p.3 #2 · 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...
p.3 #3 · 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...
p.3 #4 · 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.
p.3 #5 · 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.
p.3 #6 · 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.
p.3 #7 · 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.
p.3 #8 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?
My first "exposure" to 35mm was using my dad's Argus C3 when I saw the Beatles. Needless to say they weren't great but later moved on to an OM-1. It was stolen and I went to an OM-2N. Now I'm trying to learn the 350D.
p.3 #9 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?
I LOVED my OM1. Graduated to it in 77 or 78 - still have it. Finally stopped shooting with it when I switched to the 20D and now LOVE digital. I shot more in my first year with digital than my entire life before with analog...
Learn a lot by shooting.
I miss the OM1 sometimes, but I'm really in heaven now.
p.3 #10 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?
Brownie in 1940, Minolta 35 in 50s and 4X5 Speed Graphic and early 60s, Mamiya 2-1/4 X 21/4 into 2003, 10D > 20D > 5D > 40D > 1DSIII. This is where I stop for the next 2-3 years. Maybe a 1DS V or VI.
p.3 #13 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?
Jim Victory wrote:
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.
Still have my FT-QL and an A-1. Not to mention the Elan II. It was a broken latch on the Elan's film door that inspired me to buy a 10D. Haven't shot any film to speak of since!
p.3 #14 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?
I started when I was 13 years old with my dad's 1962 unpowered Canonflex slr. I used that camera for 3 years of high school photography, no light meter, no autofocus, no autowind, no nothing. Then I got a Nikon FG for graduation, which I used for a year of photo class in college, and went on to use for 17 years until I got the nikon coolpix 660 when it came out. Now many cameras later, I'm looking forward to the 5d Mk II and that old 35mm look again.
p.3 #17 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?
Listing just the ones that got a ton of use, and only SLRs:
Kowa SE, Miranda Sensorex, Canon A1, EOS 3, EOS 1N, Pentax 645N, Pentax 67...
and then a procession of Canon DSLRs.
Along the way I also used TLRs, rangefinders, a view camera, and some AF compacts.
And I'm 21 years old...not.
p.3 #18 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?
ocean7 wrote:
I am suprized to read that so far the poll goes 17-0. FM members must be old enough. Younger generations have actually very little clue about film (usually).
digitial hasn't really been out there for that long
i only switched in 2004, only four years ago, with the 20D, so that doesn;'t really knock all but the very youngest of age groups out.
EOS 650 was my first camera (although when really little I did use my dad's FD mount), I started SLRs pretty young though I think stopped with P&S when I was like 5 or 6.
point and shooters might have switched a little earlier in some case but i'm not too surprised about the results at all, but I think most people who started with SLRs would have started with film.
now if you poll about who used SLRs without AF, THAT might show some separation I bet....
p.3 #19 · how many DSLR users previously used 35MM SLRs?
Just used Argus and Yashica 35mm film cameras. No SLR interest there until the digital equipment and developing started coming out.
Gee, I miss those flash bulbs
