Mine was the original Spotmatic with a Super Tak 50/1.4 lens. I'd been reading photo mags for a while, looking at ads and reading reviews of different cameras, and decided that it was the one I wanted, but it was spendy for a poor out of work yet-to-be hippie.
I moved to San Francisco, made a few dollars selling drugs to kids at the school yard, and was walking by a pawn shop down on Market Street where a really gorgeous Spotmatic and lens was in the window. I walked in, turned over $145.00, and it was mine. I bought some film at Brooks Camera, which was nearby (a few rolls each of PX and TX), loaded the camera, and walked up Market Street snapping away. I used that camera so much during the first year or so that I had it, that the chrome was worn away in a couple of areas and it was becoming nicely brassed. I really LOVED that Spottie. Shel
