To err is human, to forgive divine.
We're in good company Botach and I'm glad you started the thread
Here’s my photography/camera résumé..
In 1978ish a work-bud was selling his old 35mm Pentax Asahi S1, (with separate light meter), to buy a Ricoh. The S3 went up, or down rather, to 1000th of a second but mine was a 500th. I think that was the main difference.
I paid him £5 for it, (a steal in those days), and I still treasure it to this day. This is before bayonet fit lenses but it is without doubt the camera I have taken the most wonderful pictures with ever, (after they came back in the post of course).
My ex Mother-in-Law bred Cocker Spaniels at the time, for a very long time, and I took the bestist photo ever of one of the litters in circa 79. Never work with children or animals!.
But it was worth it in the end. I made all sorts of silly python-est eeks and verbal farts until I hit one where they all stopped playing about and looked up straight at me.
Snap! It’s the best shot I’ve ever taken of a moment in time of random animal antics caught in a blissfully innocent unaware
‘hang it on a wall for dog lovers' picture. She used it in a doggy paper where she got lots of praise and had a big name in that world. She
did give me credit for it, to her credit. I’ll see if I can dig it up some time...
From my late brother I have a Pentax Asahi K100 and a Pentax MZ-7, which brings things more up to date, but my first introduction was when he bought one back in the days when man was landing on the moon and I was soo envious. It was a Russian Zenit-E; built like a brick
S house with a mechanical shutter mechanism that leaves you in no doubt you just took a picture.
I’m looking at it now as I write, real leather cover and a beautiful piece of history for me during the Cold War when Brezhnev ruled with an iron fist.
We thought that was bad, but just look at the world we have now...