Nikon EM and a 50/1.8 Series E was my first real camera. Shot with that for a couple of years until my dad loaned me his Nikon wunderkamera that he couldn't figure out.
-Adam On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:04 AM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > -- 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.
