Have you shot film before?

Do you remember your first camera?

Anyone remember "disc" cameras? LOL

Sure, I have shot film.   Unfortunately I did it after leaving the home place where I would have been able to learn to develop my bw from my dad in a basement darkroom.  I used rangefinder type cameras then "graduated" to the more automated point and shoots with manual over ride.

I shot a few movies and animations with an old hand wound 8mm, 3-lens turret and hot lights.  Interest waned soon enough.

My first camera is faded memory..I do remember the large film, 120 medium format.  While I remember my dad using flash bulbs and a reflector, I was in high tech land with flash cubes.

Polaroid™ took my photos to new speeds for a short time but price and durability of photos made me drop it for everyday photos.

I remember the disc camera but thought it clumsy overall and film frame too small..if that is what it was, a rotating piece with film spaced in there?  I never tried one.        Tom

My first Camera was a B&W Polaroid instant camera back in 1971. My parents gave to me for Chirstmas when I was 12. 

Then in 74,  I got a Kodak 110 pocket camera and a B&W developing kit.

I remember the Disc, but I did get one.

The first film camera I ever used was my parents Brownie.   You know the one you looked down on the top.  That was so long ago I don't even remember the film type.  That was when I was first bit by the camera bug.  Always wishing that one day I could get a "real" camera.

I have had a few cameras since then, including a Kodak Disc Camera!  I have some great vacation shots from that thing.  lol.   I think it's more the memories are great than the actual photo :P

Now, after many years,  I am shooting with my "real" camera :)

My first camera looked something like this

My first camera was my dad's 35mm Minolta back in highschool for my first photography class, but I could only use it for class.  Otherwise, I had my sister's instamatic with 110 film.

Then my first very own Kodak disc film. 15 shots worth of film on a rotating piece of plastic. We got that camera when our Kodak brand Polaroid type camera was recalled by Kodak after they lost in court to Polaroid for a patent violation.

Then I had an APS point & shoot but that grew old quick, I can't even remember what brand it was.

Then I moved to digital.

I still have that recalled, patent violating Kodak,  in a box, in my cabinet :)

My first camera was (and is, I still have it) the canon ae-1 which I got sometime in 77. What started out as am avid hobby became a job when I started shooting for a local paper. They had 4 different versions of the paper, depending on which town they sold it in. So I had quite a variety of "hometown" events to shoot.

And of course there was also the non assignment stuff that I found interesting and was encouraged to submit for filler when the paper was light on news. What was great is that I had full use of the paper's darkroom too.

It was fun, everyone always loved to see the photographer show up for their various school/town/social stuff. 

Well.....,    the one exception was the kid whom I caught with his father's truck in the river. (He'd taken it mudding and thought the river was a good place to drive it into to wash it off and promptly got it stuck in the river)  He was not at all happy to see me snapping away once he found out I worked for the local paper. The editor was nicer than I though and edited the shot so as not to show the teenaged miscreant's face.

I had one of those disc cameras.  In fact, I just found a disc negative last week in a bunch of other pictures.  :)  I remember 110 film too.  Never developed anything myself though.  I only used film as a kid and before I knew I was interested in it.