What was your first EOS? (Show a pic if you have one!)

[ian riches]

<p>I'm on my 4th EOS. I started with an EOS 1000fn, then moved onto a 50e when that succumbed to a sticky shutter.<br>

The 50e was superseded with a 10D - although it still is at the back of my cupboard somewhere. Can't bring myself to sell it for the tiny amount that it would raise.<br>

The 10D was replaced with a 40D, which I'm still using and loving.</p>

[jim_j2]

<p>My first SLR was a Canon AT-1 followed by the AE-1 and A-1, all of which was used also for underwater photography back in the late 70's.<br>

The A Series served me well into the 90's when I converted to the EOS system.</p>

<p>My first EOS was the Elan 7e followed by the EOS3 and the now 50D.</p>

[tom_burke3]

<p>My first EOS was a 650, together with a 35-70 EF zoom lens, both bought new in 1988. They were my first AF SLR and my first zoom lens, and I was absolutely thrilled. Unfortunately I don't have a picture. Although I kept the 650 for a very long time, it was stolen from my house about two and a half years ago. I do however still have a 600 (630 in N America) which has the same body but somewhat enhanced AF - I bought that one (s/h) about 10 years ago, just before DSLRs became common, as a cheap, robust camera to take onto the hills. I've also owned a 10 (sold), 100 (part-exchanged), 33 (stolen), and D60 (sold). Currently I have a 500D. The 35-70 went missing somewhere over the years, but I still also have the lens that effectively replaced the 35-70 in my affections, a 28-105 3.5-4.5, bought in about 1993.</p>

<p>In many ways I still feel more comfortable with the 650/620/600 body shape than with any other EOS. I never got used to second command dials or multi-AF points: the way I learned to use that 650 is the way I still use my 500D.</p>

[William Kahn]

<p>My first EOS was a Rebel G, bough in '94 when I first started getting serious about photoography. Even with the crappy 35-105mm kit lens I was able to get some pretty decent shots. Since then I've progressed through the 300D, 20D, and now the 5D Mk. II. (There were detours through a Minolta Maxxum 7, Mamiya 330 and Hasselblad 501C which are all gone now.) The 300D is now my wife's, and the 20D is my backup for the 5D2. And the Rebel G is still hanging in the closet, begging for attention. The next time I get the urge to shoot film...</p>

[alan_bessler]

<p>Owned a brand new Canon 650 and 50mm 1.8 I remember being very impressed with it.</p>

[craigd]

<p>My first EOS camera was an Elan, the early-90s intermediate model. Not a bad camera at all, but when I shoot film these days I have other cameras I like better.</p>

[ted_marcus1]

<p>I got an EOS 650 in 1989 (along with a "Mark 1" metal mount 50mm f/1.8 that I still have). I traded it for an Elan II in 1998, after determining that getting a new camera would make more sense than replacing the shutter that was gummed up with the infamous (rugged) rubber (buggy) bumper problem.</p>

<p>I still have the Elan II, but I don't think I've used it since I got a Rebel XT in 2005. I'm now thinking of replacing the Rebel XT with a T1i. The XT still works just fine, but I'm beginning to worry about the continued reliability of a five-year-old camera that was designed to be an affordable "disposable" camera.</p>

[railphotog]

<p>My first EOS was a 10s. Don't recall much about it anymore, my first autofocus camera after many years using FD models. I originally intended to use it as a second camera, keeping my FD gear in use. That didn't last long. I bought it with a 28-135mm lens, thinking I could get by with just one lens. That didn't last long either, as I traded the lens in on something else, forget what it was.<br>

Funny, how after selling off all of my film gear I now have a Canon EOS 3000, which I got from a friend. Believe it is/was a model not sold in North America. I thought it might be nice to try shooting some film with my assortment of 7 EOS mount lenses.</p>

 

[john_r._pederson]

<p>EOS 650, bought on impulse on the afternoon of my daughter's senior prom, May, 1989. I remember the sales-type disparaging the "auto focus" feature as something that will never work. Twenty years later I'm on a 5D I, lots of lenses and never looked back. I still have that first photo of my daughter I took with the 650 less than an hour in my possession. Great question. </p>

[robertbody]

<p>Alan, you should post a WARNING before showing a picture like that... broken LCD... ouch</p>

<p>My first Canon was a Rebel in 1998. It didn't last long, I returned it in the first 2 weeks to exchange it for the Elan II E below... and for the following year it was my camera. After 10 years on the other side of the fence 1D4 brought me back... when 5D2 couldn't.<br /> <img src="http://www.robertbody.com/things00/images/1998-10-canon-elan2e.jpg" alt="" width="750" height="500" /><br>

Will there be another thread - what is your current camera? :-) or Then-and-Now ?</p>

