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how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

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p.2 #1 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

Started with a Canon AE-1 like 9-10 years ago... It was the camera my parents bought to document my birth in 1988 and the lens broke in the delivery room when it got pushed off a table. I found it in a closet in my house and found a new lens for it at Wolf Camera and started shooting. 3-4 years later I got a Canon Eos Rebel G and then 3 years after that I got an Elan 7. Maybe 8 months later I got my first digital... My wonderful 10D.

Nov 13, 2008 at 06:39 PM

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p.2 #2 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

Got my first SLR in 1966 and my first DSLR was the 1D in 2001.

My first SLR was the FT-QL and I still have an AT-1.

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Nov 13, 2008 at 07:15 PM

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p.2 #3 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

I grew up using a Speed Graphic and an old Leica 35mm and had a dark room in the basement. It was a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

Nov 13, 2008 at 07:21 PM

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p.2 #4 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

I shot film. Once. Both rolls are still sitting on my desk, waiting to be developed. I'm almost 20

Nov 13, 2008 at 07:32 PM

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p.2 #5 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

Forgot to say I still shoot film from time to time. I find the process different - OK it's sometimes a pain - but then this camera was such a joy to use when I had it.

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I am almost 40 and this M4 is older than me. I wouldn't be surprised if it was outlasting me

Nov 13, 2008 at 07:37 PM

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p.2 #6 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

My first was a Rebel 2000, then went to a Elan IIE, and then an Elan 7E---I'm 23. I'd say though that anyone under 20 probably didn't get exposed to film unless it was mandatory for a class. Lots of younger photogs think that there is no good reason to own a 35mm. Wrong I say! Slide film is still downright amazing!

This is kind of off topic, but does anyone know of any setups, be it camera and a handheld light meter that don't require any type of batteries to operate/meter? I'd be really interested in getting one

Nov 13, 2008 at 07:40 PM

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p.2 #7 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

As a kid I started doing photography the right way, not the SLR way.

Nov 13, 2008 at 07:51 PM

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p.2 #8 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

In 1962 I bought a Pentax SLR. Great lens.

In 1969 I bought my first Nikon then followed it with a Nikormat.

I bought my first Canon EOS 10s in 80 something.

Canon 10 D in 2006.

Nov 13, 2008 at 08:02 PM

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p.2 #9 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

I started when I was 5, does that still count?

Nov 13, 2008 at 08:03 PM

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p.2 #10 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

Started with a wood-bodied Daguerrotype.
hahah, really started with AE-1, still a great little camera. Have the EOS Elan 7NE too. But digital is good enough now, considering its relative cheapness.
That M4 is beautiful.

Nov 13, 2008 at 08:38 PM

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p.2 #11 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

Devin Hillam wrote:
This is kind of off topic, but does anyone know of any setups, be it camera and a handheld light meter that don't require any type of batteries to operate/meter? I'd be really interested in getting one

Any mechanical camera with no built-in meter or a broken meter will do

Some cheap lightmeters like the Gossen Pilot 2 do not need batteries.

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Nov 13, 2008 at 08:50 PM

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p.2 #12 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

What a fun thread! It made me realize I've been into this photography thing for a long time. I know it is supposed to be SLRs only but the idea got me thinking all the way back to my childhood. I Had a darkroom before I was 10 that I used to made prints from my pinhole camera. I think when you catch this bug it's with you for a lifetime. Some people have just now caught it in the digital age and it's that much easier for them.

I went out on the web and collected pics of my most memorable cameras over my lifetime. That's fun to remember.

In the late 90s my wife and I started an aerial photo company with a r/c helicopter, and we ran it for 10yrs. The heli had a Canon K2 and 28mm lens.

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Nov 13, 2008 at 09:12 PM

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p.2 #13 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

I got a Minolta SRT-201 and the 50/1.7 for Christmas in 1974, and I still use it today.

Nov 13, 2008 at 09:26 PM

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p.2 #14 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

I started with an inexpensive Rebel. I think it was the XS if that sounds familiar.

My first photography memory is not a pleasant one. One Christmas when I was about 7 or 8. Someone wrapped up one of my presents in a camera box. The only problem is the gift wasn't a camera. I hadn't asked for one, but the feeling of joy I had when thought I had gotten one was a preview of a future love. The disappointment was hard to hide though.

