What was your first slr?

[ChrisLLUK]

Fujica ST801. Lovely m42 canera 1/2000 shutter speed LED metering.
Didn't survive a canoeing trip.

 

[Klaus_H]

Yashica TL electro ITS

The electronic of the camera died after 27 years.

 

[Yashica]

Pentax MX, SMC-A 50mm/F1.7, 2nd Yashica FX-3 Super 2000, then CONTAX 139Q & Minolta XD7.

 

[juan]

Mine was the oddball Kowa with the complex leaf shutter.

 

[Jim Jones]

A Practica FX3 to supplement rangefinder cameras for macro and telephoto photography. Despite it's many idiosyncrasies, it served well enough until replaced by a Nikon kit four years later. Now, after many decades on a shelf, it is beyond repair.

 

[Philippe-Georges]

A Praktica LTL with a 29mm (not a 28mm!), 50mm and a 135mm, and a handheld lightmeter (of which I don't recall the brand).

It was 1974, I was 16 then, and I developed my first film which was an AGFA-Gevaert 400 in Rodinal in a Paterson tank which leaked as a sieve and spoiled my shirt what made my mother so very angry (I didn't forget that!)...

 

[GRHazelton]

A Komaflex S, which is a 127 format leaf shutter box. f2.8 lens, quite sharp. After a while the auto diaphragm stopped closing down, so I set aside and bought a Praktica LTL. I used it heavily, bouncing it off a sidewalk once, still have it, it still works. I then went to Pentax with a gifted K 1000, then a MX, then a LX. Now I mainly shoot Pentax.
If 127 is ever available at a reasonable price I might have the Komaflex CLA'd.

A little update. I recently was able to buy a Komaflex S, with a fully functional shutter! And the telephoto attachment, how sharp it is is yet to be determined. It has a few cosmetic issues, but no big deal. Now to find the everready case from my original Komaflex. I still wish 127 film were more reasonable in price; I have read tales of folks cutting down 120 film.

 

[Donald Qualls]

I have read tales of folks cutting down 120 film.

I've done this many times. Not much more effort than respooling to 620. The cut itself can be done in room light, much easier than trying to cut in the dark, and for cameras without automatic advance stops you get the bonus of 16 frames instead of 12 on 4x4 (using the 6x4.5 framing track on the 120 backing).

 

[rover]

An SRT 101 bought used by my father for my brother and I in the late 70s. I was @12 I guess. I remember a lot of rolls of film shot with it. In fact, this morning I developed a roll of HP5+ from it. Still a favorite, always will be.

 

[Sirius Glass]

An SRT 101 bought used by my father for my brother and I in the late 70s. I was @12 I guess. I remember a lot of rolls of film shot with it. In fact, this morning I developed a roll of HP5+ from it. Still a favorite, always will be.

Welcome to Photrio

I started with a used Minolta SR7 and upgraded to the SRT101. I moved step by step through the new models to the X700.

 

[Jeremy Greenaway]

First slr was an Edixa Reflex with a Travenar 50mm lens - not bad, but not as crisp as the lenses I had on my non-reflex, non-rangefinder Altix-N. I shot my first photofeature on this when I was 14 - and it was published in a national journal! Precocious? It took me three years to go through a brief spell in art college (didn't like it - six years to get a degree equivalent) so leftfor a job as a trainee on a local paper, when I acquired the Edixa. Lasted me for two or three years before Asahi came up with the Pentax S1.

 

[88E30M50]

My first slr was a Canon A-1 bought in 1979 or 1980. I was about 17 at the time and saved everything from my job pumping gas at the time. That camera is still in the family and it still works. Since my 27 year old son now uses that camera, I picked up another recently and shooting it makes me feel like a kid again.

 

[dave olson]

Nikon EM with a 50 f1.8 kit.

 

[Brad Deputy]

Olympus OM-10 with the manual control from my late father who purchased in 1980. Still have it, still works.

First camera ever, a Kodak Ektralite 10, from 1987. (Not relevant to discussion)

 

[gleaf]

Nikon F with tn meter head.

 

[images39]

Mine was a Nikon FE, bought used in 1984 from a camera store in Honolulu, Hawaii. Still have it. I think the ergonomics of that camera are very good.

Dale

 

[Neofito]

a canon eos 300, 2004. I was probably the last generation of photographers that started with analog. By that time only the teacher had a digital camera. I still use it from time to time, but this year I've got an olympus om1n and also canon eos 50 and 30 and well, I prefer all those 3 over my old eos 300.

Anyway, the first love is always the first love.

 

[Tomwlkr]

First was a Miranda Sensorex, way ahead of it's time but had to order lenses from Hong Kong, Traded it in for a Nikkormat FTN which I still have. Have owned Mamyas, Pentax, Minoltas, but always come back to Nikon, Have a F2, F3, F3hp, Nikkormat FTN,FT2, and EL, Fm2n, N50 and N90s. Ricoh XR2 and XRP. Currently shooting Nikon D200, D300, and D300s

 

[Ccollins]

I was yearbook photographer in HS and the first SLR I used was a Pentax SP1000. They also had a Canon A-1 and a Mamiyaflex 124 120mm TLR. The first one I purchased was the Yashica FX-70.

Sorry! I had to correct a couple of model# errors. Unfortunately the memory fades!

 

[Dachshund]

A Pentax K1000, then a Nikon FM. Still with Nikon, a Z50, a D5600, an F100, 2 N80s, an N75, an N60, an A900, and an A300. My first 35MM was a Kodak Signet 40. My first adjustable camera was an Agfa Isolette (120 folding camera) which I still have from 1957. Also several Nikons i.e. an FE, FM2, an FA and an EM which I no longer have.

 

[cullah]

A Pentax K1000, then a Nikon FM. Still with Nikon, a Z50, a D5600, an F100, 2 N80s, an N75, an N60, an A900, and an A300. My first 35MM was a Kodak Signet 40. My first adjustable camera was an Agfa Isolette (120 folding camera) which I still have from 1957. Also several Nikons i.e. an FE, FM2, an FA and an EM which I no longer have.

 

[cullah]

alpa 9d

 

[VoodooXT]

First film SLR? A Nikon N2020/F-501

 

[ericB&W]

Nikon FG .
In a moment of nostalgia about that old times, when i found on Ebay
an immaculate black version some yers ago, i bought too.

 

[Ralphieboy]

My very first camera was a Kodak Instamatic 100. I was 10 years old and it was1963. I never went anywhere without it for the next few years. My first SLR was some sort of Konica rangefinder that Santa brought to me, followed by a Spotmatic followed by a K 1000 and so on.... Sure wish some of those photos survived those 60 years...