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Nostalga:
My first camera was a gift from my Uncle
James. I was about 5 or 6 at the time. It was an old German 35mm, silver camera.
Unfortunately I don't remember what that old camera was, but it lasted 15 years
before seizing up. The cost estimates to fix it were more than buying some of
the newer cameras and it was an old fixed lens camera with limited shutter
speeds and f stops. When I bought a replacement camera, I took this old one
apart to see what made it tick. I tried to put it back together again - but
there was no hope. Fortunately I had assumed before I took it apart that I
wouldn't get it back together again. It eventually went into the garbage except
for a few screws and springs that "I might be able to use these some
day..."
I do remember the
first camera equipment I purchased with "my own money" many years ago. It was
Chinon 35mm. Several years back, I gave it away, with all it's lenses, extension
tubes, flash, filters to a couple that had no equipment and was trying to figure
out how they could afford a small setup. I even gave them the 2x teleconverter
telling them "I never used it because, by the time I put it on my big zoom,
there was never enough light around to work with the resultant f stops." I had
recently broken my "big zoom" for it (80-200) and I had bought all new Nikon
equipment. I figured that "1 camera is all I'll ever need"<g>.
Obviously I'm a more serious amateur/partly professional now! Recently I
bought a Chinon 35mm system for $25. Currently testing it out, but it looks like
it takes much better photos than my old equipment did (or perhaps I'm a little
better now<g>)
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