Do you still have or remember your first "useable" photo ever taken? :)
My first photo was taken using my grandfather's Polaroid SX-70 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SX-70) in the seventies and it was probably about peacocks in a park. I am going to France in the next days and I can try to find out about it at my parents place.

I don't remember the first photo I took but it would have been with the Polaroid SX-70 too. Certainly brought back good memories seeing it again. Dad had one and I used to love the way it popped open & closed then getting the photo out the front and waiting for it to develop. He kept it in a tan leather case which smelt wonderfully of leather - I'll need to ask if he's kept it. I do remember trying to wrestle in open round about Lake Geneva though, not a job for little hands!

My favourite photo I have which was taken with this camera is of myself sporting pigtails with a neighbours boxer dog called Sasha. He was a large tan dog who would come and spend the day with me, he had cropped ears (it was in France) and for years I used to think boxers where born that way! Ok I was only small ;) I never knew who he belonged to but apparently the owners would check where he was and leave us to it, he would appear in the morning with his nose pressed against the patio doors waiting on me to come out to play. Guess this is where my love of boxers started strangely enough!

Another favourite is of one of my grandfathers visiting us on holiday, he's standing with a big cheesy grin with a baguette under his arm - he used to disappear for a while in the village, meet up with some of the other old gentleman then come home with all sorts of fruit & veg even though he couldn't speak a word of french........... happy days :)

My gosh I remember my parents giving me an old camera they had, a Brownie, seems I remember the film getting all jammed up LOL

He kept it in a tan leather case which smelt wonderfully of leather
Exactely the same here :)
It was so nice to be able to see the photo printed one minute after taking it. Almost magical. Unfortunately the colours had a tendancy to fade quickly.

Gosh, I think I was about 10 or 11 and I played with my great grandfather's old Argus while we were at the beach. My dad still has it and I believe he still uses it.

I remember getting a white poleroid for Christmas one year, the picture came out right away and you had to spread some kind of preservative over it, I still have some of the picture I took with it. Sort of yellow now.

i really don't remember my first photo. I think my first camera was one of those Kodak cameras that took those film cartridges. They didn't take great photos. :(

Mine was taken on a Pentax SLR - a photo of the ocean that was hideously composed and very boring. I was about 7 or 8 and very disappointed with my effort. After which I was given a kodak pocket camera much as Jan describes. It successfully put me off photography for about 20 years... ;)