What was your first SLR?

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until end of 2005 I did not know what SLR stood for. then I got auto everything Canon 300V. nothing wrong with that, but back then I could manage with film even less than today, so once I gave my little finger, soon the whole hand was lost. 300V was replaced by 350D :)
 
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gb hill said:
Some of my first photos were of f-14s flying off the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Midway in the Indian ocean.
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no restrictions for staff to take photos of highly secret and expensive military technology ?

some years ago I was in Islamabad Pakistan boarding into passenger jet. even taking my point-n-shoot and pointing it into plane (I gues it was engines they mostly were conserned) caused a fuss in personel :eek:
 
The first I used was my fathers Minolta SRT303, in the early 1980s. The first one I called my own was a Minolta XG-1 that I got for christmas a year or so later.
 
MRohlfing said:
Hey, that was my SECOND SLR in 1973 (What about a new thread? ;) )
I sold it to my brother in the 80ies and he still has it and uses it.

Michael
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small world.
i sold mine a long time ago and bought another camera with the $$.

gas must have started back then :)

joe
 
Canon AE-1P with two amazingly cruddy zooms, a Makinon 70-200/f3.5 and a Makinon "macro" 28-75/f3.5-4.5 which had a close focusing distance of about 8 feet. For everything closer you had to use a separate "macro" focussing helical. It wasn't long until I bought a used 50/f1.4, probably the best photographic investment I've ever taken.
 
OK, my first 35mm camera was my father's old fixed lens (35mm) scale focus, of some unknown brand. I got decent results from it, began processing my own Tri-X, took it to Europe, etc. Then I took it on a raft trip down Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend. It was an ill-fated journey, with a predictable end for our subject camera. Very sad. I wish I had at least salvaged the pitiful rusting hulk that it became, but as I recall, it was too painful to see it in that condition. So I no longer have it.

A couple of years later, my girlfriend (now wife) gave me a Canon AE-1 P, which was my first SLR. It was the best gift anyone ever gave me. I still have it, of course, although I moved on to Canon F-1s, FT-bs, and now rangefinders.
 
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Nikkormat FTn and Vivtar 135mm f/2.8, 1972 or 1973, supplemented shortly thereafter with a Nikkor 24mm f/2.8. A great camera.
 
I think it was a Miranda Sensomat. The Poor mans Nikon :rolleyes: , because it and the Sensorex offered interchangeable Prisms..But the meter was in the camera. and not a very good one at that. I think is was a straight average type..I goofed up many slides of a family trip across the lower USA...I should have metered with the Camera aimed lower to have LESS sky in them..

After that I bought a Canon FTb with 50/1.4 FD SSC (High School)...Then, as a Grad Gift my parents got me the newly introduced Canon F1 (1972) with newer 50mm f/1.4.....

Evil, Maybe.,..But a necessary EVIL at times :D
 
jarski said:
no restrictions for staff to take photos of highly secret and expensive military technology ?

some years ago I was in Islamabad Pakistan boarding into passenger jet. even taking my point-n-shoot and pointing it into plane (I gues it was engines they mostly were conserned) caused a fuss in personel :eek:
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We all had some kind of camera back then. We would stand on the flight deck and snap away.:) Then go to the ships store and buy more film.
 
The first one I had was a Canon AE-1P, a chrome one with a 50/1.8. I bought this after I got my medium format Rolleicord. From big to smaller - I just don't understand, to this day, why I did that. Once in a while I pick up one of those Canons and yeah, they are kind of nice, but no, I don't miss it much.
 
My father's Spotmatic-500 with stopdown metering. I still remember the sharp pictures taken with the SMC-Tak. 50/1.4, and the solid feel in hands.
The first camera bought with my own money was a Pentax MEsuper. It has the PK-bayonet but the feel wasn't the same. Other cameras in concern were the Pentax MX, Rolleiflex SL35E - best looking of them, but my father advised against bad Singapore quality) and East German Praktica B200.
Some years later I sold the Pentax for a Minolta X-700, which I still have, and still works. Twenty years later I got back to my SLR roots and bought a Spotmatic and a chrome MX, visible here: http://www.taunusreiter.de/Cameras/Pentax_MX_e.html

have fun!
 
My first SLR was a Nikon FM2n 20 years ago. I then picked up an FM and an MD-12 drive to shoot a friend's wedding. Later I bought an F2 Photomic. These lasted me some 18 years until my brother and sister got me a digital point and shoot. I now also have an F2A which is my favourite.
Ming
 
My first SLR was a 31/4X41/4 RB Graflex. My Dad bought it for me in 1965 while we were vacationing in Boston. When I'm able to find film for it, I still use it.
 
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