What's your "camera roadmap"

[gb hill]

My first camera I bought was as following:

Kodak 110 camera (boot camp Sandiego Ca. 1979) lost.

Canon ae-1 (bought from a sailor aboard USS LaSalle 1980) later sold to buy beer.

Canon T-50 (bought early 90s) later pawned to buy more beer.

Canon ae-1p (gift from wife) to keep happy marriage: still have

Canonet QL-17 (first rangefinder): bought this year

BESSA L w 25:4 snapshot skopar

Fed 2 Zorki 2c (still have)

Fed 5 (just arrived Thursday) More to come I"m sure!

PS: Sure glad I don't drink beer anymore.:angel:

 

[back alley]

i don't think i could remember.

maybe later...

 

[LADP]

Early 70's era Pentax SLR (lost)
Canon A-1 (sold)
Nikon F (sold)
Nikon FM2 (sold)
Mamiya C220 TLR (sold)
Arriflex 16S (sold)
Polaroid/Mamiya 600 SE (sold)
Bolex H16 Rex 5 (still own)
Aaton 16mm XTR Plus (sold)
Aaton 16mm XTR Prod (sold)
Beaulieu 7008 Super 8mm (sold)
Leica Minilux (stolen)
Contax T2 (sold)
Nizo Braun 481 Macro Super 8mm (still own)
Leica MP (still own)
Leica M3 (still own)

 

[Terao]

Agfa Ambi Silette (not strictly mine, its my father's, but is the first camera I ever used c.1974)

Kodak Instamatic 177X (126 format) My first camera, still own it, c.1979

Canon Powershot something or other, c.1997. Lent to brother, lost

Nikon F80 2001-2005, sold to fund DSLR purchase (see below)

Yashicamat 124G c.2004, sold to hot fashion student

Mamiya 645 Super Pro system c.2005, barely used it , sold it to fund...

Nikon D70, May 2005 - August 2006, sold to fund...

Epson R-D1

Then it all goes a bit haywire because of GAS induced by this place

Zorki 4K September 2006. Not shot in anger yet, bought for the Jupiter 9 it came with

Voigtlander Bessa T October 2006. Currently broken and hopefully being fixed

Voigtlander Bessa R2S NHS December 2006

Lenses:

Nikon 28-85mm kit lens, nasty
Nikon 70-300mm kit lens, pretty good actually
Nikon 24mm f/2.8, lovely
Nikon 18-35mm f/4.5-5.6, lovely workhorse of a lens
Nikon 70-210 f/4-5.6D, best value lens I've ever bought, just brilliant
Nikon 18-70mm DX kit lens, pretty good actually
Nikon 70-180mm Micro-Nikkor, astounding technical marvel

Then I get in to the rangefinder GAS and those lenses are listed in my sig...

Next on the list:

Nikon rangefinder bits, probably a backup R-D1, Voigtlander Bessa D or Zeiss Ikon D or M(agenta)8 if they ever sort it out

Happy times

 

[gregg]

Dark recesses of brain...

Nikon FE2 (80s, PJ work)
Nikon F3HP (ditto)
Leica R4 (think I sold the FE2 for this)
Yashica 124G (studio)
Bronica 645 (studio upgrade)

(Joined the Navy, ultimately sold EVERYTHING out of stupidity...)

Nikon EL2 (1990, sold when I bought the first M6)
Leica M6 (2000, black)
Leica iiic (2001)
Tachihara 8x10 Cherry (2002)
Rollei TLR (2002)
Nikon F100 (2002, sold to purchase D$LR)
Nikon D70s (2005)
Leica M6 (2006, silver)

 

[RdEoSg]

I can't believe no one asked the most important question here..

Leica M6 (Ran over)

EXPLAIN THIS!!!!!!!


Now for me...
Vivitar 110 camera 1988 (still own)
Vivitar Screwmount something 1995 (died of alcohol on focusing screen)
Canon AE-1 Program 1996 (given away to someone interested in photography)
Mamiya C330 1998 (sold)
Canon EOS 1N 1999-2000 (sold)
Contax T2 2000 (still have and will NEVER sell)
Graphlex 2001 (sold)
Canon D30 2002 (sold)
Leica M6 2002 (owned but only shot two rolls of film in. It had shutter issues that after 6 months of repair were fixed, but I had lost faith in camera, so I got my money back)
Nikonos II (still own)
Canon 10D 2003 (sold)
Yashica 124G 2003 (still have but never use. Will replace someday with a Rollei probably)
Hasselblad XPan 2003 (still own)
Polaroid SX70 2003 (still own)
Polaroid 600SE 2003 (still own but never used)
Canon 20D 2004 (sold)
Canon SD450 2005 (still own)
Canon 5D 2005 (my main digital/color camera)
Leica M6 2006 (never ever ever ever ever getting rid of. Ever!)

uh.. I think thats all of them.... maybe... do my multiple pinhole creations count?

