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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 740914" data-attributes="member: 12827">he Nikon FTn was not the first 35mm SLR, that honor goes to the Kine Exacta, but it was the first true system SLR with a wide range of interchangeable lenses, finders and screen and set the standard when it was introduced in 1959, the year after I was born. This was my first Nikon, a 1969 vintage Nikon FTn that I got used in 1973. I still get a chuckle when younger people ask me how many MP it has. I cut my teeth on a Minolta SRT-101 but quickly outgrew it.&nbsp; I still have it and I still use it. It is amazingly quiet, far more so than my F2A. The meter has long since given up the ghost but the shutter is still dead on after 50 years.Where will all of today's DSLR's be in 50 years? A museum somewhere, an attic or in the landfill. Of course, most of us won't be around then anyway![ATTACH]343391[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="STM, post: 740914, member: 12827"] [FONT='inherit']he Nikon FTn was not the first 35mm SLR, that honor goes to the Kine Exacta, but it was the first true [I]system[/I] SLR with a wide range of interchangeable lenses, finders and screen and set the standard when it was introduced in 1959, the year after I was born. This was my first Nikon, a 1969 vintage Nikon FTn that I got used in 1973. I still get a chuckle when younger people ask me how many MP it has. I cut my teeth on a Minolta SRT-101 but quickly outgrew it. I still have it and I still [I]use[/I] it. It is amazingly quiet, far more so than my F2A. The meter has long since given up the ghost but the shutter is still dead on after 50 years. Where will all of today's DSLR's be in 50 years? A museum somewhere, an attic or in the landfill. Of course, most of us won't be around then anyway! [/FONT][ATTACH=CONFIG]343391._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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