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First camera was a
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Mine was a Halina 2000, then a Zenit 12xp, then a Nikon FM.
What was yours?
I’m still practically a virgin.. mine was my trusty D70. None of this film lark for me ;)
me it’s my lomo which i still have and use all the time, but as far as SLRs, it’s the D70 for me just over a year ago.
Here is my camera history, still have all of them. You can see I have no brand loyalty at all lol!
Camera 1 (came free with my laptop. if it wasn’t for this camera i never would have considered exploring photography more:
Camera 2:
Camera 3 (Still my fav camera):
Current camera:
Had loads of “point and shoots” over the years, but my first SLR was an Olympus OM1.
Still have it and used it when shooting slide film.
Completely manual. No electronics. Nothing!
Still love it.once I discovered that the 35mm point and shoot was crap a taking motorbikes at 120mph+ I went for this…
Minolta 300si
Minolta 800si
Nikon F90X
Nikon D2HI used my mother’s 126 film format to get my first and only photographic qualification – cub scout badge for photography. I achieved this award in around 1985 based on my knowledge of the camera’s controls and a “portfolio” of shots of zoo animals. Can’t remember (or find) the exact camera, but looking around the web, I think it was probably a Kodak Instamatic 133.
(pic from http://www.nwmangum.com/Kodak/I133-1.html)Late 50s or early 60s Agfa Silette. I used to have a selenium cell lightmeter but lost it donkeys back. This poor old beast now has terminally wormy lens coating but otherwise still functions. Used to roll me own Ilford FP4 35mms and develop them at school (and at home; me dad was a serious type in them days and had a Bronica 6×6 SLR and Yashica and Rollei TLRs and full darkroom. Now he’s a D50 user).
Then an OM10, which got several years of regular use and still gets the very occasional outing. Various crappy compact 35mms mainly used by the Mrs. Went digital about 1999 with a 1.3Mpx Fuji 1300 (pile of crap, but undeniably convenient). Got a 4Mpx Fuji S5500 a couple of years ago for the big zoom, bigger res and manual functions, then got bored with the noise it made (visual) and had to have a DSLR. Money was tight so it was a 6 year old Canon D30 eBay special which still works impeccably despite God knows how many shutter clicks. Got it body only, then bought a 50mm f1.8 and a Sigma 18-50 f2.5-5.6 which served until I could get up the nerve to drop more serious cash on a (2nd hand) 17-40L.
Just a couple of days ago spent the best ?30 of my life on an OM-EOS adaptor so I could use my old OM10 lenses on the Canon. Revelation! I now have a not too shabby Sigma 28mm f2.8, a really rather good Soligor 35-70mm f2.5-3.5 zoom and an utterly sweet Zuiko 135mm f2.8, all of which work perfectly, albeit manually, on the DSLR. Manual focus is surprisingly easy, even on a small matte screen, once you develop a feel for it. Stop down metering’s also far less hassle than you might think. Twisting away on a well-damped focus ring just feels more, for real, somehow. Going back to AF is like going back to a P’n’S.
Interesting one !
My first decent 35mm was a Cosina CT1.
My first Digital camera was an Olympus CL1400……..1.4 Mpixel…….cost me ?1195.00IR at the time but recouped
?600 in the first hour by taking some pics of Eyre Square, Galway and emailimg them to a holiday brochure print works
in Capetown. I still see a Company using some pics from that same camera on their latest catoluge for Plastic Septic Tanks…….!These were the days (and not so long ago really!)
First of my very own … to own… was and is my D 200…
If semi-permanent loan counts – then the D70 …
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First camera I was allowed to use (aside from nicking my brothers!) was a B&W super swinger instamatic. Still have it, boxed, with instructions, well out of reach from the kids.
First camera I bought was an Olympus OM10, which sadly, is no longer with me.
Kevin
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