Which camera was your first SLR?

tombell1 · Apr 24, 2006

For me briefly a Praktica then a Nikon FM. Then an FE2 .... I had a ME super but didnt like that so much.

the DS is the best feeling camera I have ever owned ..... but there was once a Contax that a friend I had that I would have loved as much ... but i never could afford it
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Jack Simpson · Apr 24, 2006

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jdevreij · Apr 24, 2006

.. bought in 1970 for 435 Dutch Guilders

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SCAC · Apr 24, 2006

AE-1 soon followed by A-1 and F-1N in the early 80's. I sold it all last year to buy my Pentax gear.

filip kublin · Apr 24, 2006

Practica super TL,then PENTAX MZ-5.
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GVRB · Apr 24, 2006

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parallaxproblem · Apr 24, 2006

I was 12 years old: the Zenit is a camera so horrible that you must develop a real love for photography in order to keep using it!

As soon as I was old enough to get a part-time job and afford something better I bought a Minolta XG-M, later X-700, and the Zenit lay forgotten for many years - until I discovered its lenses would work OK on the DS....

stern · Apr 24, 2006

a fujica AX5, 50mm and 80-200 soligor. it was the absolute maximum i could afford in those days in 1984 (appr. 400-500 USD plus another 200 USD for the zoom) as a student of 19 years. later on, i got a fujica system flash; but the envisaged 28-80 never made it into my camera bag.

then came the time of konica 35 mm compact point&shoot for family pics (then the fujica was used for certain more "serious" shoots).

then, i got a very cheap digital camera, a mustek G3 - a psychedelic camera which made a lot of fun (i even sold a couple of pics from that camera!); then came the first "serious" digital camera in early 2002, the pentax EL200 (then 700 EUR, i got it at a sale for appr. 300 EUR and sold it in late 2003 after almost 2 years for 80 EUR); then came a canon S1IS which i still have (a fine camera with full manual controls - a good crry along P&S camera with AAs, tilt/swivel monitor, movie, good ergonomics).

and now i'm on my second pentax, the *ist DS plus an array of 7 lenses and a flash.

loock · Apr 24, 2006

I used SLR cameras before, but my first bought SLR was a Pentax K2 black, whith smc K 55 f 1.8.
I'm still using this great camera, even that now I have a MZ-S....

rowdy 49 · Apr 24, 2006

My first camera was a russian Fed 3 Rangefinder back in 1976,bought for the birth of my first son. First Pentax was a ME Super in 1980 still have it and use it.

Wagga · Apr 24, 2006

Great camera. I learned the basics on it (aperture/speed/ASA)...

I think that the learning curve wasn't as stiff as with digital.
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Zot · Apr 24, 2006

Pentax ForEVERrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

steephill · Apr 24, 2006

was the first I owned (1978). The first ones I used were a Pentax S1a, Nikon Nikkormat FT2 and a Mamiya (500 something?).

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UC_Mitch · Apr 24, 2006

DS w/ Sigma 18-50 DC kit lens October last year, before that, only a p&s FujiFilm S3500
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jonathan68 · Apr 24, 2006

Mine was a Lubitel 2 twin lens reflex medium format camera plus separate sometimes malfunctioning lightmeter. Cost £13 of hard earned pocket money back in 1979.

My first SLR was a Canon EOS 10 which was later stolen.

From there I bought a second hand Nikon FE to relearn manual photography.

Then moved to Pentax with the MZ5, *istD, & secondhand MX.

Roman Hawryluk · Apr 24, 2006

Honeywell (Asahi) Pentax H3v in 1966. Still have it and it still works ... unlike me.
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Voikkari · Apr 24, 2006

I do not remember the exact model name.

Next one was also Practica model LTL. Those were screw mount cameras and that took me to my first Pentax namely Spotmatic F

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grcolts · Apr 24, 2006

My first SLR was not a Pentax, although I had used a friend's Pentax 1000 so had some experience with them.

So, my first Pentax was the PZ1P which I still have today and still love shooting with it. My first SLR goes to the screw-lens mount Yashica Electro X body. This is the camera that taught me photography. From the Yashica I moved to Canon FD bodies and then on to Pentax with the PZ1P.
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Len Upward · Apr 24, 2006

My first SLR was a Pentax S1a which I bought in about 1964 and had a 55m f2.0 lens. There was no TTL metering and I used the exposure guide with the film. I had very few poor exposures until I bought a hand held exposure meter. Just shows that hi-tech isn't always best!!

pentaxowner · Apr 24, 2006

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