My first SLR was a Pentax K1000 and my first digital was a Sony Mavica that use floppy disk as film

I believe it was a "Mir" rangefinder.

http://www.brownie-camera.com/3.shtml

First SLR was a Konica

I got an SLR called a Miranda for my 12th birthday.

My first camera was so primitive it used film.

The first serious camera I used was a Miranda Model F. It was an all manual SLR, called "the poor man's Nikon, which I used for a six week photography class at Bridgewater State College (Massachusetts) when I was 14 years old. After that I set up a B&W darkroom at home, in an old meat locker in the back of my father's store. I've been hooked ever since.

Koadak Brownie. What do you expect a Rochester NY lad to use back in the 45's / 50's

My first camera was a Herco Imperial 620. Then I went high-tech and got a Kodak Instamatic that used 110 film. It was the high-end model that had the integrated flash.

At age 11, one of my uncles gave me a Leica IIIg that he won in a poker game while stationed in Germany.  Being a manually operated camera, he had no idea what all those dials and numbers meant, so he gave it to me!  I went down to the local library and started reading every issue they had of U.S. Camera, Modern Photography and Popular Photography. As I was the only person interested in photography, the librarian let me have all the back issues I could carry out of the storage room! The first camera I ever purchased new was a Minolta SRT 101.

My dad had A Polaroid Swinger
Mom had a Kodak 126 instamatic.
The first camera that was mine was a Kodak 110 instamatic.

I don't remember what first cameras i used when i was a kid, that was a past and i didn't buy the cameras, and they are gone lost or whatever, so i will talk when i started to go into photography seriously.

First video camera was Sony something.
First device that has a camera and small was Samsung something, 3-1, camera, mp3, webcam
First real camera digital was Nikon Coolpix8800, and that opened my eyes to serious photography.
First DSLR was Canon 350D
First full frame were 1Ds MarkII and 5D
First digital medium format was H3DII-39mp, traded in to get H4D-60
First film camera is Mamiya RZ67 ProII and Hasselblad 501CM, i bought bought together
First large format is Speed Graphic Pacemaker 4x5, but didn't have a lens and didn't use it
First large format to use is a field camera, Shen Hao HZX45 IIA
First mirrorless camera is Sony A7r

Mobiles and tablets are neglicted here

I'm seriously not joking..THIS was my first camera..  I was a kid, obviously, but my mom and dad both loved photography and encouraged me to play around with it. 

http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Y3sAAOSwB … -l1600.jpg

Oh gawd!!! This thread is making me cry... all that nostalgia, the memories, those bygone years of film!

I always drooled over the Minolta 7000 and after a lot of pleading, my dad got me a point-n-shoot... I was in shock! It was some unknown brand "PAIM" but had 2 lenses in a disc - wide & tele and so that was it... my 1st ever camera

Later I got my hands on the Ricoh KR-5 Super w/50mm lens... my first ever affair with a camera. Used that to take memorable photos when I first came here to the US.. I was 10 :-P lol

1st Camera (P&S)
PAIM

2nd Camera (SLR)
Ricoh KR-5 Super


3rd Camera (SLR)
Canon F-1n


4th Camera (SLR)
Nikon F3


.... Made memorable images with the Ricoh; Learnt Aperture, Shutter Speed & ISO with the Canon; Took masterpiece shots on the Nikon... Don't have the Ricoh anymore. Canon is just laying on the shelf. Nikon is used sometimes...

Kodak easyshare dx6440. First MILC was an Olympus E3. Now use a Pentax K1 and K 3

1969: Agfa Optima Rapid 250 (35mm film in a special, easy loading cartridge)


1972: Zeiss Ikon S310 (classic 35mm film)


1974: confiscated my dad's Zeiss Ikon Ikarex 35s with interchangeable film magazins (one for b/w, one for color, one for high speed, or so) and a bunch of Zeiss lenses


1976: Nikon F2 - one year later it got professional with this all time queen


1981: the era of photographic bigamy starts and never ended since...

My first camera was I believe this 1930s era classic, originally purchased by my grandfather, who passed away before I was born.  My mother obtained it from my grandmother and gave it to me as a Christmas present in the mid 1970s.

Ricoh. lens 70-200  I think, and it was a Tamrom. Was in Italy '97 and the photos I took, some were collected. I was 38yrs old and the first time I shot; and it was the first clue that I had natural ability. I was so thrilled to discover this that I did not buy the gear to go professional. It's a decision I mildly rue.

My first was a Canon TX, really started getting into it using an Olympus OM-4.

Thank you to Mr. Fletcher in Oklahoma for starting this thread. Memories.

In the early 1960’s I used a nondescript camera whose name and
film format I forget. I used it in 1962 on a field trip in sixth
grade to the local newspaper plant. In the late 1960’s I used a Polaroid
camera photographing local bands (and friends). I got paid for the band
photographs (cost of the film only).

In college in 1970 I traded for a camera with six golf balls. It used
126 film cartridges. I took it to the 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival finding
I was unable to sufficiently photograph Jimi Hendrix at night. In 1971
I borrowed a Kodak Retina II camera when attending a Jethro Tull
concert in Florida on their Aqualung tour. Again, I found the low
light (and my inexperience) insufficient for notable results.

In 1972 I became serious about becoming a professional. I purchased
an Omega D3V enlarger and a Minolta SRT-101 camera. Soon a Minolta
102. Then a year later a Hasselblad 501CM. Later a Cambo 4x5.

A career came about after a succession of cheap cameras. All with film.
And today as an art photographer I still use only film cameras. Darkroom
printing and film. Not for everybody but definitely for me.

An Argus C3 and I had no idea how to focus it. Then an Argus twin lens.  My first real camera was a Nikon F.

The Nikon N2000