Darren,
I guess I'm also reliving my childhood. Actually, I was a young
adulthood when I bought a Spotmatic to take pictures of my two year
old baby boy back in 1968.
I'm currently shooting with a K10D and have a K5 on order.
I made the decision to stay with Pentax when I bought my K10D because
I (1.) could and have been buying used but wonderful old Pentax glass
on ebay at very reasonable prices, and (2.) get to use them on a
digital camera with motion reduction built into the camera body.
Pentax, of course, has about 45 years of backward compatibility
between wonderful, high grade lenses and currently built digital bodies.
A lot of my glass collection is old M42 thread mount Super Takumar and
SMC Takumar.
I can't wait to put a fast, manual focusing primes on my soon to
arrive K5 and go street shooting with low noise, high ISO settings.
Richard Bush
On Jan 28, 2011, at 8:47 AM, Darren Addy wrote:
Well, maybe not EVERYTHING. But I got interested in photography in
about 1975, as a sophomore in High School. Got involved in the
yearbook staff and learned B&W darkroom. Also got to take the
department's Spotmatic out to shoot a few events. That got me started.
Used to read Petersen's Photographic and Popular Photography pretty
religiously. Lately, it seems that I have been accumulating stuff that
was wildly expensive to me in those days, but represents an incredible
value today. Lenses like the Vivitar Series 1 90mm Macro f2.5 with
matching 1:1 converter (known today as the Bokina). Got mine in a
K-mount with original case for $150. Yesterday I won a Gossen Luna-Pro
F for under $60 (half the price of a used one at B&H and a small
fraction of the original MSRP of $470. As mentioned earlier, I now
have a minty Minolta 110 SLR for $5. On the flip side, we're paying a
lot more for film and PKA Adaptall 2 mounts than we ever have in
history.
As they say, it is never too late to have a happy childhood.
: )
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