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Which camera was your first SLR?
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palmor
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In High School they had photo classes (3 levels actually). Learned on a Cannon AE-1 taking taking those classes.
John
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David Mathias
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Pentax *ist Ds. About 6 weeks ago. I still have it and it works great. 
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donhon
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Although it wasn’t my first camera and I didn’t learn a lot from it, my first SLR was a very early Praktica with a Tessar f3.5 lens purchased S/H in 1952.
It had to be used at waist level, as it didn’t have a prism for eye level viewing. It didn’t have flash connections either, I added flash contacts myself later by fitting phosphor bronze fingers to contact the metal edge of the shutter curtain when it opened fully.
I’d had several cameras before, including R/F and TLRs, but this was my introduction to the SLR world.
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donhon
It had to be used at waist level, as it didn’t have a prism for eye level viewing. It didn’t have flash connections either, I added flash contacts myself later by fitting phosphor bronze fingers to contact the metal edge of the shutter curtain when it opened fully.
I’d had several cameras before, including R/F and TLRs, but this was my introduction to the SLR world.
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Zaldidun
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There were no SLRs around when I learned photography. :-(
By the time I aquired my Pentax Spotmatic, I had been shooting for over a decade with Kodak, Contax, Rollei and Leica. View cameras and rangefinders…
D A LeBlanc
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Greg Lovern
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I was 15 years old and earned the money by mowing up to 10 neighborhood lawns per week.
I started with the Zuiko 50/1.8, then got the then-incredible Sigma 21-35 and the Tamron 80-210/3.8-4.0.
Sold the lot to dad a few years later, and he used it heavily for many years. Recently he got a Nikon D70 and gave what survived of the old Olympus kit back to me.
I'm now using the old Tamron 80-210/3.8-4 with nice results on my Pentax D (adaptall 2 mount).
I still think the OM-1's shutter speed ring was the best ever designed.
Greg
I started with the Zuiko 50/1.8, then got the then-incredible Sigma 21-35 and the Tamron 80-210/3.8-4.0.
Sold the lot to dad a few years later, and he used it heavily for many years. Recently he got a Nikon D70 and gave what survived of the old Olympus kit back to me.
I'm now using the old Tamron 80-210/3.8-4 with nice results on my Pentax D (adaptall 2 mount).
I still think the OM-1's shutter speed ring was the best ever designed.
Greg
blarneystone
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Russian Zenit EM - a grand old tank of a camera! n/t
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Marc Sabatella
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Or something similar. It bugs me that I don't recall the exact model - it might have been a Contax, or something else still. It belonged to my father, who taught the basics of how to use it, probably when I was in my teens. It didn't work very well - I think it had a light leak somewhere. I gave up on it after a year or so, and used P&S cameras (both film and digital) almost exclusively for the next 30 years. Although I did fiddle with my wife's K1000 once or twice. I finally re-entered the SLR world for real last year with the DS.
wjwoj
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My first camera was russian Smena 8M, later I used my father's Zorki 4 rangefinder with Yupiter 50 mm lens. My first SLR was Practica BC1 (1985) - I still have it and use it from time to time.
Wojtek
Wojtek
I got it from my dad in 2000, complete with the 50mm f/1.7 that I still use today, and a 28mm f/2.8 (that I sold, and now regret having done so).
I loved that camera to death, until shooting film just got too expensive for me to keep up and I made the switch to the digital world.
I loved that camera to death, until shooting film just got too expensive for me to keep up and I made the switch to the digital world.
volosong
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Steven
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GaryML
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My first cameras were given to me as a kid, including a junky Kodak Brownie, some sort of Kodak viewfinder camera that uses 828 file (as I recall), and a Polaroid "Swinger." At one point in time I also had an unusuable Agfa camera with leaky bellows that took 120 roll film, I think, and the original Polaroid Land Camera that my Dad bought new when it first appeared on the market. All of the images taken with both Polaroids have severely deteriorated over time, but I still have a few.
The first serious camera was an ME Super purchased used 16 years ago, with a 50mm F1.4 M lens. I loved the camera except for the shutter speed buttons, but I used it most of the time in aperture-priority mode. This was the camera I used when I started a serious study of photography.
I used the ME Super for several years until I found a used LX in mint condition. I traded the ME Super with the 50/1.4 to the dealer to help defray the cost of the LX with the bundled SMC Pentax 50/1.2.
Sinnettc
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K1000 w/ 40mm & Sears 80-200 Tele/Macro. Camera w/ 40mm was either stolen or fell out of the truck when I moved out of my apartment and in with my wife about 7 years ago. 8^( Son #1 has the 80-200 now as it doesn't work with the ZX-60.
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Bought for me cheap at a pawn shop for a photography class back in elementary school. I think it's tucked in a box in a closet somewhere in the house. If I ever find it I'll give it a CLA and run a roll of Tri-X Pan through it, just for old time's sake... if film is still around.
Followed up with a bunch of Olympus OMs, Pentax 645, the DS, and as of Saturday a Super Program.
Followed up with a bunch of Olympus OMs, Pentax 645, the DS, and as of Saturday a Super Program.
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