About
My father was into photography for awhile and built a darkroom in our basement. He taught me how to develop and print B&W film as well as Ektachrome slides. These are skills that served me well over the years. Up until the world went digital, I always had my own darkroom in the house, no matter where I lived.
When I hit my late teens and had a real income (as opposed to baby sitting money), I bought my first SLR. I bought a Pentax ME. The Pentax ME is an aperture priority camera. This turned out to be very useful when I started shooting concerts and live music in clubs. I later added a Pentax MX which is a one hundred percent manual camera. The MX is also my all time favorite camera.
Fast forward to the digital days. I held off on buying a digital SLR for many years. I know how it works. First you buy the camera, then you want this lens and that lens so on and so forth. I already had quite a few good lenses and other accessories sitting around doing nothing. I decided to go with a Sony Mavica as I liked how it recorded images directly onto small CDs.
Eventually Pentax came out with the K100D and I bought one. Like all Pentax DSLRs, the K100D can use my old Ashai Pentax lenses. I eventually bought a K10D as well. For the most part, I now shoot with the K10D exclusively.
Cameras: Baby Brownie, Pentax ME, Pentax MX, Pentax K100D, PentaxK10D.
Lenses: way too many to list. The majority are Asahi Pentax M-Series lenses. I have a few modern day Pentax lenses and a Tamron or two.
BTW- I am into manual focus and rarely ever use auto focus.
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