Post pics or talk about your 1st SLR or dSLR camera. I still have mine so here's some pics of it I took not so long ago:

My first camera was an Olympus OM-1. I used it a lot in the late 70's for rock climbing and travel photos, when I was a student in the UK. I still have many of the photos, but the camera didn't make it home with me. I used a Mamiya Sekor MSX 1000 in the early 80's, and switched to Pentax in around 1984 when the Mamiya was swiped. Twenty years later in 2004, I switched to Canon digital. In between, I used many Pentax and Contax 35mm SLR's, as well as Fuji MF rangefinders and a Shen Hao 4x5 LF camera.

The OM series was a nice line of cameras. I think the OM-1 was my 3rd or 4th SLR. And I grew the system along side my Nikon system. Here's where it was when I sold it although this photograph doesn't show the OM-4. Nor the OM-10 which I gave away when I got my OM-4.

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Same make - Asahi Pentax S1a - but no photos.

It cost me £80 at the time - in 1962/3 which was when I stared work - and represented about 3 month's income! Who thought digital was expensive?

Yeah, that's a beautiful body! I've not owned one but I almost bought one about a month ago - mint condition and just radiating with that glow of a camera that's been cared for all it's life. Was only $100 with lens.

piece-o-crap kowa set-r2

My first SLR was a Canon AV-1. Got it as a Christmas gift from my Grandfather in 1979.

My next SLR was a Canon Elan II E QD that I bought in the early 90's.

Around 2001 I went digital with a used Canon D30.

I remember the AV-1

I came very close to getting the original Canon F-1. But, after climbing and shooting with Galen Rowell for a couple of days, I immediately purchased a black Nikon FM. It just felt so good and natural in my hands.

Kiron Kid

No photos, but it was the Nikkormat EL, bought new in the mid-70's.

EBH

I thought I was the only person with that Sekonic light meter. I got it when my friend's father passed away--along with some other really cool stuff.

My first SLR was an N60. I was late getting to the photography game.

Canon A-1 about 1981. It's in the back on the left.

Not my photo, but here's the camera:

I was lucky enough to have parents who encouraged my interests, and got me an EOS Rebel when I was 12 or 13. I've still got it packed up in the garage somewhere.

same here, my parents gave me this when i was 14:

Wow, so many of you still have that first camera?

EBH

Minolta Maxxum 4 which I still have though I'm thinking about trading/selling it so that I could pick up a light film Nikon.

Canon FTB... so much fun to shoot with

When I first started, it was with a Canon AT-1, match needle metering - simple and a great way to learn. A year later I got a Canon A-1, but still liked the AT-1 better.

When my gear was stolen, I decided to switch to Nikon, with an FM, then an F-3. Been with Nikon ever since. Still use one of my F-3's now and then, but my go to camera is now the D2Xs.

Larry

Minolta 7xi

Still sitting in a drawer with the Minolta 28-105mm xi kit lens attached

Sad, I feel so young...

Canon Rebel XT 350D for me. Great learning camera.

LNguyen92 wrote:
Sad, I feel so young...

Canon Rebel XT 350D for me. Great learning camera.

yup, digital babies we are. I started out on a Nikon D70s.

My first was a Pentax H3v. I no longer have it since it got wiped out in a flood in 1994. However, I still have my Pentax Spotmatic which I bought several years after the H3v. It was on a higher shelf and survived the flood.

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

Jim

Mine was a Kowa E. It had a diaphragm shutter and two screw-on supplementary lenses to make a moderate telephoto or wideangle.

It paid for itself, in that a shot sold to my employer's company house magazine for £100, in the 1970s, as a cover (front and back) shot.