My first SLR (circa 1978)

[Peeb72]

Yashica FR. This camera is long gone (traded for a Nikon FG-20), but here is a shot of it that I found on an old slide:

I think the lens to our right might be a 135mm telephoto and I had a 2x teleconverter too.

Has so much fun with that camera!

 

[Peeb72]

PS- background gives good trip down memory lane as to my teen-age yrs. bedroom!

 

[jcdeboever]

Nice!

 

[Dave442]

Nice that you came across that old image.

Don't tell me that you had a 28mm, 50mm, 135mm and the 2x TC as that is what I had for my Minolta in the 70's.

 

[nerwin]

I didn't even exist yet...

 

[tirediron]

You were s**t-hot!

 

[Derrel]

I bought myself a Yashica FX-3 with the 50mm f/1.7 lens and a 135/2.8 lens in 1981, with HS graduation money. I liked Yashica back then. There were a lot of 35mm SLR makers and a lot of camera models back then! Petri,Ricoh,Konica, Yashica, Olympus,Rolleiflex,Mamiya/Sekor, and others, ones that have faded, were still making nice cameras back in '78.