The one that got me serious in photography

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A long time ago - 35mm film days this was the camera and lens set that got me seriously into photography - clearing out the loft in our Uk house that our youngest daughter lives in - came across these, lots of memories, was a great camera of its time Pentax Super A - still in working order - lens were 'okay' but not top draw by any means but - great memories

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I think my first was a Pentax K1000, or something similar to that. Managed to get me a GCSE in photography back when I was 17 and I've never not owned a camera and loved photography since. I still have my old negatives from back in the day somewhere :)
 
Pete, my first 35mm camera was a Zenith E, a few year later and got into Pentax and was in photo clubs especially when in the RAF, fab facilities available and did my own dev and print in B&W - and then some cibachrome, then slides - with a bulk loader and 'rolled my own' and had my own dark room at home for a while, still have loads of slides and some negs, may end up putting in a darkroom again but digital is soooo much easier !
 
Yeah I spent many an hour in the bathroom at home with a big sheet of black plastic over the door developing B&W over the bath when I didn't go into the one at college and after that. I remember well the fun of loading film into cassettes from a bulk roll and that Rubik's cube like back and forth twisting action can't be forgotten. Along with dropping a loaded roll you hadn't put the lid on and having to fumble around on the floor in the dark to find it :D
 
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My first camera was a Pentacon FM, a slightly later and improved version of the Contax S, the first ever pentaprism single lens reflex.

Never considered a reliable camera, it lasted long enough for me to make the price of a second hand Pentax Spotmatic and that in turn provided the money for a Nikon F.

This image, from the Pentacon, won me a nice prize in the middle of the 1960s...

Feeding large bonfire at Kent youth hostel 1960s Pentacon FM 67-9020.jpg


More than you want to know about the Contax S series, here...

 
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in my case it was probably this combo...

A-1 and Lenses by The Big Yin, on Flickr

I actually sold / upgraded the original body to a F1 a few years later when I was earning a bit better £££ and subsequently once again traded the whole kit including by that time about half a dozen lenses when the EF mount film cameras came along - first to a EOS3 and eventually pairing it with a EOS1. Those Bodies again went when digital EOS cameras came along.

then about a year after I joined this forum, I was spending lots of time in the F&C section, and was struck with nostalgia for my old film SLR's - so went out and bought the A1 in the above photo for what seemed like peanuts at the time, rapidly followed by another EOS-3 body for sentimental reasons.

now, the above camera's were FAR from my first ones - but before getting the A1, honestly, I'd just carried a SLR - Praktica MTL1000 if memory serves - to document walks / climbs and days in the hills. But buying the A1 whilst on a trip to the alps (after dropping the Praktica about 2000m down the north face of something, and it becoming embedded in a glacier) was a turning point - the point where something in my head switched, and I started going on walks to get the photo, rather than taking a photo to prove i'd done the walk...
 
Hi, some of my toys in 1989. My first serious camera was the PORST CX6 (2nd from left, which was a Practica with a dfferent styling), bought in 1973 with a 50mm lens.
I liked its performance.

(However, at the time I traveled by motorcycle. Space was at a premium. So I started using ROLLEI cams in1975 (my first one in silver, top right).)



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It's was a Canon 450D in 2008 that got me into digital photograpy.
 
OM1n for me about 45 years ago.
Lucky my form teacher was an art teacher and we had a dark room in our form room.
Free film and playing about with developing
 
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Lucky my form teacher was an art teacher and we had a dark room in our form room.
Free film and playing about with developing
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Myself and (then) best friend worked a similar scam at our school.

We persuaded the head of the Arts Department that a large, windowless cupboard would be ideal as a work area for those students (ourselves) who would then be able to go in for the new Photography examination, offered by the London Board, if it were converted into a darkroom.

It came as a surprise to me (though apparently not to my friend) that we scored the two highest marks in the 1967 examination. Here's one of the pictures that I put in for my entry...

Pentacon FM 67-9011.JPG
 
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