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.

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



Minolta XD-7

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

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... ..

Mark
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Canon 40d, just sold it a couple weeks ago

Yeah, I'm young

16 Years young

Young is fine!

Heck, I'll trade with ya anyday.

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

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

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.

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

Yeah, I'm young

16 Years young

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

Rangefinder Petri 7s
SLR Mamya Sekor 1000 DTL

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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.