Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Might as well wade in too... The first camera I owned outright was a Canon TX with a Canon FD 50 1.8. My father gave it to me in 1980 (I was 19), and I started shooting with Ekatchrome and Kodachrome (still have the slides). I knew I was hooked into this photography thing almost immediately. I traded the body about a year later for a used Canon FTb when I enrolled in the Visual Arts/Photography program at the University of Ottawa (Canada, not Kansas). A year after that, my camera was stolen out of a friend's apartment, and I replaced it with a Nikon FM. I still check every now and then on auction sites for used FTb's. They had a semi-spot meter, a very elegant manual exposure system and an almost foolproof quick-load film takeup. The lens wasn't too shabby either.... jm