Your camera history timeline...

number six wrote in post #17912834

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #17911654
(forgot name, some brand of photo paper started with A) "Twist body" 1.2MP (like the old Nikon 990)

Ansco? AGFA?

AGFA! Man I had major brain fart last night with it on the tip of my typing fingers but could not come up with it.

AGFA ePHOTO 1280!

Dang! I can't even remember most of the stuff I had.

I guess for film:

AE1 Program - started in 1987
F-1
EOS 3

Digital

10D - when I joined this forum, the most expensive hobby imaginable for a working mom
20D
40D
5D
7D
5D2
7D2
When it comes out 5D4, I hope. Life is good.

Yashica TL Electro around 1971
Canon A1 around 1978
Canon 10s around 1990
Canon Digital Rrebel 2003
Canon 40d 2007
Canon 70 2016

Oh, boy! No way can I remember all the dates. Here is a list, generally in chronological order.

Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash. (still have a working copy)
Various 110 Kodaks.
Yashica FX-2 (1975)
Yashica FX-3 Super 2000. (best 35mm SLR ever made) Used 2 of these until the shutter broke.
Ricoh KR-30SP (or close)
Panasonic DMC-FZ8 (only camera I've ever won a contest with)
500D
450D
60D
SX260HS
5D
7D
G15
6D
70D

Seriously considering selling both the 6D and 70D to buy a 5DIII. I am not focal length challenged, so the 70D's only purpose is AI-Servo at my grandkids' sports/athletics events. 5DIII should handle that nicely.

Kodak Brownie Starmite *
Kodak Flash Bantam *
Kodak Bantam RF
Nikonos II
Miranda Auto Sensorex EE *
Canon FTbN
Canon F-1n
Canon AE-1 *
Pentax Auto 110 SLR
Canon T90
Canon New F-1
Yashicamat 635
Kodak DC260 *
Kodak DC290 *
Canon EOS D60
Canon EOS 7e *
Canon Powershot A80 *
Canon EOS 20D
Canon Powershot A620 *
Canon EOS 5D *
Canon Powershot A630
Canon Powershot SD990
Canon Powershot SX-10 *
Canon Powershot SX-1
Canon EOS 1D III
Canon EOS 5DII
Canon EOS 7D
Canon Powershot SX230
Canon Powershot S110
Canon Powershot A1300
Canon EOS 5D III
Canon Powershot A1300
Canon Powershot SX60
Canon EOS 7DII
GoPro Hero 4 Black
Brinno TLC200

More or less in consecutive order of acquisition over the past few decades. There may be a few incidental oddities I've forgotten. There's at least one 35 mm RF I don't recall the make/model of - just that it had a light cream never-ready case.

* - no longer owned. One or two others may not still function, or may no longer be usable due to film types not being available.

Year I got that cameras as best as I can remember.
1968 Kodak Brownie Hawkeye
1971 Polaroid Swinger
1978 Hanimex 110
1980 Praktica MTL 3
1985 Nikon EM
1991 Canon EOS 630, Calumet CC403 4x5 view camera
1994 Canon EOS A2E
Late 90's Canon EOS Elan IIE
2006? Canon Rebel XT
2013 Panasonic GH2
2014 Canon 50D, Sony a6000, Panasonic GX7
2015 Canon 7D mark II, Panasonic G7

Between 1990 and now, Too many old film cameras to count right now.

You know the one thing I have noticed about a lot of us that are 50 or older is the relativly small number of film bodies compared to digital. It seems like we kept our film SLRs for a lot longer without constantly needing to upgrade them. While since going digital, and for most that seems to have been between ten and fifteen years for the real early adopters, there seems to be as many or more DSLRs as in maybe 30 plus years of shooting film.

I guess that just shows the pace of development of the DSLR, and of course the fact you can't just drop the latest sensor in an old body. Unlike dropping the latest film stock in film cameras.

Alan

Canon AE-1 darkroom, remember the b&w...the timers and solutions, wow things have really changed (still have the camera, lens and enlarger)

Kodak digital 5 or 8 mp

Canon p&s

Canon 5d mark III (BIG JUMP)

Canon 7d mark II (NOT AS BIG A JUMP)

And still rocking the 20D, my workhorse

BigAl007 wrote in post #17957915
You know the one thing I have noticed about a lot of us that are 50 or older is the relativly small number of film bodies compared to digital. It seems like we kept our film SLRs for a lot longer without constantly needing to upgrade them. While since going digital, and for most that seems to have been between ten and fifteen years for the real early adopters, there seems to be as many or more DSLRs as in maybe 30 plus years of shooting film.

I guess that just shows the pace of development of the DSLR, and of course the fact you can't just drop the latest sensor in an old body. Unlike dropping the latest film stock in film cameras.

An astute observation. Upgrading a body today is often quite similar to buying a different kind of film back in the 1970's or 1980's.

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Quite a few cheap kodaks ( remember the ones where the handle folded over the body as a case, then folded out as a handle ? )

http://alexeames.com/b​log/2010/02/cameras/

A Kodak disc camera ( who even remembers those??? )

http://www.ssplprints.​com …amera-with-film-1982-1984

Olympus Mu ( the first one, and my first to take proper film )

A Pentax ME super off my Dad, cheers fella!!

Minolta Dynax 5

Minolta Dynax 7x

Canon 20D

Canon 40D

Canon 6D

Canon 5D mk III

Canon SureShot II 35mm P&S from grade school until college. Then I got a Canon EOS Rebel 35mm with a 28-80mm kit lens. It's an SLR but it does autofocus! I couldn't wrap my head around that, it was such a new thing to me.

That one lasted me all the way up until I got the 50D that I'm using today.

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As it happens, I have my camera history listed on the website I use to keep track of my travel history:

http://wewentthere.wee​bly.com/cameras.html

Canon AE-1
Canon A-1 two
Canon 1D
Canon 1D mark 2
Canon 1DX

Not counting shared/borrowed:

Sony DSC-H7 (bridge superzoom), 2008
iPhone 4, 2010, sold
iPhone 5, 2012, traded for 50D
Canon XTi, 2013
iPhone 6, 2014
Canon 6D, 2014
Canon 50D, 2015

The 50D lives in my car right now as a grab-and-go. I've been meaning to get rid of the XTi and the Sony, both of which are just collecting dust.