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From: "keithw"
Subject: Re: A new poll: Your first pentax?
William Robb wrote:
LX with A50/1.2.
William Robb
Now, THAT's the equivalent of being born with a silver spoon in your
mouth, isn't it!
Good for you! Never knew less... Aced out on both accounts, body and lens!
Super!
I had been using a Nikon F3 hp and a Nikkor 50 f/1.2 as my work camera for
several years. The F3 was competent, but I didn't find it to be an overly
friendly camera to use.
The 1.2 was pretty expensive, but I valued the brighter screen for shooting
at wedding banquets.
At the time, I was shooting upwards of 30 weddings a year, so the cost was
easy to justify.
* * *
I had been using a lot of OM-series Olympuses, and when I could no longer
get batteries for my OM-1, I changed platforms.
What was most like an OM-1?
A cute little Pentax MG.
Great little camera. Lenses were cheap. Perfect!
I followed that up with an MV and an MX.
Then a backup MG and a backup MX! ;-)
I went about as convoluted as that as well. I started with a Fujica
rangefinder that was made in the mid 1950s. I think it was an ML35. It had
an EV coupler on the aperture dial so you could adjust one dial and change
both shutter and aperture at the same time, keeping the exposure constant.
Hasselblad lenses do the same thing.
Then I took over my dad's Spotmatic II, then I bought an OM-1.
The first photographer I mentored with used Olympus cameras. He was a
wedding shooter, and liked the lenses. He also used Leica and Zeiss SLRs
from time to time.
One thing I noticed, he went through a lot of OM-1 camera bodies. I don't
think he ever bothered to fix them, he seemed of the opinion that if they
broke, they were done. I suspect a lot of them just plain and simple wore
out. He shot reams of film.
My dad coveted the Olympus, and for some strange reason, I decided a Nikon
F2 was the way to go, then the F3, which I didn't like too much, it turned
out.
I still have and use the original 99% MG, presently attached to a VS1
135mm f/2.3.
I still have that old Fufica somewhere.
Haven't used it in over 30 years, I am sad to say.
William Robb
