What camera did you own before?

[Honus]

Cool thread.

I got into photography about 30 years ago. Rather than list all of the cameras I have owned, I will list the ones that made an impact:

Rollei 35S *
Nikon F2
Zeiss Super Ikonta B
Nikon 28ti
Plaubel Makina 67
Leica Digilux 2 *
Leica IIIc *
Leica M2 *

* = still own and operate.

Of the ones that are gone, the only one I really miss is the Plaubel Makina 67.

- robert

 

[jacema]

This is not nice of you, because then I suddenly realize HOW many there have been and it's scaring.

* still in possesion.

Canon FTQL
Fed 2
Fed 2*
Fed 5
Hasselblad 500C *
Hasselblad 500C/M *
Kiev 80
Kiev 88
Leica M2 *
Leica M3
Mamiya C33
Mamiya C33
Mamiya C33 *
Minolta SRT 101
Nikkormat EL
Nikkormat ELW *
Nikkormat FTN
Nikkormat FTN
Nikkormat FTN
Nikon EM *
Nikon EM *
Nikon F
Nikon F
Nikon FTN
Nikon FTN
Nikon FTN
Nikon FTN *
Nikon FTN *
Nikon F2
Nikon F2 *
Nikon F2 *
Nikon F2 *
Nikon F2 *
Pentax 110
Ricoh Singlex TLS
Ricoh Singlex TLS
Ricoh KR10
Ricoh KR10
Rolleiflex 2.8C *
Rolleiflex T
Topcon RE200
Topcon SuperDM
Zenith 80
Zorki 1
Zorki 4
Zorki 4
Yashica 124G
Yashica 124G
Yashica Electro 35 GS
Yashica Electro 35 GTN *
Yashica Electro CC
Yashica Lynx 14E
Yashica Minister D
Yashica TL Electro-X
Yashica TL Electro-X
Yashica TL Electro- X ITS

And I don't know HOW many lenses? 100? 150?

Just to remind everybody I have never been struck by GAS :angel:

Jacques.

 

[dostacos]

well,

skipping my younger years and starting with my first removable lens camera:
Mamiya Sekor 1000DTL
Canonet QL-17 GIII [still own it]
Kowa 6 medium format
Pentax ME SUPER black [oldest son now has it and the lenses]
Mamiya C220 medium format [sold]
Pentax ME SUPER chrome [bought as back up for trip to Israel, sold after trip]
Canon EOS 650 [still own]
Kiev 88 medium format [still own]
Kiev 60 medium format [still own]
collector phase:
Pentax H1a black
SP chrome
SP black
H1a chrome
S1a chrome
S1a black
SP 500 chrome
ES II black
ME SUPER black
ME SUPER chrome
ME chrome
Nikormat EL chrome
Nikormat EL Black
Nikon F1
Kiev Photosnaiper
Olympus OM1n [from here, dontated to a high schooler]
Rangefinder phase: [all users]
Bessa R
Bessa R back up
Canonet 28
Canonet QL-17 GIII [so new it did not have any lube 😀]
Yashica Electro GT
Olympus Stylus Epic

and in a box in the garage are a bunch of older shelf queens and hidden in the box somewhere is grandpas LEICA 😱

 

[--]

In more or less chronological order with * = currently owned

Kodak Ektra 200

Panasonic compact camera model ??? 😱
Minolta 7000 😀
Konica Z-up 80
Minolta Vectis S-1
Canon Ixus APS
Nikon F80
Nikon Coolpix 2000
Nikon Coolpix 4500 *
Rolleiflex TLR
Nikon F5 *
Hasselblad Xpan (sold it stupidly :bang🙂

Agfa Silette * [inherited, does not work]
Nikon D70
Hasselblad Xpan * (this time I am keeping it!)
Nikon D200 *
Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX2 *
Nikonos V *
Fuji GA645zi *
Ricoh GR-D *
Rolleicord TLR Art Deco (1933 model) *
Ricoh GR1s *
Contax G1 *

+ Nokia claims they have installed cameras in the last couple of mobile phones I have owned. Judging the output I think they are pinhole cameras 😡

 

[Kim Coxon]

I refuse to answer this question on the grounds that I might incriminate myself and more importantly, my wife might see it. 😱

However, it may contain just a few Pentax's. 😉

Kim

 

[alcaraban]

A pretty short list:

Yashica fx3 super 2000.
Contax 139 quartz.
Minolta maxxum 7.
Ricoh 500 G.

