First I used (1955ish) was some square boxy camera from Kodak. First one I bought (1958) was a Kodak 8mm movie camera. Next (1962) was a Kodak 35mm camera; no coupled viewfinder, aperture and speed set w/ levers on the lens. Next (1967-68?) was a Nikkormat. My brother-in-law at the time was in the Navy, had made several stops through Hong Kong, and had 2-3 Nikon F bodies and pretty much every lens Nikon made. I had his collection to store and use for a year during one of his Vietnam tours. I decided I liked the simpler Nikkormat and found that none of the other lenses could replace the 105mm in my affections. Next (1978-79?) I supplemented the Nikkormat with a MInox GT (?), one of the 35mm Minox cameras. Match-needle metering. Which turned out to be far more accurate than the Nikkormat. Next (1980) I got an OM-1 to replace the Nikkormat, in part because the smaller/lighter body was easier to carry on my mountain expeditions, in part because I was tired of the annual treks to a repairman to fiddle with the N's metering. Next (1983?) I replaced the OM-1 due to dissatisfaction with the metering. On my brother's advice, I got an ME-Super. Next (1994-5?) I inherited my Dad's several ME-Supers and associated lenses, started doing eBay, got confused by the variety of Pentax lenses, found PDML, and was enabled into a PZ-1p. Then came the second PZ-1p, the 5-6 LXen, the 2 P645's, the 2 MZ-S's, and finally the *ist-D. Next (November 2006?) comes the K10D.
Stan On Oct 16, 2006, at 2:20 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > My first camera was a 127 film Kodak Brownie Starmite, which I was > given about age 6. After that, a 126 format Kodak Instamatic 300. > > First camera I bought that had user control of aperture and shutter > was a Minolta 16p. A whopping $23 when I was 8 yo. > > 1967-1968, my mom let me use her Argus C3, then my grandfather gave > me his 1949 Rolleiflex. > > After that, during school year 1968-1969, I bought a Nikon F Photomic > FTn with my uncle's help, and later in 1969 a pair of Leicas (IIc and > IIf with 5.0 and 3.5cm lenses) for $99. > > Godfrey > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