 

[MadMan2k]

2001 - Polaroid Fun Flash 640 (640x480 res, 8mb internal memory, but it had an LCD and a flash)
2002 - Canon PowerShot A100 (1.3MP, no optical zoom, not much of a camera)
2003 - Canon PowerShot A70 (3.2MP, 3x zoom, this basically got me interested in creating photos and not taking snapshots)
2004 - Canon PowerShot G5 (5mp, basically an improvement on the A70. I lost the first ~5k pictures I took with this, and took about a year hiatus from photography)
2005 - Canon PowerShot SD400 (5mp, I got it so I could bring it everywhere but sold the G5 for bike parts and was out of luck for anything creative)
2005 also - Canon Digital Rebel XT (8mp, rekindled my liking for photography +100, turned it into a love and got me hooked)
2006 - Canon 1N (film, got me hooked on 'pro' bodies and slide and b&w film)
2006 - Leica M3 (Sold the rebel XT to finance it, and what this got me hooked on is going to get expensive... Damn that L-word.)

 

[wlewisiii]

Hmm...
Played with the various instamatics my mother owned while growing up. Got to Germany in the Army (~1983) and picked up a Canon AE-1. Ironically that was about the same time my mother got serious about photography and bought ... a Canon AE-1. Then again, so did a whole heck of a lot of other people during it's run

Stupidly sold mine at a pawn shop, OTOH, I still have hers.

Later picked up a decent Canon Rebel XS with the kit zoom. It did me well for a decade till I started getting serious about photography. I picked up a Yashica Mat 124G and loved what that big ass*d square could show. A while later I bought a Yashica GS based on my experiance with that TLR. Trying to find out how to use it lead me here & the rest of the "road map" is a terrible blur as I bought and sold way too many cameras.

Standouts:
Kiev 4m
Kiev 5
Iskra
Moskva 5
Agfa Karat 36
Anniversary Speed Graphic 4x5
Ansco Speedex Special
Leica CL
Canon FtbN
Canon T90
Agfa Isolette III
Miniature Speed Graphic (2x3)

See my sig for what I still own of that list. It's still way too much & I really need to decide how I want to weed that list again.

William

 

[IGMeanwell]

Polaroid 600 (given to me by an aunt) 1987

Miranda SLR(don't remember the model) 1991

Kodak APS (had a bizarre 4:3, 5:7. 16:9 settings) 1998

Kodak DCS 50 (1 megapixel camera given to me by my brother) (2000)

Minolta X-370 (my grandfather's until he died; a camera that marked my first time taking photography seriously)

Polaroid Land Camera Model 250 (bought 2003)

FujiFilm S3100 (My first bought digital, good landscapes performer) (2003)

Yashica GS (current rangefinder, lots of film that hasn't been processed) (2004)

Nikon D50 (my current everyday fun and money maker) (2005)

Fuji Natura S (bought in July and sold in August to fund a new lens)

Fuji F30 (my current carry everywhere camera) (2006)

D200? RD-1? or maybe Fuji S5 .... we'll see

 

[remrf]

1965: Yashica 44. Christmas gift. (Stolen shortly after arriving in Viet Nam),
1969: Yashica 124. Bought in country (Viet Nam) and used daily for photo duties while assigned as photographer for 25th Infantry Div.
1970: Nikormat. (See above)
1970: Yashica Electro 35. Bought in country and used for fun.
1970: Olympus Pen F. (See above)
Sold 124 but kept Nikormat and Pen F before leaving Viet Nam.
1970: Mamiya C-220 Bought in Yacota, Japan while in route to states.
1971: Nikormat stolen( Now stationed in Germany). Bought Yashica 124G. Sold Pen F.
1972: Sold C-220( Bought drum set) and traded stereo gear for Nikon F.
1972: Traded Nikon F and lenses for Leica 3c and three lenses.
1972: Sold Leica and lenses and used borrowed cameras for rare shots needed for band promos and such until;
1984: Traded second car for 2 Nikons (an "F" and a Nikormat) and lenses. Sold kit while between jobs.
1985: Bought Mamiya 1000 and lenses in second hand store for $15.00. Sold kit later in the year.
1986: Bought Minolta Maxxum 7000 and 3 lenses and used it for weddings and model's head shots while working with commercial photographer who used only medium and large format gear.
1990: Sold Minolta Maxxum kit while in school earning degree in Electronics.
2003: Was given a Minolta 370 which was used for shots of motorcycle trips around Az.
2004: Decided to get back into photography and.....bought everthing listed below.

