There she is... a picture of the first camera i ever used. The Kodak 25 instamatic! It was a camera like this i shot the Red arrows with in 1976.
After the Kodak we had a 110 filmed camera, the model i can't remember largly due to the fact the image quality was really bad! looked like this though.
My first SLR, 1988. A Praktica B100. I thought this was the best camera in the world when i first bought it. 35mm film was so much better than the old 110! I remember taking some of my shots to college to show one of the leturers... he was less impressed with the image qauilty than me!
A short time later i decided i needed a change so i started saving for my first 'Auto focusing SLR' the trusty Yashica 230-AF. I really wanted a Canon EOS but they were priced out of my reach. I remember working for ages to save up for this one. Optically the lenses were pretty good, the 70-210 lens was very fast focusing and produced great images. 1.7 fps was real slow but the automatic shutter release when something came in focus was a nice touch (trip focus), eat batteries as i recall. I remember buying a 10mtr cable release so i could take pictures of birds at a bird table, it cost a fortune... i think i used it once!
This lead me to the Canon EOS range, namely an EOS100 
The view finder wasn't as large as the Yashica but the build quality and feel was so much better and 3fps as well more than made up for it. In the digital age Canon is where i've stayed.
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