Heck, most of those that are old enough started out with just one lens, one camera body, and only shooting black and white! But we couldn't afford to shoot anything near one roll of film a week.
In my case it was a Brownie 127 for the first six years (during which time I shot precisely one roll of colour film, and stuck my dad for the processing costs). Then I graduated to my first 35mm camera, which I used for almost ten years. Both of these were all-manual cameras, of course; the Brownie was practically a point-and-shoot (although I believe it did have some minimal aperture control - perhaps "sunny" and "shade" settings), and while the 35mm did have a built-in exposure meter it was still up to the photographer to transfer the settings to the camera. Even my first SLR - a Spotmatic II - required that, although in that case it was made easier by the match-needle readout in the camera viewfinder. On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:30:12PM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:41:01AM -0400, Adam Maas wrote: > > Anybody else read > > http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2009/05/a-leica-year.html > > Mike Johnston's little ode to simplicity and the Leica as a teacher. > > > > I'm seriously thinking about giving the basic concept a try. Not with > > a Leica though, but rather with either a Yashica FX-3 or Nikon FM2n > > and a fast normal. I don't feel like paying the Leica tax and my FX-3 > > in particular cost less than the eBay/Paypal transaction fees on even > > a cheap M. > > Not very far from my life between the ages of 13 and 18, though when > mom rented out the downstairs apartment, I lot my darkroom and didn't > shoot nearly as much. > > Mind you I'd split between plus-X and Pan-F film, and I did have a 2x > TC for my SRT-101, but one camera, one lens was pretty much how I shot > for years. > > Occasionally I'd borrow Dad's spotmatic and Series-1 70-210, but it > was almost exclusively the SRT-101 and 58/1.4. > > > > > > -- > > M. Adam Maas > > http://www.mawz.ca > > Explorations of the City Around Us. > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > -- > The fastest way to get your question answered on the net is to post > the wrong answer. > Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
