What was your first slr?

[Jeremy Greenaway]

An Edixa Reflex - can't remember which model

 

[rcap]

Nikon FG.

 

[Louis Nargi]

an Argus I bought while in the Navy at the ships store I sold it to buy a Nikon when I got out. Wish I still had it

 

[Donald Qualls]

Argus

Argus made an SLR? I'll be damned, they did -- well, at least sold an SLR with their own proprietary lens mount...

 

[Don_ih]

Argus made an SLR?

It was a Mamiya.

 

[lejaune]

Argus made an SLR? I'll be damned, they did -- well, at least sold an SLR with their own proprietary lens mount...

Here it is. It's with M42 screw mount as many SLR of that time.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Minolta SR7, then a Minolta SRT101, SRT202, SRT301, X700 and finally Minolta X700 before I whiched Nikon AF srl with a N75 and F100.

 

[flowerpunk]

K 1000, used for years.

 

[RezaLoghme]

MF: Hasselblad 500CM
35mm: Leica R5

Both still doing ok, although CLA is the magic word.

 

[Jim Jones]

Praktica FX3, maybe in 1962. Of course it was my first SLR. Did anyone who had used any other SLR ever then buy a Praktica FX3? At least plenty of M42 lenses were available. After wrestling with that camera's peculiarities, I did manage to get good enough pictures. The Praktica system was briefly followed by a Miranda, which was less durable than the Praktica. Then came Nikon, which I'm still using in digital versions. Almost any camera in good working condition and with a good lens is capable of producing good photographs. It is usually worthwhile to get a camera that is also reasonably convenient and reliable.

 

[JerseyDoug]

A Contaflex I had on extended loan in 1959 and 1960. It belonged to a friend who couldn't get on with its not having an instant return mirror. I don't know the model. I don't even know if it had interchangeable lenses. I never tried removing the normal lens it had when I received it. I returned it when we graduated from high school two years later. I shot Anscochrome slide film with it almost exclusively. Sadly the slides have deteriorated so badly that I can not recover the images even with some heavy handed work with Affinity Photo.

 

[paddycook]

Olympus OM30

 

[1957ExaktaVarexIIa]

A 1957 Exakta Varex IIa, back in early 80s. From 1984 on, an additional 1954 Exakta Varex VX. For I always loved to use a black-and-white film and a Kodachrome 25.

Recently they were CLA'd, I still use them from time to time and I love them .

 

[Arthurwg]

Nikkormat

 

[choiliefan]

My first SLR was a brand new Minolta SRT-101 with 58mm 1.4 which I used in high school.
Stripped-out the plastic advance gear twice before a repairer exchanged it for brass. I still have the camera and lens 52-years later.

 

[rduraoc]

My first SLR was a Pentax MZ-50 with the 35-80 kit lens, that I bought brand new when I was 16 with the money I earned in a small summer job. Before that I had been messing around with my father's FED 4, but it was the Pentax that really brought me into photography.

 

[bernard_L]

Contaflex Super BC.

 

[Ben 4]

An Olympus OM-1, which I still have and use!