My first SLR was a Practica screw mount camera. My father introduced me to photography with it. I was hookedon SLR's from that point on. Later I bought a Canon A-1 and found myself really missing all manual - match needle metering. So I sold the Canon equipment and bought an Olympus OM-1. I really liked that camera. It served me well until I started shooting some theater stuff. The black needle for metering was not visible on the side as spot lights were dominating the center of the image. So I started searching for a match needle system that was visible in low light - stumbled upon the Pentax MX. Switched systems and was pretty happy with it for some time. Later I somehow decided that I needed a Nikon and so got the FM which had lights somewhat similar to the MX. Used that for a few years. At that point I was married and our first child came along and now I wanted my wife to be able to take pictures as well. She didn't like the manual camera. I looked around again and decided that Pentax was the way to go for us and switched back and got a SuperProgram. This camera we used for quite some time. From that time forward I purchased many different Pentax film bodies - ZX-10, ZX-5, ZX-M, PZ-1p, MZ-S, MX again.
Then at Bill Robb's gentle prodding I ended up getting two Pentax 67ii's for wedding and portrait work. Loved them - in spite of the size and weight. Then digital came along. I could choose any system because I had sold off all my 35mm gear. I must have gone into the store 10 times trying different bodies and finally ended up with the *istD- it just felt and worked better than the Canon and Nikon bodies at that time. Been with Pentax digital since. After two *istD's and got a K10D, then a K20D, then a K5 and finally the current K5iis. I also got my daughter hooked (she shoots weddings and portraits) - she is using a K20D and K7 at this time. -- Bruce On March 21, 2015 12:59:13 AM PDT, Malcolm Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >Following on from the previous thread, what make of camera do you now >use, >and has it changed over the years? > >From 1977 to 2014 I used almost exclusively Pentax equipment, although >I had >a brief and disappointing fling with an Olympus in the early 90s. I >still >use Pentax *most* of the time, but I now have a Canon camera as well, >which >serves a different purpose. > >Malcolm -- Sent from Kaiten Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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.
