Thought it'd be interesting if we were to outline the first camera we owned, if you are lucky to have a picture of it then by all means include it, could be nice to see them.

To start off, my first camera was a Practica MTL3 35mm

It takes one tree to make a billion matchsticks, but one match to burn a billion trees

For me it was this one, which I got from my father:

It's a Nikkormat EL (what Nikon was called before they changed the name) from 1972. It includes 3 lenses (primes) 28, 35 and 200mm. And I still have it :)

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle
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Thanks 3GGuy looks like we are underway, nice camera!

It takes one tree to make a billion matchsticks, but one match to burn a billion trees

1947, in the US Navy, guy wanted to borrow $5.00 and gave me his Argus C3 as security. Never saw him again and I bought film and that started it all. The USO had a darkroom and I learned how to develop and print and that really was the nail in the casket. Have not stopped since.

That's a beauty :)

It takes one tree to make a billion matchsticks, but one match to burn a billion trees

Well, mine wasn't near this fancy, I just had a little Polaroid camera that developed the photos instantly!  Saving up now for a 'real' camera though!

In 1981, I had to buy a SLR for the photography lessons in my art school. I chose this old beauty, an Olympus OM-2N, become legendary for its revolutionary TTL metering. My brother borrowed it once and he kept it for 11 years! ;o). He eventually returned it, but I haven't done anything with it since.

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Umm my Nikkormat already had TTL :P

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle
-= Glass Eye Photography =- -= My Rendo Gallery =-

Well, I found this info in an article from 2000:

*What made OM-2 so special ? Beside all those basic features which have attracted so many following worldwide, the revolutionary metering system pioneered by OM-2 meant that for the first time, a practical solution was presented to tackle metering in ambiance and flash exposure control.

Firstly, during ambient light reading in automatic mode, OM2(n)'s metering system reads light reflected from a special reflective pattern on the first shutter curtain and, during long exposures, from the film surface (thus, exposure reading may not be continuous but exposure is). This system also avoids the Asahi-patented methods using memory circuits to store the meter reading after the mirror rises (well, most SLRs during that time have their photocell(s) positioned near the viewfinder eyepiece).*The TTL OTF flash metering, in particular, opens up a lot of photographic possibilities that previously involved tedious exposure calculation. The original technology used in the OM-2, introduced more than 25 years ago, has today evolved into a mainstream flash exposure control method used virtually by all camera manufacturers.

We do not see things as they are. ǝɹɐ ǝʍ sɐ sƃuıɥʇ ǝǝs ǝʍ