I'll always miss Kodachrome. <sob>.
On 1/16/2010 9:24 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote:
I started with a ME in '78 and left the camera shop lusting for more lenses.
I bought more of the M lenses, then a Super Program, then a PZ-1.
Then I found this list and the house filled up with Pentax gear -
screwmount to 67's.
Digital has been a great for me and with the K-7, I no longer miss Kodachrome.
Regards, Bob S.
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:34 PM, paul stenquist<pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote:
In 1973 the guy who drove the race car I wrenched asked me if I wanted to buy a
screw mount Mamiya 1000 DTl and two lenses.: a Mamiya 55/1.8 and a Vivitar
200/3.5. I was just getting into magazine journalism, so I bought them. A year
or two later I added a Vivitar 20mm/3.5 and a Mamiya 135/2.8. I used them for
quite a few years, eventually replacing the Mamiya body with a Fuji and a used
Pentax H3v. Made plenty of money with those cameras. In later years I cut way
back on the journalism and the cameras sat for a while. But I was a screw mount
fan, so some years later I bought a couple of Spotmatic Fs and a bunch of
Pentax screw mount lenses. I even bought a Spotmatic Motor Drive. Then I
thought I really ought to have an LX, then an MX, and of course more lenses.
Got back into journalism and added still more lenses and bodies. Then came
digital, so naturally I went with a camera that would mount all my K lenses.
I'm on my fifth Pentax digital now. Love the K7. Low light is good enough for
me. Wouldn't mind better autofocus, but I can make this setup work. I'd switch
if I was shooting football or working a heavy photo-J beat, but for what I'm
doing, Pentax is just fine. Still have a lot of my screw mount equipment. The
Vivitar 200/3.5, which has some duct tape holding the manual/auto switch in
place and plenty of cleaning scratches on the front element, has a place of
honor in my displace case.
Paul
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