In 1973 the guy who drove the race car I wrenched asked me if I wanted to buy a screw mount Mamiya 1000 DTl and two lenses.: a Mamiya 55/1.8 and a Vivitar 200/3.5. I was just getting into magazine journalism, so I bought them. A year or two later I added a Vivitar 20mm/3.5 and a Mamiya 135/2.8. I used them for quite a few years, eventually replacing the Mamiya body with a Fuji and a used Pentax H3v. Made plenty of money with those cameras. In later years I cut way back on the journalism and the cameras sat for a while. But I was a screw mount fan, so some years later I bought a couple of Spotmatic Fs and a bunch of Pentax screw mount lenses. I even bought a Spotmatic Motor Drive. Then I thought I really ought to have an LX, then an MX, and of course more lenses. Got back into journalism and added still more lenses and bodies. Then came digital, so naturally I went with a camera that would mount all my K lenses. I'm on my fifth Pentax digital now. Love the K7. Low light is good enough for me. Wouldn't mind better autofocus, but I can make this setup work. I'd switch if I was shooting football or working a heavy photo-J beat, but for what I'm doing, Pentax is just fine. Still have a lot of my screw mount equipment. The Vivitar 200/3.5, which has some duct tape holding the manual/auto switch in place and plenty of cleaning scratches on the front element, has a place of honor in my displace case. Paul
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