Nov 13, 2008 at 09:36 PM

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p.2 #15 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

Started photography in the early 80’s when I was 16. My parents thought it might just be a ‘phase’ and wouldn’t let me buy the Canon A1 I was drooling after, so had to use my dads old Zeiss Ikon Contina presumably thinking that would be a test of my genuine enthusiasm.

Turns out I loved using it – guessing the distance for focusing, hand held light meter, everything manual – great fun, lots of experimenting and learning.

Ended up being able to get my new ‘flashy’ camera, though alas not the A1 but a Chinon CE4. Later went on to an Olympus OM 10, OM 40, EOS 30 and now digital. Kind of miss those days when photography seemed simpler – if the picture was wrong it was your fault, not the cameras. Now the human part is being taken out of photography. Oh well, that’s progress!

Nov 13, 2008 at 09:51 PM

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p.2 #16 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

My first actual photography was with my Rebel XT two years ago. I think that is the case of everyone in my age range. I'm only 22.

The photography students have dabbled in film if they had a high school class, but most colleges I've heard about are digital now too with maybe a couple darkroom classes.

Nov 13, 2008 at 10:02 PM

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p.2 #17 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

My first SLR (I had a medium format camera before) was Russian Zenit, the second - Pentax K1000 (I just bought it again a couple of months ago). First Canon - EOS 10S in 1990.

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Nov 13, 2008 at 10:15 PM

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p.2 #18 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

My first SLR was an early Pentax in the mid 1960's. Yes, I am that old. My first Canon SLR was an original F-1 around 1970. My last Canon SLR was the EOS 3. I still own both of those Canon's, plus many film SLR's that Canon produced in between. I made many images with film SLR's, and now have made many with Digital SLR's. There is something magical about a good through the lens viewfinder, and the confidence it gives when you "know" you got the shot, without chimping.

Nov 13, 2008 at 10:16 PM

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p.2 #19 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

martines34:
I bought my first Canon EOS 10s in 80 something.

I do not think so

EOS 10S was introduced in March 1990.

Nov 13, 2008 at 10:19 PM

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p.2 #20 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

I started with a used Miranda F in junior high during the Summer of Love (1969). No meter, no AF but at least it had an auto diaphragm! With the Tri-X I developed at home you could compensate while printing so exposure wasn't nearly as crucial as digital. I still shoot with a FM3A and EOS 3 for kicks but I'm 95% DSLR...

Nov 13, 2008 at 10:21 PM

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p.2 #21 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

Started with my grandfather's twin lens reflex using 120 film. Eventually I bought an Olympus OM10 (1979?). The next camera I bought was a Canon EOS 3 (best film camera I ever owned). I still have my Grandfather's twin lens reflex...

Nov 13, 2008 at 10:34 PM

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p.2 #22 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

Went and ripped a pawn shop off to get an ELAN II after shooting digital first!

Like the quality I get out of film. Never really had a chance to shoot B+W Properly because no one in town can process the film (in less than 3 weeks). I've thought about buying a few rolls though.

Nov 13, 2008 at 10:37 PM

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p.2 #23 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

Alistair Watson wrote:
Started out in my mid teens with an old Russian Zenit!

Me too. The Zenith B was my first SLR (although I had previously owned two or three non-SLR's). My teenage budget was too stretched to afford the Zenith E so I made do without a meter until I was able to pick up a S/H Weston Master V for five quid.

Upgraded to a new FTBn a while later and have stuck with Canon ever since, moving from the FtBn to the A1 and finally the F1 before "dipping my toe" into AF with the EOS100. I still have the F1 & EOS100.

Only use digital now.

Nov 13, 2008 at 10:39 PM

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p.2 #24 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

I bought an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic at the Tan Son Nhut Air Base BX in 1966. I was a photo interpreter, and had some friends who worked in the lab who taught me the basics. I developed my own black & white film, then made my own prints. There's something very satisfying about the mechanical feel of a good film camera; but I sure don't miss breathing the fumes from the chemicals! And I have no interest in black & white any more.

Nov 14, 2008 at 12:50 AM

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p.2 #25 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?

I've been using SLRs since 1976, like this one. It's not that long compared to some of you, but more than most. I bought an even dozen Nikon SLRs and three Canon SLRs before going digital.

EBH

Nov 14, 2008 at 01:02 AM


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