What were you shooting in 2001!

[gnuyork]

Canon 2.1 MP digital Elph. My foray into digital. It was fresh, fun and interesting. I also had my SLR film camera (Elan IIe)

 

[Dogman]

I was using a Canon EOS1n and pair of Canon A2E (EOS 5) bodies, mostly with zooms. Film was Provia 400, Sensia 100 or E100VS. I shot a lot of landscapes and nature photography back then. On the morning of 09/11/2001, I was in Grand Teton National Park.

A couple of years later, I changed interests and started shooting with a pair of Leica M6's using HP5+ and Pan F+. It wasn't until 2007 that I bought my first digital and it was more than a year later that I went totally digital.

 

[jsrockit]

Besides film (Contax G1 and Leica Minilux), I had a Sony DSC-P1. However, I sold the film cameras and didn't take photography seriously again until 2008.

 

[Leica All Day]

I was shooting mostly with my Hasselblad 501cm and tri-x but towards the end of 2001 I bought my first Leica, an m6ttl and a v1 50mm summilux. I still use both of those cameras now.

Cheers,
Michael

 

[Canyongazer]

Nikon F
Nikon F100
Konica S3
Mamiya 7ll
Fuji GSW 690
Cambo 4x5
Calumet 8x10

You will note a lack of digitals.

In 2001 I was an Associate Professor of Photography. I recognized the coming "1s and 0s" storm Recognized I would have to embrace it and climb that learning mountain or retire.

In 2006 I retired 🙂

 

[agfa100]

I had a M-5 and a Hexar RF, I still have both but don't use film that much any more. Now it's just a Sony RX-1 and a Ricoh GXR with the M-module so I can still use my M lenses.
wbill

 

[Roger Hicks]

. . . Our Nations History (for those of us in the USA) was forever changed in 2001 for obvious reasons.. . .

Was it really? Was it as important as countless other events (Revolution, War of 1812, Mexican War of 1846, Bleeding Kansas, Civil War, Bimetallism, WW1, Prohibition, Great Depression, WW2, Korean War, Vietnam, assassination of Kenedy, impeachment of Nixon, sub-prime crash of 2008, election of Obama, election of Trump...)?

It's easy to imagine that something fairly recent is more important than it is, and it's a fair question to ask what we were doing at the time. But ANY event in history means that things are "forever changed" and they aren't necessarily "forever changed" all that much.

A good way of looking at this is to imagine that you are outside the USA. Look, for example, at IRA or Basque terrorism, or the Hungarian uprising of 1956 or China in Tibet in 1959. This helps put things in perspective. In other words, 2001 may not really be all that important in the long run.

Cheers,

R.

 

[Robert Lai]

Nikon F3
Canon Sure Shot.

Life was simpler back then.

 

[Carey M]

Any cheap color print film with a Canon EOS 300 (Rebel 2000) and 28-80mm kit zoom. My first "real" camera. I learned a lot with it, but I never enjoyed it. Still have an aversion to EOS film cameras.

 

[JP Owens]

I bought a Canon D30 in 2001, I think. Was still shooting film; but, had owned several other digital cameras by then. But the D30 was really the game changer. Shot it until the Canon 10D came out...and many other Canon digital cameras followed over the years.

 

[Sjixxxy]

2001: That would be a Nikon FE with tungsten balanced slide film for night photography.

 

[Scrambler]

Canon AT-1 with 50/1.4

 

[jsrockit]

2001: That would be a Nikon FE with tungsten balanced slide film for night photography.

Interesting...

 

[hilltime]

A very proficient N90S which I loved, but made the mistake of selling for a down payment on a barely used F100. Never did ever develop an affinity for that camera. Maybe because the hand writing was already on the wall for the Digital cameras which were coming.

Or maybe it was because I got my first Contax IIA/
50 1.5 Sonnar and fell in love with "Old Cameras".

Gary Hill

 

[johnf04]

I had a look at my negative files, and found...Canon IIIA, Olympus XA, Pentax ME, Zenit B - that was for monochrome. For colour...I didn't note the cameras used; probably Pentax K1000, Pentax ME, and I know we were using a Kodak point and shoot around then.

 

[css9450]

Was it really? Was it as important as countless other events (Revolution, War of 1812, Mexican War of 1846, Bleeding Kansas, Civil War, Bimetallism, WW1, Prohibition, Great Depression, WW2, Korean War, Vietnam, assassination of Kenedy, impeachment of Nixon, sub-prime crash of 2008, election of Obama, election of Trump...)?

It's easy to imagine that something fairly recent is more important than it is, and it's a fair question to ask what we were doing at the time. But ANY event in history means that things are "forever changed" and they aren't necessarily "forever changed" all that much.

A good way of looking at this is to imagine that you are outside the USA. Look, for example, at IRA or Basque terrorism, or the Hungarian uprising of 1956 or China in Tibet in 1959. This helps put things in perspective. In other words, 2001 may not really be all that important in the long run.

Fair enough. That could be another thread: "What were you shooting with in 1956 (or 1959)?" Of course, you'd probably have to be at least 75 or so to participate...

 

[ChrisPlatt]

Starting in the late 1980's I began to lose interest in photography.
By the late 1990's I had sold what was left of my Nikon gear.

Later I was bitten again by the photo bug and started exploring Pentax K
cameras and lenses after trying some Ricoh XR/Sears KS gear from eBay.

In the early 2000's I'd drag my family to B&H on many a Sunday morning.
Later as film gave way to digital I lost interest and those outings ceased.

Chris

 

[Spanik]

Canon EOS RT with a 35-105 and Kodachrome 200.

 

[daveleo]

Nikon FM3A and various lenses.
The camera owns a sacred place in our parlor cabinet. I run it through shutter clicks every month.
I'm gonna cry in a minute.

 

[Godfrey]

Leica M6TTL
Nikon FM, FE2, F3

Rolleiflex MX-EVS

Minox EC, C, B

Rollei 35S
Minox 35GT-E

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