Thanks for sharing a great memory, Kevin. Keep it up! :-) On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Kevin Thornsberry <[email protected]> wrote: > To the best of my knowledge, I've never submitted a PESO. But today, I was > testing a new scanner and pulled out an old notebook of slide sleeves from > pictures I took in Brasil almost 30 years ago and came across this picture > of Rio de Janeiro. It's not a great picture and I just happened to be at > this location at this time so I can't even claim much intent, but it warmed > my heart for a few reasons: > > 1) For some reason, I didn't originally care enough for the picture to > remember taking it. The slide was a little darker than this which is > probably the reason. Now I get to rediscover it. > 2) It revived a memory. > 3) I took it with my first "real" camera, my Pentax K-1000. Since then > I've owned a P-3N, ZX-5N, *ist-D, K-7 and a K-5. I still love that K-1000 > most of all even though the K-5 is a much more practical tool for my needs > and entertainment now. I still love to hear the shutter of the K-1000. It > has such a satisfying mechanical combination of a click and a clunk. The > K-1000 now sits, retired, on a shelf over my desk, in a collection of things > that are special to me. I bought the camera with a bag, flash and a > 50mm/1.8 lens in 1982 from a guy entering journalism school which required > everyone to have a specific model of camera. > 4) I was too poor for a tripod so I know I took the picture handheld. > > So, for those of you who still hold that emotional attachment to your > K-1000, or LX or ME-Super I'd like to share this oldie from my K-1000. > > http://thornsberry.smugmug.com/photos/i-6FCN7z5/1/X2/i-6FCN7z5-X2.jpg > > Kevin > > > > > -- > 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.
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