[paul_russell1]

<p>My first Canon EOS camera was an EOS 1000 which I borrowed from my sister from time to time, since then I've owned a film 5 (A2e), a 50e, a 300, a 3, a 300x (still got the last two) a 400d (Xti) and 7D (still got both of these)<br>

Over the years I've owned the following lenses:<br>

EF 17-40 f4L<br>

TS-E 24 f3.5L Mk1<br>

EF 28 f2.8<br>

EF 28-80 (kit lens)<br>

EF 35-80 (kit lens)<br>

EF 50mm f1.8 Mk2 (owned 3 samples at different times)<br>

EF 50mm Mk1<br>

EF 50mm f2.5 Macro<br>

EF 55-200<br>

EF 70-200 f2.8 L<br>

EF 70-210 f4 (owned two samples)<br>

EF 70-300 IS<br>

Plus various third party lenses, Sigma 70mm, lensbabies, Sigma Bigma, centon mirror lens</p>

[carnagex_carnagex]

<p>My first EOS camera was the unusual all manual focus EF mount camera, the EF-M. <br>

<img src="http://homepage.mac.com/summergirl007/.Pictures/Jerry%20/TEMP%20FILES/posting%20pics%204/IMG_3353a.jpg" alt="" /></p>

[lee_derrickson]

<p>My first EOS was the Elan IIe (like the one Robert Body posted but without the quartz date function). I had resisted autofocus for a time, preferring my manual focus Minolta X-700 and totally manual SRT-202. I purchased the IIe in Nov. '98 after playing with a friends autofocus. I never really took advantage of all its features nor did it see that much use. At the time I was a newly widowed single father trying to cope and working lots of extra hours to make ends meet. I still have that body.<br>

In '08 I finally went digital with the Rebel XS (1000D). That was quickly followed by a used 40D, then added a 50D to keep me going when the 40D developed problems (since resolved). Love 'em all. I've been building my "kit" which now includes 8 ef and 2 efs lenses--half primes/half zooms (3 L's).</p>

[jack_alexander]

<p>My first EOS is 630. I bought it last year. It's quite nice to use. I love it. Each time I got out with my family. I always carry it with me. But sorry, I can't take a photo of it as I only have it. hah</p>

[alan_rockwood]

<p>My first EOS camera was a rebel 2000. Actually, I bought it for my wife, but I have put more rolls of film through it than she has. Now I have six rebel film cameras of various models, and one rebel XTi digital camera.</p>

<p>The various canon rebels get my vote for the most under rated cameras among camera snobs.</p>

[oofoto]

<p>Rebel 2000 was the first. Hated it.<br>

Then I got the 50e which I loved and still have. Got and sold an EOS5, too old and too big. Then got EOS3 which I sold for 10D. Sold 10D and got another EOS3 which I still have. Then got 5D 4 years ago. Waiting for 5D III.</p>

[rick_janes]

<p>My first EOS? A 10S bought sometime in '90, along with an EF 100-300/4.5-5.6 USM. Though these "plastic fantastics" were much lighter than the metal monsters I was used to their overall handling seemed worse...panning at the racetrack became more difficult...less "flywheel effect"? I dunno.<br>

Still, I did come back with some decent Kodachromes- here's Kevin Schwantz at Laguna Seca for the '91 US Grand Prix, aboard his Suzuki RGV-500.</p><div></div>

[Andy Collins]

<p>Excellent responses everyone, and I hope there are more "first EOS" stories to tell. I just recently picked up an EOS 650, the real first EOS, and am having a blast using it. It's a long way from my 7D in some ways yet very familiar in others. Thanks for sharing, and keep 'em coming!</p>

[pmind]

<p>Bought a Rebel G with kit lens from Sears the week before leaving for vacation in 1999...after discovering the dead meter in my AE-1p. Plastic-y, but effective. I've been bouncing back and forth between EF and FD ever since!</p>

[marykonchar]

<p>EOS Elan IIe.</p>

[ann_gregory]

<p>My first EOS was an Elan and then I got two EOS 3's. From there went digital to the 30D and now the 5D Mark II.</p>

[matthijs]

<p>EOS 650 (Unknowing that it was the first in a series, unknowing that it broke the heart of FD users worldwide...)</p>

<p>Seen here in it's original protective thingamajigg.</p>

<p><a href="../photo/11186277">Picture shot this spring</a>.</p><div></div>

[Andy Collins]

<p>Matthijs, I love that "thingamajig" on your 650...I need to find one of those for mine.</p>

[rayabel]

<p>Rebel G (35mm film) and I still have it.</p>

[alexander_c1]

<p>Canon Rebel G</p>

<p><img src="http://i46.tinypic.com/200d4q9.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="480" /></p>