Your first collectible?

[Mitica100]

To all of you collectors:

I'm curious what was your first collectible camera/photo equipment piece that started your collection.

Mine was a Graflex D, huge wooden 4x5 camera with no lens, otherwise working well (even the much dreaded Focal Plane shutter).

 

[ksmattfish]

I guess my first collectable would have been a little green Savoy 620 camera given to me by my Grandmother when I was about 12. I don't have that camera anymore, although I have picked two identical models in the last couple of years.

My first vintage cam was the Anniversary Speed Graphic. I got it to shoot large format. I was so impressed with the photos that I began loooking into other old cameras. At first I had no interest in collecting, only using, but once you get a few cameras people think you are collecting and start helping you out. So now I have a bunch, and eventually the collecting bug bit me. Although it's still got to be a heck of a deal for me to pick up a camera that is unworkable or not a user.

 

[terri]

mmmm, I guess the first collectable I was exposed to (no pun intended) was the hubby's Rollei. But he uses it so much I don't even view it as a collectable. For myself, I bought 2 Model II SX-70 Land cameras, one plastic, one chrome body - but again, I use them, so they don't feel like collectables.

That just started awakening the beast, I fear. :twisted:

 

[Mitica100]

That just started awakening the beast, I fear. :twisted:

I feel your pain...