Do you remember your first camera?

[wanderings]

Especially if you had one as a child?

My first one was in 1989: one of those which used 110 film. I loved it, I felt really grown up having one, although I would have liked a Polaroid one: I had seen one boy who had one on a school outing.

1986. It took disc film rather than normal film and had a soft squidgy leather case. I still have it in the loft.

Mine was a Kodak Disc Camera. Followed by an Olympus om10 slr

Yes! I had one of those slim rectangular things that you plugged a bar of flash cubes into (can't recall the name.) Film and development was really pricy (well, for the pocket money I got) and there were normally only about 2 decent snaps in a 36 exposure film when you got them back from Boots. My DC can't get their heads round that at all and find it strange we have so few photos of my teenage years.

1975 ish Kodak pocket instamatic

1980 my grandfathers Voigtlander ( I learned how to process my own photos)

1984 Pentax P30

2008 Olympus digital thing..

I am thinking about getting the voigtlander out of retirement

A Kodak Ektra, that was the name.

I had a disc camera 📷 it was really deal as I recall.

Crap!

I had a disk camera for my birthday It was stolen when our house was burgled a few weeks later, and never replaced I hadn't even had any photos printed.

I had a Minolta SLR around 1985ish. Loved it but sometimes struggled to load the film and wouldn't know until I came to unload it thinking I had a full roll of photos.

Mine was 110 too! Wow this brings back memories.

Having to use those clip on flash cubes (but only occasionally cos they were expensive). And sending off the films in an envelope to Truprint. So excited when the photos came back in the post 😄

I had a 110 film camera. Long and thin and very easy to get your fingers in front of the lens!
Mine at least had an integral flash, which took ages to warm up and made a very high pitched noise when ready. My sister had a camera with a flash cube.
I then moved onto an APS, which was actually worse.
Finally got an SLR with 35mm film which I loved.

I don't miss real film. It was actually quite crap having to wait for your pics, pay ££££ only to realise how few were any good.

I was given a Kodak for my 10th birthday. It took a 24exposure cassette and used flash cubes. I loved it! Saving up pocket money to buy films and flash... the excitement of the fat, gaudy envelope of pictures arriving in the post... the square pictures with rounded corners and matt finish... most were even in focus!

We went to a youth club where I learned how to make a pinhole camera using the cassette, and to develop the film (but only B&W film).

126 - that's what the film was called! I think.

Late 70s, a Kodak, I think it was an Instamatic. It was this flat rectangle, and to use it you would flip open one side of the lid and that would be the handle which supposedly made it more stable. 24 shots on the film. Abysmal quality, in retrospect.

Yes and I still have it. My father bought it for me when I showed an interest in photography. It takes a 127 film ( black and white) and is really basic , but I was so excited about it. We had some good times together, me with my little camera and dad with his top of the Range Practica! 😊

Probably one of these.
Would be worth a fortune now, I suspect!

Thanks all for sharing! My parents always took lots of photos, and put them in albums, so I wanted to do the same.

In about 2003, an autistic lad I used to work with showed me a very niche use for the 110-style cameras: you could buy in toy shops a rocket which would launch quite a distance into the air, and some models had a 110 style disposable camera attached which would take a picture from above. A kind of primitive forerunner to camera drones.

I was amazed that such things (both the camera and the rocket) were available in toy shops!! The fuel for the rocket could only be bought by someone over 18.

I still have mine, it's an Olympus tripp.

Mine was a pink one that used 110 film! I remember the holiday when I was given it by my parents; we were in Bournemouth in maybe 1989 ish.

I still have it upstairs somewhere I think :)

Yes - 1980 - it was one of those that you had to fix a flash cube onto the top. It took the cassette type film cartridges. I loved it.

This was similar to mine

This has just made me remember a forgotten memory.

When I was maybe 8/10 I read my mystic meg horoscope in the mail, and it said “destiny clicks a red camera”

I had been saving up tokens from cereal boxes (poss shreddies) to get a free camera. It arrived later that week and it was red from a random selection of colours.

Totally coincidental, but at that age I was thoroughly convinced mystic meg was a genuine psychic.

In the mid/late 80s, I desperately wanted a pink 'Le Clic' camera but didn't get it

I remember must have been early eighties my dad bought me a Kodak instant one that printed the photos I remember loving this present so much