Your First SLR

When I got my first SLR I was about 14 with my Pentax ESII SLR back in the 70's

INcowboy wrote in post #3541735
Better late then never I guess. XTi @ 37

^ I agree.
Canon Rebel XT dSLR @ 39...and loving it!

AV-1 at 13, that was 28 years ago.

Same as a lot of POTNers.

Canon AE-1 given to me by my parents @ 26 (8 years ago).

Ricoh XR-P at 16

Canon 400d a few months later at 17

and then a 20D recently, still at 17

hoping to put a mkIIn together with 18

Minolta SR-7, 21, 1965. PX in Korea!

Win

PS: Still works

At about 12 or 13 my dad let me use his Miranda G. Then at about 23 I got a Canon 630, at 36 I got an Elan 7NE for about 1 month and saw the light to go to the 30D.

Canon EOS IX Lite @ 23.

I constantly talked about buying a DSLR so my dad gave me his SLR (He's not a photographer... he just happened to have an Advantix SLR). I thought it was a noble gift but later found out it sucked. I had to wait to develop my pictures only to find out they were horrible. And I'm in the military so I live overseas in an area void of any 1 hour processing. I had to use internet developing services and it only made it worse.

It helped though. I finally broke down and purchased my Canon Rebel XT (350D) @ 24.

The hand me down from my grandfather Canon T90 FD mount camera...

Pentax K-1000, later I went to P-30.

Mine was a Minolta SRT-201 back in 1972 or so. Hauled it around on the back of my motorcycle for a couple of years.

Well have been playing round with dads Minolta XD7 35-135 since i was like 6!
but got MY first SLR last year when i was 14, 30D 17-85 and 70-200 2.8.. i feel so young!

camo

eos 650 in 1989 i was 17

XTi at 32.