What Was Your First Ever SLR Camera?

First SLR: Canon Rebel T2 35mm

Will be getting my first digital SLR that I can call my own in June, the 40D.

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Canon AV-1, then an A-1, then an F1n, then a T90. Then the first wife took them all, along with the eight lenses, in the divorce. Solicitors. Can't live with 'em, can't leagally shoot 'em.

Olympus OM-1

In the late '70s I bought a Minolta SRTSC II with a 50mm f2 prime and a Sigma 35-70mm f2.8-4 zoom. A Vivitar 2600 flash and a few Hoya Filters. I still have them all. It was a very nice camera.

My first SLR was a Miranda GT, circa 1966...

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liza wrote in post #4702559
I used my Dad's Mamiya-Sekor 1000DTL until I got a Minolta SLR and then later a Canon.

TomPierce wrote in post #4702684
(I knew I liked Liza for some reason.) My first camera was also a Mamiya Sekor 1000 DTL. I bought it because it had both an averaging meter AND a spot meter! Wowie!

During Vietnam, I replaced it with this... Look familiar?

My camera list reads like this

1. 2. Cherrios box tops w/ 2.95, the camera never worked
2. Yashica Lynx 5000e
2, Minolta SR-7 W/ Stenheil Kreuznach 45mm 1.4, 35mm 2.8
4. Canon A-1 x3 with a whole host of lenses
5. T-90
6. A2E
7. D30
8. 10 D
9. 1D Mk IIn

Horseman 450 L, Mamiya RB &RZ, Kowa Super 66, Hassy 501C, Speedotron, Norman, White Lightning...
EDIT: Sorry forgot EOS 1n and EOS 3

The list is really alot longer than that...

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Pentax S, released in 1958.

I bought mine used in late 1962.

It "featured", manual focus, manual diaphragm, no light meter (it used film), and an instant return mirror. Oh yes, it had a genuine leather case, and the strap was leather too.

I smile when someon wants more features on their current camera, particularly when so many don't know what the existing features are for.

Tom W wrote in post #4703406
First SLR was a Canon FT-QL. Still have it....

HEY ! HO !
This goes back in the Canon time warp machine...
Me too.
No mirror flip, no bad vibes. They had some wild macro magnification meter reader prisms back then.
I graduated from a Nikon S2 Motordrive rangefinder , 1966 ish.
Post some pictures of it when i wake up.
Congrats on your keeper, looks KeWeL !

Olympus OM-1 and a 50mm f/1.4

I got it as a present from my girlfriend at the time and who knew then how much it would change my life.

I had a EOS 500, simple but effective

Canon AE-1.
I also have 2 T-90's and they all work today.

Canon TX.

Calicajun wrote in post #4996747
Interesting thread, made me think about what cameras I have gone through over the years. First 35mm camera I had was a Argus C-3 wasn't really a SLR but did have changeable lenses and filters.
Argus C3
Bessler Topcon Auto 100, auto F-stops not focusing
Olympus OM 1
Canon AE-1
Mamiya-Sekor C-330, 2 1/4x2 1/4 for weddings
Canon EOS Elan
Minolta Maxxum 5
Canon 40D

Never realize I had gone through so many cameras.

I had the Beseler Topcon Auto 100, followed by Olympus OM 1, too!

Mine was the OM 1 and then the OM 10. I loved my Olympus SLRs