Pictures : Snappy title: my Cameras, inherited and family cameras and those I have amassed over the years

For some reason I still have all the cameras I've ever owned, as well as two cameras that belonged to my parents.

Camera 1 - Kodak Six-20, Junior Delux, my father's camera.

I can never remember my father using the Junior Deluxe but I think he was using it up until the Instamatic style camera (Camera 4) came out.

I used it in the '70s when I was developing my own photographs. I can't put my hands on those negatives or photographs at the moment.

Camera 1 - Kodak Six 20 Junior Deluxe

Camera 2 - Kodak Baby Brownie, my Mother's camera
This camera was my mother's. I seem to recollect my sister got it as a hand-me-down, but when we got our own Kodak Brownies (camera 3) it seemed to sit in a cupboard in the middle room of our home for years, until I 'liberated' it

Camera 2 - Kodak Baby Brownie

Camera 3 - Kodak Brownie 127 (Dakon Lens)
This was my first camera, given to me as a Christmas present in 1965, although I had been using my father's camera before then, usually on holidays.

Camera 3 - Kodak Brownie 127, 'Dakon' Lens

Camera 4 - Kodak Instamatic 25
Christmas 1968 (or '69) Cartridge films, cubed flash in some of the models.

Camera 4 - Kodak Instamatic 25

Camera 5 - Zenit-E

My first SLR Camera, given to me for my birthday in 1971. I also had my first enlarger and dark room equipment then. Walters the Chemist in Merthyr Tydfil had just started selling paper and chemicals, so my dark room was set up in our back bedroom.

Camera 5 - Zenit-E

Camera 5 - Zenit-E with Zeis Ikon Jkoblitz 4 Flash
There was no shoe on this camera so I picked up this foldable reflector. Bulbs lasted once and were 'expensive', relative to film. So I took more pictures out of doors.

Camera 5 - Zenit-E with Zeis Ikon Jkoblitz 4 Flash

Camera 6 - Zenit 122 Special 50th Anniversary edition
I got this in 1993 to deliver a photographic contract. Other makes were available but I just wanted to stick to the Zenit

Camera 6 - Zenit 122 Special 50th Anniversary edition

I even bought a flash gun to go with it! A Flash Fotomatic 500A

Camera 6 - Zenit 122 Special 50th with flash gun

Camera 7 - Minolta Memory Maker
I bought this in the late 80's at an airport, when I realised we hadn't packed a camera for the holiday. It still works, it still has a film in it and was a stalwart of my 'quick' photograph activity for a long period

Camera 7- Minolta Memory Maker

Camera 8 - Ricoh KR-10
I inherited this camera, as well as several lenses and a camera bag, when my father died in 1996. It did take over as my first call camera from the Zenit, due more to sentimental attachment rather than technical superiority. Th camera bag, which I have only just got rid of, allowed me to carry both cameras.

Camera 8 - Ricoh KR-10

Camera 9 - Fuji Finpix S6500fd
I eventually succumbed to the digital era and purchased a simple digital camera. It's strange looking back now - it used 4 x AA batteries, usually rechargeable ones.

Camera 9 - Fuji Finpix S6500fd

Camera 10 - Powershot A2300
Once I got into digital photography I needed a small pocket camera. I bought this in 2011 for that very purpose. It's small, compact, but a great little camera.

Camera 10 - Powershot A2300

Camera 11 - Nikon D3300

My Most recent acquisition

Camera 11 - Nikon D3300

Camera 12 - Olympus XA1

This was another inherited camera, it belonged to Wendy, my first wife. The flash attachment was broken at some point, which may be why it wasn't packed for the holiday when we then bought the Minolta (Camera 7). I kept it but I never used it myself.