straw_man Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Darrin Corzine posted the same question using 1959. By 1971, Nikon SLRs had some serious contenders by Canon, Minolta and Pentax and others. I might have selected a Canon F1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis_vener_photography Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Nikon F , Leica M-4, Sinar P 4x5 and 8x10, Hasselblad 500C/M (or 500C), Hasselblad SWC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
q.g._de_bakker Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Same answer as in the 1959 thread: Hasselblad 500 C/M and Sinar, by now it would be the P.<br>One year too soon for the Olympus OM-1, a couple more for the OM-2. Alas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCL Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 <p>1971 - ah a good year. I'd buy the Leica M4 (which I bought in '69).</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straw_man Posted May 24, 2015 Author Share Posted May 24, 2015 I would likely go with a Nikon F2, especially if I had known that Canon would orphan the FD line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_robison3 Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 <p>Two Olympus Pen FV bodies and all the lenses and lens adapters I could lay my hands on before they were discontinued. Especially the 38mm f2.8 pancake. Wish I could time travel.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_derickson Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 <p>The one I did select in 1971: Rolleiflex 3.5F Whiteface</p> <p>Al</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick_drawbridge Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 <p>1971? So far as 35mm is concerned, I bought my first Canon EOS in '69, thereby embarking on a journey that continues... However, I also bought my first Pentax 6x7 in 1971, a choice I've never regretted. I still have that original body, and it's still fighting fit.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two23 Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 <p>Hassleblad 500cm. </p> <p>Kent in SD</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 <p>Tough choice. I got a Miranda Sensorex in 1970. It developed problems by 1973 and the company was out of business. Knowing what I know now, probably a Nikon F2. But there were many really tempting SLRs in that era, many of which are still functional today.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Currie Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 <p>That's a pretty easy one, or close at least. I fell in love with the mighty F the first time I saw one. I did not have much money back then, but in 1970 I scraped up what I could and went to New York and bought a used Nikon F Photomic with a new 1.4 lens on it. If I'd had to wait until 1971 I'd probably have shot for a used Photomic T.</p> <p>I still have the lens, but traded the Photomic for a Photomic FTn some time around 1980. I still have that one. I also still have the camera the first F replaced, a Leica IIIb. </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_c1 Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 <p>New Canonet QL17, Nikkormat FTn, Olympus 35 SP.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick_drawbridge Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 <p>What was I dreaming of in my earlier response?! EOS in 1969? 1989, more likely. I'm getting confused with the Canon F-1 I bought in 1971, the camera that switched me from Nikon to Canon.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Helmke Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 <p>I didn't know much about SLR's until 1975 or so and didn't meet the F2 until 1976. The minute I saw it I wanted one and at the age of 17 I bought a motor driven F2. It cost three times as much as the car I had then. Truthfully I have never needed any other camera since. I've had a bunch but nearly everything I've ever done with a camera could be done with the F2. For the times I needed MF it was either an RB67 or a 500C with my preference being the RB. This past Saturday I took an F2 and a Nikkormat out to an air show/fly-in and remembered why I was so pleased with that combination.<br /><br />Rick H.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochen_S Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 <p>C330 and Leica M2 & 3 beaters. No clue about SLRs, I picked k-mount later which isn't out in 71.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulo_bernardo_trindade Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 <p>Canon F-1</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan_fromm2 Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 <p>I'd buy a Nikkormat FTN, as I did in 1971. It was the right camera for my budget.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelaMolnar Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 <p>I did, Nikon F2. followed by the F3.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Gammill Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 <p>By 1971 I was using some of my Dad's cameras although I didn't have my 35mm or 120 camera yet. Even though my first Minolta SRT was still seven years away in my future I liked the features that the SRT 101 offered. I also wanted a Konica Auto S2, which I actually did get three years later.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User_502260 Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 <p>In the fall of 1971 I got a chrome Konica Autoreflex T2 with a 57/1.4 Hexanon - chrome & black with the EE lock pin- with the strap and case. If I could go back to 1971 I might do some things differently. The F-1 was nice but did not have automatic exposure without many attachments. The Konica served me well. The original one was traded late in 1975 for a T3 but I have many T2s in my collection now.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straw_man Posted May 25, 2015 Author Share Posted May 25, 2015 I just bought a black Nikon F2AS a few months ago that I would rate EX II. Only some marks around the tripod hole. Unusual to see such a clean F2 nowadays. I would like to contribute some camera porn but the only working computer I have as of late is an iPad 4, and I am of limited tech skills. Some of you may understand why when in my youth, we called today Decoration Day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_haeseker Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 <p>Nikon F2</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony_lockerbie Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 <p>A Nikon F2, or a Canon F1.....what a choice!</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_c1 Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 <p>The Minolta X-1/XK/XM wasn't available until 1973.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_degroot Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 <p>although I bought a miranda d in 1961.<br> I realixed despite having a removable prim. it was a dead end desigh( it still is functional)<br> I was given a senorex in 1972.<br> buy I would have bought a canon ae-1 if I were buying a camera.<br> I did get a canon ae-1 25 years leter<br> and I like it.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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