On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:56 +1000, "John Coyle" <jco...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > We've done this before, a few years ago, but I guess it won't hurt as > there > are many new subscribers. > My first camera was a Voigtlander Vito CD, fixed lens rangefinder with a > selenium meter. Gave me very good results and sparked my interest in > photography so that I then bought a Pentax SV: stayed with a Pentax as my > main camera ever since, although as I mentioned in another thread, had a > Fujita ST705n(?) when my SV was stolen. And, because the Amateur > Photographer magazines I was reading in the late 60's always said a > photographer needed both rangefinder and SLR types, and 35mm and 6x6 > formats, I later got a Rolleicord and a Fed4L - the latter I still have, > and > despite it's being Russian, cost the same new as the second-hand > Voigtlander, is still going strong: it's built like a tank. > >
Like you, my first camera was a Voigtlander rangefinder, given to me by a friend. It was probably one of the Vito family but its exact designation is lost in the dimness of memory. Anyway, it gave way to a second-hand Pentax S1a (the first camera I actually bought). Somehow I managed to skip the Spotmatic era and subsequently there was a brief dalliance with a Ricoh XR2 (before it was stolen), but I returned to Pentax with a P30n and have been here ever since. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of > Jim > King > Sent: Tuesday, 26 October 2010 1:00 AM > To: pdml@pdml.net > Subject: Re: PESO -First Camera - George's posterous > > George Sinos wrote on Mon, 25 Oct 2010 06:28:54 -0700 > > > Today's Topic -your first camera. How did you get started? > > > > > > http://georges.posterous.com/first-camera > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