 

[kshapero]

Camera fun

Camera fun

1. Minolta SRT 201 SLR (a great camera)
2. Rollei 35S (what a pain)
3. Minox GL (stolen, what a drag)
4. Nikkormat FTN SLR (still have it)
5. Nikon F3Hp (sold it)
6. Nikon FM2 (sold it)
7. Minolta 7000 (my first autofocus, I almost committed suicide from this)
8. Olympus OM-4Ti (SLR heaven, long story, its gone.)
9. Sony Mavica (first digital, it sucked)
10. Canon Sd200 (really sucked)
11. Pentax 750Z (really nice digital, gave to my daughter)
12. Bessa R3A (now we are talking)
13. Bessa R3M (oh yeah!)
14. Pentax K100D w 43mm f19 lens (just got it, looks good, no really good)
15. I think 5 or 6 I forgot.

 

[Magnus]

I can't believe no one asked the most important question here..



EXPLAIN THIS!!!!!!!



I put it on the roof of my car in order to open the doors and put the shopping in. A big 4WD saw that I was a bout to leave my parking spot so I hurried up a bit, just being curtious it was after all a busy Saturday. Having a bit of a fast car at the time I guess I wanted to show off to this huge 4wd so I raced backward out of the parking spot, my camera dropped off because of the acceleration, the big 4WD joined in the fun and raced forward, I heard a crunch and guessed what happened realizing I had left the camera on the roof of my car .....

Didn't turn out bad though, the 4WD guy was very OK understood the situation and reported it to his insurence, whom partially paid for my new M6 TTL.... see alls good that ends good

 

[c.poulton]

Kodak Box Brownie (Parent's loft)
An obscure 110 cartridge film camera (Lost)
Zenit TTL SLR (Sold)
Pentax ME Super SLR (Sold)
Yashica GT
Bessa R3a
Leica IIIf #1
Leica IIIf #2
Olympus XA

 

[Magnus]

Sorry about the link, I seem to have a natural aversion to pasting links

 

[jody]

Iv'e owned cheap cameras over the years such as a Kodak disc and Canon sure shot owl, but my first "real" camera was a Minolta Maxxum 5. Then my grandmother gave me a Voigtlanger brillant my grandfather brought home from WW2, a Kodak tourist 2 that belonged to her dead brother, and the Brownie she used when I was a baby. This got me interested in old cameras. I read something on photosig about a canonet QL17 and looked into it. That may or may not have been the smart thing to do. I am now officially SICK.

Somebody help me!

 

[mwooten]

Here's my cast in order of appearance;
1. Kodak Retina 1a
2. Nikon FG20
3. Fuji something or other 3megapixel digital
4. Nikon FM2n
5. Nikon F100
6. Bronica ETRSi
7. Nikon 5500 digital (later given away)
8. Nikon D70
9. Epson RD1s
10. Canonet 28
11. FED 3 (just came in the mail yesterday)

All of the above are still in the lineup, with the exception of #7. Numbers nine through eleven are the result of finding this forum.

 

[RdEoSg]

Damn Jody! You could start a store!!

That's a painful story Magnus! At least it worked out well. I accidentally left my Contax T2 in its bag in a restaurant once. The very nice and honest busboy came running out and gave it to me in the parking lot!

 

[emraphoto]

the map...

the map...

first camera was a konica TC something my grandfather gave to me hen i was seventeen. in between there were...
nikon f601
nikon f70
nikon f4
canon a1
canon f1
contax 159mm ( and then he found a love for glass.... )
contax 159mm number 2
contax g1
contax g2
mamiya 645
ricoh gr1
canon 20d
leica m6 ttl that my wife gave me as a gift( and then he found leica... )
a stable of leica and voigtlander glass

i now posses an m6ttl, m4 and intend to add a rd-1 soon... i shoot architecture, weddings, commercial ad, fine art and never have want for anything other than the m system.

(i do still sport a gr1 and all this f30 talk has me thinking...)

 

[Michael I.]

Konica P&S
zenit(borrowed)
start slr(fixed after I had a couple of other cameras)
pentax k1000(still have it - for sale)
praktica mtl3(died-given away)
yashicamat 124g(still have it)
minolta x-300(half dead- given away)
canonet 17 Giii QL(traded)
zorki 4(from Oleg - will go for sale as soon as I see the leica m on the horizon)
yashica 14e(for sale)

 

[pvdhaar]

When pondering this, I suddenly realised that the amount of gear cycling that I've done with RFs is so much smaller than that I've done with SLRs..

As far as RFs are concerned:

Konica Hexar RF (traded in)
FED1 (given away)
Leica M4 (still have)
Bessa-T (still have)