OT: What was your first camera?

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Max@Home
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Yashica SLR. 50mm & one zoom 1971 Navy Exchange under $100
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Stage IV Survivor

great piece off kit to cut the teeth on.

followed shortly by the then brand new Canon AT-1 ... at the time I thought a built in lightmeter was all you could ever want

others along the way ...

Canon F1 (original version). Still have it 25 years later!

Canon A1 - eventually hated it ... too many knobs and switches, ergonomic disaster

Canon T90 - everything the A1 wasn't - I think the T90 defined camera ergonomics for everything since ... it dosen't look out of place on showroom shelf today. Sadly the world went AF and killed what would've been an all time classic.

EOS-3 - another incredible camera that perhaps had its life expectancy unnaturally curtailed, this time by the advent of digital.

D30 ... but thanks to a friendly dealer, replaced in a month by the

D60 - frankly, for the money, a pretty poor camera - metering and AF distinctly bargain basement! BUT still up to and including the 20D, pixel for pixel my favorite image "look" (at 100 ISO). D60 images are special.

10D - least favorite of the Canon digitals ... should've been better

1D Mk II - an impressive camera in all respects, but big, heavy and ultimately, in my case, unreliable.

20D - the best value for money to date - perfect size and adequate performance for my needs. I like it so much that I replaced my 1DII with a 2nd one.

Cheers,

Colin

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Colin K. Work
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Eventually got the "flash attachment" and close-up lens adapter as well.
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Gerry S
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Tritto!

That's not a word. I do give you points though because I like it. I do like to make up words myself, like "sqooze" meaning having been sqeezed.

GLenn

Fully manual 35mm SLR that I got in 1978. They were made in the former East Germany and had the old Pentax lens screw mount. Loved that piece of junk and pic quality was astounding but the shutter failed around 1981 and then bought my Minolta X-700. Still have that one to this day with a matching motor drive. Alas, rarely use it anymore now that I have my 20D but I still get nostalgic when I hear the sound of that motor drive! Thought about selling it but too many great memories with it so it's a keeper....

James

Perhaps the Argus C3 more than any other 35 mm camera put photography in the hands of the average person and that was a looooong time ago.

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Eric Sorensen
Bossier City, Louisiana
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n/t

First film SLR - Canon F1 original.

First Dig SLR - Kodak DCS 560

Still have and shoot both, guess Im old school

Jude

A light blue Kodak Brownie variation around 1957. Square pictures, 120 film.
First 35mm - Balda rangefinder, completely manual

First SLR - Asahi Pentax circa 1963. It had a clip-on lightmeter "integrated" through the shutter speed dial!
First Medium Format - my dad's old 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 Speed Graphic
First digital - Sony F717 (nice camera, sold it to a friend)
Lots and lots of others along the way.
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Wendell
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Hi.

I think we may be of the same age, more or less.

Mi very first camera was an instamatic-something and my first serious camera was a Canon AT-1.

I don't miss this camera at all because I still have and use it. Even if I have another autofocus body and lenses (and no digital camera yet!), when I want to enjoy photography I love walking around with the AT-1 body, the 28mm mounted on it and the 85mm/1.8 in my pocket.

Bye.

My first camera was a Yashica A TLR. Then went to a Yashicamat LM. My first SLR was a Nikkormat FTN. My first Canon was an A1, still one of the best cameras I ever owned and years ahead of it's time in features.
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MRD

It was a fully manual SLR, and I remember having to turn the aperture ring on the lens to line up the indicator with the light meter needle, which was seen through the viewfinder, for setting exposure. Used it all through high school during the late '70s while shooting for the school paper and yearbook. I did all b&w processing in the school's darkroom. It really wasn't a bad camera although there were more advanced models on the market. Also had only two lenses: 50mm and 135mm.

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John
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My Dad bought it for me about 1980 as an inducement to give up smoking.

Been a keen photographer ever since, but still on the cigs

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Misha

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Pinhole that is

First camera that I bought was a Leica 3G 35mm rangefinder in 1958. Cost about $300 then. Worth about $3K-$4K today. Still have it but haven't taken a picture with it in 25 years. Looks as good today as on the day that I bought it. Can surely say "they don't make 'em like that anymore".
Rich