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.
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.
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.
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. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v434/frank2001/Canon%20d30/Petri-7S.jpg
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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...
Now I have the D300.