Was your very first camera a Leica ?

[henry34n]

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my first Leica is a M9

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[digger1914]

My first camera, when I was about 12, was a Kodak 110 instamatic! My first SLR was a Ricoh KR10 in 1981, and it is still going strong.

[nick.edwards1]

My first camera in my early 20's was a second hand Exact Varex IIa with 50:2.8 Zeiss Tessar lens. Metering was with a Weston Master V.

The Kodachromes still look good 38 years on (or maybe that's nostalgia).

 

Best regards,

 

Nick.

[adan]

about 20 cameras [including] one of these wonderful little boxes holding a complete Pentax 110 SLR system.

 

BTW, Jaap, did you see this new little cutey?

 

Pentax Optio i10 looks back to Auto 110: Digital Photography Review

[carbon_dragon]

My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic. My first REAL camera was a Konica I rangefinder and I had a Weston Master light meter to go with it. Sort of a poor man's Leica. My Dad bought it after WWII. Then I started up the Minolta path with the SR-T-101, the XE-5, the 8000i, 7xi, and the 600si. THEN when I had a bit more money, I discovered Leica and bought a IIIf BD and two M2's.

 

When digital happened, I would have liked to buy an M8, but I couldn't afford it, so I went with the KM-5D, the Canon 5D and the Sony A350. But just this week I've managed to get myself a used M8 and I'm really enjoying doing some rangefinder photography again.

 

I've used lots of other cameras over the years including a nice, if mostly low end Yashica/Kyocera Contax SLR outfit with Zeiss lenses. Very nice, but heavy. In my 50's I'm having more trouble carrying around an outfit of any weight, so the M8 has the potential of getting me out the door and taking pictures again.

[Ronazle]

Box cameras aside, my first real camera was TLR by the name of Reflekta (sp?). Not a bad camera but missing all the niceties like auto advance (it had the red window for advancing). I think I paid $30 USD for it. Next camera was a Leica IIIIC. Both were in the 49-64 time frame. regards, ron

[wilfredo]

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My first camera was a Kowa SET R2 purchased back in 1971. I came across the same camera on E-bay a few years ago and purchased it. It brought back many memories, and it works fine :-)

[wilfredo]

My first camera was a Kowa SET R2 purchased back in 1971. I came across the same camera on E-bay a few years ago and purchased it. It brought back many memories, and it works fine :-)

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[Robert Kohlman]

My first camera, not counting Kodak "box cameras" was a Kodak Signet-80 with 35, 50 and 90 mm lenses, purchased new in 1963. On a jeep tour in the Colorado Rockies I met a Dentist with two Leicas--one M3 and one M2. After a brief lecture on the history of Leica, he handed the M2 to me, a poor college freshman. I was allowed to play with the camera for about 10 minutes. I was hooked on Leica ! I saved all the money I could to buy my first Leica, the Leicaflex. That was 1965. I now own a 3f, one M2, one M4, the original Leicaflex, two SL's, one SL2, three R3's, one R4 and 20 or so Leitz lenses. Other film cameras owned have included several Pentax, Mamiya-Sekor, and Nikon cameras, but I always have gravitated back to the Leicas. The digital age has dampened my film use significantly. I still use the Leitz/Leica lenses, but now they are usually found on an Olympus E-3 DSLR body. I hope Leica management lives up to their promise to create a DSLR for R-glass users.

[johnnyj]

When I was in high school a teacher asked me if I would take some picutres of the band during the football games. He handed me his Brownie and I took it home to figure out how to take pictures. My father handed me his Ciro-flex twin lens 120 and a light meter. I used that camera and took some decent pictures with it until I ended up on a four by three mile island at the end of the Aleutian chain. I bought a Konica SLR, some lenses and took a lot of pictures and learned how to develop and print while in purgatory. Next, I found myself in Europe and as an aside I was doing technical photography for my employer. I needed the best and ended up buying Hasselblads and lenses and stayed with Hasselblad through running a photoshop (as an aside) for a major defense contractor. Fast forward to the nineties and starting my own business with my son, after completeing his EE degree. Needed something easier to work with, bought a R8 (and lenses), a Digilux 1, a Digilux 2, a DMR (and more lenses), an R9, a D3, a D4 .... Hardly ever use the Hasselblads anymore. The images out of the DMR compete very well with the Blad. Waiting anxiously for the successor to the R9 and DMR.

[laglaph]

My first camera was a Zorki4 ( I was 14), my first digital camera is a Leica M9

[Carl E]

My first camera was a Minolta Hi-matic 7s rangefinder. I bought it for my own money when I was 13.

 

My first Leica was an M4-P.

 

Carl

[Pangur Ban]

No, but my first pair of binoculars were Leicas. I went into a camera store for a pair of binos, got curious about the Leicas, tried out a pair and immediately bought a pair of 8x42 Ultravids at many times my intended budget. Never regretted it. Awesome and never look through them unless you're prepared to buy them.

[hyplopatissier]

My first camera was a Yashica minister III in 1968 (I was 14 years old), my second was the famous Nikon F, in black version in 1972.

I also used a Nikon F2 en Nikon F3 and a FM2 and a F90X.

I bought my first Leica m2 in 2005. The m2 was changing for a m6.

Now it's a M6 and a M6ttl and sometimes my last nikon F90X.

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[R6M6]

My first one with ten was a Voigtlaender Vitoret, as a student I bought then a M2 > CL > R4S2 > R3 > R6.2 > M6 >M8; in addition I own a Minox GT and a Voigtlaender Vitomatic.

[rcoles]

No, but I hope it will be my last.

I think it was a Argus C3, I next switched to Pentax screw mount and when they changed their mount I switched to Nikon, along the way I tried Hasselblad and Rollei, but always went back to Nikon until I recently switched to Leica.

Bob