My First Camera

Everyone remembers their first! This was mine. A little red and black plastic film camera with a fixed 38mm lens and a built-in flash. A PC-500 made by the Premier Camera company in Taiwan. I can’t remember exactly when I was given it, but I do remember using it for a few years before I dropped and broke it on a family trip to Uluru in 1996. Unfortunately it was thrown out at the time so the only evidence I had of it years later was a single photo of that trip that Dad took on his Nikon F3. It was quite hard to distinguish what the camera actually was from that image but a bit of research and scrolling through the internet paid off. Fortunately, I have been able to find a couple of them through OZ Camera. So now that I have a childhood memory back again, I’ll endeavor to put some pro film through them and see what happens…

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