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Peter Sims
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p.2 #1 · My First SLR.

Jim Victory wrote:
My first was the FT-QL and my last was the AT-1, which I still have with 8 FD lenses.

Jim

Ha! I still have my great-grandpa's FT QL. Unfortunately the whole camera is jammed, I probably wouldn't use it much, but I have some nice FD/FL lenses that go with it.

Jul 28, 2009 at 08:57 PM

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p.2 #2 · My First SLR.

I got this as a hand-me-down from my brother when I was about 16.

Minolta XD-7

Jul 29, 2009 at 04:59 PM

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p.2 #3 · My First SLR.

The ol' Canon D30....back when it was $3000. Yipes.

Jul 29, 2009 at 05:03 PM

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p.2 #4 · My First SLR.

Mine was a Minolta Maxxum 7000 (I'm not quite as "experienced" age wise as some of you to remember some of the human artifacts mentioned above..

.) The 7000 was a great camera at the time, although lens technology for that company was not all that great compared to Nikon or Canon. My friends who were shooting Nikon at the time always seemed to have sharper and more saturated images. I have shot Canon and Nikon since 2000 and I shoot Canon 1 series mark IIIs and still use my old Mamiya MF film camera with a Leaf digital back now - digital is the only way to go. I do not miss 35mm film at all. The only film we shoot now is very occasionally 4x5 but even that is being challenged by Phaseone, Leaf, etc with their new offerings and we find ourselves using the 4x5 camera less and less. The new Phaseone is amazing... and it carries an amazing price tag along with it...

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Mark
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2008 © sixgun

Jul 29, 2009 at 05:28 PM

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p.2 #5 · My First SLR.

Canon 40d, just sold it a couple weeks ago

Yeah, I'm young

16 Years young

Jul 30, 2009 at 05:56 AM

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p.2 #6 · My First SLR.

Young is fine!

Heck, I'll trade with ya anyday.

How much did you get for it anyway? (just curious)

Aug 14, 2009 at 08:17 PM

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p.2 #7 · My First SLR.

Greg Feldman wrote:
Not my photo, but here's the camera:

This image is copyrighted by the owner

My first SLR as well, my grandfather gave me it when I was 12. I had about 25 cameras by then, but most of them were folders, box cameras, or roll film Polaroids, and I didn't know how to make them work with modern film at the time. I really like the Spotmatic, especially with the Takumar 50/1.4. I had it CLA'd a couple years ago, and the repairman told me that despite it never having been CLAd since my grandfather bought it new in the 60s and having all the lubricants dry up, all of the shutter speeds were perfectly on spec, the meter hadn't degraded at all, and the lens needed no adjustment. He basically said that the adjust part of the CLA wasn't needed at all. How many Leicas can you say that about after 42 years? I still use the lens occasionally on my EF cameras, too.

Aug 15, 2009 at 01:01 AM

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p.2 #8 · My First SLR.

My 1st SLR was a Sears T*L*S made by Ricoh.

I spent the big bucks and opted for the f1.4 lens and a 2x teleconverter.
One Christmas my wife presented me with a Honeywell Electronic Flash. My set up was nearly complete. I wanted but never got a 35mm wide angle.

Up untill then I was using a Petri 7s rangefinder I bought used at a Local (Rich's, now Macy's) department store's camera department.

Yes, they all had camera departments back in the 70's and into the very early 80's.
I had originally purchased a Fujica but the meter didn't work correctly and they exchanged it for me.
I chose a newer, sleeker Petri 7s as it had a faster, 45mm f1.8 lens, and the metering system worked very well.
I put a lot of Tri-X thru that camera and did my own processing and printing.

Later I moved to a Nikkormat and then to an EOS 630

My 1st DSLR was the Canon D30. It was nearly $3000 dollars but I had paid a Thousand for my Nikon 900s so it seemed a bargain and I could use the lenses from my EOS 630.

Ah, the good old days

Aug 30, 2009 at 06:54 PM

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p.2 #9 · My First SLR.

