What were your first Canons? Analog and or digital?

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#1
After seeing a picture of Neuro's first camera on the M6 thread, I started thinking about what were my first cameras, well, Canon to make it relevant for this site.

My parents had a Kodak Starmatic which I played with and possibly took apart which probably led to them owning an Instamatic thereafter with flash cubes.

I always wanted an AE-1 as a teenager but instead got a Vivitar 220 SL. Followed by my only Nikon, the EM. Then there was a long period during school where I didn't own anything and shot with school medium formats cameras until I got my first Canon...a Powershot Ixus/Elph S100 in 2000 followed by the ubiquitous 300D in 2003.

Funny, I had digital Canons before owning any film Canons. (EOS 3 and 5, Elan 7 & Elan 7e)
 

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FT QL waaaay back in the 60's. It was my first True SLR. My first 35mm was a Argus C-3, before that it was 620 box cameras. I upgraded to one of the T models along the way, then decided a Olympus Superzoom was a better travel camera, since I was traveling quite a bit.

My First Digital was a Olympus D300L in 1996, but I bought it for work, so it did not actually belong to me, but to my company. I bought my first digital, a Fujii MX700 in 1998 just before I retired. After that, I bought a Nikon CP-990, then the Digital Rebel, then Digital Cameras and DSLR's from Minolta, Canon, and Nikon, many different models. Over time, I've acquired a big collection of vintage cameras and lenses, but its past time for me to pass them on to another owner.
 
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#8
Hi siclick.
Since you ask, I started out hankering after dads AE1 Program, instead I got his old Zenit! :)
I eventually replaced that with an EOS 1000FN, (and then another one) a nice little camera but as already mentioned very high overheads! Still have both! (And the Zenit!)
Got an Ixus APS film camera, nice camera, nice to be able to automatically unload and reload films with different characteristics (ISO etc) part way through, even higher overheads though. :(
Replaced Upgraded the 1000FN with a 300D and the rest is history.
It seems I still have all my old cameras, hoarder, moi? :)
I did eventually get the AE1 Program, but it was inherited and not the way I wanted it to be. :'(

Cheers, Graham.
 
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#10
My first camera, about 1951 or so, was a Brownie Hawkeye (I already had some basic darkroom equipment). It was followed by an Argus A4 in about 1955. Then a used Nicca in 1961 (had a super sharp lens). I was working for a small retail camera store and could use just about any camera we had on display on my days off so I shot with a wide variety, both still and movie. After leaving the retail store I quit shooting pictures for many years. In the 80's I got a Canon AE1, a it rekindled my love of photography, and I soon had an A1, and a couple of F1 Canons. My last film camera was a Canon Elan (I think a 7E, it had the eye control auto focus) which I bought because my eyesight was failing some in middle age. During my film days I also had some older used cameras including a Speed Graphic in 2 1/4 x 3 1/4, as well as a couple of Bronica 645's and a 66. I also owned some decent darkroom equipment which ended up with a Boy Scout troop a few years ago.

My first digital was an Olympus point and shoot given me as a present from my wife. I saw someone shooting with a Rebel (300D?) and so I bought one of those. Since then it has been a series of Canon digital cameras (all APS-C), starting with the 20D and skipping some generations. Currently my wife and I have a 7DII, 7D, and 40D. We only keep three and as the top one is replaced the bottom one goes to one of our children or grandchildren.

It has been an interesting journey. I just wish my skills had ever been as good as my equipment.
 
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#12
My first digital Canon was the Powershot A30. At the time I purchsed this camera there have been cameras with higher pixelcount already (2-4 MPixels), but I knew I only wanted this camera as a starter into digital photography for the purpose to use the photos on PC screens only.
Canon_A30.jpg


My first SLR was the Canon EOS 300 (no D)
Canon_EOS_300.jpg


The first DSLR then was the Canon EOS 350D followed by the 40D, the 5DMII and EOS M and M5.

I do not have the EOS 300 and EOS 350D anymore. I still have all the other Canons.

Frank
 
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#13
FTb QL with 50 f:1.4, 28 f:2.8, and 135 f:2.5, with lots of other stuff, which I purchased from a Vietnam vet in 1975; he had bought all of it in Japan before returning home. Prior to that I used a Kodak 35 from the late 1940s, given to me by a former photographer, and before that a couple of Kodak box cameras.

I sold the Canon in 1978 and bought a Leica M3 (a camera that I truly loved using), which I parted with not long ago. My first digital was S2 IS, for record shots of birds and insects, replaced with 7D that I'm still using, supplemented with 7D2.
 
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#14
My first digital was an Oly P&S that was upgraded to my first Canon Digital, the (at the time) remarkable G6. I still have that G6 although it sits in a camera bag ignored. This led to the Canon XT then the D50 then the 5Diii.

My first film was the Argus C3 my dad gave me (just saw one listed for sale for $19 online, BTW) that was replaced by a Ricoh 35mm SLR with a 50mm and a 140mm lens, and, much later a Canon Rebel 35mm SLR.

Guess we all got here by a parallel but different route. Think we could all band together and open a museum of formally loved and now unused photography equipment? ;)
 
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#16
Used my dad's Konica T3 until I bought my first camera...

First Canon was a D60...

This is my first 35mm bought in 89', still own it... over the last 3-4 years started to use it again and now it's my EDC. Never had a CLA and works like new.
 
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#20
My first Canon was an AE-1 that I bought in 1976. I stopped taking pictures in the 80's. I was envious of my wife and friend taking pics with their Olympus digital cameras. So I bought a Canon 40D in March 2008. It failed, so I bought a 7D in August 2012.
 
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