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Hey,
Just for fun and curiousity.
What was Your very first camera?
I have still my AE-1

Have a warm and happy day (again snowing and getting cold here in Finland)
  • Ari-
 
Funny, I just posted about my first camera... technically a D30, but I only had it for a month or so then my D60 arived. Now, I use a Hasselblad 501CM.

Jeff
Ari Riutto said:
Hey,
Just for fun and curiousity.
What was Your very first camera?
I have still my AE-1

Have a warm and happy day (again snowing and getting cold here in
Finland)
  • Ari-
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http://www.photosig.com/userphotos.php?id=17960
http://www.pbase.com/jhsinger
D60, 28-135IS, 50mm f1.4, 75-300IS
 
Ari Riutto said:
Hey,
Just for fun and curiousity.
What was Your very first camera?
I have still my AE-1
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My first camera was a Kodak Disc compact :)

Then i bought a EOS500 and was very very happy with it.. it's still on my desk..

I bought a Kodak DC240 when digital photography began (1.3mp was very good then)

and then i had the bad luck to think Minolta Dimage series would give me the feelings i had with my EOS500...

The AF was slow as hell on the dimage 5, the viewfinder was digital and didn't allow to focus fine.. so i sold it and bought a dimage 7i to have the x4 focus magnification and more megapixels.. the AF was better but still one photo out of two was out of focus.. (maybe it's my fault .. this camera can't have so many good opinions around the world with such a bad AF)

and i've just bought an used D30 because i don't have enough money for the D60.. and now i know i had made a mistake buying Minolta.. if only i could have bought the D60 when it was released.. i wouldn't have wasted time complaining about the quality of my photos ..

Even if i feel the AF on my EOS500 was better than the D30, i love this camera.. and even my girlfriend prefers it to the complicated and out of focus Minolta..

And about image quality, i think 3MP D30 photos are far better than most 5MP 7i photos.. at ISO100 there's no noise at all on the D30..

Now i find pleasure taking digital photos just like when i had bought my EOS500 10 years ago :)
 
I had :
  • EOS 300 (film)
  • EOS 30 (film)
  • Powershot S20
  • Powershot G2
  • EOS D60
And I still have the EOS 30, D60 of course, and the G2 (very nice camera for party when I don't want to take the big and heavy D60...) ;-)
 
My first was a 126 instamatic film camera and it has to be somewhere in my house. It was followed by a Olympus Trip 35 and after that a real Slr, a Yashica FR. All manual, best to learn photography with. Afte that a lot of different stuff, from a Rolleiflex, Leica M6, Hasselblad, different Canon types.
A 4x5" Cambo.

My first digital camera was a Casio QV-10 with 350.000 pixels, wow, what a bad camera compared to todays standards. But still have it.
Still frequently in use are Pentax 67, Eos 1n, Fuji GA645 AF prof, M6, D30.

Cheers,
Harry
Ari Riutto said:
Hey,
Just for fun and curiousity.
What was Your very first camera?
I have still my AE-1

Have a warm and happy day (again snowing and getting cold here in
Finland)
  • Ari-
Click to expand...
 
I had a Brownie box in 1971 (I was 7) then got a battered spotmatic in 1979 with a cracked viewfinder, I then got this Zenit-TTL in 1980 but preferred the spotmatic so ended up barely using it, it's worthless so I've still got it - in 1982 I got a used K1000 which died in august 2002..



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Olympus C21OOUZI +B3OO +A28, Canon D6O, EOS7 and Half an S3O ;-)

My Ugly mug and submitted Photos at -------->
http://www.photosig.com/viewuser.php?id=27855

 
Probably the first was a Kodak 110 (with disposable stick flash!) then :

Pentax 35mm P 'n' S
Olympus Mju
Kodak APS P 'n' S
Agfa 1280 1.3mp Digital
Kodak 265
Olympus E10
D30
D60
1D

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Cheers,

Stuart Rider.
 
Ari Riutto said:
Hey,
Just for fun and curiousity.
What was Your very first camera?
I have still my AE-1

Have a warm and happy day (again snowing and getting cold here in
Finland)
  • Ari-
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First camera I had was a Made in China - Seagull SLR that uses a Minolta MD Lens. First Canon camera is a AT-1, predecessor of the AE-1. Still have the AT-1.

K.C.
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EOS D60/EOS 50
 
(1987) Canon EOS 650
(1993) Canon ION RC-260 (broken)
(1999) Fujifilm MX-2900 (sold)
(2001) Canon EOS D30 (sold)
(2002) Canon EOS 1D
Ari Riutto said:
Hey,
Just for fun and curiousity.
What was Your very first camera?
I have still my AE-1

Have a warm and happy day (again snowing and getting cold here in
Finland)
  • Ari-
Click to expand...
 
Ari Riutto said:
Hey,
Just for fun and curiousity.
What was Your very first camera?
I have still my AE-1
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Canon PowerShot S30. I still use it but it is owned by my younger brother and mother now.

I also have purchased some cameras after that (see profile), the latest being an AE-1 :)
Ari Riutto said:
Have a warm and happy day (again snowing and getting cold here in
Finland)
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Well, not cold here in this part of Finland (Savo) but veeery slippery, nice time driving a car ;)

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Teppo @ Finland
 
Ari

First ever camera - Halina rangefinder (could be wrong with the name, it was so long ago.)
First SLR - Pentax K1000
First AF SLR - Canon EOS 650
First MF - Hasselblad 500 classic (still have this)
First DSLR - Canon EOS D60 (still have this)
Ari Riutto said:
Hey,
Just for fun and curiousity.
What was Your very first camera?
I have still my AE-1

Have a warm and happy day (again snowing and getting cold here in
Finland)
  • Ari-
Click to expand...
 
Ari Riutto said:
Hey,
Just for fun and curiousity.
What was Your very first camera?
Click to expand...
My first camera was a 620 box Brownie. My first "real" camera was a 35mm split-image rangefinder Italian knockoff of a Polish knockoff of a Leica that my father brought with him when he immigrated to this country. My first slr was a Canon TL-ql; I wanted an FTb - but when I was in the camera store with my Dad and the money I had saved the salesman asked "Waddaya need 1/1000 of a second - you wann stop baseballs?" I used that camera for over 20 years. I mostly shoot with a D30 these days. My older son shoots an Oly UZI. I bought my younger son an FTb-ql that I had found in near-mint condition at a store that had used equipment. The younger one does BW darkroom work - and at camp he routinely stops baseballs in mid air. :)

-Dan-



Oh dear, I shot myself (Oly E100rs, D-550, Canon D30, eyeball)
 
I had a Brownie 127 sometime in the early 50's..... my first "real" cam was a Pentax S1a s(fully manual, no meter even) in the mid 60's, took a lot of slides with that one, followed by an EOS 650 in 87. I still have that together with another 650, an EOS 3 and a Coolipix 995. EOS D(whatever)
sometime in the future

It's -12 degrees Celcius on the front door step and snowing gently
 
it was a really cool camera, and the viewfinder was located at the top of the camera.........looked like you were lookingthrough a magnifying glass............took great pictures.
Ari Riutto said:
Hey,
Just for fun and curiousity.
What was Your very first camera?
I have still my AE-1

Have a warm and happy day (again snowing and getting cold here in
Finland)
  • Ari-
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photography is my passion.
 
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