My dad had an Exakta when I was a child, but he rarely used it. My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic, which took the 126 film cartridges. Got it in time for the 1965 World's Fair in the NYC and somewhere I still have those photos.

Next was a Nikon FM, bought by my dad when he worked for Broncolor (Nikon and Bron used to be part of Ehrenreich Photo Optical then). When that was lost, first I got a P&S Nikon Coolpix then a Nikon D60. Now I have a D3300, and am very happy with it.