What's been your favourite camera?
What's been your favourite camera even if it's long gone and you've moved on?
Here are some cameras from the past, to get you started:
https://www.ephotozine.com/article/take-a-trip-down-memory-lane-with-these-adverts-from-2001-34261
I have a fondness for the old Konica Minolta 5D, a 6mp DSLR
I also always likes the early "ultra-zooms" from Olympus, the C-760 / C-765, as they had a solid metal body.
Here are some cameras from the past, to get you started:
https://www.ephotozine.com/article/take-a-trip-down-memory-lane-with-these-adverts-from-2001-34261
I have a fondness for the old Konica Minolta 5D, a 6mp DSLR
I also always likes the early "ultra-zooms" from Olympus, the C-760 / C-765, as they had a solid metal body.
Canon T70, which in 1990, or thereabouts, reawakened my interest in photography after a few years of hibernation.
Canon AE-1 left to me when my brother died. (Today would have been his 81st birthday.) I took the camera to North Cape in December '81 and took hundreds of photos with it there (many in almost complete darkness) and thousands in other places all over Europe. It never let me down. I still have it.
Always loved my Contax 137MD manual focus film camera, but it was the EOS100 that gave me the most pleasurable experience using film. I shot thousands of films on that through the 90s. In the digital world the Olympus OMD-EM5 has been my treasured possession and the one I still use.
I enjoyed my Canon Ftb at the time I had it but the EOS 600 which replaced it (also film) was better. However, none of these beat my current DSLR Canon EOS 5D mk IV.
Dave
Dave
Can i have another go and nominate my first 'proper' camera, my Pentax P30T. It got me through my first 3 years as a photography learner and I'll never part with it.
I did trade it in once, but went back to the shop a few days later and got it back.
Oh, and my current faves are my Panny G5s. I'm not gear junkie, but i like the simple, easy to use gear.
I did trade it in once, but went back to the shop a few days later and got it back.
Oh, and my current faves are my Panny G5s. I'm not gear junkie, but i like the simple, easy to use gear.
Nikon FM2n film camera...solid, manual, mechanical - something just sweet about the engineering, and sounds when in use... (not dependant on batteries..) and pretty compact compared with today’s DSLRs..! still got it and will not part with the old fella...
I did envy the Pentax ME super, for it’s compactness, and I have one now, with a couple of lenses, but I’d still default to the Nikon..
Lastly, I occasionally use a Zenza Bronica medium format film (120) which is just great to take your time with...but I’d still prefer to knock nails in with the Nikon..
I did envy the Pentax ME super, for it’s compactness, and I have one now, with a couple of lenses, but I’d still default to the Nikon..
Lastly, I occasionally use a Zenza Bronica medium format film (120) which is just great to take your time with...but I’d still prefer to knock nails in with the Nikon..
My Minolta Dynax 7 (especially when paired with the Minolta 50mm f:1.4 lens), bought with the proceeds of a very long weekend's overtime.
As far as digital goes, the one I have now - Canon EOS 5DS R.
As far as digital goes, the one I have now - Canon EOS 5DS R.
Olympus OM10
it was a big step up for me from a Zenit B and probably the reason I took to photograph as an hobby.
Bronica ETRSi
I liked the waist level finder and the changeable film backs, velvia in one & Ilford Pan F in another.
Digital
Just gone mirrorless, so much lighter than current DSLR and therefore might become a favourite in due course.
it was a big step up for me from a Zenit B and probably the reason I took to photograph as an hobby.
Bronica ETRSi
I liked the waist level finder and the changeable film backs, velvia in one & Ilford Pan F in another.
Digital
Just gone mirrorless, so much lighter than current DSLR and therefore might become a favourite in due course.
Nikon F2 with plain prism. I used to have a pair but they didn't get used after I went digital and they had to go after a decade of zero use.
Supremely comfortable to use, just the right size and weight.
Supremely comfortable to use, just the right size and weight.