Matt Leitholt wrote:
Canon 40d, just sold it a couple weeks ago

Yeah, I'm young

16 Years young

I'm 16 too, and have a 40D (though not planning to sell it anytime soon

Aug 30, 2009 at 07:55 PM

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p.2 #10 · My First SLR.

Canon Rebel G which I sold to a friend of mine when I bought a Canon Elan 7ne which I sold to buy a Nikon F100. Still have the F100 and a multitude of Nikons now. I swear they breed

Aug 31, 2009 at 10:54 PM

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p.2 #11 · My First SLR.

Rangefinder Petri 7s
SLR Mamya Sekor 1000 DTL

Sep 01, 2009 at 06:05 AM

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p.2 #12 · My First SLR.

Nikon F, Pentaprism, no meter. Don't have that camera anymore (stolen), nor the two or three that followed it over the years. But I did add an Apollo F (overlapped the F2 by a year or so) to the camera safe a few years ago. Still get it out and run a few rolls through it now and then. Although I have to say that if I'm going to shoot film, I really prefer my two F2AS cameras to the old F or even my F3HP or F4s. None get as much use as the D2's these days.

Rob

Sep 02, 2009 at 12:06 AM

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p.2 #13 · My First SLR.

frank2001 wrote:
My 1st SLR was a Sears T*L*S made by Ricoh.

I spent the big bucks and opted for the f1.4 lens and a 2x teleconverter.
One Christmas my wife presented me with a Honeywell Electronic Flash. My set up was nearly complete. I wanted but never got a 35mm wide angle.

Up untill then I was using a Petri 7s rangefinder I bought used at a Local (Rich's, now Macy's) department store's camera department.

That's a camera I don't think I've ever seen before. Kewl! Thanks man!

Oct 19, 2009 at 11:53 PM

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p.2 #14 · My First SLR.

19 Year young here! And my first SLR goes way back to.. the D60

It has been loyal to me for quite some time and it still is. Although I did find that screwing a 70-200 2.8 on there is a bit front heavy..

Now I have the D300.

Oct 21, 2009 at 12:21 PM

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p.2 #15 · My First SLR.

Pentax K1000 here. Bought it in about 1980-81. No pics of it but it is probably still out at my parents' house someplace along with an ME Super.

Oct 21, 2009 at 06:21 PM

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Decades ago my dad gave me a Leicaflex. Unfortunately, this act of selfless generosity was largely borne of the fact that he'd dropped it in the Yellowstone River! Despite being quite well off, the fool was too cheap to buy a waterproof p/s and chose instead to use a vintage Leica as his 'fish camera.' One can only tempt fate for so long and - as was inevitable - the camera soon went for a swim. I managed to use it for a year or so, but it finally froze up.

I bought a used T90 in 89 or so and have shot it ever since, adding bodies and lenses to my vintage FD kit along the way. I still shoot the 'Tank' more than any other camera I own, and I have plenty of digital, film, and MF cameras.

Oct 22, 2009 at 03:47 AM

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p.2 #17 · My First SLR.

I had a Pentax Spotmatic as shown above. Sold it in 1971 for a Yashika Twin Lens reflex, 2 1/4

Oct 22, 2009 at 12:21 PM

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p.2 #18 · My First SLR.

Oh, the memories !
Minolta XGM and X700, good stuff.

Oct 22, 2009 at 05:03 PM

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p.2 #19 · My First SLR.

cool stuff here. after taking a few snapshots with some kodak camera with 110 film rolls, i bought a minolta 300si i sold it within a year to get a minolta 7xi. That camera lasted for ages. in 2005 i bought a Nikon D70 and in the 4 years after that i bought 5 more Dslrs... wicked...

Oct 22, 2009 at 09:05 PM

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p.2 #20 · My First SLR.

First SLR: My Dad's Minolta X700 when he let me borrow it. It is now mine, sadly through inheritence. I'm going to take pics of it some time.

Second SLR: Girlfriend's Minolta Maxxum 5 - She never used it cause it was too complex for her. Her previous BF got it off Ebay for a song, not realizing the difference between a P&S and SLR.

Oct 22, 2009 at 11:06 PM


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