Your first SLR camera?

GreyMoonRising

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26 Nov 2008 - 7:50 PM

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I remember my first SLR was a brick of a thing, a Zenith from Russia and to be honest it drove me crazy because I never knew what it was going to do or how it would perform from one day to the next. Good at the time.

Then there was the long line of East German cameras called Prakticas, even worse than the Zenith but looked slightly better but just as unreliable when I used them. I must have had 6 or 7 of these and they would just fall apart without warning but at the time I thought this was normal for cameras...oh the good old days.

streetg

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26 Nov 2008 - 8:07 PM

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Zenith E for me followed by a Pentax ME Super

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Ian Hunter (e2 Member)

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26 Nov 2008 - 8:40 PM

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Olympus OM-1, the first to be sold on Cyprus... still have it but not used for years...

Graysta

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26 Nov 2008 - 8:46 PM

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If you have an OM-1 you should get it used once in a while for me one of the great clasics would still like to own an OM4 Ti just to have owned one.The Zenit sniper outfit is one hell of a piece of kit George who visits the moors railway has one complete in a case you could jack a tank up on awesome engineering doubt that you could use it many places nowadays for fear of being arrested because it does look like a sniper outfit.

keith selmes

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26 Nov 2008 - 9:02 PM

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Praktica LTL

Terrym1

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26 Nov 2008 - 9:11 PM

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Canon 350D was my first DSLR and the only one that I have ever used and have had it for 3 years now and its still working without fault after 80,000 images!.

Before that I owned A Sony DSC F717 and then Sony DSC F828 both of which were very good camera's

snapbandit (e2 Member)

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26 Nov 2008 - 9:18 PM

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back in 1972, Zenith E + 35mm, 58mm & 135mm lenses
Unlike Greymoonrising, results from mine were very reliable
( hesitate to say it may be down to the user )

Moved on to my Olympus & bronica kits
OM10, OM1, OM2, OM2sp & OM4ti & ETRS, ETRSi

Pete (ePHOTOzine Staff)

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26 Nov 2008 - 9:21 PM

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I went from a borrowed Pentax S1 to an Olympus OM1 second-hand. I bought a new 135mm from PhotoMarkets and I can still remember the smells of those new camera kit boxes, quite specially. Maybe my nose has become less sensitive or they don't smell now. Japanese kit had a nice smell and Russian kit had a cross between moth balls and engine oil.