Got my new Camera !!...

[PhotoJourno]

So you probably think I am talking about the MkIII.

Nah, I am too poor at the moment for that. I did get an incredibly new copy of a Pentax K-1000, the very first SLR camera I ever owned.

I am pretty happy, will probably use it some day to teach my kids or someone else about photography. Have loads of Ilford film, so it will probably be a great way to feel ever so grateful for my Canon Digital EOS Gear.

What was your first SLR Camera and when?... Do you still have it?

My first was the K-1000 in 1992. I had to sell it to pay for the credit on it less than a year later, but just got another copy (call it nostalgia).

[gjl711]

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What was your first SLR Camera and when?... Do you still have it?... My first SLR was the Canon A-1 with a 50 1.4 lens. Later I added a 75-200 zoom and I still have both the camera and zoom. I use it a couple of times a year just for fun. It was a tank, but a great camera.

[-spam-]

Mine was a Ricoh XR-P pentax k mount. Its still in my bag with a chinon 50mm f/1.7 for it and i still shoot with it.

All the other pentax stuff is in with our k100d.

[unafaxer]

Mine was an early EOS 650. Still have it and the 50 1.8 Mk I that came with it. Just can't let them go.

[Specs]

My first camera was the Canon T70, but my girfriend (now my better half of 19 years!) had a K1000. What a rugged, dependable camera the Pentax was and still is! I kinda wish we still had it. My old T-70, too.

[magicmikey]

My first camera was a Canon F-1 (my dad always spent too much!) While it was Canon's top of the line camera with interchangeable focusing screens, interchangeable pentaprisms, etc., it's operation was very similar to the K-1000. Like the original K-1000, it was all mechanical and didn't need a battery to work.

By the way, I feel really old when someone says their first camera was a T-70. The T-70 was introduced in 1984. I got my F-1 in 1977.

Michael

[macroshooter1970]

CONGRATS

my first was the disposable camera from walgreens used those for about a long time, then moved up to a Polaroid Camera w/Flash.

Then I leaped into a minolta xg and finally decided it was time at 35, I'm 36 now and bought a Canon 30D.

[westernminnguy]

By the way, I feel really old when someone says their first camera was a T-70. The T-70 was introduced in 1984. I got my F-1 in 1977.

Michael

I'm older than you MIchael. My first SLR was around 1972. Olympus OM-1. :)

[ShotByTom]

My first SLR was a Ricoh KR-5 that I got for Christmas in 1979! I still have it and 4 lenses, I get great pictures from it! Last year I bought a KR-5 Super off of ebay so I can give each of my girls a good SLR to learn on.

[ofdphoto]

I didn't have an SLR until I went digital, but I did have a Petri 7s rangefinder ages ago :-) I've since picked up a Pentax ME Super + Takkumar 50/1.4, which is a beautiful piece of equipment.

[DavidEB]

first camera = mamiya TLR.
first SLR = k1000. stolen
second SLR = F1, used it until went digital.

[BaliHai]

Mine was my Dad's Voightlander Rangefinder got me through art school till I could afford a Canon AE-1

[85lesabre]

I have a Pentax K-1000 too...today though it seems to just sit on the shelf.

[august23]

My first SLR was the Canon XTi.....those were the days back then....

[joshg253]

My SLR was a Minolta SRT101 with a MD 50mm f/1.7 lens and a MC 135mm f/3.5 lens I got in 1999 for my senior high school photography class. It's been in the closet since I got my first compact digital camera in 2002. My first DSLR is a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi with the kit lens, which I got in January and cannot put down!


_josh

[::John::]

My first one was a secondhand Canon FX (http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/camera/1955-1969/data/1964_fx.html)