, 50, 25, ].

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[wizard]

My first camera was a Dacora Dignette (Dacora went out of business long ago) with a Steinheil 45mm lens. When the shutter went south, I bought a used Leica M3 together with a goggled Summicron 35 lens from a friend. That's when I got infected ...

 

Andy