What was your first SLR?

Nikkormat FTn, still her her but needs some TLC after being loaned to a young family member. Still have the first three lenses too, Nikkor 24/2.8, 85/1.8 & Vivitar 200/3.

B2 (;->
 
First SLR cameras were a Minolta SRT-100 and an X-370. After that Minolta X-370s then Nikon F4s, F4e, F3, F3P, Canon Elan 7, 400d, Mamiya 1000S, 645 Pro, RB67 Pro-S, RZ67 Pro. I went through about 3 Nikon F4s, 3 F3s, 5 645 bodies. That seems like a lot.
 
Ricoh XR-2, mirror slap sounds like a grenade, I still love it. SLR don't have to be silent, there are P&S cameras for this 🙂
 
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I bought a used Pentax S1a 55mm f2.2 in the mid 60's followed by a Canon Fx FL 50mm f1.8 and then I was given a Canonflex RM 58mm f1.2.

Those spotmatics are were Nice so I accumulated a couple of SP500's, 3 x 1000's, 2 x Spf's, ES and chrome ES2. I then bought bellows/auto bellows/slide copier and 50mm smc and 100mm smc macro lenses (all 42mm screw) and a bunch of other lens.

I still have all the above cameras except the Canon Fx which I sold in the seventies.




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A Waltz Envoy with 50 2.0 Nippon Koagu fixed lens got me through college and HS.

Some guys buy a car with the first real paycheck. I called Selwyn Schwarts at Altman Camera in Chicago and had him put aside a Pentax Spotmatic plus 6 lenses, 28 35 50 85 135 200 lenses. Later I got more, a 21 24 300 4.0 & 6.3, 100 Macro and 50 macro and a 80/200 zoom.

I worked for years to make a really nice B&W print and failed. Guessing 1966 to 1983. Acceptable to untrained eye, but not to me.

I found a 125 Hector at Altmans one day and adapted it to my Pentax with a home made adapter and did a roll of slides at a party with intermixed Hector and Pentax lenses. OMG. That`s the problem.

A friendly neighbor loaned me his M3, 35/50/90. Now that made black and white prints. Same film, same developer, same paper. Just that correct prints came out.

Sold all that Pentax stuff in a month. Guess what I bought. You get three guesses and first two don`t count.

Still have all the Leica stuff pus Nikon digital D40, 200, 700.
 
Olympus e-500 , that I traded in for a om-2n with a 50mm lens . I'm quite fond of Olympus products it seems , so I'm thinking about adding a 35 rc/rd/sp rangefinder to my hopefully ever-growing collection.
 
Rolleiflex

Rolleiflex

I don't recall the model...i'm searching for a photo I found of it on the net, but back in '79 I talked my mother into getting me a 'real' camera and we went into a Ritz store.
The salesman sold me a Rolleiflex 35mm SLR with a 50mm lens. I never did get another lens for that camera and the only 'electronics' on it was the light meter.
I used it through college and after a few too many drops it got retired.
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SL35M http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolleiflex_SL35
 
The first SLR I bought was a Mamiya-Sekor 1000 DTL. I got it new thru a military PX in 1969 with a 28mm f/2.8, 55mm f/1.4 and a 135mm f/2.8 Auto-Sekor lenses. I paid $200 USD for everything. I still have this gear and use it occasionally.
 
Canon AE-1 was my first SLR. I bought it a few years after I arrived in the USA. Then, I quickly got an A-1 and an F1N. I was stuck to the FD system ...
 
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