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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul - Herts" data-source="post: 1278087" data-attributes="member: 55947">My very first 35mm SLR was a Praktika TL1000, bought by my dad for my 16th birthday a long time ago. If I got that camera out of the cupboard and fitted the 24mm sigma lens he bought me to go with it, I bet the battery for the light meter would still work and I could go out in the morning and take just as good a landscape shot as I could with my DSLR.Maybe my first DSLR would have been a Praktika if they had lasted that long, maybe it wouldn't have, but it bought me years of pleasure and my dad years of pride and that's what counts.Anyway, there's nothing wrong with Nikon cameras, but I still wouldn't buy one - I have too many Canon fit lenses now!</blockquote>