What was your first SLR?

Fujica ST-901. Best I could afford at the time (1978). It never did work properly so I exchanged it under warranty but I never trusted the replacement so I sold it. I still have the ST-801 I bought at the same time and it is still a great camera and has given not trouble in 31 years.
Robert
 
Praktica LTL with a Pentacon 50 1.8. Later I was lucky to be able to "upgrade" to a Nikon F2A which I still have, and of course it works perfectly, but I find the shutter noise deafening...
 
Miranda Sensorex bought in a second hand shop with 1.8 50mm lens and x2 converter in York (UK) back in 1974. Didn't have enough cash for a used Leica which could be had for 3 times what I paid for the Miranda ! (something around £40 I think) .Wish I'd kept it till now. Still own a Sensomat RE though.I then upgraded to one of my Dad's Nikormat Ftn when he bought his FE.
 
Cosmorex SE 500, which very bizarrely was a rebadged Zenit.

Big and heavy with a top speed of 1/500. Took lots of photos. Then about five years later, I took it apart, couldn't reassemble it and had to throw it into the trash.
 
Not very exciting: Plastic Minolta 404Si. Poor AF with only one sensor. Lousy finder. But immaculate reliability, impeccable metering and well, I made a lot of nice shots with it and learned lots.
 
Canon T70, bought in 1986, changed for the famous Canon T90 (Colani designed) in 1989.
Six years later, 1995, I fell in love with a Leica R5
 
Minolta 100SRT (I think...) with the 50mm F1.7 lens. Great camera. Built like a tank, just like the Zenit EM with 29mm Pentacon and the 50mm Helios I picked up at a thrift store this afternoon! Finally got an SLR with a cloth shutter again, I love the ka-flop sound of it
 
I'm with Vic on this one - Pentax MX - the 28mm being my favourite lens... I still have both.

My Dad bought it for me when I started college. I thought I would make of a career of photography at the time but somehow slipped sideways into Film Editing.

My Dad was a photographer and film maker so it was bit of shove into the familly business but now very much appreciated.

I 'gave up' photography in my late 20's after feeling I was living my life through a lens
I only rediscovered the joys after my wife bought me a s/h Canon D30 when I hit 40
I quickly regressed to Manual focus M42 prime lenses and before I knew it I had bought a nice Fed2 from ebay for £14 and was a convert back to B&W film ...
............. sorry what was the question


Chris
 
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Nikkormat FTN with 50/1.4 bought at "Macys" (nickname for PX) on Kwajalein Island about 1970. Either then or shortly thereafter I got a Nikkor 24/2.8. I think most folks go for a telephoto as their second lens, but after years of being barely able to get a picture of the whole Christmas tree or all the folks sitting on the couch or that wide expanse of outdoor scenery, I knew I needed, not wanted, but needed a serious wide angle. Anyway, a year or so later the Canon F-1 came out. I compared it to the Nikon F, chose the Canon F-1 with 50/1.4 and sold my Nikon items. Seems I paid about $215 plus shipping for the F-1. Since then Canon has been my primary brand for both SLR and RF cameras. However, a few years ago I ran across a black Nikkormat FT3 in almost mint condition at a price I couldn't refuse, so I got it "just because" (otherwise known as nostalgic GAS). In addition, I'll mention that my taste in P&S runs to Olympus--Infinity, Infinity Stylus, and XA. I really do love cameras!
 
My first SLR (electronic) was the Nikon N90s in the mid 90's, when I decided to study photography.


My first camera (and the only previous one) was the Nikon One Touch, a great point and shoot, gift from one of my photographer uncles, when I was 11. I used it for more than ten years, and with it I learned to develop and print. Used it for the high school newspaper shots and during the university years.


My first (and only) mechanical SLR was the Nikon FE2, which I bought after being a graduated and professional photographer, and ten years after owning large and medium format equipment.


Cheers,


Juan
 
zenit e followed by the ttl then yashica electro ax, since then i have become a degenerate.anyone got a dirty raincoat? so i can flash my t90.:D
 
It was, let's see, 1959 in Augsburg, Germany. I bought a Pentacon. It was very nice. You could actually see through the lens! If you could afford it, you could unscrew the lens and screw in another completely different one. You could also look through the new lens you had just mounted. What a revelation!

If you tripped the shutter, the viewfinder blacked out, leaving you to wonder what it was that so interested you that you were moved to make an exposure. Of course, all you had to do to renew the view was to cock the shutter. If you didn't do anything silly like take a picture, you could gaze through the lens all day.

It didn't really have enough features, though, so I soon traded it for an Exakta (which also blacked out when making an exposure) which had a film knife, allowing you to cut the cassette film short in order to develop a few frames without wasting the whole roll.

I felt pretty superior, having a camera with a built-in film knife, even though I never used it.
 
In 6th grade I saved and saved for a Chinon CM3 manual stopdown metering SLR. When I graduated high school I was given a Minolta X700 which I loved. Later I worked for Gannett and sold the Minolta for a Nikon 8008, FM2, and EL2. Sold those when I got married (doh!). Built a Canon DSLR kit but am now focusing on my GF1.
 
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