What camera & lens/es you started out with?

[Brainonska511]

Before the dSLR, I had a Canon P&S. But as far as dSLRs - I had a Rebel XT with a Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 lens and a 17-35mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. I recently sold off the XT and the 17-35mm lens and now have a Rebel T5i and a Canon 10-22 f/3.5-4.5 lens for the wide-angle. (I also have a Canon 200mm f/2.8L for when I want to shoot stuff closeup at a distance, eg: sporting event, maybe birds...)

 

[Thebobo]

Olympus OM-1 with 50mm 1.4 and some crappy zoom telephoto

Great little camera.

 

[twinrider1]

Used the family's cameras, little Kodak Instamatics and Polaroid Land Camera, stuff like that.

But the first camera that was mine all mine was a Fujica AX-3 with a 50mm. Pretty good body, very good glass for the money.

My next camera was a Nikon F3HP with a winder. Thought it was going to be the last body I'd ever need.

 

[Rottie]

Very interesting.... I never own any film camera before. My first P&S digital camera was Polaroid PDC-640. It was good camera. I gave it to my good friend.
I bought first Canon Powershot A510 I used it for 3 weeks then decided to upgrade to Canon PowerShot A610. It is the BEST digital camera I ever had. It was stolen by my old roommate.
I have no camera for 2 years I used my iPhone 3GS/4S camera then. I found a good camera, Canon PowerShot S3 IS my first big digital camera. Sold it and bought Canon PowerShot SX30 IS my first dSLR-like camera. It was stolen and a good friend gave me the same model. I am happy.

I really wanted a real dSLR only with full articulated LCD.

 

[monstercameron]

olympus epl1, its not bad.

 

[blastingcap]

olympus epl1, its not bad.

I had that camera, in good light it's fine, but man did it suck in low light without an AF assist light, and the high ISO was awful compared to my Nikon DSLR. If you can sell it, try to get at least an E-PL5 or E-PM2.

 

[DrPizza]

Wow...

"First" camera was a brand-new 1972 Kodak Pocket Instamatic 110 I got for Christmas.

Wow! I think that's the same camera I had when I was a little kid. I remember being the only person present to watch them tear down a bridge - I took a whole roll of photos of just them demolishing the bridge - it was a several blocks long foot bridge. My parents claimed that they took the film to the camera shop to get it processed, but even back then, I suspected they didn't, because they were displeased I wasted an entire roll of film on just that one subject.

I've had digital cameras pretty much since they first came out; and upgraded roughly yearly or every other year. I *finally* got a DSLR a few months ago: Nikon D3200 (very happy with it). First lens besides the kit lens is a Sigma 18-250mm 3.5-6.3. I'm anxiously awaiting the UV filter, circular polarizer, intervalometer, spare battery, AC adaptor, tripod, and class 10 64GB memory card, that I ordered Monday. Going to play with time lapse for something new to do this weekend. edit: ugh, Amazon sent me the wrong timer!

 

[alkemyst]

A Canon A1 was my first rig. Snagged it at a local pawn shop that someone never picked back up for next to nothing.

It came with a 50mm prime and a wide angle (24mm at like 1.4f) that I resold for almost 3x the price of what I paid for everything. I was new to cameras at the time and didn't know how expensive lenses could be.

There was a a 50mm 1.4f (or something like that) the pawn shop also had from the same guy they wanted $50 that had a street price around $1000 used at the time. By the time I looked it up and went back (no internet on your phone / laptop back then wirelessly ) it was gone.

There was also a big telephoto for $50 that probably was worth a mint too. Everything was in perfect condition and had all the boxes and manuals.

I later sold that for my first digi-cam a Canon A50 which was highly inferior.

 

[Carson Dyle]

A Canon A1 was my first rig. Snagged it at a local pawn shop that someone never picked back up for next to nothing.

It came with a 50mm prime and a wide angle (24mm at like 1.4f) that I resold for almost 3x the price of what I paid for everything. I was new to cameras at the time and didn't know how expensive lenses could be.

There was a a 50mm 1.4f (or something like that) the pawn shop also had from the same guy they wanted $50 that had a street price around $1000 used at the time. By the time I looked it up and went back (no internet on your phone / laptop back then wirelessly) it was gone.

I think you might have that backward, or your memory is a little rusty. The 24mm f1.4 lens would likely have been astronomically expensive. If the camera came with both a 50mm and 24mm lenses, that 24mm lens was probably f2.8 or similar.

 

[alkemyst]

I think you might have that backward, or your memory is a little rusty. The 24mm f1.4 lens would likely have been astronomically expensive. If the camera came with both a 50mm and 24mm lenses, that 24mm lens was probably f2.8 or similar.

Like I said I sold the 24mm lens almost immediately for about 3x what I paid for everything. I ended up buying a 24mm f2.8 later on. I sold the A1 and 50mm and 24mm lenses on groups.google.com in 98 for $300 which was way more than I paid for it. I could have gotten more more than likely but all the original boxes and manuals I had in my garage which got obliterated in a hurricane.

It wasn't a 'kit' it was some guy's stuff he pawned and never paid for.

It took amazing shots.

 

[Garay002]

the 18-55 Kit lens for Canon. Very bad lens