We've done this before,but I can't resist commenting. I had a wacky great aunt who was a photographer and artist. She gave me an old box camera then an old twin lens. My dad came back from WWII with an army surplus 2 1/4 x 3 Speed Graphic. Then he bought a Retina 3c, both of which I got to use on a limited basis. About '78(?), I looked for my own camera. I wanted aperture priority, so the Canon AE1 was out. Nikon was too expensive. Olympus (OM1??) was cheaper but still pricey. The Pentax ME was perfect, then a Super Program, then a PZ-1, then I found this list. Tens of Cameras and Lenses later, I still have Pentax. Regards, Bob S.
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:56 +1000, "John Coyle" <[email protected]> > 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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Jim >> King >> Sent: Tuesday, 26 October 2010 1:00 AM >> To: [email protected] >> 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 > [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.