 

[yoyo22]

- Agfamatic 4000 (when I was 5 or 6 years old)
- Porst Reflex C-TL (the very one my father used for taking all the photos of me as a baby)
- Canon A1 (not really mine, but permanently borrowed from my father for some years)
- Canon EOS 50e (my first brand new one from the shop)
- Canon EOS 3
- Voigtländer Bessa R2M (saw it while searching for something new, since photography with the SLR started to bore me. Also carying that EOS 3 with the 28-70L was just too bulky.)
- Leica M6 TTL
- Voigtländer Bessa T
- Leica M2

Plus some old Agfa Click and Clack, an old Kodak box, a novelty camera shaped as a pill and some old Praktika body - not to forget that Olympus Trip 35 and my one and only digital camera, the Olympus C4040.

Pascal

 

[PaulDalex]

I am in difficulty keeping a log of all cameras I have (with their SN) as well as the lenses I have.. I will do the same for those I had after my retire. Also I rebought some of those I had because I could not stand the nostalgia. So here are two that I have had and I also have now:
Nikin F black pentaprism
Minolta CLE

 

[steveyork]

Cameras I've owned and passed on:

Minolta x700
Nikon D70
Leica r6.2
Leicaflex SL2
Leicaflex SL Mot
Leica M6 "classic"
Leica M6 ttl
Leica MP (black)

Currently, trying to find a better home for an M7.

 

[lawrence]

Cameras I've owned and passed on:

Minolta x700
Nikon D70
Leica r6.2
Leicaflex SL2
Leicaflex SL Mot
Leica M6 "classic"
Leica M6 ttl
Leica MP (black)

Currently, trying to find a better home for an M7.

As a matter of interest, if you don't like those what do you like? Or have you gone to the dark side?

 

[julianphotoart]

First camera ever was a gifted Yashica TLR purchased new in 1960 in Hong Kong by dad who was in Royal Signals. First camera USED, however, was not until 1970's and Canon AE-1.

 

[oftheherd]

Let me see how many I can remember:

Kodak 120 box
Kodak 620 folder (6x9) I think
Zeiss 9x12 with home made 127 camera attachment
Welta Welti 35mm folder
Minolta 16
Some cheap Poloroid
Yashica TL Super x 2
Pentax Spotmatic
Olympus FLRF
Yashica 124 MAT G
Fujica ST 901 x 3
Mamiya Super Press 23 x 3
Contax 139Q
Yashica FX 3
Yashica FX 103 x 3
Yashica TL Electro X x 3
Welta Weltini x 4
Fujica ST 801 x 3
Fujica AZ-1 x 2
Minolta XG1 x 2
Minolta ST 101
Petri 35 Computer
Canonet 1.7 III x 2
Canonet 19
Olympus SP n
Rolleiflex 3.5
Yashica LM
Welta Perfekta
Welta 6x6
Kodak Recomar 33 RF x 2
Zeiss 9x12 folder
Kodak 9x12 folder
Voightlander VAG RF
Voightlander VAG
Zeca 9x12 folder
Welta 6x6 folder
Fuji 6x6 folder
Mimiya RF 6x6 folder
Zeiss 6x9 folder
Zeiss 6x6 folder
Olympus AX
Fujica SLR bayonet mount in camera shutter (can't recall its name)
Fujica AX3
4x5 cambo monorail cameras x 2
4x5 Calumet monorail cameras x 2
8x10 Calumet camera

I have some other odds and ends of cameras, like cheap folders or "toy" 6x6 or 4x4. Some day maybe I will catalog all them and decide what to keep and what to sell. Most of what I have works, but some are non working or non usable due to the film format.

I really need to do something about all those cameras. I look at my list and I am just amazed that I have all that. I can't use all those. Some I would like to but just can't get around to.

 

[Benjamin Marks]

[BIG edit]

Well, I listed my cameras in roughly in the order acquired. sick. just sick. Then I deleted the list. Too embarrassing, really. Actually I still have most of the cameras I purchased although the Pentax LX has come and gone twice. the Mamiya 7 and I just never got along. Said goodbye to the Deardorff, the Raja 8x10, the Mamiya C330. I have held onto the M3, the F4s and the Pentax 6x7 the longest (going on 20 years).

These days my favorites: 35mm: Nikon/Leica; 6x6: Hassie; 6x7: Pentax; 4x5: Shen Hao; 5x7: Wisner; 8x10: Zone VI; digital: D3/M8/E-P2, depending on how much weight I feel like lugging around (and subject matter). I will say in my own defense that I purchased many of the high-end medium format cameras on the list after their prices had sunk to fire-sale levels. These days, why not try an RB67, if you've always been intrigued by the beast?

