I don't exactly remember which models I used when hung outside helicopters back in the late 70's - early 80's, but they were large format jobbies. My own cameras at that time were the Pentax ME & MX, outstanding and I have thousands of slides taken with them (attached a couple here) which I keep meaning to get properly scanned. Along the way I tried the Canon AE1
, Olympus OM1 and a few more, but always preferred my trusty pentax's.
21 years later and I returned to photography (June 2007) and bought the Nikon D80. I am hooked all over again and have just added the D300 to my collection. Looking forward to the future and whatever the digital age has in store...
btw that's me on the top of Mont Blanc!!