When I was growing up, my dad was (and remains) an enthusiastic amateur photographer. He shot Canon FD equipment; a TLb and AE-1. He also shot weddings for a little while with a Hasselblad, but I never touched that. I took pictures with the AE-1 now and then, like when we were on vacation and he wanted a shot of himself with Mom. Mostly, though, I had a succession of random cheap 35mm fixed-focus cameras through my youth and childhood.
When I started grad school in 1998, I told my dad I was interested in buying a SLR, and he gave me his TLb, with a few prime lenses. He kept the AE-1 and his Vivitar Series 1 28-90 and 70-210 zooms. My favorite lens that I got was the Vivitar Series 1 135mm f/2.3, which had a nice close focus and beautiful bokeh. A very nice flower and portrait lens. (The TLb is roughly a K1000-equivalent, with metered manual exposure.) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