[Edit: on the big list I forgot the Bessa T's, the extra Nikkormat, the Olympus Pen, the Zeiss Ikonta B, the Kodak Retinas, the Rolleis. . .hopeless exercise]

 

[Sparrow]

127 Brownie
Yashica J
Oly Somthing-or-other
Oly RD
Some M2s
Some OM1s and a OM2
My granddads Bessa and dad's Rolleiflex

PS Oh a few bessa R*A's and an L

 

[cidereye]

Kodak 126 camera
Konica C35
Canon EF
Canon A1
Canon F1n
Canon A60
Nikon FG
Nikon FA
Nikon FA
Nikon FA
Nikon F2A
Nikon F4s
Nikon F55
Nikon F65
Nikon F80
Nikon D70s
Nikon D200
Olympus OM1n
Olympus OM2
Olympus E-410
Olympus XA-2
Olympus Trip
Olympus mju 105
Contax G1
Contax G2
Leica R8
Leica M2
Leica M8
Pentax ME Super
Ricoh GX200
Casio Exlim EX-S600

Phew !!! Has it been that many? Started 33 years back though, still got many of these too.

 

[cmdrzed]

Nikon N65
Nikon FE
Leica M4-P (current)

 

[chrismoret]

Mmmmmh...let's see. There was a
Halina Roy (127 rol)
Pentax P30
Pentax P50
Nikon F3 (two of them)
Nikon D70s
Nikon D300
Leica D-lux4
Leica M4p (...and there's no cure...)

And last but not least; a Fuji GW760-III on the way from the US, but since last Tuesday in holding at Dutch customs.

 

[Dwig]

At one point I had over 300 cameras in a collection, though many were just look-prettys. Most have been sold off.

Here's a list of only those that I used, in approximate order, for regular picture taking (not just running a roll thru a new collector's piece). Most of the time I had 2-4 shooters. The list includes casual use snapshot cameras (aka P&S):

Kodak Vigalante 620 (My dad's; he dropped it at one point and later when I was in the 6th grade I fixed the shutter and began using it again)
Kodak Vest Pocket Autographic (127)
Tower 35 (I forget the exact model designation, made by Iloca)
(return of the Vigalante 620 to service and use)
Steky 16
Minolta-16II
Miranda G
Bell & Howel Dial 35II
Nikon F2 Photomic
Nikon F
Nikon S-2
Mamyia C33
Ikeda 4x5 field w/ Nikkor 180mm f/5.6 and 90mm Angulon
Nikon F3
Leica IIIa
Canon QL-17 GIII
Nikon SP
Leica IIIg
Leica M3
Nikon Nice Touch P&S
Nikon Coolpix 950
Nikon Coolpix 8400
Panasonic G1

If you count the pool cameras I used in school then I would need to add these at about the same point in the list as the Miranda:

Pentax H1a
Kodak Retina Reflex III
Rolleiflex T
Crown Graphic 4x5

If I were to count every model that I shot at least one roll through, either from my collection or from samples I had access to when I managed camera stores the list would number well over 100 models.

The list begins in about 1954-5 when I was 3-4 years old (Dad was of course helping me quite a bit at that time), though I didn't shoot much until I was around 8 and was using the Tower with a Leica Meter (made by Metrophot and was designed for use with Barnacks not M's) to shoot my first Kodachromes in 1959.

 

[Kent]

Started in 1990 with my first own "real" camera, a Ricoh KR-10x.
(I had a Kodak Disc before but that was no "real" camera. 😉)
Then I got a Kodak APS cam in about 1994.
Then I bought ma first digital cam in 2000: Kodak DC 240i, then in 2002 a Minolta DiMage 7 and that cam started it all over again!

Next was a Panasonic Lumix FZ20 and then it kind exploded:
Maaaaaany digital and film cams followed. Too many to put up a list here, I'm afraid.

 

[Fraser]

Canon A1x2
Canon Av1
Canon F1nx2
Canonet Ql17
Nikon f2
Nikon d90
Canon Eos 5
Canon Eos 1
Canon Eos 1n
Hasselblad 500
Canon d60
Canon Eos 1d
Leica M3
Nikon d1
Nikon d1x
Canon Eos 1dMk11
Leica M6ttl
Canon Eos 1dMk11n
Nikon f
Nikon f2
Nikon f4x3
Nikon f5
Leica M2
Canon Eos 1dMk111
Nikon d200
Nikon d2h
Nikon d2x
Canon Eos 5dMk11x2
Nikon f3
Canon Eos 1vx2
Canon Eos 3
Olympus E420
Leica m8